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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Handling Of Radium IL
Done by Nimble Fingers

Though accounts often appear Of
heroic doctors and Investigators who
lose limb. and even life itself, In
their experiments with the radium
used for the cure of such diseases
as cancer and other malignant
growths, few people know how the
danger arises, says Tit-Bits Maya
zine.
Three different rays are given Off
by the element. By far the most
powerful are the gamma rays, which
can penetrate through 8 inches Of
flesh and bone, as well as through
as much as 51s inches Of lead. Con-
tinued exposure to the soaring pow
er of these rays results in death
unless protective measures are
taken. The skin becomes burned,
and acute blood-poisoning sets up,
But some one must perform the
highly-skilled task of filling minute
platinum or gold needles, tubes, or
stainless steel plaques with small
quantities of precious radium salt
for use in hospitals and clinics. This
is mainly done by girls, many OF
whom are recruited from match fac
tories on account of the deftness Of
their fingers. Their wages are high,
because they are engaged on the un-
derstanding that their employment
will be for six months only.
Their task needs a delicate touch.
yet they wear heavy gloves and
large apron from throat to well
below the knees, both gloves and
apron being impregnated with par
ticles of lead, which cut off high
percentage Of gamma rays.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
First Gold Coins

Ancient tradition, Xenophanes in
the Sixth century B. G. and Herodo-
tus In the Fifth century B. c.,
ascribes the invention of coinage to
the Lydians; the latter says they
were the first to strike gold coin and
silver. The period usually given
for this invention Is the Eighth GEN.
fury B. c., and the name of the
ruler given credit for 1t Is Pheidon,
king Of Argos. The earliest discov-
cred coins Of Lydia and Ionia ap-
pear to have been made of electrum,
a natural mixture Of gold and silver.
These belong to the Eighth GEN.
fury, B. c., and are little globules
with a variety Of stamps, suggesting
that they are private issues and not
Of a state authority. This early
coinage Is irregular In weight and
quality and unsystematic In charac-
ter, and 1t Is not till the issues OF
King Croesus that we have In Asia
Minor an undoubted coinage by a
state authority. While this refers
to gold and silver coins, 1t does not
mean that gold and silver were not
used for money long before this, in
the form of weighed bars, bricks,
plates. etc. These may be traced
back as far as the Tenth century,
B. G.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Apple Trees From France
First Planted In Canada

Sieur De Monts cleared land at
Port Royal in 1905 and in 1858
Pierre Martin brought young apple
trees from France and planted
them at Belle Isle, near Port
Royal, says the Montreal Herald.
They grew and other Acadian farm
ers became interested and propa-
gated apples. Having come from
the wine-producing part Of France.
Pierre Martin and his neighbors,
no doubt, made choice cider from
their apples. The winter eve
nings would be made CHEEKY by a
drink that would sparkle like the
champagnes Of Normandy.
Scarcely sixty years after Mar
tin had planted his first orchard
there were 1900 apple trees in the
vicinity Of Port Royal. Beaubassin
had 40 acres Of land planted to or
chards and all thriving well. When
the New England colonists entered
the country in 1760, they were
amazed to find many small or
chards, bearing well. They real.
fzed that this would be an asset
to their farms and before long,
many Of them had established Or
chards.
The first apples to be grown in
North America were the Craven
stems, the finest apple Of Nor
mandy, priced for It's juiciness and
favor.
The first apple trees in Quebec
were planted in 1858, thirty years
after those In Port Royal The
Fameuse was the variety and is
still popular.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Junior High

The score for the basketball
game between the Leisure Time
Club. GIiram Bellanger was the
21-11 in favor of the Leisure Time
Club. Hiram Bellanger was THE
high point man. In the dramatic
Club, Jim Pangburn was high point
man. The Dramatic Club had a
small fast team. The Leisure Time
Club started most of the second
team, but at the half, they turned
in few of the regulars. Jim Pang-
burn did the scoring and Russell
Larson also played a good game.
The game between the Outdoor
Life and the Leisure Time Club re-
suited in score of ST in favor of
the Leisure Time Club. A large
team composed of three members
from the varsity squad were out
played by the smaller Junior High
team. The Leisure Time Club had
a big lead until the last when the
other team made few points.
The Cooking Club defeated the
Dramatic Club with score Of
124. Fl.
Bellanger with IL points and Ar
Wig with 10 points are the high
point men.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Sharks Teeth and Nose
Prove Valuable to Them

Sharks never lack for razor.
sharp teeth. Functional teeth stand
erect on the edge Of the jaws In
q single row. As these teeth be-
come worn and lost, says a writer
In the New York Times, the mem
brane from the inner surface
moves over the edge Of the Jaw,
carrying with 1t fully developed
teeth Of new secondary row. At
any given time there are behind
the functional teeth series of re-
serve rows from Eve to seven in
number, lying recumbent one below
the other on the inner surface Of
the Jaw, all in reserve, being GOV.
cred by broad band Of membrane
that extends up over them from the
bases Of the jaws.
These are the terrible weapons
which have ability to slice into the
shagreen-protected hides of other
sharks, when they bite out hunks
just as you would bite a piece out
Of an apple.
But more important to the shark
than even this IL his ability to
smell. Two prominent nostrils In
the anterior extremity Of the head
and covered with skin flaps permit
him to scent his food from I'M
believable distances.
Eskimos know that when seal
blood Ia allowed to ooze from
chill bladder placed in an Ice hole
the sharks, no matter how distant,
will scent 1t on the sea currents
and come hhrrying In q horrible
rush. Woe to the juicy sea animal
that cannot escape or hide from the
shark once 1t is scented. for the
shark tracks down its prey like
a buzzard, and with more decisive
results.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Land for the White House

The principal owners of the
land on which the city of Washing
ton is built were Daniel Carroll,
Samuel Davidson. Motley Young
and David Burnes. The land on
which the White House stands be-
longed to David Burnes, an aged
Scotchman, who very reluctantly
gave up his 900 acres for the fed
eral city when negotiations were
in progress for buying mp land for
the National Capital Daniel Car
roll owned q large tract of land
along the eastern branch of the
Potomac river. which includes the
site Of the Capitol.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
finished the unit Of business let
tiers. Their next unit win be ltera-
Commercial News

During the past week the follow
Ing records have been made by
first year typewriting students In
five minute timed tests: Florence
Holme 48, Doris Gamradt 43, Hazel
Kringen 43, Echo Clough 80, Rod
eric Carpenter SO, Ernest Borg
mann "a, Jerome Wruck 80, Joe
Sand 33, Monica otte 80, Arthur
Minette 81, Grace Lamb 80, Emily
Lemke 80.
Let's make this list grow for
next week.
The following advanced students
have made creditable records in
five minute tests during the past
week: Evelyn Pangburn 60, Hattie
Hetzel 81. Gerda Miller 62, Mildred
LeSuer go.
For ten minutes writing Evelyn
Pangburn made 48, Hattie Hetzel
46, Gerda Miller 43, Mildred Lee
Suer Il, and Joe Vogel 40.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Americas Food Plants
Given to Entire World

The discovery of America gave
the world something more than jazz
music and Wild West movies and
skyscrapers. observes o writer In
the washington Star.
Up to the time when the first Col
onists came, civilized men Of Eu-
rope had never tasted corn on the
cob or peanuts. They had never seen
q passion flower and they had never
tasted tomatoes. And more aston
fishing than these. they had never
eaten Irish potatoes, and Sir Walter
Raleigh's friends threw water on
him in the hope Of extinguishing
the fire when he smoked his first
tobacco.
The Indians introduced the first
white settlers to the joys Of pine
apple. beans. peanuts, red pepper.
corn, guava and papaya. And seeds
Of all these were carried by return
ing travellers back to their Euro
pean homes.
Columbus himself told Queen Isa-
bella Of Spain that he had found,
instead Of the spices Of Cathay,
tapioca and sweet potatoes.
Cortez, when he landed in South
America, found the Aztecs using ca
Gao and vanilla and making sugar
from the century plant. 1t was
here In Bolivia that potatoes were
first used as a staff of life. The
Aztecs were much more daring than
Europeans, who feared for many
decades that tomatoes were deadly
poison. These South American In
dams ate tomatoes and enjoyed
them when Cortez first saw them.
Among the other food contribu-
lions Of the New world were
squashes, pumpkins, sunfiower seeds,
artichoke, maple strip, strawberries
and various other berries and wild
grapes.
If the whole truth Is told, how
ever, there was a "bitter berry in
the brewing" for with these tooth
some and useful foods came poison
ivy, which is also distinctly Amer
lean plant
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
which his own ability to take re-
sponsibility increaess.

which his own ability to take re-
sponsibility increaess.
"You must earn your freedom
said one wise mother Of a high
school boy and girl, Just as when
you were little you were allowed to
sit at the family table only when
your manners were judged good
enough to have you there with the
adults. And when you showed, by
misbehaving at the table, that you
weren't old enough yet to have that
privilege, you went back to your
own table again. So now, when
give you certain privileges (such as
giving you key to the house, and
you abuse them, they will be taken
away again.
"And when you show me, by
keeping up your good grades at
school, and by your rosy cheeks
and alert attitude that staying out
late on a school night doesn't hurt
you any, you may do SO as often as
you like. II you show me that you
have a sense Of responsibility; that
you yourself will come in at a rea-
sonable hour, unless you are un-
avoidably delayed, you may be your
own judge about going out. But
as soon as notice a setback, 7
will know that you aren't old
enough yet to be given all that re-
sponsibility for yourself"
Another mother was hard put to
1t to refuse her son the car for a
very distant very late party. 1T
isn't fair to you for me just to
throw you on your own, son." she
told him. II have a certain respon-
sibility, too, to the community, to
take care Of you and keep you out
Of trouble. If you have an accident
with the car, the community will
hold US esponsible-and Of course
your father will have to pay the
bills. Your father has so often
lent you the car because you've
shown yourself to be careful
driver, but unless someone who can
take the responsibility to the COM
munity goes with you, we can't let
you have the car for such a long,
late trip"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Origin of Toy SPANIEL.

Uncertainty cloaks the origin of
the Toy Spaniels, none of the
theories bearing definite proof.
Erroneous is the belief that the
Toy Spaniel was the parent Of the
Cocker. During the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth centuries he was known
as the Spaniel Gentle" or "Com-
forter." Superstition accompanied
his use to cure disease by his be-
ing rubbed up and down on the
sufferer, or placed like a plaster
upon the afflicted area. Belief
was that the evil of the illness
would be transferred to the dog,
who sometimes died.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
GROWING WITH YOUR CHILD
Iatchkevs

why do you have to know Just
what time come home; don't you
trust mef Anyway, I think I'm
old enough to have some freedom
you've brought me up, mother;
now I'm going to live my own
life!"
What can you say theIn?" wall
ed the mothers Of a sixteen year old
girl and seventeen year old high
school football captain. Those re-
bellious young adolescents with
their precious freedom
First, we must be very sympa-
thetic with these teen-age young
sters so extremely conscious of the
fact that they are growing UP, and
fighting for our recognition Of it,
actually, while fighting for what
they believe to be their rights.
If the children have always been
reasoned with, from early years,
there will be little difficulty during
adolescence in handling the prob
lem Of increased freedom. Give the
young adolescent some rights in
the house" Caution his older broth
ers and sisters to accord him Ger.
tain rights and privileges Of the
adults in the house. respect his
property and his privacy, and take
him into family councils. Give him
the general idea that you depend
on him a little;; that he has a def
mite part in the household, incor-
porated.
Explain that this period, In which
he Is becoming an adult, Is a period
OF gradually increasing his freedom
increasing it at the rate at
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Hi SCHOOL HAPPENINGS
Interesting School NeUs

Weber.
Alice in Northumberland
Carlson.
Songs, "Old Woman in the Shoe
Fern Pickett.
Little Bo Peep-Peggy Smith.
Simple Simon-Erwin Baltes.
Little Jack Horner - Vernon
Cheney.
Little Miss Muffet - Rosanne
Schoenhoff.
Jack and Jill-Annabelle Can
field, Marion Conkey.
Piano Solo-"Tumbleweed" by
James Thiegs.
White Knight-Harold Keldahl.
atization-Wanda Carpent-
er, Dorothy Kohl.
Duet-"The World is Waiting for
the Sunrise, my Buddy" by Lor-
eta Gaspard, Roseanne Schoenhoff.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Negro Tobacco Pickers

Travelling through the tobacco
districts of the South one sees
many old log cabins, through the
corner Of which runs a fiue con-
structed Of rocks, mud, cement or
any other handy material. In
front, opening to the outside, is
fireplace or stove Of the same ma
terial, says a bulletin Of the Amer
lean Gas association. When the
tobacco leaves are cut, the negroes
hang them In these cabins and fires
are maintained day and night un-
til the tobacco Is dry. These cab
ms are still used and the night
fires with the negroes singing and
dancing about are most pictur-
esque.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Miscellaneous News

This second semester different
event papers have been brought In.
to the school for use in the social
science and history classes. These
are entitled 1.-THE Weekly News Re
view" and are edited in Washing
ton, D. G.
A basket ball game will be played
in the mymnasium Wednesday of
next week. The district coaches
will play the Legion team. High
school students will sell tickets for
this event. The school Is hoping
for the cooperation of the public
in the support Of extra-curricular
activities Of the school.
Mr.. Kohl is now organizing a
glee club. Ut will be organized on
its fira. basis within this next week.
Ralph Halstead. a sophomore stu
dent, has found it necessary to
leave school.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Bamboo of Great Value
in Its Native Country

In China one may eat bamboo
with bamboo chopsticks sitting In
a bamboo chair before q bamboo
table in a bamboo house. writes a
correspondent in Nature Magazine.
One may travel in comfort lying On
q bamboo mat under woven screen
of bamboo while a boatman pushes
his craft along with the aid Of
bamboo pole, shouting or whistling
now and then for a wind to come
and fill the great bamboo sail. In
the streets coolies stride by with
bamboo carrying-poles supporting
bamboo pals filed with water,
swerving to AVOID the bamboo Sc
dan chairs In which the wealthy
citizens ride.
And this is not all. In addition
to the objects mentioned and In
Vulnerable others that are made
from it, we are told that bamboo is
greatly admired for its beauty and
frequently planted for ornamental
purposes.
There are about 200 species of
bamboo, which is classed with the
grasses despite its tree-like size.
Most Of them are considered trop-
zeal plants because they thrive best
In warm countries, but there are
varieties that may be grown success
fully in districts where zero temper
atures are experienced in the win
ter time. And bamboo has one ad-
vantage at least over most other
plants and trees used for decorative
purposes, In that 1t does not shed its
leaves when cold weather comes.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
The Wedding Ring

When a man puts a ring on his
brides finger at the altar he is do
ing precisely what his long-dead
predecessor did in Anglo Saxon
days. When Anglo-Saxon lovers
were betrothed the bridegroom gave
a pledge which took the form of
a ring. This was placed on the maid
ems right hand. and was religiously
kept there until 1t was transferred
to the other hand at the marriage
ceremony. It is interesting to note
that this pledge was called a "wed,"
from which we derive our word
wedding"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Miss Murphy's Room

In geography the Fifth grade
has started the New England
states. This is the last port of the
journey across the United States
which started in California. They
have written letters on their sight
seeing trip. They also have drawn
maps.
In History they have started emil
grant trails, the pony express, and
the difficulties and dangers in build
ing the first railroad. They are
very glad they live today and not
in the pioneer days.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Normal News

The last two weeks the Normal
Department has been having travel
study. This is done by the use Of
the lantern. Each student has
chosen some well known place ard
finds pictures to illustrate his ma
terial. These pictures are then
flashed on the screen by the use Of
lantern.
Friday Mr.. Kohl gave e very in
teresting talk on $50 This Is Jazz"
He explained the difference be-
tween classical music and what We
term Jazz Before closing his talk
ne played several well known pi-
ano selections.
Blanche Pfeninger was absent
Thursday afternoon and Friday.
She went to Benson where she APP
piled for a school. We hope she
had good luck.
Last week the Normal students
completed their geography teach
ing in the Fifth and Sixth grades
They found that the work was very
interesting as well as educational.
The next unit will be teaching in
Junior High School. This will be
gin Monday.
Friday morning Rev. Retzel<, Of
West Union, gave very interest
ing talk to the Normal students on
geology. Rev. Reflex is noted
geologist and Is at present dong
research work in Minnesota. His
talk was very much appreciated.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01

Mrs. Mary McFarlane, Of Edin-
burgh was sentenced to prison for
torturing a maid servant who stole
fruit from her orchard.
Thomas Brocklehurst, Of st.
Louis, borrowed money from Ave
different undertakers whom he had
engaged to conduct his mothers
funeral" and was arrested for
fraud.
Mrs. George w. King, Of Los An
geles, filed suit for divorce because
her husband had not taken a bath
in the "a years they had been mar
ried.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Temple Of Heaven

Many of the famous shrines Of old
China are located within the ''Tor-
hidden City," which lies within the
Tatar portion Of Peiping (Peking),
but there Is one in the Chinese part
Of the city that is as noteworthy as
any In that land Of illustrious
craftsmen. This Is the Temple of
Heaven where the Chinese emperors
came at daybreak on December u
to offer sacrifices to Shang-ti, the
supreme deity.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Miss Holden

Miss Holden's Fifth and Sixth
grades have completed a series of
tests in reading, language, and
spelling. They have been interest.
ed in noting the improvement made
in scores since last fall when they
took the same test.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Senior Class News

Mr.. Kohl called a Senior Glass
meeting Friday afternoon for the
purpose of planning for next years
Normal Training Department. All
the Seniors are invited to talk over
their future plans with Mr.. Kohl
during the ensuing week.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Early Financial Crashes

After the NapOleonic wars there
was a boom period, followed ten
years later by a crash. The Bank
of France had to come to the help
Of the Bank of England by lending
1t S10O00O00 in gold. A little more
than 100 years later the Bank Of
France and the federal reserve
banks of the United States again
had to come to the rescue Of the
Bank OF England with loans of
s100,000.OOO each.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Drug SmuggIer. Cunning

Drug smugglers do not make
the London detectives life any
more pleasant living. Drug-tak-
ing is a spreading habit. Every
year the orientals and their agents
in suburb and city successfully
smuggle tons Of cocaine and hun
dred-weights Of opium into Eng.
land. Efforts to prevent 1t seem
hopeless.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Third Grade News

The following were neither tardy
nor absent during the last six
weeks: Billy Arndt, Lester Blaski,
Charles Noble, Vivian Secoy, and
Clyde Sykes.
Last week the standard Mid-Year
tests were given in this room. The
tests covered spelling, language,
and reading.
Most of the pupils from the Third
grade, who were out Of school a
few days with measles, have re-
sumed this work.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Miss Miller

The Seventh grade girls had q
party Saturday as result of the
completion of the unit 1.-THE Girl
and Her Family"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-02-01
Miss Beck

The Fourth grade pupils are
working on Lincoln posters Of their
own design.
The history class is filling in out
line maps of Minnesota with places
they have studied.