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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-01-22

dull and barren streets finds many
signs of thrift and intelligence, and
when he enters the quaint cathedral
he is we'll repaid for his long dusty
walk, for in an humble way it is the
Westminster Abbey of Finland.
For generations the great families
were buried in the vaults of this an
cient church, the foundations of which
were laid in 1900. Conspicuous places
were found for bishops, soldiers and
heroes. The chapels are filled with
monuments, and the pavement is lined
with inscriptions. Professionals and
Catholics who have served their coun-
try are sleeping here si',e Ivy side, their
religious faith is betokened in their
efigies by upturned or folded hands.
Here are monuments to generals in the
Thirty Years War, to- the Scotch SOL
diers of fortune serving in the cam
paigns of Gustavus Adolphus and
Charles XII, to pious bishops and to
Horns, Finckes, Tots and other great
men of the North. Here, too, in a
granite tomb, are the ashes of the
peasant Queen Catherine Mansdotter,
who, after wearing the Swedish diadem
as the wife of Eric XIV, returned to
Finland to die with her own people.
A picture in stained glass above her
grave tells the romantic story The
girlish Queen, between two pages, has
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-01-22
Size of a Spiders Thread.

Leeuwenhoek, the first microscoDist
wrote in 1856 as follows: II have often
compared the size of the thread sp,1n
by full-grown spiders with hair Of
my beard. I placed the thickest part
of the hair before the microscope. and
from the most accurate Judgment /
could form, more than a hundred Of
such threads placed side by side could
not equal the diameter of one such
hair. If, then, we suppose such a hair
to be of a round form. it follows that
10000 threads spun by the full-grown
spider when taken together win not be
equal in substance to the size of a
single hair. To this, if we add that
four hundred young spiders, at the
time when they begin to, spin their
webs, are not larger than one full
grown one, and that each of these
minute spiders possesses the same or-
gans as the larger ones, it follows that
the exceeding small threads spun by
these little creatures must be still four
hundred times slenderer; and conse-
quently, that 4, 100000 Of these minute
spiders threads cannot equal in s,,h-S
stance the size Of a single hair S
2croscope.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-01-22

structlon in various handicrafts is also
given in public schools, and every
adult not only knows how to- read and
write, but also how to earn living
IN one trade or another. The market
women have dull, coarse faces, but
they are not so ignorant as they ap-
pear. Lutheranism has opened the
blDle for them, and Scandinavian in
stlnct has made them keen and shrewd
in bargaining.
Helsingfors, the capital of Finland,
IS city with population of 10000,
and is center of wealth and refine
ment. The visitor, who is expecting
few signs of higher civilization is this
quarter of the Baltic, is amazed by the
stateliness of the public buildings and
the splendor of the churches. In the
course of mornings stroll he finds
an imposing Parliament House, built
from the designs of a Finnish archi-
tect; a Senate House filled with por-
traits of Granddukes; two Italian
Renaissance buildings, admirable for
their chaste design, where the nobility
meet, and where the state archives are
stored; a spacious Art Gallery, stocked
with paintings by Finnish artists: a.
large group of university buildings, in
GLIDING a fine library, well-equipped
laboratories and museums; and at
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-01-22
MISSING LINKS.

Encourage children to walk alont
for they are often made high-should-
cred by being led by the hand all the
time in walking.
1t may seem incredible, but it is true
all the same, that Kansas City pos
sesses a negro who has marked an
tipathy to watermelons.
important event of the century," asked
the philosopher WELL" answered
the wheelman, "the finish is about as
satisfactory as any part of the rum
Truth.
Mrs. Schussman Cat a summer re-
sort)-Gottlieb, the paper says that the
natives of the Sandwich islands pay
about SIS for wife. Professor Schuss-
man (absent-minded)- Him! Inn! So
much, Jenny?-Das Echo. g.. -
Said the Judge-Do you understand
the nature of an oath? And the little
boy looked up in establishment as he
replied: "Guess you don't know my
dad, or you wouldn't have asked that
question. Boston Transcript.
No thistles grew in Australia till
Scotchman planted some seed out of
love for his old country. It was very
natural but foolish deed, for now the
thistle has multiplied into millions, and
gives great deal Of trouble. .. MI ~
An enterprising editor Of Madrid
prints his journal on linen with com
position which is easily removable by
water. The subscriber, after reading
the news, sends his paper to his wash
erWoman and it comes back handker-
chief.
The Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale
tells this to the Boston Christian
Register: When Theodore Parker left
{ this country for the last time he sent
me, with his farewell, five volumes Of
his works, each with his own auto
graph. I have Tent each Of these to.
some friend who has forgotten to re-.
turn it, and / do not now possess one
Of the five.' 81 s5
NorWaysis furnishing new illustra-
tion Of the difficulty of making a peo-.
pie temperate by law. Since the very
strict laws relating to the sale of
brandy came into force, last year, an
enormous trade has sprung up in what
is called port wine, Z 81 which comes
from Hamburg, and is sold att 3 to 20
cents 3 bottle The temperance agita-
tors are now c1amoring against this
suspicious fluid. eW York Post
ii {as -.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-01-22
to be passed even when the traveller Is.

to be passed even when the traveller Is
journeying from st. Petersburg. Rus
sian currency does not pass IN the
shops. There is a Finnish monetary
system distinct from that Of the ems.
pire. Universal military CONSUMPTION
Is enforced In Uniformity with the laws
OF the empire, but Finland is@not gar
risoned by Russian troops, but by its
own soldiers. The grand duchy, with.
its Scandinavian love OF independence
and liberty, enjoys exceptional priv
ileges Of local autonomy and religious
federation. It is not a disafected prov
ince Of the empire. .s s35.. .5
The first glimpse of ancient Abo from
the sea is unpromising. A castle on
the bluff, which once witnessed scenes
Of reyelry in the days Of Gustavus
Wasa and the Erics. is a blackened
ruin serving as prison. A scientific
observatory browning a high hill has
lost its academic character with the
removal of the ancient university to
Helsingfors, and with a melancholy air
of having seen better days is now de-
graded into navigation school, The
spire of the Cathedral of st. Henry
is a degenerate example of clumsy,
heavy Gothic. which does not invite
close inspection. The town has lost
much of its distinction as a center of
learning, and has been rebuilt after
disastrous fires with broad streets
fanked by inartistic frame buildings:
but it has a fourishing trade, and it's
fortunes have materially improved
since the Russian conquest. The tray
eler who perseveres in exploring the
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-01-22
A FancifuI Dream.

In the pleasant month of November,
when all the leaves and grass had
been tinged deeper brown by the
freaks of that autumn frost, it was
then was standing on the front steps
at school washing my slate. I had not
been at this great while before my
attention was called to the fact that
my slate, when moistened, was per-
feet mirror, reproducing all the rare
beauties Of the oriental hill. Il could
very easily see the little brooklet ly-.
ing below. and I now took fancy to
examining the small objects reflected
by the slate. First, could see the
clear water as it flowed in hurry
skurry over pebbles and shells soon to
be landed in the mighty ''Father of
Waters" While watching the pebbles
as they rolled over and over, thought
of the adage, "A rolling stone gathers
no moss" Again could see the merry
brown leaves as they twirled in the
morning sunlight, as if struggling for
each sunbeam that came streaming in
upon them and their iEsnen-dryad
AL last, on examining the image or an
old log, discovered very small hare,
clad in his autumn suit, reared back
in his nest of leaves and possessing all
animal dignity, as if he were the king
of beasts, while alone. I was so
amused at my last discovery that I de-
cided to make an immediate explora-
ton of this lovely spot. Noon came on,
and I, with all my bright hopes, de-
scended the hill, crossed the brooklet,
and found everything as represented
on my slate. AS soon as the hare de-
tected my presence he gave up his COM
Portable position and made his exit
among the dense underground. About
this time I awoke and found I had only
been dreaming.-Trebor Wenner.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-01-22

taken of her crown, and is descending
the steps Of the throne with last
farewell to Sweden and q fond, home
sick glance for Finland. 1t Is the one
romance OF this antique Lutheran ca
Sthedral The other monuments and.
warrior figures sing Of arms and men
of action. II r. 5 ;ss8
There IS a handsome park with
statuary near the cathedral, and the
older quarter of the town shows indi-
cations Of wealth and refinement.
Nothing however, is more characters
tic Of Finnish life and progress than
the conspicuous signboards at the
street corners. The names are printed
lin th:es Languages at every street
crossing. In some Of the blocks there
will not be a single house, but at each
corner the name of the thoroughfare
appears in large letters in Finnish,
Swedish and Russian. A felloW-travel-
Ter hazarded the conjecture that the
chief recreation Of the population IN
the dull, sleepy town was found in
reading street signs; and certainly
every man, woman and child was able
to .decipher at least one Of the triplicate
signs. s-f5 {, q Il S<.a i. ts2:@: ,-45:> as
There is perhaps no other country
in Europe where primary education is
conducted more Systematically than in
Finland. The Lutheran clergy are said
to make a practice of refusing sacra-
ment to men and women who cannot
read and write. AS children are taught
to read the Bible from their earliest
years, the chances of accommodation
for illiteracy cannot be alarming. In
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-01-22
3 A True Bear Story.

Speaking of law and the enforcement
OF discipline in Yellowstone Park, I
heard the story of a bear there which
consider exceedingly important not
only as comment on the discipline of
the park, but as a moral lesson to par
ents in domestic obedience. The story
is literally true, and if it were not I
should not repeat it, for it would have
no value: Mr.. Kipling says, ''The law
OF the jungle is--obey" This also
seems to be the law Of Yellowstone
Park. There is lunch station at the
upper basin, near Old Faithful, kept by
very intelligent and ingenious man.
He got acquainted last year with a she
bear, who used to come to his house
every day and walk into the kitchen for
food for herself and her two cubs. The
cubs never came. The keeper got on
very intimate terms with the bear, who
was always civil and well behaved and
would take food from his hand without
taking the hand. 49,.
one day toward sunset the bear came
to the kitchen, and, having received her
portion, she went out of the back door
to carry it to her cubs. To her sur
prise and anger, the cubs were there
waiting for her. She laid down the
food and rushed at her infants and gave
them rousing spanking. "She did not
cuff them; she spanked Them and then
She drove them back into the woods,
cutting them and knocking them at
every step. When she reached the spot
where she had told them to wait, she
left them there and returned to the
house. And there, she staid in the
kitchen for two whole hours, making
the disobedient children wait for their
food, simply to discipline them and
teach them obedience
The explanation is very natural.
When the bear leaves her young in
particular place and goes away in
search 5of food for them, if they stray
away in her absence, she has great diff
dculty in finding them. The mother
knew that the safety of her cubs and
her own peace of mind depended upon
strict discipline in the family. Oh, that
we had more such mothers in the
United States!-Harper' Weekly
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-01-22
New Experiences.

Now, Patrick til Muld loon, & said the
magistrate to the evidently alarmed
witness on the stand in ease Il
burglary, bear in mind that you have
sworn 70 tell the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth
5##''Yis, yer honor, !, stammered Mr.
Muldoon, his eyes Wayering from the
Judge to the jury and back again. ssit,s.
mesilf that' II do the very best can,
but q hope the gintIemen will be a trit1e.
aisy on me at the start for It's little
used I ana TO that sort az thing, yer.
honor. =
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-01-22
A Nameless Terror,

M. Calino-"Listen! Here is a very
good proposal for our daughter-a
young man, rich, honest, unselfish,
good looking; only-there is an only
he is foundling-without a name"
Nine. Calino with a start) without a
name! Then I shall have a son-in law
who will write anonymous letters?
Never in the world!'-Le Monde Com
iQue. ~ = - 3 - 49, ..~E
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The long days comfort that find in this.
Sometimes her step is quickened when she
sees
Me from the distance Fastening apace,
Sometimes her glances seem inclined to
tease
Sometimes they meet my own, with
friendly grace,
sometimes she bushes, but through all
discreet,
She never smiles, though oft my eyes en-
treat.
onward she hurries with the hurrying
throns,
-, 100 go onward by another way,
wondering II her sweet maiden thoughts
10 me, for one blest moment of the
AS all the hours my tender thoughts in
Her lovely soul, like buds about rose.
MY little sweetheart, whose dear name,
alas,
know not-neither how she lives nor
where,
Nor to what toll her light feet daily
pass;
only know that she is good and fair,
Ana that the sad old worlds a better
place,
And Heaven is nearer since I've seen her
face.
Madeline S. Bridges in Ladies' Home
Journal
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-01-22
An Academy's Centennial.

A few Of the academies for which
New England was famous in days gone
by survive, and one of them, the Peach
am academy, in Vermont, has just eel
ebrated it's centennial by guns at sun
rise and dinner at noon, at which the
alumni ate and glorified the institr
TONS past
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-01-22

were the words, st Is more blessed TO
give than to receive" and beside the
paper q beautiful picture OF the Boy
Christ; under this, ITO my dear little.
son, that it may help him to be unsel-
fish," r. .ll55sss &
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-01-22
GIL M PSE @ FINLAND.
5-A CHARMING COUNTRY IN HOT.
SUMNER WEATHER.
II Sussia's Scandinavian Conquest ana
What Has Been Made of It---With
Morals for the East and the West
Customs and Manners.
5Helsingfors Correspondence.

HE voyage from
Stockholm Il to st.
Petersburg in in a
Finish steamer is a
pleasant one, for
the Baltic is a quiet
sea, and the coast,
with its shallow
fjords and rock
bound headlands,
while less bold and
impressive than
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-01-22

A Modest Act.
Ned-She held her dress up over two
feet! Ted-Well, did you think she
had only one foot?
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-01-22
FOR. FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
SOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR
JUNIOR READERS.
Jamie, the Cripple" beautiful Story
for the Guidance OF Our Junior
Friends ~ How Ralph Became the
Happiest Boy in the village. H
MY Little Sweeth cart.

HEN early sunshine
brightly ov er-
flows
The city roofs and
spreads along
the street,
Down town to work
my little sweet
heart goes, 80
And we, each
morn, at the
s a m g corn e r
meet,
And oh, for all the
world, I would
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-12-04

agement so that when the road finally
becomes the property of the Chinese
Government it can operate 1t by ma
tives.
The members of the American China
Development Company got together
and formed what they called the Chi
nese Railway Syndicate. The original
subscribers to- the. project fund each
held $1,000 shares. They were admitted
TO the railway syndicate by paying $4000
more on each share held, the shares of
the latter company costing $4,000. MI.
Barnes, 1t is said. had an understanding
that his $1,000 shares were to be ex-
changed into the $1,000 shares Of the
syndicate without paying anything ad-
ditional. In all about 100000 was sub
scribed by the syndicate.
Mr. Barnes saw Mr.. Brice several
times about his compensation, but
heard nothing definite until October 6.
when he received letter from l.. San
ford Beatty, secretary of the China
American Development Company. This
communication told him that at a
meeting of the committee of the syndi-
cate a resolution had been passed pro-
viding that no claim of Thurlow Weed
Barnes for compensation should be
recognized.
This resolution also provided that. as
he had failed to pay the additional $4,000
on each of his shares in the original
company, they had been put up for
sale.
Barnes at once consulted his lawyers
and the suit for 100000 was the re-
Su1t
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-12-04

broke out a diplomatic representative
of the powers communicated to ar
American Minister at European
court in plain and unmistakable terms
the displeasure of the powers and thell
desire to express that displeaSure pub
licly and forcibly This communication
was sufficiently serious for the contin-
gency of the use of allied forces of the
European nations for the coercion OF
the United States to be frankly dis
cussed between the two diplomatists
The result of that discussion was to
put summary. stop to all notion OF
European intervention.
eff you Intervene" said the Ameri-
can Minister, it means war;
Yes rejoined his visitor, and the
forces of the great European powers
acting in alliance would overwhelm any
opposition which America could offer.
" No doubt said the American. But
YOU would have to bring your forces
across the Atlantic to the other henl-
sphere and keep them there for the
rest OF your natural life. For the New
World is not going to submit 10 the Ola
World any more. No, sir; not any more
than it submitted century since, when
the odds were far worse.
land. remember he added, as
clinoher. that when you were bringing
your armies and your nayies across 5ooO
miles of sea to fight america, you
would have to count with England, VINO
is certainly not friendly to your enter
prise
This put an extinguisher on the pro
posal Nothing more was heard OF the
Contemplated intervention; 1t never got
so far as to be submitted to England.
The whole design was cnechea az ,ns
very outset by the calm audacity with
which the representative of America
played his cards including the trump
card of the Anglo-Ameriean entente,
which henceforth will play leading
mart in all the dealings of the Engilsh,
speaking people with their 1eaious ana
suspicious neighbors.
II am very glad to be able to set forth
the actual facts as they actually hap
nened. They were told me at first hand
by the person most Immediately con con
eerned, and you can apsoiuteiy Iely
upon the accuracy OF the ABOVE state
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-12-04

IN the more thinly populated parts of the
United States. Three men are recorded
10 have been killed in the pillory In Lon
Don between 1855 and 1870. On the other
hand, a popular criminal was hardly In
eonvnienced and could crack jokes with
both fates. On his first day in the pillory
he was all but killed. On the second his
friends nearly rescued him.
The penalty of burning to death pre-
vailed from the earliest times and,
strange to say, 1t was practiced on what
was long the special penalty for heresy.
and this because the church abhorred
the shedding of blood. And it was in
hicted. on women for crimes for which
men were hanged, as a concession to the
sex OF the offender. In 1879 man and a
man was hanged and the woman burned.
The murder of a husband by his wife
was petty treason, and this was punished
by burning alive. In 1870 an act was
passed which provided that women should
suffer hanging. as in the case of men. It
teenth and eighteenth centuries the VIC
tins We're not actually burned alive hut
strangled beforehand
Capital punishment was abolished for.
twenty-oRe crimes between. 1878 and lsA
In 1877 there were still thirty-one crimes
for nearly all these between 1892 and 1SsS
and remains now for only two. While
these reforms were being enacted capftal
sentences, though still pronounced lin
large numbers, were rarely carried into
effect. in 1878 1854 persons were SEN
only nlnety-seyen were executed. In 1898,
OF ll6 sentenced, only six were hanged.
In the nine years, 1881 -39. only five per
sons were executed in London.
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PUNISHMENT IN ENGLAND.

OF punishments less than death which
prevailed in England years ago mutila-
ton was one Of the oldest and eruelest.
Under the Danes and even In the early
Norman times, for certain offenses men
were deprived of their eyes or parts of
ties gradually softened themselves down
into the comparatively mild forms of
cutting off the right hand or the ears.
Branding disparaging letters on the
chest, forehead or hands was another
form of mutilation and was occasionally
performed as a. substitute. for cutting off
the ears on those who had already lost
those members.
The pillory was a favorite punishment
in former times and it had the dubious
advantage that it might be either very
severe penalty or very mild according
as the populace regarded the crime for
which 1t was inflicted. AS the spectators
were allowed to pelt the yictom he often
had very bad time of It. II cattle
stealer was pilloried in Smithf1eld he
Jared little better than horse-stealer