The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-12-30

tighter and we're OFF. Badly Cthe in
former), Torsberg came back the
other week end. buIbbling with tales
he Cleaned from man who had
been there. Was telling about Egypt
and he filled your columnist with
strange tales OF the Pyramids. Var
ious theories have been advanced
and exploded as to just how they
managed to construct those pyra-
mids, some 500 feet high True
they had lots Of men, but those are
huge blocks they hauled UP. It's
really very simple. As one layer
was built the desert sands were
graded up to the level and the
blocks hauled up over the natural
incline plane. They proceeded thus
to the top, which left the pyramid
covered with sand, leveling out to
ground level about two miles on
either side, 1t seems. Early the pyr-
amids were covered with alabaster.
So they worked backwards now.
Uncovering a layer at a time, and
covering 1t with the alabaster
Within the dark tombs, Egyptian
engineering showed again, he told
us. There were no lights, so they
drilled holes Is feet long, pointing
east and west, and so perfectly aim
ed that as the sun rose and then
set the tomb was flooded with
light. INTERESTING? Now then
down in the tomb of King Tut, that
much publicized old mummy, work
ers hued out of rock to 500 feet
below ground. They had no cleo
tricity, could use no torches down
there. How did they do It? Using
metal plates, polished to mirrorlike
finish, they sought out the angles
of reflection, coaxed the suns rays
to the depths below. Worked in
sunlight during the venture
Portrait Of q man working: Post
master Ben Dubois lending hand,
running the cancelling machine at
the P. O., and humming gently the
Bells Of st. Mary's" . And Nor
man Decree trimming a tiny tree,
undaunted by the gibes of the tele-
phone girls who like bigger trees.
At 29-I'm sure he won't mind II
we just tell this story to you, Lynn.
It's a tale as full Of humanness as
can be, and it points out the sue
cess story OF one Of the streets
characters. It's about George
OGara. You see, he never intended
to come to Sank Centre, in fact he
had never heard Of 1t. It was in the
days when Bemidji was a boom
town, and he was headed that way.
But he stopped here over night,
awaiting train connections, and
that was fatal. For he never got
away. He saw man ride horse
back into a saloon, saw a couple OF
swell fights, decided the old town
had life, decided to stay. He was
% then, and 1t was 81 years ago.
He rented small building and set
I'D a restaurant, but before he got
done he had time of it. He car
ried brick that built the library
when his business folded like the
tents of the Arabs. But he kept his
eye peeled. One day he noticed
train loads of people waiting on the
platform at the depot, but no place
for them to eat. He was a restaur-
anteur and business man. A few
days later he was up there with
baskets of sandwiches, prepared at
home by his wife, peddling them
like the butcher boys. He sold all he
could lug there. Well, out Of that
grew the business Of the lunch
room at the depot, he built the
building, got a crew to have a ''bee"
to build the counters. During the
war he went to town, but later the
widespread advent of the automo-
bile killed off his trade. So he at
tackled the very thing that nearly
disrupted his business. He went in
to the garage business George
O'Gara, still active on the street
has built about half the filling sta
tons in town, has dabbled IN q
number of restaurant ventures
He's never sorry he came to Sauk
Centre, he said don't know
somehow I like that story. 1t speaks
of courage and foresight. As this
new year comes upon us, believe
it Is worthy of passing along te
youngsters who today believe they
have tough time.