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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-08-13
Timber Land, Act June 8, 1s?s.-Notice for Pub
ilcation-U. S. Land Office, Duluth, Mimi

July 27, 1S9S
=, Notice is hereby given that in compliance with
the provisions Of the act of congress of June 3,
1919 entitled An act for the sale of timber lands
IN the states of California, Oregon, Nevada and
Washington Territory as extended to all the
public land states by act of Aug. 4 1892, George
Manford of Two Harbors county OF Lake, state of
Minnesota, has this day fled in this Office his
sworn statement No. 1903, for the purchase of the
Lot and M Of sw14 Of section No. 8, in town
ship No. 81 north, range No west, and viii offer
proof to show that the land sought is more valu-
able for its timber stone than for agricultural
purposes and to establish his claim to said land
before the Register and Receiver of this Office at
Duluth, Mimi, on Friday, the 21st day Of Octo-
He names as witnesses:
Charles E. Shepherd, Samuel Mcclellan and
Joseph 6; Miller, of Two Harbors, MINI. and
August anE ID d M WI OF beaver Bay Minn
above described lands are requested to file their
Claims in this office on OF before said 21st day of
October, $685.
S-6 VIM E Culkiu, ReGistrr
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Hos iIifies Have Ceased.

$ A bug from Duluth arrived here this
forenoon with a fishing party on board
who brought the news that the terms
of peace proposed by the United States
had been agreed to by Spain, and that
hostilities had ceased. Representatives
Of the two governments will meet in
Paris to conclude the negotiations.
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The Ontario & Raiuey River Road

Rainy Lake Herald: VIM. Mccarthy.
the surveyor and engineer who is at work
locating the Ontario & Rainy River rail-
road between Fort Francis and the Seine
River, has received a telegram ordering
him to rush the work and make report
as soon as possible. It is said construct
ion work will begin rat this end this
fall and proceed as rapidley as possible,
the first section being to Haymarch bay,
when it will be used to convey material
and construction work for the large
bridge to be built across the north arm
of Rainy lake. The bridge will be as
long as the Victoria bridge across the ST..
Lawrence, the distance being two miles,
AS number of islands intervene the
work of construction will not be as
difficult as it otherwise would. Just
what point the railway will touch Fort
Francis is not yet determined, but it is
to be hoped that the citizens will not
allow anything small to stand in their
way toward securing the entrance of
the road to the heart of the town.
Once the road is completed it will make
very picturesque route for tourists and
travellers and in addition to the western
traffic will, unl1kethe G. P. R., section to
the north of us, have considerable local
trade from the rich agricultural valley of
the Rainy river and the lumber and
material from the Seine and Manltou
On Tuesday, Mr.. D. Mann, partner Of
Mr.. W. Mckenzie, who owns the charter
for the Ontario & Rainy River railway
arrived in town. The same day he visit
ed Kakabeka Falls, returning here in the
evening. Mr.. Mann has very little to
say about the future action of the rail-
way company, but then Mckenzie &
Mann never say very much obout their
own affairs. They work. But there are
stories flying around that the actual
work of construction Will be commenced
during the next month, and that con-
tracts have been awarded for portions
of the road. In confirmation of these
stories two or three we'll known railway
contractors are in town, having been
called here by Mr.. Mann ~. ii
There are now in the field, at points
between Port Arthur and Lake of the
Woods several parties Of surveyors and
engineers 1rle selecting the best route for
the road to follow. One engineer has
been taking soundings on Rainy Lake,
another is in the Atikokan region,
another IS in the MattaWin section,
while fourth is said to be at work at
the narroWs on the Lake of the " GODS.
IS Port Arthur Herald.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06

and brought into notofiety in recent years
by the international skating contests which
are held there. Any one fond of that eX-
hilarating form of exercise can hardly ma
a more interesting experience than is to be
had during q winter trip to Holland.
In the season the boat leaves the Rhine
station pier for sail up the Mas. The
steamer plowS her way through the floating
ice and at length leaves you at a high pier
on a huge dixie, which separates the river
from the low-lying country. A short walk
ice, obtained by artificialy flooding q large
area. Here, huge horseshoe course is
marked out for the races. And on either side
of this stretches the free portion, for the
Onlookers and those who wish to practice
the eXhilarating art. Fashion is beginning TO
drive out the picturesque costumes of the
peasants, who are becoming ashamed of
their distinctive dress So year by year there
is to be seen less and less of the lovely,
quaint and sometimes bizarre headdreSS and
the queer coats and breeches of the men
and boys.
There is little fancy skating to be seen.
The great length of the runners of the
Dtltch skates, and the way in which they
turn back in huge curves over the toe. are
effectual checks upon all figure skating i'm
volVing sudden or short turns. An attempt
to do the outside edge backward would in
volve disaster The Dutchman can go quick
er over long stretches upon his skates than
the Englishman because of his extra long
runners. 1t is charming sight to see the
long string of skaters sailing along with a
swing that reminds one of the flight and
dip of the swallows. Sometimes, too, they
use sort of sail, with which, by clever
handling, they can make Roadway close up
to the wind. The most usual figure seen is
what is styled the Dutch roll. in which long
lines of skaters throw themselves off upon
the right and left foot alternately, in curves
of twenty-five to thirty feet. at an incredi-
BILE speed. There is much shouting and
boisterousness and some of the byplay is
not in the best taste, but on the whole the
scene is most interesting and entirely
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06

Lost on the drift-and where the full clouds flow.
The steep above him looms,
And strong winds out of distant regions blow
The snow in streaming plumes,
And yawns the gulf of the crevasse below
In sapphire glows and glooms.
Along the precipice there is way
That he may surely tread,
Slight is his foothold on the slippery stay
That trembles to his tread
And chill and terrible the dying day
Falls fast about his head.
Could he but hear some lowing OF the herd,
Some mountain bell ring clear,
If some familiar sound one moment stirred
TO guide him lost in feari
lie dares not move-some reckoning leading word
Alas. could he but heart
In those waste places of the earth and dim,
No stars shine forth at all
Through awful loneliness enshrouding him
He gives one shuddering call,
While horror of great darkness seems to swim
And fold him in its pail.
Then, like blown breath OF music in the height
A cry comes far and low
He thrills, he springs, he gathers all his might
He feels new pulses glow
His Fathers voice-he needs nor sense nor sight
He knows the way to go.
Harriet Prescott Spofford.
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SKATING IN HOLLAND.
Rivers Present a Quaint and Pictur-
esque Sight in Winter.


In Holland a winter seldom passes with
out good skating, which, being not only a
pastime with the Dutch, but a serious and
ordinary mode of travel the ice on the
canals and ''grachts" is kept in good condi-
ton, and it is common to see a small army
of sweeping peasants putting the ice in or
der for the day. There is a skating club in
every town in Holland, and all these clubs
belong to the Dutch Skating Association
The largest clubs are probably the Amster-
dam and Rotterdam ice clubs, and in the
season many excursions are made by these
associations to the neighboring towns-for
example, from Amsterdam to Leyden via
VogelenZang and HARLEM; from Amster-
dam to Monnikendam, Edam. Hoorn, Enk-
huyzen, Alkmaar, and even across the Zuy-
der Zee, when it will bear, to Marker, and
even Urk.
The way the whole country is moated
with canals, with huge windmills over
looking the ice like leviathan implements
Of ordnance, is calculated to appeal to the
lover of the picturesque Then there are
the graceful light sleighs, propelled by
skillful skaters, and containing red-cheeked
bright-eyed peasant girls in immense lace
caps and dangling temple ornaments flying
over the ice at a great speed. On the Mas.
few miles east of Rotterdam lies a ia
nous skating resort known as Slikkeryeer,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06
The song Of the Drum.

DO you hear my summons hammer thro' the
crackle and the clamor,
Do you feel my throb and thrill?
When I meet the smell OF powder, oh, my merry
note grows louder,
And ny song shall not be still.
Follow, each beside his fellow, meath the vap0ra
gray and yellow,
Wildly cheering, sternly dumb,
And rumble rumble rumble. when the smoke
wreaths toss and tumble.
You shall hear the rolling drum
Follow the drum.
Men forget their fears and foies as they face tha
binding volleys,
And the young recruits they come,
With their simple sunburnt faces, from the quiet
country places
TO the call of me, the drum
Come, plowboy. lad and carter. and your life
blood freely barter
For the bullet sure for some,
And rattle, rattle, rattle, through tho din and
Of battle.
You shall hear the rolling drum.
Follow the drum!
When the boys that follow fast there, drop aside
and fall at last there,
From the surging lines of red,
Then no more of pomp and ruffie; my notes awha
I muffle,
And moan and mourn the dead.
But the losing battle needs me, and the whistlng
bullet speeds me;
Through the Keeling ranks / come,
And chatter, cIatter chatter, where the broken
regiments scatter.
You shall hear the rolling drum.
Follow the drum!
Doll Mall C1a1atfn
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Where will you get off. thcn?' shouted
the conductor.
" 'Fenndale, said Bobby.
1.-THE conductor laughed a hollow laugh of
dreadful sarcasm and passed OH through
the train Mcpherson sat quietly looking
out of the window for three-quarters of an
hour when the familiar, contour of the
landscape warned him that he was APP
preaching the beloved precincts. Then he
picked up his bag and began to walk
through the train. Midway in tile aisle of
the rear car he encountered the conductor,
more irate than ever and frowning fierce
~ What are you doing here?' he stormed
when he saw Bobby coming toward him
down the aisle This amt your car
No, said Mcpherson, but you're my
man.
"Then he knocked the conductor down.
as gently as he could. he said afterward-
and the conductor rose, a speechIess idiot
and pulled the bell rope like one of Poe's
goblins
:" You won't throw me OFF, screamed
Bobby. The conductor ran to the other end
OF the car as the brakes went on and re-
turned with three or four trainmen.
That's the man. yelled the conductor.
That heather with the twisted nose.
Throw him out Put him off. Throw him
into the wilderness and ruin the vegetation
with him
Bobby let them take him like a lamb.
The train came to a standstil and they
carried him to the back platform and
heaved him off and threw his bag after
him. He lit on his hands and
feet, like cat. The conductor leaned over
the rail and let loose the Walls of his wrath.
AS the train began to move away Bobby
lightly busted his fingers with a handker-
chief blew kiss to the conductor, and
laughing the happy laugh of man re-
lieved of a great responsibility, pointed to
a little yellow station down the track,
whose signboard bore the letters that
formed the golden word Fenndale.
Il told You So, called Bobby-and the
conductor foamed at the mouths Much
obliged -
Mr.. Mcpherson deserved a mighty pleas
ant evening after his trouble" said the man
from San Antonio. 1T seems to me that
girl had lot to live up to-"
How'd it come out?" inquired the poll
tician
"They were married the year after his
graduation"
WELL" said the Texan, "mebbe nova
days he might not take SO many chances to
but still mebbe he might-you can't tell.
You gentlemen have told us of two very
interestin' young men, but reckon you d
see some PITY exciting times if you trav-
eled with either of em q long while They
would certainly have the call on me-
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story OF the Second Undergraduate.

The young man knocked the ashes from
his pipe and slowly polished it against his
nose, while the other undergraduate in
quired if he remembered Bobby Mcpherson
and how he got off the train at Fenndale.
II remember Bobby we'll enough" said
his friend. HE was end rush in freshman
year and caught on the nine. L remember
seeing q pitched ball strike him on the leg
one day and hearing one of his classmates
say he'd bet Bobby was sour because it
hadn't hit him in the face. But what about
his getting off the train?'
."rhat happened this way said the other
student. Bobby fell in love with q girl who
lived at Fenndale, and she was a queen, tool
Easily He used to go up to Fenndale every
Saturday afternoon in the winter to spend
Sunday with her brother. aged fourteen.
He would get pensive about Wednesday
each week and be no earthly use till he
came back on Monday morning; and then
he wasn't what he might have been. If he
missed a Saturday it was as much as your
life was worth to go into his room. One
Saturday (after he'd missed two in success
sion and hadn't seen her for three weeks)
he had most particular engagement with
her brother, as he said, and was to go down
to Fenndale on the 3:15 accommodation
him in town until o'clock and he missed
the 315 which is the last train that stops
at Fenndale. Poor Bobby ragged like lion
Che had to be there that evening" and then
he set his face grimly, sat on his bag the
platform and waited for the $3.50 and got
aboard.
Now, the 4:3O is, this very train, the
'cannon-ball express. and it flames through
Fenndale, which has a population of about
six country places, at forty and more miles
an hour. The conductor was already in a
bad temper over something when ne came
through Bobbys car. He looked at Bobby 5
ticket and blew up. 'Fenndalen he howled
and he put more into the word than If ii
had been the most profane expression in the
world. Fenndale. Don't you know this is
the cannon-ball express, you ass? Who set
you at large? You'll go ON to PhiladeI-
phia
Not that answered Mcpherson mildly.
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Il think it comes in line as illustrating
your point as to physical decisiveness," the
youth began. For the benefit of these gen.
tlemen, may mention that Freddie Smith
is a chap in our class who came up from
prep school a weak stunted little thing,
and spent most of the freshman year in the
gym. yanking chest weights and falling off
the trapeze. 1t was his year to grow, and
he grew it all in breadth and thickness;
walked out onto the football field next year.
short ever but with huge shoulders and
chest like gorilla's; made the varsity;
ard stands to-day the hardest man TO hurt
in college. Last spring he went up to do
the Bowery alone. fancy of his. He ex-
pected 10 see all the color and the types
we've heard such lot OF, but 1t was disap-
pointing for a while. Heard some broken
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he isn't dead. exactly. Several years after
the Henderson campaign Colonel Wilson
was investigated on question of-ah-talIy
sheets in municipal election, and found to
have been trifie ORGANIZATIONS"
Il see,' observed one of the students. "a
peremptory SOUL d twdster of destiny. And
he WENT
Up finished the politician, with a quiet
sigh. Il do not know exactly how much of
his period Of relaxation good conduct may
take off,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06

the next step was to wooden benches with
out any back.
High prices are paid for butterflies, and
some private collections, such that of the
Hon. w. Rothschild at Tring, Herts, is said
to be worth G106.000, more or less. Some
New Guinea butterflies, have fetched $50
apiece. One of the RothschildS is said to
common
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Detroit Free Press.

DtIIOIL free PTtss.
What are you waiting for, dear?" asked
Smithly of his wife as she fingered in the
cafe after they had eaten.
Il would like to interview the chef and
get his recipe for making that clam chow
der without using any clam.
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A Double Event.
Puck.

Mrs Dacey-Me da-ather Ka~atie'n be
eighteen Mkt Thursday. an Ohm goin' t Civ
her q comin'-out party.
Mrs. Callahan with sarcasml -Pfwy don't
tonnes up on tn oisland, an cilibrate bot
comin's out OF vance?
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Somewhat Regal, Herself.
DVIHC w
Puck.

'she told me I was her king-that I had
crowned her life"
''Well?"
-'"And then she turned around and said she
would never speak to me again if 1 didn't
stop smoking"
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Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
Mr.. Dukane-Do you mean to say that
Mr.. Jiggins is invariably truthful, under all
circumstances?
Mr. Gaswell-Well, perhaps he is a trihe
prone to exaggerate the iowness of his Their
mometer in zero weather.
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In Boston.
Puck.

The Fiance-Forgive me, Minerva, I adj
nit that l Was wrong.
The Fiancee--O Emerson! / am so happy
The Fiance-Yes, darling. realize that
corning the manners and customs of the
early Assyrians.
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a College Education.
Blooklyn Life.

BIOOKIyn Lie.
She (who has just "come ut'')-what does
"Quo Vadis'' mean?
He famous half back, '9O-''What are
you giving us?" or something like that
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PHILADELPHIA Record.

I
Blobbs-That fellow to whom I nodded
will probably cut me the next time he sees
me.
SIobbs-Why?
Blobbs-He is my barber; and he's infer
nally careless.
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Getting Even.


$50 you are engaged to the man I re-
jected three times?''
Yes; he mentioned it: he said the luck
of odd numbers was really wonderful"
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Placing the RInme.
Brooklyn Life.

BrOOKIyH Lie.
Mother-What on earth are you doing to
the child, Bridget, to make her cry so?
Bridget (who has just slapped her)-I
s'pose it's the medicine, mum: the 1aibul
says as how children cries for it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06

(which one of those figures do you like
best, Nary" This one, num-" said Mary,
pointing to the armless Venus of Milo:
And why do you like the Venus best?''
Sure, it's the aisiest to doost num-, an
svrerad the girl
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Old Resident-An how mony childer how
yez?
New Neighbor--Foive; tree by me hus-
husbind's sicond wolfe.
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sweet Charity.
Chicago News.

Chicago News.
He-Don't you think Miss Plainly is the
very image of her mother?
She-Yes, indeed; the resemblance is
something awful.
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Chicago Record.

What is an infant prodigy. grandpa?"
can infant prodigy is a little boy who.
knows so much that he never has to ask
questions
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Interest in Art.
Harien Life.

IItlI IVIIt IlIIt+
a. lady who saw that her servant girl
seemed to take certain interest in the OBJ
jects of art in her parlor said TO her:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Her Latest Excuse.

Chicago Mail.
'I saw you kiss him.
Yes. / know it. But he's a hypnotist,
you know"
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NO" replied his friend. what of it?"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-03-03
"LIke Hogs or Like Gentlemen"

Years ago, when it was more the
fashion in Kansas than at present,
United States District Attorney Bill"
Perry gave stag party" to his gen
tlemen friends at Fort Scott. He had
procured a bountiful supply of cold
beer for the delectation of his guests,
but hid it away in an upper room as
post-prandial surprise. When the
proper time arrived for the revelation
of his surprise he said>to the assembled
company:
"Boys, l have lot of cold beer up
stairs, but before we start 1 want to
know whether you intend to drink like
gentlemen or like hogs"
"Oh, we'll drink like gentlemen; lead
on, Billy" chorused dozen voices in
reply.
THAT settles it," replied the jovial
host, as a smile rippled over all three
of his double chins. "I'll have to send
for more beer. A hog always knows
when he's got enough. kansas City
Journal.