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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-22
THE SHEEP OF LEBANON.
They Are Fattened Like the Famor
Geese of Strasbure.

They Are Fattened Like the Famous
Geese of Strasburg.
Harry Fem, the artist. has written
for the st. Nicholas an account of his
visit to the famous cedars of Lebanon,
which place is also noted for it's silk.
Mr.. Fem says: Wherever a handful
of earth can be made to rest upon a
ledge, there mulberry plant grows.
1t is a picturesque and thrilling sight
to see boy lowered by rope over the
precipice, carrying a big basket of
earth and cuttings of mulberry twigs
to plant in his hanging garden. The
crop of leaves, fodder for the worms, is
gathered in the same way. BY such
patient and dangerous industry have
these hardy mountaineers been able
to make their wilderness of rock bios
som into brightly colored silks. Not a
single leaf is left on the trees by the
time the Voracious worms get ready to
spin their cocoons, but a second crop
comes on later, and curious use is
made of that. The tree-owner pur-
chases one of those queer big-tailed
Syrian sheep, the tail of which weighs
twenty pounds when at the full matu-
rity of it's fatness; and then a strange
stufflng process begins, not unlike the
fattening of the Strasburg geese.
When the sheep can eat no more the
women of the house feed it; and it is
no uncommon sight to see a woman
going out to make an afternoon call
leading her sheep by string, and
carrying a basket of mulberry leaves
on her arm. Having arrived at her
friends house, she squats on the
ground, rolls ball OF mulberry leaves
in her right hand, and slips it into the
Sleeps mouth, then works the sheep's
jaw UP and down with the other hand
till she thinks the mouthfuI has been
chewed enough, when she thrusts ii
down the throat Of the unfortunate
animal. The funny part of the bust
ness is that probably half-a-dozen gos.
sips of the village are seated around
the yard, all engaged in the same
operation. Of course the sheep get
immensely fat, and that is the object
for at the killing time the fat is tried
out and put into jars, as meat for the
winter
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-22

Mamma, mammal" whispered the
little girl at the window; ''come soft
ly! 1 think they are building a nestr'
She turned her head by inches in her
fear of making a stir. There was
light step, a rustic Of silken skirts,
and a lady stood by the chair-a lady
who had eyes like the child's, dear
eyes! in which the love almost covered
the pain-quite hiding it when the lit
tie girl raised hers to look into them!
Her hands played as by habit with the
curly hair She, too, looked out, not
at the birds, but way beyond through
the apple-boughs. ~ "They?'' she
asked, dreamily; "who, dear lover
and she used the very name, though
she knew it not, that the little mate
had just called his bride, for love is al
ways the same. Sgs@. -@. za-.s.s,n5r
The robins" answered the child.
I. ..@Y gu are too high, mamma! Be: soft:
Right here, do you see? The dearest
husband and wife, and he has the red
=dest breast, and they have been talk
ing SO. Listen. mamma, just hear
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-22

In her excitement she spoke SO fast
that the mate-robin heard, and STOP
ped short, with a long straw in his
bill, which was to serve as founda-
ton for the house. He rolled his
round eyes awhile, then turned and
looked at his wife, but she was hop
ping about with the utmost unconcern: ::
so after some reflection, he, too, went
to work. "Oh!" breathed the little
girl, with a long sigh of relief, che is
going to stay, after all. I thought I
had scared him away"
The robins did not go, however, and
IN some mysterious way it came to
be an understood thing that they
should build their nest below the win
dow, and that the little girl, and often
the sweet lady, too, should watch. The
shy wife might have told you that
some Of the shreds woven into the
snug home had been found hanging
conveniently on the twigs, as though
they had fallen from the window. this,
not to mention an ever-ready supply
OF crumbs, only waiting to be gathered
when no one was at hand In the bird
world, as in ours, fortune distributes
her favors unevenly.
When the bright-eyed husband re-
membered how many of his friends
had to support their families from the
ash-barrels, there was a puffed feeling
in his heart which he did not try to
SUPPRESS
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-22

large, even for the smallest family, and
if space will permit it it is we'll to put
in one that is a couple of sizes larger
than needed; at both ends should be
wide draining shelves, an admirable
feature, if one can afford it is panel
of tiling adjoining the sink This
should be capped with a strip Of wood
containing hooks, from which may be
hung basting spoons, collander, meas
ures, etc. AS to furnishing proper,
this is very simple matter, although
many people seem to think that it is
sufficient to tramp into the kitchen
the dilapidated and broken down furni-
.ture from other parts of the house.
When this is done it is unreasonable
to expect that the servants will take
any pride in the room or make the
most of its possibilities, There is
really no excuse for this course, as the
cost Of excellent new kitchen furni-.
ture is merely nominal. There should
be two plain deal tables, large one.
and q small one. the latter Just about
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-22
SUGGESTIONS FOR A MODEL
49, KITCHEN.

Copyrighted, 1897, by The Co-Opera-
tive Building Plan Association.)
Very little attention is given to the
furnishing of the kitchen, even in the
most particular households. If a new
house is being built the careful house
wife may charge the architect with
certain conveniences for the room, but
generally the matter is left wholly to
his directions; unless he is tyro he
is not apt to disappoint expectations.
Modern improvements in plumbing
and in ranges provide the most con-
venient of permanent fixtures. It is
scarcely necessary to warn one against
the old style of shut in plumbing, that
left innumerable crevices and crannies
to give lodgment to dirt and vermin.
The very best results are obtained
from the use of iron pipe instead of
lead, and if this be used there is much
less chance of sweating" and the
consequent rotting of the adjacent
wcAd, particularly if the pipes be paint
ed. The woodwork Of the kitchen is
fully as important as that of any of
the rest of the house. Pine is gen.
orally chosen, and is as good as any
other wood; it should be oiled and
given several coats of hard varnish,
or else painted in yellow or buff.
Particular attention should be given
to the use CT thoroughly seasoned
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wood, for the dampness and stain are
trying, at best, and joints should be
open as little as possible. All closets
and cupboards should be built from the
floor to the ceiling without the slight
est opening above or below. The doors
should cover just as much of the front
as possible, leaving room, only for "a
marrow jamb and shallow sil In:
order that when they are opened the
entire exterior should be exposed to
view. Earthenware tubs are cheaper
in the long run than wooden ones, al
though their initial cost is considerably
greater. But if wooden ones must be
used, be sure they are put in most
carefully, as under the best of con-
tractors they give more trouble than
any other kitchen fllment.
The drain pipe and traps below
should clear the floor so that one may
easily clean around them. The coping
should go close to the wall and rising
from it should be high splash board,
while a quarter round beading should
cover the joint between the two. The
hot water boiler should not be jammed
tightly into the corner, but should
stand few inches from the WALL This
will permit it to be cleaned on all sides,
an important consideration if the boil
er be of copper. Above all things do
not stint money in laying the kitchen
floor; this must be constantly scrubbed,
and if the wood checks and splinters
the task is heart breaking. Only the
highest grades Of Georgia pine should
be used, in narrow strips, and it should
have frequent dressing. It is no econ
omy to lay cheap floor with the idea
Of depending upon a covering of oil
cloth or other similar material.
A very common mistake is made in
putting in a sink that is too small,
and in providing no place for the
draining of dishes, sink is never too
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-22

the wind carry the fragrance so far.
On one of the sweetest mornings in
all the May came two birds to the tree
two robins, in their honeymoon, who
were out in search of house. They
put their heads first on this side, then
on that; wished, perhaps, it had been
a cherry tree; calculated the probable
number of small boys in the neigh
borhood who were making collections
OF eggs; the angle-worm crop in the
nelds below; in short, all those minor
details OF house-hunting less interest
ing to an outsider than to parties con-
cerned.
robin Red Breast bent his head very
near. his wife, and they talked it all
over with great deal of twittering
and many tender glance!
SO sweet spot, dear love! Shall
1t be fhere?'' Nobody heard what the
little bride-bird said. If she spoke at
all it was very low-there was need
mat put one should hear-perhaps it
was only look. Be that as it may,
the mate stretched his brown wings
TWICE, thrice for the Joy Of it, and
darted off and away, down over the
meadow, his red breast twinkling above
the green. "Home! home! homer he
sang over and over; home! home!"
His heart was overfowing, and he
could not keep it to himself.
All this while his wee wife was TAX
ing account Of her surroundings. She
hopped on one twig, then on another,
twisted her head, and turned her
bright eyes, until one might justly con-
clude she had viewed the matter from
every side. She saw one thing, too,
that neither had noticed before.
Through the open window, framed in
with apple boughs, some one was
watching them-a child with great
dark eyes and a halo of golden hair.
So sweet face-but, oh, so thin and
white' p If the little bird had been on
The Dough Just above she might have
seen that the child sat in a large wheel
chair-sat without moving, her hands
ciasped in her lap, and hardly daring
to breathe for fear of frightening the
robins away
The little bride-bird stood still, too,
looked her all over, and waited. By
the time her mate had finished his tour
Of the fields, however, for reasons best
known to herself, she was ready to
begin.
! Should it be the crotch at the cor
ner, or the one right under the win
dow between the two big boughs? The
crotch at the corner. was wider, fine
breezy locality, but the other was so
sheltered, no one could possibly peep
from without. Some foolish people,
you know, always will take to Glove in
cottage They wasted very few
words over the matter-there is little
argument when both argue on one side
it was all taken out in hopping and
chirping.
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The answer was always the same; IT
am watching, I am watching! Lie
still for while and restr'
The times for resting grew longer
and the times for waking short.
The sun, sending his last shafts Of
light through the leaves one late af-
ternoon, touched the eyes so often
closed, and they opened at his kiss
''Is it sunset?" she asked. "Take me-
up, mamma. I have not said good
night to the robins in so very long"
Tenderly the mother lifted her, while
the sweet breath of the meadow came
up on the breeze, and the leaves were
quivering in the golden light. The
red-breasted robin was winging his
way home; the brown mother was
grooming a slumber song to her nest.
The child stretched out her hands. the
radiance glorifying face and hair
"Good-night, goodnight, my bird1ings!
Mamma, see how the sun goes down!
Twill be so beautiful-to-morrow
think they will not stay" The head
dropped wearily on the pillow that
night. t*You will wake me-so early
mamma, dearv'
The stars shone and paled, the gray
light stole slowly back again, and the
faint, faint blue to the sky. And in
the early morning One, long-awaited
came, and two went out into the sun
rise, into the hush of the sweet young
day-leaving a void in the old white
house that nothing on earth could fill
The one who was left stood very still
at the window, and looked through
the apple boughs with eyes that saw
them not. There was no need now
that love should hide the pain. AS
she turned away her glance fell on the
robins nest. Lo! it was empty-only
a broken she'll lay where five birdlings
had nestled beneath the mothers
wings. Then the tears came to eyes
that had not wept, and great thanks
giving to an aching heart-for her
darling, who had awakened carly"
and for the robins, who had waited to
fly with her.
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SO time went on, and by and by the
birds nest hung complete. The little
girl had waited as patiently as the
builders had worked, and their joy
was one. "They also serve who only
stand and wait,' great Milton said
they, too, perhaps, who only love and
wait.
Mamma, mamma, there will be
nestlings now, and the old birds will
teach them to fly. I have longed to
see it all my life, but could not go to
them, you know, and so they have
come to me-"
The mother noted the faint tinge on
the cheek, the bright look in the eye,
and blessed the robins in her heart.
'Yes, they have come to you, my
bird-like to like-and you shall see
them fly
But birdlings do not grow in a day,
and the child watched from the great
wheel-chair with patience born of suf-
fering, and a life of pain-watched un-
til five round eggs lay in the nest,
tinted with heavens own blue.
At last-oh, the joy of it!-the blue
shells broke, and five strange, soft
things, with great eyes and yellow
bills, nestled under the mother-wings
nestled and cuddled until the wings
would hardly cover them, and the nest
seemed all too small. The brown
mothers heart was bursting with joy
hof o.
er's-but she kept her love to herself
and it warmed the birdlings, while his
ran over in one continual song from
the top of the tree The little girl
looked like guardian spirit from
above.
''My birds, my birds!" she whisper-
ed, over her clasped hands; my very,
very own!'
The color that had come with the
robins slowly faded from cheek and
eye-as the birdlings in the nest grew
stronger, the one in the old house
grew weaker, and still the days went
by. The father-robin sobered down
with five wide mouths to feed, the
mother had to stretch her wings a lit
tie further every night to keep the
nestlings in. The apple buds had long
since swelled into blossoms, the BIOS
SONS had flown off on the wind in
scented showers, leaving the small
green balls that were to be apples in
the far-off fall, and the leaves had
turned to darker hue. The little girl
rested on pillows now, in the Wheel
chair; her mother lifted her when she
looked down into the nest.
Mamma, how long will it be before
the robins f1y?' she asked. ~.
The mother laid her head by the one
on the pillow, and the child caught
only the whisper that was not meant
for her: ooh, my love, my lover
K At last the wheel-chair stood alone
by the window. The little girl lay
very still within, the curtained bed.
must not miss it, she whispered,
morning and night. You will watch,
mamma, dear, will you not, and wake
me hen the hirdlingsfy ??''
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-22
WOMEN SMOKERS,
A Writer Who Approves of the Fai,
Sex Using Tobacco.

Writer Who Approves of the Fai,
Sex Using Tobacco.
A recent writer on the subject of
women Smokers" has something to
say that may prove interesting reading
to dramatists, stage managers and
theater-goers generally, says the New
York Telegram. Here it is:
when in a play a well-dressed wom-
an produces cigarette case and begins
to light up you know at once she is
the - adventuress-ofsi the piece The
dramatist would never dare to endow
her with any moral qualities after that.
She may possibly be divorce; at the
very least she has designs on the hero's
purse and on his general happiness.
Who ever saw a virtuous stage heroine
smoking? The very idea would be re.
voting to all conventional notions of
propriety and the men would fercely
discuss this. horrifying lapse on the
part Of the dramatist over their own
cigarettes between the acts. The sup
posed degrading effect of tobacco on
women is purely bourgeois notion.
It affects middle-class women only.
The highest and the lowest do as they
please in the matter. Now and then
there arises some strong and inde-
pendent woman who follows her own
course and is perfectly Indifferent to
outside opinion. Such a character was
the late Miss Emily Faithful, most
noble, admirable and withal womanly
minded woman, who soothed her
nerves after her work was done by
smoking full-favored cigars.
The peasant women, especially in Ire
land and Scotland, enjoy their whiffs
from short pipes filled with strong to-
bacco. No! I'm not advocat-
ing the use of short clays among the
wide class covered by the word ladies'
but for the life of me cannot see what
by the process of putting Off their
cares in their own way. In the best
houses nowadays when cigars are
handed around to the gentlemen ciga-
rettes are offered to the ladies. The
hostess, as rule, sets the necessary
example to her lady guests. The ranks
of the regular cigarette smokers in
clude the dowager empress of Russia,
the Princess Of Wales, Princess Beat
rice, Princess Charles of Denmark, the
Queen Of Italy, the Queen of Roumania
and the Queen Regent OF Spain. I
have no space for a list of prominent
members of the English aristocracy
who indulge in the fragrant weed.
= 1t is only the middle-class
person of would-be intensely respect
able manners who raises all this rack
ct against the feminine consumption
of cigarettes
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-22
Thrifty to the Last.

An old Lancashire miller, noted for
his keenness in matters financial. was
once in boat trying his best to get
across the stream which drove the mill.
The stream was flooded, and he was
taken past the point at which he
wanted to land; while, farther on, mis-
fortune still further overlook him, to
the extent that the boat got upset. His
wife, realizing the danger he was in.
ran franticaily along the side of the
stream, crying for help in a pitiful
voice; when, to her sheer amusement,
she was suddenly brought to a stand
still by her husband yelling out: IF
I'm drowned, Polly, dunnot forget that
four's gone up 2 shillin' a sack!'-
Tit-Bits.
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Lyman Abbott's sermon on Jonah and
the whale he bethought himself of
Eapt. James r. Davis of Noank, a re-
tired whaling captain, Is years old,
IWho has been five times a Jonah,''
which is Capt. Davis own way of say
ing that he has lived in the bellies of
five different whales. Unfortunately
for the stri etest possible application of
Capt. Davis experiences to the scrip
tul'al story, but no doubt fortunately
Tor Capt. Davis himself, his whales
were dead. But he was in them-of
Ghat there is no doubt-and he has
Illved to smoke a pipe and tell about
at, and Capt. Swinnerton tells the story
pf his friends experience thus:
! Il dined yesterday with man, now
rs years of age, who has been in the
bellies of five different whales. He is
Capt. James R. Davis OF Noank, Conn,
and this was done when he was
young man of % years of age. He was
one Of the crew of the whaling ship
Tiger, Capt William Brewster, of
Stonington, Conn, which left that
place in 1845, sailing direct around the
Horn to the whaling grounds of the
Pacific. Afterward the ship sailed to
Magdalena bay, off the Lower Cali
tornia coast. The grayback whales
use it as breeding ground and are
Mound here in great numbers. The
COW whales float up on the sandy shore
or the still waters and when the tides
tall the young whales are born on the
beach. The calf when born has it's
4 dukes bent up like hook, and it is
several days before this hook straight
ssens ssnfgs for it TO use It to
swim. The mosher whale will sport
about the bays until her baby gets the
crook out of its tail and then teaches it
to swim. The COW whale when about
TO calVe is very fat and valuable and
yields about forty barrels of oil from
the blubber and seven barrels from the
inside heart fat and that about the
liver and entrails. The mother whales
never desert their young and thus be-
= come easy captures. After being kill
ed they are towed alongside the ship.
IA cutting-in chain is fastened to the
side lin, tackle from it to the main
yard hauled tight and one strip of
blubber cut into. This is called a
Blanket piece. Then the ribs are cut
at the" backbone and the blanket piece
and the ribs are hauled up from the
carcass, leaving a hole in the upper
part of the body just back of the head.
"a man enters this hole and cuts all
the fatty substance from about the
head, which is shaped like chickens
gizzard, but from two feet to thirty
inches in diameter. Capt. Davis told
me he was in different whale each
day for five days, being inside each
mammal about an hour doing this
work, and that it is common custom
FOR whaler to be for time a Jonah
in the whales stomach. Capt. Davis
has been Jonah. on five different oc-
-casions. Now, if "a young man of %
years can live in whales stomach
even though the whale be dead, why
could not the Jonah of the Bible live
three days and as many nights in that
famed whale of scripture? Capt.
Davis five whales had not been dead
very long when he was in them"
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the height OF tie range or stove. This
will be found extremely convenient IN
cooking IL drawn close to the range,
to hold utensils. The chairs should
be of the kind that have solid wooden
seats, but there should also be at
least one comfortable rocking chair,
anything that is in the nature Of an
ornament and that has no utilitarian
use is wholly out of place and should
be banished from the kitchen. The
design presented has a kitchen arrang-
ed in accord with the suggestion con-
tanned in article.
A description of cut: A, movable ta-
Bile; B, boiler; G, closet; E, low table;
F, counter shelf; H, chairs; M, dress
er; N, towel rack; P, pantry; R, range;
S, sink; T, hinged table; V, veranda.
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Hints to Young Authors.

There is but one way for an author
to get his wares before the editors, and
that is to send his manuscript to the
periodical to which he believes it to be
best suited. If he deals with the pr:n-
eipal publications he can always feel
certain of courteous treatment and
honest dealings. Prices vary and de-
pend entirely on the value of the ma
terial to the periodical. Editors are
always glad to examine manuscripts
sent to them, and, ali talk to the con
trary Notwithstanding, are anxious to
discover u11knoWn talent aides
Home Journal
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Had Lots Of Them.

Monte -'tOh, look at Count Mako.
ronni and the number of orders he is
wearing. They say he has magnif-
cent collection" ~ -
Laura--"He. ought to, for before he
got his patrimeny he was a waiter in
a cheap restaurant. ."-Pittsburg News.
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THE Robins NEST.
Catharfne Young Glen in Leslie's
1 Popular Monthly

HE apple tree,
Nesting against
the old white house,
had put on it's new
spring gown. New
er before did the
leaves come out so
green, nor the shy
buds blush so deep
a pink; never be-
fore did the bees
hum so loudly, or
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-05-22
when Contradiction Is safety

'tDah's only one time" said Uncle
Eben, when it's safe ter eonterdict
man, an dat's when he puts on a
melancholy look an stahts in ter tell
bout how old he's gettin' ter be-
washington Star.