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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22
EDUCATIONAL GHOSTS,
True Education and the Secret of OBJ.
structive Conservatism.

True Education and the Secret Of oh.
structive Conservatism
No man to-day can practice any OF
the higher arts unless he knows the
history of that art. Our life becomes
extemporized and fra gmentary unless
each man, taking up his work in the
world, not merely attaches his WORK
to the work of those who went before
him and begins where they left off,
but also knows something of the way
in which his art came to reach the
point at which he finds it, and so is
able to make the labor which he adds
part of one consistent and intelli-
gent progress, wrote Phillips Brooks
in one of his ablest literary ESSAYS,
reprinted in the New England Maga-
zine. We want to know the
plumbers men have made, that wo
may not make them over again; we
want to know the grounds of the
partial successes they have achieved,
that We may help to carry forward
their successes toward their full re-
suit. Let me remind you
what are some of the values
that belong to the study of the his
tory of education. First, there is
the great general value of experience.
10 know what other men have done
in the department. where you have
been set to work will make it un-
necessary that you should go over
again what they have already done.
The student of the history of educa-
ton finds, to his great surprise, that
many of the educational ideas of his
own time, which seem to him all
fresh and new, were found out long
ago, were used awhile and then were
lost again, only to be rediscovered at
this later day. A wiser study of edu.
cational history would have made
this rediscovery unnecessary and so
saved time and strength. If every
generation has to begin and prove
over again that two times two is
four, what generation will ever get
beyond the proof that ten times ten
is 100? And then again, to know
how different studies came to be in
troduced would often throw great
light on the value of those studies.
There can be no doubt that
many studies have been intro
duced legitimstely for reasons
which were very strong, but which
were temporary, and then have re-
NAMED like ghosts haunting our
schools long after their living neces-
sity had died away. It is always hard
to get any study out of our schools
when it is once in. Each teacher
learning it as a boy is naturally ready
to teach it as a man. AS John Locke
says: 'It is no wonder if those who
make the fashion suit it to what they
have and not to what their pupils
want" Here surely is the key to
great deal of the conservatism and
traditionalism of our teaching; and
the surest way to break it down and
to get rid of it would be such a wise
study of the history of education, by
those who are to teach, as should
show them how the studies which
they find in school came there, and
SO help them to judge whether those
studies are to be dropped as temporary
necessities which have been outgrown
or to be kept forever because they
are forever useful.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22
Too Trivial.

Judge Chase Of Vermont was man
of excellent sense, and a great stickler
for the dignity of courts.
At one time case of very trifing i'm
portance, which had Well-nigh run the
gauntlet of adjudication, came before
the highest court in the state. The
counsel for the plaintiff was opening
with the usual apologies for a frivolous
suit, when the subject matter, ito wit,
one turkey, of great value" caught the
ear of the judge.
''Mr. Clerk" he called out, in an irate
tone, "strike that case from the docket
The supreme court of the State of
Vermont does not sit here to deter
mine the ownership of a turkey"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22
Not So Fast.

The New York Tribune reports an
anecdote told by a Washington gentle
man concerning city, historically IA
nous, which need not been named here.
1t has fallen behind the procession"
as the current phrase is, and it is by
no means increasing rapidly in popula-
ton. Said the Washington man to the
reporter:
l went over to one evening to
make call. It was dark and couldn't
see the numbers on the houses. After
time l noticed a middle-aged man
smoking a pipe OH the front steps of a
house few doors away.
Il beg PARDON said I, "but will you
kindly tell me which way the numbers
run on this street?'
He took the pipe out of his mouth,
slowly knocked out the ashes, and said:
Just got to town."
"Well, yes," I answered, taken by
surprise.
'Evenin' boat?"
Yes"
What number yer lookin' for?"
''Forty-nine.'
Its the other side, four doors be-
low
I thanked him and turned to go.
Hold on a minute" he called. What
did you say about numbers runnin' %
well, they don't rum" he rejoined;
"they don't even walk. There haint
nothin' run in this town sence the
war"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22
Pushing Trade.

1t is not alone in America that bar
bers show extraordinary persistence
and ingenuity in pressing their wares
upon customers. An American who has
been travelling in France relates that in
Paris the barber who was shaving him
stepped two or three times upon the
side of his foot
At last the customer called out:
please don't do that any more! I
have a corn"
Exactly what I was trying to find
out, monsieur" said the barber, bland
~. I'VE have an excellent preparation
Tor removing COINS, for sale at one
franc per bother
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22

A Postal Card Which Reached It's
Foreign Destination After q Long
Delay.
"A postal card which has been to
Europe and come back has Just been
turned in at the postoffce department
In Washington, to give the officials
there a chance of discovering who is
responsible for it's long delay in trans
mission. 1t was mailed in Washing
ton late in December 1881, addressed
to bookseller in London, directing
him to send to the writer large num-
Der of books which were even then suf-
fciently rare not to be readily accessi-
BILE in this country. The card reached
its destination late in May, 1892. The
bookseller, apparently without MOTTO
ing the disparity between the date
written on the card and the date of
receipt, filed the order, after taking
time to hunt up the books, which,
In the course of ten years interval,
had grown still rarer. The surprise
of the author of the card may be mag
med when, SO long after having con-
cluded that the dealer could not fill
his order, he suddenly had this large
supply of literature dumped upon him
from the postofice. When he charged
the dealer with neglect, the date of the
card appears to have been examined
for the first time; but it was pleaded
that a dealer would be justified in
filling such an order in spite of the an
hquity of the written date, because he
would have a right to assume that his
customer had himself been careless
about dating the card; a slip Of the pen
making 1891 read 1881. The New
York Evening Post: thinks that the
card must have got into the old post
office in Washington, been postmarked
and then lost, slipping possibly into
one of the many cracks and crannies
of that office. When the office was
moved from it's old and shabby quar-
ters into the building it now occupies
some one doubtless came across the
card, and, not noticing it's date, dropped
it into mail bag bound for London.
The responsibility for the accident is
obviously past fixing, and the book
seller in London and his customer in
America will have to settle their dis
pute without the assistance of the post
Office department. 49,.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22
His Object.

Bingo-Wel, old man, I'll say good
by now. I'm off for the worlds fair
tomorrow. Going to take all my fam
lily with me-
Kingly-Why, I thought you said you
weren't going.
Bingo-I wasn't. But I understand
there is a place there where you can
check your children, and I want to see
if I can't get a little rest.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22
GREAT ELEPHANT HUNTER.
One Man who Has Killed Over a Hun
dred of Them.

'OAe iAau VINO mas hllled over Hun
bred of Them.
Mr.. Selous is full of elephant
stories. He has killed over a hun
dred of these monstrous pachyderms,
writes w. I. Stead about Frederick
Selous in the Review of Reviews.
He says that although they smell a
man very quickly, they do not dis
Germ him well with their eyes. If
he stands quite 1notionless, the odds
are they will mistake him for tree
or stump and leave him alone.
African elephants stand about ten
feet high, and their tusks weigh
from thirty to seventy pounds each.
The most edible part of the elephant
is it's heart, after that it's foot and
it's trunk.
The elephant is a natural reservoir
of fat, and out of his cavernous in
terror the natives carefully excavate
every particle of tallow as soon as
he is disemboweled. AS they battle
in his blood, and allow it to dry on
their bodies, they are not very de-
sirable companions. The elephant
when wounded goes on and on for
ever until he drops, hence it is sell
dom any use following up the trail
of any but a very badly wounded
beast. When very hot they insert
their trunks in their stomachs, draw
up the water and sprinkle it over
their backs, preferring apparently to
have the moisture outside rather
than inside. The natives eat all the
elephant to the bare bones, if they
can keep the carcass from the lioas
and the hyenas.
In reply to the question as to
whether there were any elephants
living in this country. e., in the
country in which he made his living
as an elephant hunter when he first
went out-he said there were still a
few stragglers, but there were not
sufficient to make it worth anyone's
while to hunt them for the sake of
their ivory. There were still some
on the Pungwee, where he shot last
October, but in Mashonaland and along
the Zambes, where once they abound
ed, there were practically only to be
found some struggling specimens.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22
Help Wanted.

Bank Cashier-I have vent,lred to call
on you, sir, to state that you have q
very small balance in the bank, and in
the hope that you may be able to make
a rous;ng deposit.
Senior Partner-Well, what if we
have. The account is not overdrawn,
is it?
Cashier-Oh, no. But I am going on
my summer vacation tomorrow.
A caterpillar contains more than 1000
muscles.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22

Geo. Benz & Sons. are the sole
Owners and bottlers of Uucle Sans
Monogram, which has by reason of it's
merit and quality in a short time become
the leading brand of whisky i'll the North
west. A trial will convince you of it's SUI
periority to most Whistles, and that it is
excelled by none.
Ask your druggist or retail dealer for it.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22
A Sanitary: Garment.

Customer-This overcoat you sold
me last fall is worn SO thin I can
almost see through it. (.
Dealer-Yah. Dot ees our patent
sanitary overgoat. Ven you leaf 1t
off in der spring, you Won't catch
cold IN. 7. Weekly.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22
a Mean. Mean Man.

Mr.. Crewell- If had known you
were going to have fried beefsteak, /
would have asked BROMLEY to dinner.
Mrs. Crewell romely to dinnerl
4 thought you hated himp
b Mr.. CreWell II do. Puck
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22
August
Flower

. Eight doctors treated me for Heart
Disease and one for Rheumatism,
but did me no good. I could not
speak aloud. Everything that took
into the Stomrch distressed me. I
could not sleep. I had taken all
kinds of medicines. Through
neighbor l got one of your books.
I procured a bottle of Green's Aug
ust Flower and took it. am to-day
stout, hearty and strong and enjoy
the best of health. August Flower
saved my life and gave me my health.
Mrs. Sarah J Cox, Defiance, 0. .
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22
Holland has practicing women chemists.
Female Weakness Positive Cure.

To the Editor: Please inform your read
thousand and one ills which arise from de-
ranged female organs. Not a prescription
to be filled, but 1 will send two bottles Of
my remedy, free Of all cost for the medi-
cine, ready for use, to any lady if she will
send her Express or p. Q. address. l hold
correspondence strictly confidential and for
ward my replies and remedy in plain wrap
per. DR.. J. S. Marchisi Utica, N. Y.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22

Whether on pleasure bent or business, take
on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Figs, as
it acts most pleasantly and effectually on
the kidneys, liver and bowels, preventing
fevers, headaches and other forms Of sick
ness. For. sale. in SOC and 81 bottle by all
leading druggists. Manufactured by tho
California Fig Syrup Co. only.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22

IT You Feel Miserable in General
take Aliens Iron Tonic Bitters. All genu-
inc bear the signature of J. P. Allen, Drug
gist, st. Paul, MINI.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22

Malarial disease is invariably supplement-
ed by disturbance Of the liver, the bowels,
the stomach and the nerves. To the re-
moval of both the cause and its effects Hos
letters Stomach Bitters is fully adequate.
1t fills the bill'' as no other remedy does,
performing its work thoroughly. Its ingre-
mirably serves to build up system broken
by i'll health and shorn of strength. Consti-
patton, liver and kidney complaint and
nervousness are conquered by it.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22

II the BABY Il Cutting Teeth,
BE sure and that old and well tried remedy MR8
WINsLows SoorHlNc SYRuP for Children Teething.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22

A lady who suffered for years with uter-
inc troubles, disp]acements, leucorrhea and
irregularities, finally found safe and sim
pie home treatment that completely cured
her without the aid of medical attendance.
She will send it free with full instructions how
to use it to any suffering woman who will
send her name and address to
Mrs. D. L. Orme, South Bend Ind.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22

Eight counties in Missouri are named II
horror of presidents of the United States. :
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22

The grey matter Of the brain is built of
at least 600, OOO, 900 cells.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22

The United States has $500, 900 berhives;
Germany, 100000; Spain, 100000; Aus
tria, 1850, GOO.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22
When TRAVELLING,

The standing army of Hawaii consists OF
sixty -four men, three of whom are generals.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22
FREE TO INVALID LADIES

There are in the world 261 blind asylums
and training schools with II, $50 inmates.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22

The total number of co,ored troops in he
United States army during the civil war
was 1876, OH.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22

Men ale more liable than women to In
sanity and die sooner litter becoming In
sane. 49,. -. - ...r.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22

During the cholera plague of 1865 the
greatest mortality at Rome and Madrid
was on Sundays; at London and Berlin on
Wednesdays; at Paris on Saturdays.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22

One thousand francs was recently paid
for the wooden horse with which Napoleon
played as child.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22

I Cure Dyspepsia and Constipation.
DR.. Shoop's Restorative Nerve Pills sent
free with Medical Book to prove merit for
w., Racine, Wis.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22

The death rate from apoplexy is highest
at Turin, Italy, $40 in 10000
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22
That Terrible scourge.

Flints for gun locks were used in the
French army in 1880.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22

How did our brother, the editor,
dep Dead game. . But I mean.
spiritually?' 'Chock full!''
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22

AL the way through, and at every stage,
Or. sages Catarrh Remedy cures CatarTh.
80 sure OF this fact are the proprietors of the
medicine that they offer $500 reward for any
incurabls case of Catarrh. =
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-22

HOODS PILLS cure Constip alton by restor-
ing the peristaltic action OF the tary canal
The morning call., 1893-11-27
UNWELCOME "BOBTAILS."
They Replace the Double Cars on
Folsom Street

Since the 9th of the present month the
double or two-horse cars which for many
years ran on Folsom street. from Eighth
to Twenty-slxth. have been superseded by
the bane of the Mission citizens-the bob
tall In consequence complaints are being
made against the policy of the Consol-
idated Street-railway Corporation for TAX
ing a backward step, as the change is
termed. The property-owers on the street
named are far from delighted, and loudly
condemn the putting on of the "bo btails."
Promises have for several years been
made them that the road would in a short
time be altered to an electric line. H.
stead. they say, the policy of the street
railway combine is to divert travel TO the
two cable lines on Howard and Valencia
streets. and by so doing seriously affect
sion streets, on which bobtails are now
operated. Citizens must either patronize
the one-horse cars or walk block and
take the cable. By these methods the ex-
penses and force Of employees are consid-
erably reduced. The interests of the prop
erty-holders are not at all considered.
People residing on Mission street, south
OF Twenty-siXth, were Yesterday anxiously
and lmpatiently looking for the bob
tails" that never came.
Owing to the extremely bad state of the
road bed the withdrawal of the horsecars
on Mission street, between Twenty-six:h
and Thrty-first, was found necessary.
The heavy rainfall and the large QUANTITY
Of red maeadam which was continually
being washed across the tracks precluded
the operation of the cars on the branch
system of the City Railroad running south
Of TWenty-Sixth street.
The morning call., 1893-11-27

is exported to the mainland. Coffee has
been tried with good success. and there Is
every indication that the Cape region is q
fne coffee country. The trees l saw were
loaded down with ten pounds on each, an
extraordinary yield. Cocoanut palms
date palms are numerous and give very
good fruit.
Manages grow very large, and you can
find everywhere alligator pears, guavas
lemons. lines and oranges. The lemons
and oranges are exported to MaZatlan and
this country.
There are not many native fruits, prin-
eipaliy the guavas. the wild plum, an acid
fruit OF pleasant flavor, which is abundant
A cactus bears fruit called playa. This
Is large like an orange but red in color
with juice like blood. Another fruit re-
lated TO the perslmmon is the best there.
1t grows wild In the mountains, is sweet,
aromatic, soft, with few seeds and entirely
without the astriDgency and insi pidity of
our persimmOns. / sent some of the seed
to John Rock at Niles. who is going to
grow and distribute them with others |
valuable for this country and for hybridiz-
ing with the Japanese persimmon.
"ln the extreme southern part. some
thirty miles east of Cape San Lucas, is a
large valley forty miles long, through
which large river flows. The water is
perfectly pellucld, ds Indeed Is the case all
over the cape region. Natives who drink
the water are perfectly healthy. Chills
and fever are entirely unknown, and this
is on account of the purity of the wafer
All crops grow without irrigation, although
there is some crude attempt at irrigation
In places. There are no barren rocks
every foot Of soil Is covered with vegeta-
ton.
Now for the fauna of this interesting
country. The forms are principally trop-
zeal. the land being covered with lizards Of
all colors and varieties. Birds are numer-
Gus and live undisturbed by man. Every
body admires them. The people have no
guns to take out and shoot every bird at
sight as boys do here. Not even the nests
are destroyed. The people are natural
people. They love nature. birds, flowers
and animals, and take pleasure in them.
They understood the reasons for our ex.
The morning call., 1893-11-27
PERSONAL NOTES.

W. a. Carlson, Mayor Of San Diego, is
at the Grand.
F. A. Him. the capitalist, of Santa Cruz,
is at the Grand.
Ad c. Hinkson. the Sacramento attor-
ney, is at the Grand.
Sheriff T. W. O'Neill and wife of Sacra-
mento are registered at the Grand.
General e. c. Allen. acknowledgement of
the National Guard. is registered at the
Occidental.
DR.. Z. w. King. superintendent Of the
State Insane Asylum at Ukiah, registered
yesterday at The Grand.
w. E. Lawrence, a Vacaville fruit
grower, accompanied by his wife, regis
tered yesterday at the Grand.
a. NJ. Sedgwick, mining man from
Cape Town. South Africa, accompanied
by his wife. is guest at the Palace.
P. A. Buell., the lumber merchant of
Stockton, came to this city yesterday for
the purpose Of erecting the San joaquin
building at Sunset City,
The morning call., 1893-11-27
POPULAR SONGS.
How a Bright Boy Makes
Spending Money.
Once a Week He Goes on the Sausa.
Tito Boat, Marbles and Collects
Dimes and Nickels.

The words of "After the Ball Is Over"
warbled by boy of Is or Whereabouts.
attracted the attention of a number of the
passengers on the steamer San Rafael on
a recent bright Sunday morning. Elderly
women ceased neghborhood gossip. ma
irons diverted their attention from the
youngsters in their charge, maidens put
stop to telling what each thought OF this
ones or that ones beau, men stopped
putting their cigars and even the dogs that
accompanied the hunters became attentive
listeners, for the boy had sweet voice
one that cannot be classed. still 1T was
clear and enhancing. The popular malo-
dies he sang in his own peculiar way
touched the masses and pleased those who
heard him. When the last words OF the
chorus had been carried away bv the
breeze that swept across the deck the
Juvenile singer changed his tune and gave
his auditors 1.-Two Little Girls in Blue"
These and other popular vocal fads be
gave with all the power OF his young voice.
and many were the comments as TO
the possibility of musical future for
him, when suddenly he ceased and mod
estly dofing his cap. held it in his hand.
moved among those who had listened to