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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-01
Insects in the Wardrobe.

A correspondent, whose home a new
ly arrived visitor in Buluwayo de-
scribes as "a very pretty, place about
two miles out of town." informs South
Africa that Rhodesia is a fine country
for clothes. A smart evening dress,
which she has only lately had out from
home, while hanging in a wardrobe
accommodated a rat between the silk
and lining. The horrid little beast nib
bled hole the size of a hand on each
side of the skirt. She muses. that if
human inhabitants do not fancy ones
clothes the white ants do. Failing
them, you have flat BEETLES, and, sup
posing they desert you, the rat comes
in, so no one can say fine raiment is
wasted out there. "The wasps build
their nests in your candle shades and
the caterpillars Or something weave
or spin cocoons in your curtains."-
Exchange.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-01
THIRTEEN SUPERSTlTlOUS MEN
Would Not Go to Dinner Until the Four
tenth Guest Appeared.

teenth Guest Appeared.
.'This matter of superstition always
makes me laugh, !" said Mr.: 4, T. Brit
ton When some one poke 81 never Xix iik.
ing to do anything on Friday. IT made
trip Of $4,000 miles last summer with;
party Of twelve others, making thir-
teen in all, and we started on Friday.
and never missed a train Or a boat or
a meal or had an ache Or pain among
US the whole time Then he told a
laughable story, says an exchange.
1T has been the custom of the surviy-!
ors of the old national rifles to meet
each year on the anniversary of our!
mastering into service in the war Of
the rebellion and enjoy a dinner and
swap "reminiscences near and remote.
Several years ago I had the boys to my!
house and had prepared the very best
dinner I knew how to give. There arei
usually sixteen or seventeen survivors,
at such gathering, but this time when
we were about to enter the dining room;
somebody counted noses and discov-;
cred we were thirteen all told. Now:
those other twelve men were brave and
courageous gentlemen, who had faced
cannon unflinchingly and were afraid
of nothing tangible, but not a single
man of them was willing to enter that
room. At last, after half-hour's wait.
during which my dinner was rapidly
approaching the spoiled stage, another
man came and in we went. Now, that
man who made the fourteenth in the
party and broke the unlucky spell, ac-
cording to the twelve other guests, was
Charlie Alexander and before the dim
ner was concluded he had to be carried
home and in two months he was dead!
All the others are living yet.''
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-01
in A JOsSHOUSE.
The Chinese Celebration of New Year'A
In San Francisco. -


The procession-for some queer rea-
son the Chinese always seem to walk
in single file-was headed by his faith
err, carrying the baby brother proudly
in his arms, says ST.. Nicholas. The
mother and sister carried baskets filled
with offerings to the gods, while All
eau had contented himself with parad-
ing his finery only. The interior OF the
>josshouse was but dimly lighted, and
when the eyes once became used to
the mysterious and smoky atmosphere
that filled the place strange and weird
faces of gods and demons showed
through the darkness and gazed SOL
emily down from rich affairs upon the
visitors. A priest, seated at the en-
trance, had a supply of painted can
dies, sticks of incense made of sandal
wood and packets of papers contain
ing printed prayers. Having bought
a supply of these helps to worship, All
eau and his family had entered the
inner room of the pagan gods. In
the presence of these images, with
A1oCOuo, Pd1AISu 4dICo uAAAAJ AoonAAA@6
out of the darkness and mystery of the
incense laden atmosphere, most Amer
lean boys of All Gau's age would have
been terror stricken. He, on the con-
trary, seemed to be quite at ease
among these strange things, and went
near to the uncanny idols with quite
an air of familiarity. He boldly walked
up to large drum standing in one cor
ner, and Selling drumstick, pounded
on it with all his might for the pur-
pose of drawing the attention of the
gods to the worshipers. He then had
Joined with the family in placing a
large number of lighted candles and
smoking incense sticks upon the altar,
after which they had bent themselves
in prayer before the principal image
in the temple. A number of offerings
cakes, fruits and various articles of
food. as we'll as rice wine-were next
piled up before this deity, Their de-
votion ended with the burning of lot
of printed prayers in little brick
furnace erected in corner of the
| josshouse for that purpose. AS they
| left pack of firecrackers was set off,
and then, thoroughly satisfied with
themselves and with minds at ease, they
| had gone homeward.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-01
AN IMPROVED TELErHoNE,
The Receiver is Automatic and Docs
Not Require Holding

The Receiver is Automatic and Docs
Not Require Holding.
A telephone which connects itself au-
eomatically with the central telephone
office, and which is disconnected as
soon as the one using it leaves it, has
recently been patented by a German
electrician. Instead of being suspend
ed by a hook at the side, the telephone
receiver-which in this instrument COW
ers both earvis attached to horizontal
arms, which slide up and down on per-
pendicular rods attached to the WALL
The horizontal arms fold up like tel
escope, so that anybody may arrange
the telephone receiver as he likes best.
The employment of these fixtures is,
therefore, very simple. When not in
use, the rod at one side of the tele
phone box holds down the contact re-
ceiver, so that The same action is a1l-
tomatically done which is now per-
formed by the receiver being hung up
OH the hook at the side of the phone.
When the telephone is to be used, the
arms carrying the receiver are pulled
apart and the head is placed between
them in such a way that both the re-
ceivers cover the ears. The opening Of
the arms makes the connection, and,
while hearing excellently and being in
the proper position to speak into the
bands free to take any notes. When
closing the conversation, the withdraw
al of the head from between the receiv-
ers sewers the connection with the GEN.
trail telephone ofice.-Ph il;delphia Rec
ord.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-01

ships go, for her tonnage is only 1900:
but she could knock the spots OF the
best warship that was ever construct
ed, armored or unarmored, if only Civ
en- half chance. Then there are our
five double turreted monitors, Of
which the most powerful is the unIucky
Puritan of 5000 tons. Just how ef-
hcient a. boat the Puritan is can hard
1y be said at present, for it was only a
few days ago that she came tagging
into port, the end of her hawser
stretching away from the stern of the
cruiser Columbia. When the Puritan
went down to Charleston ,to1 run the
blockade she was well nigh swamped
in the great storm, and this fact, to-
gether with her latest accident, makes
naval authorities rather hesitant about
fixing the extent of her powers.
Besides the Puritan, there is the
Terror, the Anphitrite, the Monadnock
and the Miantonomah. They are about
half the Puritan's size. Their armor
Is eleven inches thick, and their guns
are 10-inch pieces. OF course, the mon
itor is pre-eminently a coast defender.
In smooth water and for harbor work
this craft is unsurpassed. The mon
ltor is very different vessel than when
MIR. Ericsson's invention had it's IA
nous duel with the Merrimae. In fight
ing strength and in defensive power
it is several hundred per cent better.
While it is true that the majority Of
the naval powers do not approve of
the type of vessels that monitors rep
resent, their usefulness is unques-
toned. If worst comes to worst, and
our Warships are inadequate in point
OF numbers, we could call on our big
liners for aid. Of course it would not
take much time to make unarmored
cruisers out of them, and, SO far as
speed is concerned, there is nothing
in the Spanish navy, or our own, eth
err, for that matter, which could touch
them. Spain has one big line upon
which it could draw, the Campania
Transatlantica, whose thirty-two
steamers have gross tonnage Of more
than 100000.
The defeat of Spain in a sea contest
would, it will be seen from the facts
given, be a task that differs widely
from child's play. If Uncle Sam and
Don Spaniard really come to blows it
will be duel, each of the combatants
in which will have a foeman worthy
Of his Steel.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-01

The letters H. G., which appear in
the foregoing paragraphs, signify
heavy guns, or primary batteries The
letters S. B., similarly used, mean Sec
ondary batteries, or light guns. Tor
pedo boats No. 1 include torpedo boats
and torpedo catchers over 100 feet in
length. Torpedo boats No. 2 include
torpedo boats under 100 feet in length.
Leaving aside the question of jingo-
ism or the anti-war spirit, a careful
survey of these facts shows beyond
peradventure that it would be no one
sided affair, as so many people are
fond of observing, and it is highly prob
able that the United States navy would
be lessened by several vessels before
the Spaniard was forced to acknowl-
edge the supremacy of the Stars and
Stripes. In other words, the officers
and men who wear Uncle Sans livery
on the ocean would get a taste of gen
uine fighting and plenty of opportunity
for larger doses. The most formula
BILE ship in the Spanish navy is the
Pelayo, of 10000 tons burden, which
was constructed by French shipbuild-
ers about ten years ago. She repre-
sents, despite the fact Of her age, the
most formidable advancement along
the line Of naval warfare accomplished
during the period that has elapsed
since the rebellion. Her ram is Of the
most powerful variety, and her bait
terry consists Of two II 5-10 Inch rap
id-fre. guns, which practically consti-
tute her broadside: Then there is the
secondary battery, consisting of a doz-
en- smaller guns and six torped 8 tubes.
Dbl It will thus be seen that there is no
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-01
European Degeneracv.

Statisticians of Europe view with in
creasing alarm the sociological fact of
the steady decrease of the number of
births in all the European nations.
This fact, while little known, is very
remarkable, because it is one of the
symptoms of degeneration" that bug
aboo Of modern Psychologists, who de-
clare that a constant decrease of pop
ulation of all the civilized nations NAV
confidently be expected. w
The figures given below are obtained
from the most reliable authorities in
each country and compare the birth
rates of 1876 with those of 1896 per
Thousand of the population: x = =
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GRAND MARA1s, MINNESOTA. SATURDAY. NAY /, 1897

vessel in the United States navy more
powerful than the Pelayo so far as ar
Inament is concerned. She is provided
with q steel Water-line belt of a maxi
mum thickness Of eighteen inches, and
this renders her as impregnable as
modern skill can make a warship, so
TAR as resistance to projectiles which
are fired at her are concerned. Not
only is she thus 'armored and armed,
but she is thoroughly up to. date, as
only two months ago she was repaired
generally and retubed at the Ferret
navy yard. She has a speed of about
sixteen knots an hour, and in this re-
biggest craft in our own navy. The
5battleship@ Iowa, which has her trial
trip next month, will be the one YES
sci in the United States navy which
will come near to equalling the Pc
layo. The only vessels that now fly
our flag which can be considered fit
antagonists for SPANS banner warship
are the battleships Indiana and Mas
sachusetts, the armament of each of
which consists of four 13-inch, eight
8-inch and four 6-inch guns. These
ships are of II 900 tons displacement,
, as compared with the Pelayo's 10000;
but in reality the Pelayo is slightly
heavier in point of service than either
of our own battleships. Both the Ore
gon and Indiana have the thickest of
or IN ~, h,,f -; 1y,1xr in voorfi al
belt, which protects the vitals Of the
ship. It is of a maximum thickness
Of Is inches, and is composed OF Har-
veyized nickel steel. The bore of the
guns of these battleships is about thir-
teen inches in diameter. The guns are
mounted within seventeen-inch steel
turrets and five inches of steel protect
the six-inch battery
The cruiser New York has her pro-
totype in the Spanish navy in the ar
While very strongly resembling the
New York, she is perhaps trif1e larg-
er, her tonnage being 9,100 to the New
York's $500. She carries two 11-inch
guns in barbettes ten inches thick;
! eight 51h-inch rapid fire guns and four
4-inch firers, together with powerful
secondary battery of rapid-fire six and
three-pounder guns. Her protective
| deck is six inches thick, and her sides
are partially plated with two-inch steel.
She is the newest of the Spanish fleet
Of any considerable size.
q Not only have we a fair match for
! the Carlos in the New York, but the
| Brooklyn will keep her hands full. In
tonnage she is little more than the
equal Of the Carlos, her tonnage being
1880. The Brooklyn is a better ship
IthanAthe. New y ork and that. is saying
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-01

been presented by almost every in
curing mind wherever patriotism ex-
lists in the United States. A great
many persons have an idea that the
Spanish naval force is insignificant.
Facts show the actual state Of affairs:
Here are the official figures, and this
is the first time they have. been cor
rectly stated
United States-Armored ships, So;
guns of same, H. G., 1853; guns of same,
5. g., 5l3; unarmored ships, 80; guns
of same, H. G., 1872; guns of same, S.
B., 359; unarmored gunboats, %; guns
OF same, H. G., 1852; dispatch vessel,
1; guns of same, 10; training, receiving
and store ships, transports, tugs, etc.,
st; guns of same, 112; torpedo boats,
NO. l, LIZ; torpedo boats, No. 2, g.; to-
tai number of guns on board vessels of
United States navy, 1,64O; of these guns
those from 40 to 80. tons, number 81;
20 to 40 tons, 1888; to 20 tons, SIT: un-
der tons, 1880.
Spain-Armored ships, II; guns of
same, H. G., 154; guns of same, S. B.,
l6S; unarmored ships, SO; guns of same,
II. G., las; guns of same, S. B., 100; ar
mored gunboats, 2; guns of same. H.
e., 3; guns of same, S. B., 9; unar-
mored gunboats, 40; guns of same, H.
a., 73; guns of same, S. B., 1874; dis
patch vessels, 2; guns of same, H. G.,
s; guns of same, S. B., 2; training, re-
ceiving and store ships, transports
tugs, etc., 10; guns of same, 81; tor
pedo boats, No. 1, 60; torpedo boats
NO. 2, 10; total number of guns on
poard vessels Of Spanish navy, $50; OF
these 10 are from 40 to so tons: 11C
from 20 to 40 tons; 2S6 from 4 to 20
tons, and 554 I'm der 4 tons.
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good deal. She carries eight 8-ineh
and twelve 5-inch guns, to the New
York's six 8-inch and twelve finch.
While the Brooklyn's armor is a. trihe
inferior to the New York's it is infin-
itely more modern.
There is in the Spanish navy also one
OF the finest types of the modern ar
mored cruiser. 1t is the Infanta Maria
Theresa. She represents a fleet of
eight cruisers of her own sort which
fly the Spanish flag. Her armament
consists of two 945-100 guns in bar
bettes and ten 5 5-10-inch rapid-frers
For protection she has belt at the
water line twelve inches thick along
the central body Of the ship. Twelve
inches is the thickness of the barbette
armor. The nearest approach that we
nave to this class of war vessel is found
in the Maine or the Texas, whose ton
mage is 1000 and $500 respectively.
The Maine has four 10-inch guns in
turrets ten inches thick and the latter.
has two 12-inch guns in turrets fen
inches thick. Both have six 6-inch.
guns in their main batteries. These
are the second-class battleships; but,
to tell the truth, they are not the equal
of the armored cruisers of Spain. The
only prototypes Of these vessels are
found in the English navy. #.a .&s5
d There is one point Of advantage We
+ have over Spain, and that is in our
rams and monitors While every mod
tern Warship is possessed Of Il ram, we
have in the Katah lin a vessel which
is built for nothing else but sinking her
prov into an unlucky foe. The Ka-
ta q is not q very big vessel as war.
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ing was spoken of as religious act,
and then asked, "But do you call your
dancing schools and party dances or
even social dances religious services or
acts giving joy to victory and worship
TO God of purity and love?'
He further said, II fully intend to
lift my voice against the tendencies to
impurity, looseness of morals, deaden-
ing of conscience, loss of influence,
Wrecking of character, which I plainly
discern in the dance, the card table
and the theater. Thank God! I have
not been contaminated with either.
The dance is harmful to the body
The atmosphere Of the ball room is
always unhealthful. The physical en-
ergies are almost always overtaxed, so
that for days the normal condition of
the body is destroyed. The violent and
iong-continued exercise of the dance
is particularly harmful to young ladies.
1t is sad fact that large number of
young women enter the marriage re-
lation utterly disqualified. They live
when they should be in full enjoyment
of domestic bliss All because they
become enamored with the excitement
OF the dance. The grave holds today
the earthly remains of many fair and
lovely woman who but for the dance
would be in full health. Many young
man has gone to his grave because of
late hours and throwing himself liable
to taking severe cold, which caused
consumption. It is taking chance on
ones life. That is ALL
''The dance is harmful to the mind
That the violent and continued
exercise, of the. dance, causing rapid
flow of the blood through the body, is
RIGHTEOUSNESS hat elicate organ, the
I 'brain.. will not be denied by anyone
who has given the subject careful con-
Sideration. It must be true that when
young people become enamored with
this species of amusement they are
likely to lose their taste for study and
reading good books. All educators
will agree with me in this position.
LUZ WI oIAll. ACL 1dC ludI
the modern dance is destructive to So
ciety. Let me be understood plainly
here that I do not hesitate to affirm
that the modern dance is lasciyiously
immoral. Everything connected with
the waltz is calculated to arouse and
infame animal passion. Let me quote
from worthy clergyman who has re-
Gently declared that the dance con-
sists substantially of means contrived
with more than human ingenuity to
excite the instincts of sex to action.
however subtle and disguised at the
moment, in the sequel the most bestiaI
and degrading. 1t is usage that reg
ularly Initiates and tantalizes an ami
NAL appetite as Unsuitable as hunger,
= more cruel than revenge Gail Ham
ilton, in a contribution to an eastern
journal, has said, The thing in it's
2 very nature is unclean and cannot be
+ washed. The very pose of the parties
suggests impurity.' The motion and
movements of the round dance cannot
4 he described without giving offense to
Il true modesty, while the positions of
2 the ladies of the dancers brush virtues
glow from the cheek of purity"
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In Time to Come.

Mrs. strong-I suppose you have
heard that Miss ricketts, and Miss Gaz-
zum are deadly enemies now?
: : Mrs. Small les. heard but T
didn't hear who was the man at the
bottom Of it.-Judge. .sl
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Overlooked.

Mrs. BroWn-It is a wonder that Mr.
Meek never married. I am sure he
would have made an excellent husband
Mr.. B.-Yes, indeed. It is pity thai
nobody asked him.-New York Tri.
bune. II. u. s&c$ &=z.., a +. g 5..s {. e
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So Do Most Men.

4 Becker see by. the posters thai.
Footlights, the tragedian, travels un,
der his Wife's management Decker
SO do most men, only they don't adYer.
stise Tilt Bits.
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w. I. Speakman, postmaster at No
Business postofHce, in Morgan county,
Ala, has been arrested, charged with
embeZzling postoffice funds.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-01

China has established a consulate at
Warsaw, with the object of promoting
trade between Poland and Manchuria.
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FITS PermanentlyCured Notlts or nervousness aftes
6rst day of DR.. kline's Great Nerve Restorer
Send for F. Rec 5000 trial bottle and treatise.
DR. H. b. KLINE, Ltd, 93l Arch St.. Philadelphia, Pa
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-01

Miss Sadie Tettemer of Tinicum. Bucks
county, not yet nine years old. pieced a
quilt herself last winter.
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Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away.
TO quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic. full Of lfe nerve and vigor, take No-To-
Bac, the wonder worker that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, soc or 81. Cure guaran-
teed. Booklet and sample free Address
Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago or New York
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SPAIN AND UNCLE SAM
SHIPS THAT WOULD FIGHT IN.
j. = %s. CASE OF WAR.
The Dons Have Fine Vessels-Spain rs q
Much More Dangerous Enemy on the
Sea Than Most People suppose-1Iates
for Our Own Cruisers. 49,.

HAT would happen
at sea if the Unit.
ed States and Spain
went to war? In
spite of all the new
interests W h i c h
crop up with the
new administration
this is a question
that people are
asking. It is a
question that has
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-01
An Excellent REASON

''What do you mean, Roaly, by pay
ing out money fer expensive cigars in
these hard times?'
The tobacconist won't trust me-
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TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. *
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets ALL
Druggists refur1 the Tcne - - Fcils to cure 25o
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| Bath, Me-, has more smokers than any
| city of it's size in New England
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NO-To-Bac Tor Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure. soc. ST. All druggists
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saBerlin had tnirty-one strikes last4year.
only eight Of which were successful for
the strikers, of whom 124,G16 were in
volved.
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| Indianapolis parties contemplate estab-
| fishing a flour and corn mill in Selma,
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= BETTER NOT DANCE"
PEORIA PREACHER DENOUNCES
d PUBLIC DANCES.
Tells What He Knows About Such
# Places and Warns Parents to Keep
Their Children at Home-Some of the
Evils.

R. D. N. STAT
ford Illuminated an
9th err S e r m O n
against dancing at
Hale Chapel last
night. says the
Peoria Journal. He
chose as his text,
"There is a Time
to Dance" He
quoted from the
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-01

The removing Of last winters snow
women as sunerintendents Of schools.
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A runaway horse beat train on the
Phcenixville branch in three-mile race