The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-04-24

chief constable seized him for contempt
of Stra tford council, and held him for
trial. At that Some cried 'Shamep and
come eHurrah but the rest of the
players fed out of town in the night,
lest their baggage be taken by the law
and they be fned." E&lE ssE[ ,E&<9-5e II
.~,z What One Girl Has Done =
Listen to: what one sixteen-year-oIH
girl has done Two: weeks, ago she
passed the entrance examination OF
Harvard university, which will admit
her to Radclifr college, the woHnan,s
annex. This fact is remarkable enough
in itself, but the wonder grows when
we are told that this girl is deaf and
blind and has been ever since she was
a few months old! Her name, which
is known all over the world, is Helen
Keller y sgtH 5,.ll.. q, -;
Helen was born in Alabama, and up
to her seventh year be- mind was q
total blank. She did not. even have
| the sense Of taste. But in a little more.
than eight years she has been trained
through the single sense of touch until
she is further advanced in the or1in-
ary branches of learning than girls OF
-.
Much of this wonderful progress has
been due to the patience and care OF
her teacher, Miss Sullivan. Helen was
hrst taught to understand by, signs
tapped on the hands, thus enabling
her. to catch glimpses through her fin
ger tips Of the great world around her.
which She can never see For a long
time she talked With her fingers as
deaf and dumb people usually, do. But
one day she took her teachers hand in
hers and spelled on it,: Il must speak,
MISS Sullivan finally found way TO
teach her to use her voice, and now
=. she speaks clearly. The only Way.,
however, by which she can receive
oral communica tions is by the sense
Of touch. Let her place her finger tins
upon tile throat or lips of any one
speaking and there is instantly con-
tVeyed to her brain understanding OF
| what is said.:,s ~ -! ..~.z.
She has rapidly acquired knowledge
of French, German and history, and
already she has written much in these
Two languages, and her own as well
She has a very strong poetic tenapera-
mert, and her diary, which she has
been keeping for two years, aborHnas
with beautiful thoughts, most beautI-
tlstT ,
IafssW hen your. lessons seem altogether
loo ha I'd .an yoaas thin K there 81 not
! much use trying, when yen are discou
tented and feel that the world is not
using you well--you who have all yozu
| senses and can see and hear the beau
ties of the world just stop moment
and think ~ fs5"s ~, s.zl.':e
Think of Helen Keller. .,5
| iatrFu us-.-
| "Setting the River ON Fire.
| Sometimes, when a person wants to
make an unpleasant remark in a pleas
ant sort Of way about a dun boy he
Will say, "That boy will never set the
river OH fire. Now, that is all very
true; for even the smartest man in the.
world could never set stream of wa
ter on fire, and SO perhaps nfaIH OF
you who have heard this expression
nave wondered what is meant by set
ting the river OH fire.
In ENGLAND. many, many years ago;
) before the millers had machinery for
Sitting -four each family was obliged
! to sift it's own flour. Tor doing this it,
was necessary to use sieve. called a
tense, which was SO fixed that it could
! be turned round and round in the top
OF a barrel. If it was turned too FAST
! the friction would sometimes cause it
TO catch lire; and as it. wasgOnly the
smart, hard working boys who could
make it go so fast as that, people got
into the way Of pointing out lazy boy
| by saying that he would never set the.
tense on fire. After Il w1liIe these
! sieyes went out of use, but as there.
were still plenty Of stupid boys IN the.
world, people kept on saying that they
! would never set the tense on fire
| Now. the name of the rives Thames is
| pronounced exactly like the word
'temse;'' and So, after many years.
| those persons who had never seen OF
I heard Of the old-fashioned sieve
| thought that -tsetting the tense On
fire." meant setting the river Thames
| on fire. This expression became very
popular and travelled far and wide
until people living near other streams
did not see why. it was any harder for
a slothful boy to set the Thames On,
fire than, any Other river, and so the
name Of the river. WAS. dropped, and
| everybody after that simply said tstfae
river" meaning tile river of his par
tcl11ar city or: town; and that is how ii
is that people to- day talk of setting the.
river on fire.-sSt Nicholas. C. s}.# .s
Ways of Saying How D'y Do
There are all kinds cf ways for say
ing =: How How d'y do:'' A French1nan,
when zen he sees a friend coming, l,astens
forward with his hand stretched ont
and says. How dc you carry your
self q The Italian greets an aequaint-
with, ]" How do YOU Stan{l 90 and tho.