The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1895-06-29
EnoUloRaI LlJeraUure.

assassins.
EnoUlonaI LITERATURE.
Il suppose you see all sorts Of people
in the course of q days run?' said the
observant man to the train boy as he
bought package of wintergreen chew
ing gum.
"You betr' said the boy, after the
manner of his kind. "Look acrost the
way there at that woman a-cryin over
'Unluclzily Married; or, the Doom Of
Mary Jane. When she come on the Car
this mornin, she were as pretty as
wax fgger, all red al white. Sence she's
been a-readiD that novel she's cried till
her face is all streaked and striped. The
paints run so she looks jest like q
zebrY." And the youth walked on, leav,
ing the observ ant man in deep Thought
detroit Free Press.
Little Billee of Germany is deter
mined his people shall not forget his al
legged poem, "Aegir." If newspaper
joker had suggested name for the new
ironclad which the emperor was to
christen, undoubtedly ne would have
recommended "Aegir" as humorous
idea But Little Billee turned the mat
ter over in his powerful mind, took it
seriously and gave that very name to
the ship. He pretended that he meant to
commemorate a powerful ancient pagan
god CT the Teutonic people, but it was
evidently only pretense. He actually
meant to commemorate his own poem.
The Great Pacific Countries.
Forty four years ago William 81.
beward, in a speech in the United
States senate, prophesied that Europe
with all its commerce., politics and his
tory, would in sime sink into insignih-
canoe compared to the great and grow
Ing Pacific region. The Atlantic has it's
day now, The day OF the Pacific 10 at
hand
Quoting from Stewards speech as
texs, ex-Minister Lorrin A. Thursten
ct Hawaii contributes to The North
American Review Que Of the most i'm
portant and interesting magazine papers
shat have appeared in many day. His
tables ornparing the tonnage of vessels
arriving at Atlantic and Pacific ports
show that already Sydney has nearly
na!f as much shipping as New York
CITY san Francisco has already nearly
as much as Boston and more than Phil
ade1phla- South Australia imports and
exports more goods per capita of popu-
tataon than any other country on the
globe Hawaii, "the Gibraltar of the
E'ac,ho' actually entered more ships
nylns thu American flag than were en-
eefed at any other pert in the world in
1893 Honolulu 8 foreign trade already
amounts to SIG, 900, 900 year.
a matter that vitality interests the
WhOl6 American people 10 the fact that
fne British government gives no less
rhan IS, 777, 1873 every year in certain
k'aclhc ocean steamer lines, and this is
only part Of her subsidies to encourage
,trade in that quarter. What is the
United States thinking Of that it lets
england slip in and steal the greatest
commerce the world has ever known.
possibly ever will know, from under
Our fingers? Mr. Thurston lays stress
On what is certainly the faot-that peo-
PIE east Of the Rocky mountains have
40 realization of the greatness Of their
own Pacific coast. Our population west
OF the Rocky mountains in one year
more will certainly be equal to that Of
the whole ID colonies at the beginning
OF the Revolution. The railroad build
ing which has stopped dead still in the
east goes on unabated in the west,
Moreover. Siberia already produces one
sixth OF the worlds gold output every
year, and she is only beginning.
MI Thurston concludes with the
prophecy that within the next few yeare
steamships will radiate from Vladivos-
fok to all the American Pacific coast
and go through the Nicaragua canal;
that railroad will be completed from
Alaska to Chile, and that the Pacific
coast steamers will be as large and swift
as those now plying between New York
and Liverpool.
When street Car conductor or DRYER
who works 16 hours a day for 81. 20
oc1,, fo- az, iparoaco IF nov and q ra6nn.