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Mrs. Norman Marsh suffered a stroke Of
paralysis last weeb md her recovery is
dOubtful
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-11-06
Novelty in Cloth Printing.

Cloth printing, so managed that the
TWO sides are of entirely different pat
tern, is among the recent achievements
OF the dyer's art. The two-faced ef-
feet is produced by first dyeing the
entire fabric through and through of a
single color. The goods is then finished
In the usual fashion. 1t is afterward
passed over rollers, which are engraved
with fine lines running, diagonally in
both directions. A careful adjustment
OF the pressure of the roller carrying
the dye is made, thus preventing the
color from striking through. The Sc
cret of success in this lies in the care
full adjustment and in the accurate reg
ulation of the quantity of color ap-
Piled. There must be just enough to
go half way through the cloth, but no
more. The results are very satisfactory
and will be particularly pleasing on
heavy fabrics, as by this means they
will give the effect of Innings of differ
ent colors from the outside.
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E3 The side walls and ceiling of the
Council House are of oiled matched
pine. Two chandeliers hang from the
ceiling, each having three globes coll
ored red, white and blue respectively,
probably a conceit of the government
agent. Gu the floor and around the
long roonl are double rows Of benches
painted yellow. The spectators at the
dance completely filled these benches.
To see the dance there were men, wo-
men and children, Just as the dance
was about to begin the bell at the, In
dian church, not far away, rang, call
ing the Christians to Sunday school,
and Chief Tom Lyon, the head singer
at the dances, remarked that the Chris
tian Indians seldom came to the So
called pagan ceremonies.
: : Three young Indians took seats ON a
low bench in the center of the room.
The dancers formed circle around
them. They we're dressed in their us
ual fantastic costumes. The men on
the bench began to beat their rattles
made of mud turtle shells, and one of
them tapped. kettledrum. Soon to
this was added the accompaniment of
the stamping of one foot and the sing
ing of the war song. All this was be-
gun lightly and slowly, and the vol
ume gradually increased, when sud-
denly one of the dancers uttered war
whoop, which was echoed by the 9TH
ers, and the dance began. They danced
in circle around the players, and
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there were several hundred persons on

the ground.
= While waiting for the white people to
come, the chief spoke about the Onon-.
dagas and their ceremonies. II have
not taken census of the people on:
the reservation in three years." said
he. THE last one showed about four
hundred Indians, men, women and chill
dren, and the number is about the same
now. There are between seventy and
eighty families. Twenty years ago
there were only 2S0 persons here, SO
you see we have Increased in numbers
The state gives us an annuity Of money
and salt Last year we got s4.44 to
each inhabitant, and $50 bushels of salt
to the entire reservation. The United
States government gives twenty yards
of cloth to each family annually: We
have our farms and are content. I am
the head of the Six Nations and alone
have the right to open the; Council. I
am a man of peace, and have devoted
all my life to the advancement of my
people. ~
''There are two parties here" contin-
ued the chief. eve call them the old
party and the new party. The white
men speak of the old party as being
pagan and the new party as Christians.
I am of the old party, but we are not
pagans. A pagan does not believe in
God. We believe in Supreme Creator
and Ruler of the universe, who so far
as I can see, is like the God of our
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-11-06
An Electric Drill.

The economy and practicability of
using electricity in mining coal has
been demonstrated and it's more gen.
eral introduction should greatly cheap
en- the price of our winter fuel. Only
a few days ago a Philadelphia operator
said that in the course of few years
coal will probably be selling at tide
water for the price now paid for min
ing it-namely, IS cents ton.
The picture shows an electric drill
which is used for making holes in the
1ace OF the coal seam. 1t is capable of
drilling six-foot hole in one minute.
In this connection it is interesting to
note that coal undercut by machinery
does not require as powerful cartridges
Tor the blasting as coal untlercut by
hand and the rapidity with which the
holes are drilled by electric power eff
tects great saving and largely increas-
ed output. The weight of the drill rep
resented, with post for a six-foot vein,
is only 152 pounds This can easily be
handled by one man. The drill works
so quickly that it takes the greater
part OF one mans time to attend to the
feed mechanism and aug1lrs together
with starting and stopping the drill,
While the other man is arranging and
picking the places for the holes. By
the time he has another place ready
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brothers who have been won over to
Christianity. Our ceremonies of recog-
milton are, of course, very different,
but the two parties get along peace
fully and harmoniously. There are
eight clans among the Onondagas-t the
Beaver, the Wolf (my OWN, the Deer,
the Bear, the Eel, the Mud Turtle, the
Swamp Turtle and the Snipe.
1--WE have four celebrations during
the year. In January comes the burn
ing of the white dog, the big day of
the year, which is as much the recog-
milton Of the advent Of the new year
as anything else. In April and May we
dance because it is time to plant our
crops; in September we give thanks if
the crops are going to be good, and in
November we celebrate because they
have been good" =,
Then La Fort walked slowly over to
the Council House, where a crowd of
white people were impatiently waiting.
He addressed them and used a white
mans excuse for charging an admission
fee to the green-corn dance. He said
that times were bad. Then, by way
of extenuation, so far as he was con-
cerned, he added that the hard times
had not affected him, as he had as
much as he ever had, but he, wanted to
help the dancers. La Fort then sold
tickets at window, which a young
brave took up at the door. l. III =. l.
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FORMATION FOR THE DANCE.

their performance consisted chiefly of
a great stamping of feet and waving
OF arms, with an occasional war cry,
which was the signal for a pause for
rest.
Then came the green-corn dance. The
bench in front of the Council House
was turned lengthwise with the room.
and the three Indians who sat upon it
not only shook their mud turtle rattles.
but also pounded with them upon the
bench. They sang a wilder song. but
Chief La Fort said that there was no
meaning to it-just mere words, which
fitted the wild tune. The gyrations of
the dancers were about the same as in
the previous dance. Toward the end
of the dance the Indian women Joined
in, but they were rather undemonstra-
tive as compared with their swarthy,
gaudy male companions. The suuaws
were not in costume.
Then came what was announced as
an "all women dance.' The men sat
On two benches facing one another. and
sang and pounded with their crude mu-
sical instruments, while the women.
keeping shoulder to shoulder, danced
with a sort of hitching motion around
them. The song which the braves SANG.
for this dance comes. the nearest to
melody of those that were sung in the
afternoon.
The squaws soon grew weary and so
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-11-06
JESSE JAMES SON.

How He Got Work from the Son of the
Alan Who Procured His Fathers Death,
S3Ex-Gov. Thomas T. Crittenden of
Missouri yl was recently asked if the story
was true that he had employed in his
o1tlce Jesse James, Jr., whose father,the
outlaw, was killed through Mr.. Critten-
den's instrumentality. The ex-gover-
nor replied: IF I were to build a
monument of denials as high as that
erected to Washington at the capital,
lsdon't suppose could effectually stop
the continued existence of this story.
lsne facts in the case are that several
years ago my son, Thomas T. Critten-
Den, Jr., then real estate dealer in
Kansas City and now county clerk Of
jackson county, in which Kansas City
IS located, advertised for boy to work
II his Office. On the morning following
the advertisement a number of boys
were on hand and my son resorted to
aiklnd of civil service examination to
test their merits. The boy whose pa
pers were best was called forward and
asked his name. -
I MY name is Jesse James, Jr.,' he
replied.
My son was more than amazed, and
said:
: DO you know who I ann
Yes, sir; you are Gov. Crittenden' s
SON ~
= We'll, then, you go home and tell
your mother all abe 1T this, and if she is
willing for you to work for me and at
the wages offer, come back tomorrow
morning
VERY we'll, sir I have got to help
my mother and sister, and I'll be
back
s"And back he was the next morning.
At this time Mrs Jesse James was liv-
ing in the suburbs of Kansas City. Now
let me tell you what became of this
boy. He remained with my son for sew
eral years, being honest and faithful to
a degree. Then my son secured him
a place in Armour,,s packing house in
Kansas City, where he is now employed
respected by every one and having a
number of men under him. And lie is
but 20 years of age. This is the whole
| story
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-11-06
Sights eeing SimpIffied.

Ihere is always room for new ap-
zpllcatlon 1@y,l OF Of an old principle, even SO
old q one as that of the division OF
labor Millicent--HoW long did your
Easter t71 trip to Rome occupy? Made
line-Oh, a week altog ogether-there and
back. .1' Millicent-And you saw every
thing? thin Madeline-Oh yes; you see
there We're three Of us. Mother went
to the picture galleries, examined the
mon "a utnents, and father studied local
color in the cafes. Roseleaf.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-11-06
SLICK SCHOONER, ABLE sKlPE

A Sight on the River That Won tho Al.
From New York Sun: There are
fashions in painting ships bottoms as
IN everything else. In recent years a
pink shade has been thought the prop
er thing, but in some cases green looks
slicker still. The other day the South
street loungers looked admiringly at a
big schooner coming down the East
river, and looming up all the bigger
because she was light. She was white
above the water line. Below she was
painted clear, lightish green, and she
was high enough out of water to show
a good bit Of it. Her masts were
scraped bright and her fnastheads were
painted white. She carried a. boat IN
daVits across the stern, and this boat
was painted white and green, too. Take
it altogether; she looked as trim and
handsome as big schooner could look
But admiration for the schooner
could not lessen the pleasure the loung-
ers felt In the way in which she was
handled by the big tug alongside of her
The captain of the tug halted with her
just off the Slip, and slowed her round
and then took her into the slip. She
was good big schooner, 400 tons or
so, but the captain of the tug laid her
alongside the wharf so gently and cas-
lily that you couldn't tell when she
touched it; there was nothing to do
but hand her lines over the side. The
tug lay just beyond her in the slim. her
dark, bronzed copper dripping and glis-
tening as she rolled and lifted slightly
in the water. The schooner, before
she had all her lines made fast, sagged
Off little with the tide. and then the
capital nof the tug pushed her again as
easily and as gently as before. Then
when she was all made fast the captain
OF the schooner on his quarter deck and
the captain Of the tug in his pilot house
saluted each other. And the captain of
the tug rang her out of the slip and
pointed her down the river and pulled
the jingle bell. - s%t>
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w
snnd away from her sides by
means of heavy pumps. Very
little. force would then be re-
CURED to pull her into deep water.
1t was rumored then that mastery in
activity was the policy of some of the
parties concerned in her release. Since
that time there has been a great deal
OF discussion as to the best methods
OF raising sunken vessels and lifting
tnose that were stuck on sand bars.
IL is unquestionably the fact that if
powerful pumps could be so ARRANGED
tnat streams of water would pour into
the sand around the hull of the shin
there would be very little time lost in
releasing it. In connection with this
means 1t has been suggested that heavy
iron cylinders be attached to the sides
OF the vessel as low down as possible.
Ihese are pumped full of air or gas
and would assist in lifting the vessel
and floating her out of harms way. It
is predicted that this will be the sal
wage process of the future. Heavy
bands OF webbing made of strong and
suitable material can be worked under
the bottom of the ship. To the ends
OF this webbing these iron cylinders
can be attached. Pumps are then ap-
plled and gas or air is forced into
them. Then the pumps are started and
as the sand is washed entirely away
from the sides of the ship the buoyaney
OF the cylinders slowly lifts the great
body to the surface. Either means used
by itself might not have the desired
effect, but applied together this is un-
questionably the most practical method
by which such enormous bulk can be
raised. The webbing or bands could
be placed so close together that they
Would practically form network un-
uer the hull of the ship. By means OF
slender rods, ropes could be pushed un-
derneath and the webbing could be
drawn through and properly adjusted.
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ed leg, and Won Knapp was forced TO
resort to the use of canes in walking.
Il was about to cross car track said
the "baron," (which was IN. bad condi-
tion. The wires connecting the rails
must have been exposed. My feet we're
thrown from under me the instant +
stepped On the broken wire. I could
feel the hot, blistering current passing
up my right leg, yet it did not give me
much pain at that moment. When I
regained my feet it seemed as if NV
right leg had gone to sleep. It was
numb; but I reached home unassisted.
Later my leg panied me dreadfully."
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-11-06
High Buildings,

i Backwoods has heard of the builo
ings in New York called sky-scrapers.
and desires to know how tall some of
the highest Of them are. Answer: The
American Surety company's building
has % stories, with a height of 3O6 feet.
The American Tract society's building
has the same measurements, but is a
much larger structure. The Bank Of
Commerce has 20 stories, with 27O feet
skyWard. The st. Paul building has Is
stories and towers above its fellows, be-
ing 308 feet from the ground. From
this there is gradual descent until
ordinary old-fas hioned structures are
reached h There have been attempts to.
restrict the erection Of these sky-scrap-
ers, but there are always some inter-
.ested persons to induce law makers to
delay the passage Of the law yet few
days longer, SO as to allow Just one
more building to go up
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and narrowly escaped death. The
"baron" is nursing a very sore leg, but
manages to hobble about with the aid
of two canes. His injured
member is quite as marvellous
in appearance as some OF those OF
tattooed persons exhibited in shows.
Various were the curves which the
lightning seemed to take when he.
stepped on the wire. The fluid fol-.
lowed the veins Of the leg, depicting
some queer, foWer-like tracings from
ankle to knee. Won Knapp was thrown
heels over head by the shock and is
wondering how he escaped instant
death. Aside from feeling the Jar to
his system when he returned to earth
he experienced sligh pain at the time.
Several hours later, however, severe
pains began I'd shoot through the iniur
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did the spectators, and they were all
glad to get away from this stuffy room
with its swarm of flies. After the
s1i dance the young Indians played la
crosse on the green near the Council
House, and really the game was more
Interesting than the dances.
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a Liberal Corporation.

New York Weekly: Grateful Citi-
szenI was delighted to read in the
papers that you had refused to raise.
the price Of ice. Presi lent Of Ice Com
pan hat is true. g shall make
no change ii the price. The only
change will he In the Jumps
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eooLAe ceremonies were held in the lat
ter part of the preceding week. of
which the whites were not made ac-
~qualnted. It is said, and it is undoubt-
'edly, true, that the real green-corn
oance Is held on the quiet-although
there is good deal of noise about it
ana that the public ceremony, which al
ways takes place on Sunday, is to satis-
~ the curiosity of the whites and the
mercenary warnings Of the noble red
men. The dance was at first fixed for
"a week ago Sunday, but was postponed
tcr a week. The reason assigned for
the delay was that old Chief Daniel La
Fort was ill. The real reason was that
the number OF white persons on hand
was too small to make it profitable to
the dancers
Your correspondent drove out to the
Onondaga reservation last Sunday af-
ternoon. 1t lies nine miles down the
beautiful valley south of this city.
Coming into the Indian settlement you
pass numerous houses occupied by the
Onondagas, some of which are neat and
comfortable and speak well for the
thrift of the inhabitants, while others
are badly in need of ordinary and ex-
traordlnary repairs. The Council
House is in the centre of the settlement
and just off of the main road. It is a
long, narrow, one-story building, paint
ed white, with green blinds and a red
roof .s -. -.5zezs 49,
ss@eagF.rsftlsa--S s-ss9s
Here were found dozen tall, 1.-THE
Wiry, muscular young braves, engaged
in the great national game of baseball;
that is, they were knocking up and
catching ''fies.'' The ball-players said
that there would be a green-corn dance
in the afternoon, just when depended
upon Chief La Fort. In the shade back
of house not far away sat this old
chief of the Six Nations, smoking fat
and cheap cigar. He was surrounded
by half dozen of the tribe.
La Fort is a good specimen of the
highest type of the civilized Indian. He
is well along in years now, and his
hair and mustache are gray. His Eng
lish is excellent for one of his limited
opportunities. Among the tribes of the
Six Nations his word is law. Not onlv
is he the head of the Iroquois League,
but he also is the chief of the Ononda-
gas. All the Indians within his iuris-
diction have great respect for him. He
was at the head of the New York In
dians who were at the Columbian Ex-
position, and he said last Sunday that
man from New York had been to
see him in the previous week about 60
ing with some of his race to the Paris
exhibition, and that he had agreed to
go.
.'We shall have the dance by-and-bv.
: when fifty Or a hundred people get
here said La Fort, in response to an
inquiry. Then he added that the In
dians wanted to make it pay by charg-
ing small admission fee to the Long
House. After a while there came a
perfect string Of carriages and bicycles.
and by $3.50, when the dance was begun
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-11-06
SCIENTIFIC T OPICs.
CURRENT NOTES OF DIScOv-
,ERY AND INVENTION.
Recent Progress Made in Electrical
Science - Tattooing by Electricity
An Electric DrilI-Raislng Sunken
Vesseis-Gloth Printing.
Raising Sunken Vessels.

ONE months ago,
when one of our
great ocean liners
was stuck in the
sand at a point on
1y a few hours dis
tant from her des-
tination, the sug-
gestion was made
to get the ship out
of her environment
hv WASHING tn O
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Detecting the Defections OF Rails

Detecting the Deflections of Rails
A torelgn publication announces the
completion of an apparatus for record
ing by means of photography the de-
hect1ons of bridges or rails under NOV
Ing loads. The arrangement as de-
scrlbed, consists of camera, of
which the plate holder is fitted to
slide across the back by clockwork, so
that series of successive images may
pc taken upon one and the same plate
at uniform Intervals of time. The rail
or beam to be observed has attached
to it a brilliantly-polished bead, which
is photographed as a point of light,
and the successive images of this point
show the def1ections A second lens
causes the images of similar station
ary point to be photographed upon the
same plate in line just below, thus
furnishing base line for comparison
The images are so close together that
they practically form continuous line,
the detection images giving an irreg-
ular curve, showing the movements of,
the rail, while the spacing of the points
upon the base line are clearly enough
defined to enable the intervals of time
to be noted. It is, of course, essential
that such an apparatus should be
mounted upon very solid foundation,
as the least vibration of the camera
would be fatal to the accuracy of the
record; and the objective used must
have great lightgathering power, ow-
ing to the feebleness of the illumina-
tion. The apparatus, as installed in
the Nordbahnhofe, in Vienna, is fixed
upon a masonry pier, is fitted with a
Zeiss .anastigmat objective and has
given excellent results in practice"
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Tattooed by EIectricitv.

An Oakland (Cal.) man, Wilhelm Won
Knapp, familiarly known as Baron" !"
stepped on live wire the other day
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the drill has finished the preceding hole
and is ready to be moved. Two men
can very quickly reset the drill and
then get it started again. This machine
has drilled enough holes in ten hours
to shoot or blast down 300 tons of
coal in seven-foot vein. 1t consumes
about three-horse power and the one
shown in the cut is Jeffrey machine.
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INDIAN CORN DANCE.
ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF THE
ONONDAGA INDIANS. J
Celebrated on the Reservation Near
Syracuse-White Men Admitted Upon
=,
the Payment of Fee-How the
+ Ceremony Has Degenerated.

HAT heather rec
O 6 n i ii o n of the
blessings of Divine
Providence, the an
nual green corn
dance, was held by
the Onondaga' In
dians last Sunday,
writes a Syracuse,
N. Y.,s correspond
ent. AS is custom
9rV with + h O m
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-07-12
| Hoods
Should b In every family.
medicine chest and every
travellers grip. They arc
invaluable when the stom-
ach is out OF order; cure headache, biIousness,
indigestion and all liver troubles. = cent?

rs are all the processes Of change.
This law is never set aide for pur-
poses of punishment or revenge. 1t
Ii an insult to high heaven to init
mate to the contrary. The babbliug
priest knows that rain falls alike on
the just and the Unjust; that the sun
shines as brilliantly and diffuses its
heat as generously on sinner as saint |;
that the seasons come and go alike
for all; that III the dispensations Of
Providence calamities fall as heavily
on churchmen, and even on priests
who minister at the altar. as on the
most hardened trapsgressor.
Human governments punish for
crime and eternal justice has it's own
infections; but it will not torture the
innocent for the sins of the guilty.
nor curse the chilo for the mlsdeeds
Of it's parents, though inherent law
may do so.-Free Thinker.