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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-26

every performance of Barbara Fretchie.
snd public approval follows the performance I'M
h'erruptediy. special matinee will be given
% Thanksgiving Day.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-11
GOES WITH TIE HOUSE.
At Least One Doorplate In Kept in Its
Place by the VIII of Its
Bead Owner,

In the cross streets in the old village
OF Greenwich one will still find houses
with green painted doors and brass
knobs and doorplates. The brass is
generally bright, as it was always kept
in the old times when sand was used as
burnisher. The names on the DOOR
plates are not always the names OF the
occupants of the house. A New York
Sun reporter in his strolls in Vandam
street noticed more than the usual
number of doorplates, and asked a po-
liceman a question, which elected the
following:
take the name on that doorplate,"
pointing to door close by; 1.-THE man
whose name is there has been dead
nearly 40 years. And after him his
family lived there for long time, and
the daughter married and she lived in
the same house for a long time, and the
name was never changed on the plate.
Then she moved away. l don't know
what became of her. The house was
vacant awhile, and the doorplate re-
manned all the time. Then the house
was rented, and one day for curiosity
| asked why the doorplate was not re-
moved, and was told that the original
owner had it put in his will that as
long as the house stood the doorplate
was to stay on the door. And s'pose
it's the same way with all the old
houses that have doorplates.'' -. "A.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-11
BLOOM AND ODOR.
"A Close Connection Has Been Dis
covered between Color and
Perfume,

An exhaustive examination of flower
ing plants reveals that. Only about ten
per cent, of them are odoriferous. The
red flowers and those which have COM
bined colorings approximate to this
average, while yellow flowers arc
slightly below it. OF blue flowers
only five per cent. are scented, and in
those of violet color the proportion is
still farther reduced. White flowers are
most odoriferous, Is per cent. of them
being fragrant, and it is matter of
common observation that the white va
rieties of garden flowers are generally
more highly scented than the colored
members of the same species.
1t has been noted that flowers of a
brownish hue have usually disagreea-
bic smell, and in the case of the stapel-
las or carrion flowers the odor is scarce
ly distinguishable from that of putre-
scent meat, and proves attractive to
those insects which feed on decaying
substances. AS rule where the inflor-
essence is brilliant and conspicuous.
perfume is deficient, but many striking
exceptions will readily suggest them
selves. The perfume, like the coloring
of flowers, plays an important part in
securing cross fertiliza ton by the
agency of insects, and the presence of
one attractive factor enables the plant
to dispense in many cases with the
other,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-11
HAD SOME PRIDE HIMSELF.
"nAch explains Laughable Occur.
renee on q Chicago Street
Car.

A few evenings ago pretty girl got
on an Indiana avenue car at Twenty.
fourth street. In one corner of the car
sat bibulous lrishman, in the senti.
mental stage of intoxication. He was
singing softly to himself There's ONLY
One Girl in the World for Me-" and
lurching back and forth without regard
10 the comfort Of the passengers neal
him. The man who sat next to the
sentimental 1rishman got up and Of
Tered his seat to the pretty girl. She
hesltated and then said: mo, thank
you; I'm only going few blocks"
The intoxicated individual stopped
as short in his song as if he had run
against a rope. He braceds up stif1ly
and his face took on a look of disap-
pointment and injured innocence us
he broke out with:
"She won't-hic-she won't set down
to tn side O. me. She-hiv-she won't
set down to tn side o. me cause I'm an
lrishman. Thash it; sure of it. Irish
men amt got no rights. Proud lady
r'fuse to set down to tn side of 'em.
an ever blamed idiot in the car got t.
giggle bout it. sthop thish car, en-
ductor; got some pride lef', # amt
nothin' but Irishman."
And then, says the Inter Ocean, he &C.
copied the help of the conductor in
striking balance and was set off the
car gently at the next corner.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-11
POPULAR RULE.
It Has Always Proved to He Flat
Failure Among Back
= = ward Races. 49,

Anent the proposition to make our
newly-acquired dependencies self-gov-
erning, it is interesting to note that par
liamentary government has invariably
proved fat failure in semicivilized
countries.
r. The negro republics of Liberia and
Haytitform the most glazing example;
but it would hardly be correct, after
all, to describe their government as
parliamentary. With the exception of
Chilli, which, thanks to avery large ad-
mixture of English and Scotch blood, in
it's best families, stands far ahead of the
rest, nearly all the Central and South
American republics are pitiable paro-
dies on popular government. The
grossest corruption and incapacity are
thinly yelled by paper constitutions
and clouds of high-sounding verbiage.
In nearly every case they are ruled by
political adventures, who govern really
by force, and will rather plunge the
country into the horrors of revolution
tian forego the spoils of office. The re-
suit of this deplorable state of things
is to be found, first, in almost con-
slant turmoils, which are merely fac
ton fights on huge scale; and, second
ly, in the backward condition of the
countries, in spite of their very great
natural advantages; and in the further
fact that, where these advantages are
developed, it usually by foreign brains
and foreign capital.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-11
LONGEVITY.
why Men In Professional Pursuits
Live Longer Than Those in
Business.

In the majority of cases among city
jewellers those who reach advanced
ages are found to have been profess
sional men. There are a good many
reasons for this.
In the first place, the struggle for ex-
istence begins later in professional life
than in other centers. The profession
al man seldom begins his work much
before rs, while the business man or
labcrer goes to work at the age of IL.
Thus the professional man has seven
clear years of freedom from RESPONSE
bility. moderate work and healthy ex-
istence. Secondly, the occupation of
the professional man generally takes
him to considerable extent into the
open air, and is very seldom entirely
sedentary. Thirdly, the professional
man generally enjoys that modest COM
petence which saves him at once on
the one hand from starvation or penury
and on the other hand from idleness
and, excess. Fourthly, his holidays are
generally ample. Filthy, to certain
extent his livelihood generally depends
on his leading at least a comparatively
sober and moral life, violent excuses
running both his standing and his busi-
ness capacity. Sixthly, professional
callings are exposed to very few special
dangers. Lastly, since even minor
ailment often units a man entirely
for professional works, he has special
motive in taking particular care of his
health
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-11
MEN STRONG IN PICTURES.
Penciled Veins and Paint Kent
Muscles Show Up Well BE-
fore the Camera.

II could tell you a tale about strong
men photography Some of the minor
limbs of the fraternity depend on the
cunning of the camera for ADVERTISE
ment," said photographer to Pear
sons Weekly.
Zone fellow, who visits country fairs
and casual shows, goes through tricks
OF kind wonderful to the unscientifc
mind. They are merely tricks after all,
and his strength is catch. He depends
on his photos for advertisement.
In posing, he folds his arms tightly,
dilates the muscles of his neck, and
lines his veins with prussian blue. His
picture gives you Hercules in his power
of majesty; in private he is a well de-
veloped man, without any swagger of
sinew Or strength.
professional strong men are as
clever at making up as a society act
ress. A few lines about the body add
pounds to the weight of a strong man
Tin the picture), studied pose imparts
additional formidability.
THE veins of certain professional
Hercules protrude like whipcord in the
Photographic cabinet. He dusts them
with powdered ultramarine, and treats
the high parts of the muscles with in
dian red; otherwise his picture would
appear quite ordinary.
"A strong woman, who comes here
frequently, is marvel of paint and
shipping. She occupies her dressing
room for hours ere she faces the cam
era" s1 81 g. - ;.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-11
Contest Notice.

Department of the Interior, United States Land
Office. Duluth Mimi, December 20. 1898.
a sufficient contest affidavit having been fled
against Homestead entry No. 9461 made Sept. 1,
1894, for the VIZ of nwA and VIZ of sw4 of Sec
ton "A, township Ga north, range 4 west, by
alleged that "said Maggie Johnston has
failed to establish her r,sidence on said land
since making said entry" ~. - y. 81
spond and offer evidence touching said allega-
tion at 10 O'Clock a. m on February 81, 1892
before the Register and Receiver at the United
States Land Office in Duluth MINI,
The said contestant having in a proper sffidavit.
filed Octocer 81. 1885, set forth facts which show
that after due diligence personal service of this
notice can not be made, it is hereby ordered and
directed that such notice be- given by due and
proper publication s'.5'
1-21 800 VIM. E. Culkin. Register.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-11
A TRAVELLING POST OFFICE,
One OF the Latest Experiments OF
the Government Being Tried
in Maryland

The first real travelling post office
started on its rounds this mouth in
Maryland, says Youths Companion.
1t is stout covered wagon, manned by
a driver and postal clerk, which will
leave the town of Westminster every
weekday morning, make a circuit OF
more than 80 miles through the sur
rounding country and return to West
minister at night.
There are eight village post offices on
the wagons route. The travelling post
master will carry mail to them and re-
ceive it from them. His wagon is fitted
with cases and pigeonholes, so that he
can assert mail while he travels; and he
will deliver mail to all residents along
the road who will take the trouble to
put up letter boxes or to wait for the
wagon" He will be authorized, more
over. to sell stamps, register letters
and issue money orders; and, 4, rail-
road town being the terminal of bis cir
cult, the conjunction Of the travelling
post office and the railway nlailcar will
bring the farmer and the outside world
very near together.
This travelling post Office is, we need
hardly add, one of the experiments by
which the government is trying to
solve an imperative problem-that Of
rural mail, delivery. If the plan sue
ceeds long step will have been taken
toward the adoption of reform which
everyone approves, and which is de-
layed merely because no one has de-
vised practicable way to carry it out.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-11
/ WREcKING A COWBOY.
How = Tenderfoot with SILK Hat
+ Did Him Up I'm Little
TX Gun Play. +-35

There is at least one cowboy in Ari-
iona whose head is three sizes smaller
than twas month ago. said the Chi
cage drummer, as he brushed the alkali
dustoff his coat collar. AT Tombstone
fell in with a young man from New
haven 7 who was prowling over the
country in search of good thing, but
notcaring much whether he found If or
not. One afternoon he stood with his
back to the street, reading the posters
on abillboard. He had on a silk hat,
and presently cowboy emerged from a
store on the opposite side Of the square.
One glance at that hat, brought out
gun, and there was pop! pop! pop! till
x.bullets had been fired. The tender
foot never turned, nor let on that he
heard the shooting. In ten seconds the
gun was reloaded, and there was an
other fusillade. There were hundred
people looking on and shouting and
laughing, but the tenderfoot kept his
back to the street until the twelfth shot
had been fired. Then he calmly turned
about, removed his hat and placed it on
the ground, and stepping back pace
or two, he drew his gun and shot it to
pieces. The remains were yet smoking
when he picked them up, crossed the
square, and holding the handful of old
hat out to the cowboy, he humbly said:
"1f you have couple of months to
spare l might be willing to teach you
how to handle gun!~
But hadn't the cowboys bullets hit
the hat?' was asked.
Every blessed one of them," replied
the drummer, "but no one knew it ex-
cept the tenderfoot, and he DESTROYED
all evidence By his own shooting. The
crowd took it that the cowboy had
missed and raised a laugh on him. and
when he straddled his cayuse and loped
down the street, he looked as homesick
as a dog thousand miles from home"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-11
HOW BRADY LOST HIS MONEY.
The Bowery Celebrity Died the Day
Before the Annual Vanderbilt
.5ss.s Check Was Due.

BY the death of John Brady, who
choked to death on mutton chop late
ly, the Bowery has lost oneSof its typ
ical characters. He was known to shop
and hotel keepers from Chatham square
to Cooper Union. Brady bore the repu-
tation of an honest man who loved
horses and reyeled in races who thought
the Vanderbilts "up to the limit" and
who was a faithful follower of Tam
many Hall. For several months he had
lived at a hotel at No. Bowery. In
the last day of 1898 he went into res
taurant and with friends ordered drinks
and mutton chops. While eating one he
became. purple in the face and fell to
the floor, where in q few minutes he
died, reports the New York Times.
Since Brady came to this country
from Ireland, so years.ago, he had con-
tinually hung around race track sta
bles. His favorite story was how he
saved the life of a Vanderbilt, and he
had just finished telling it when he died.
Several years ago." he had said, "a
team came running down Fifth avenue.
4 spanking team it was, boys, with a
footman and coachman full of buttons
sitting on the box. "A lady all dressed
in furs and silksSwas sitting in the car
riage. The coachman had lost the
horses heads and they were tearing
down the avenue like wild. I saw them,
and there's no man knows more about
stopping wild horses than I do; so I
steps out in front of them, grabs the
brides as they gotto me, and in half
block had them stopped as still as
mouse. The lady thanks me and the
coachman drives away. Next day gets
word to come to the Vanderbilts' house.
CT the avenue, and there l gets $500.
Every New Years day till now I got my
$1C0, and tomorrow I gets it. again."
He pointed at the man opposite and be-
gan to resume the story, when he
choked.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-11
TIE FIREMAN'S LIFE
He Cam Always .Dress Before !
Mirror, But He's Not q hit Dis
s# turbed by That.

"Of course everything about the fire
department interests us always" said
/ Mr.. Glimby, in the New York Sun, '.but
there IS one. little thing in particular
that I've seen I suppose hundreds Of
times that appeals to me more every
time / see it, and that is the f1remen
getting into their coats as they 20
along. You see this among the men on
trucks and on hose wagons; the men on
the engine have to use their hands to
hold on. - j, ~ " J., "
ITS a. simple enough thing in gen.
eral to see man putting on his coat,
but here he isn't standing up in his
room before mirror, but he's jumped
out. Of bed and taken his coat under his
arm and slid down sliding pole, and is
completing his dressing, sitting on top
of rack. of ladders going through the
street like mad, drawn by three great
borses, at one end. with man down at
the other end steering this outfit with
a wheel. This sight never loses it's nov
city or its interest. You may see the
same thing on hose wagon.
but what set me to speaking about
this now was seeing a man on a fire
patrol wagon, sitting on one Of their
long seats. facing outward, pulling up
the tops of his high boots. Red wagon,
galloping horses, banging gong, men
in fire hats and rubber Goa ts-the whole
blooming outfit on the dead jump and
this man sitting on the side seat reach
ing down for the tops of those boots
and Strengthening up with each one as
he got it and swaying back a little as
be pulled it>up into place, just as man
would sit on the edge of his bed at home
toput on his stockings and slippers, and
just as cool and comfortable.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-11
Contest Notice..

Department Of The Interior, United States Land
Office Duluth Mimi. December 20. 1898.
A sufficient contest affidavit having been fled
in this Office by J. D. Flory, contestant against
the e1: of ne14 e1z of sell of section Is. town
ship 81 north. range west, by Louis N. Brochon.
contestee in which 1T is alleged that ':said Louis
and improve said tract for more then two years
last past" said parties are hereby notified to
appear. respond and offer evidence touching said
1899. before the Register and Receiver at the
United States Land Office in Duluth Mimi.
The said contestant having. in a proper afh-
davit fled October q. 1895, set forth facts which
show that after due diligence, personal service
of this notice can not he made, it is hereby
ordered and directed that such notice DO given
by due and proper publication.
1871 VIM. L. Culkin. Register,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-11
WOMEN AT MEMS COLLEGES.
There Has Been u Larxe Increase
In the Number Of Girls At
tending Yale.

Women are rapidly invading the do
main OF the men in college work in
America as they are competing with
the members of the sterner sex abroad.
The large number of women students
enrolled in the graduate department of
Yale at the present time calls attention
TO feature of academic life which is
assuming larger proportions every
year. 1t was in 1892 that the educa-
tional world was somewhat startled by
the information that the corporation
of Yale had decided to open its grad
uate department to bachelors of art
without distinction of sex, and there
were many forewarnings concerning
the failure of such an iconodastic de-
parture.
During the six years that the expert
ment has been under way the women
students have had to struggle against
innumerable difficulties, but it is be-
lieved that at last they have established
their position upon permanent foot
ing. There is hardly any member of
the faculty who does not have a good
word to say in their favor, and even the
undergraduates are beginning to re-
gard their presence upon the campus
with Indifference. The official cata-
logue of the present year has not, yet
been published, but it is known that
there are, at the present time. about 40
women students at Yale, and there are
not lacking those who claim that it.
would be impossible to find among the
1850 members of the university 40 stu
dents who contribute more to the real
scholarship of the institution, and who
are, regarded with greater respect by
the professors under whose instruction
they come
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-11
PROFITABLE ENTERPRISE.
Fiat Failure of Pessimistic Pred1c.
tons Regarding the Suex
Canal.

It was shown that from an engineer
ing point of view the Suez canal was
impossible, while from commercial
point OF view it was proved up to the
hilt that, even if the canal could be
made, it would, so far as traffic. went.
be failure as melancholy to the phi
lanthropist as it would be disastrous
to the investor, says the Engineering
Magazine.
The great authorities who spoke with
so much assurance are all dead, and ii
is we'll Tor their comfort that they
are.
In 1869 traffic between the west and
the east via the Cape of Good Hope was
about 3,500,0O0 tons. In 1897 the traf-
fic through the Suez canal was 1898.
9S1 tons, while that round the Cape
of Good hope was at least 3,750,C tonss
In other words, one direct result Of
the construction of the Suez canal has
been that in % years the commerce Of
the world has been increased 5000 900
tons annually.
1t is hardly necessary to add that the
return To the investor who risked his
money in what seemed to so many to
be hare-brained project has been, to
say the least of it, of fairly satisfac-
tory character.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-11
Wanted to Bottle the Baby.

The naturalist's wife had gone out
for few minutes andlef the baby in
charge of her absent-minded husband.
When she returned she was not little
disturbed to discover the baby crying
dismaily, and its father, with collec-
tion of his largest bottles of alcohol be-
fore him. evidently at his wits end.
why. David. David!" cried the good
woman. snatching up the child, what
is the matter?" SWELL. my dear" re-
sponded the great naturalist. simply,
gazing at the baby, sits very strange,
but Icant find a bottle large enough to
held him anywhere" 5...5 as.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-11
Collection of SlsuIls.

A missionary returning to Basel
from Patagonia brought with him col
lection of Patagonian' skulls. The Gus
tom house officers at Les Verrieres
opened the chest, inspected the con-
tents and informed the owner that the
consignment must be classed as animal
bones. and taxed at so much the pound.
The missionary was indignant, and
persuaded the officials to reconsider
the question. When the way bill had
been revised it appeared in the follow
ing form: "Chest of native skulls.
Personal effects, already worm"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-11
THE ISLAND OF PALAWAN.
{ It p suEgested NJ United States Ma
val Sta ton n the philippine
b Archipelago.

Palawan, the long island which lies at
the gate of the East Indies, and which
our naval expertsyh have selected for the
Asiatic naval station Of the United
States, is the object of much interest
just now because some Of the Euro
peans contend that the Spaniards have
no title to it. Although some 800 miles
long, it is very narrow. AT some places
it is only five miles between the two
coasts. 1t is covered with a magnifi-
cent forest Of great value. Like most
OF the Philippines, it has a central
mountain chain, extending in the direc-
ton of its greatest length. The only
civilized settlement is penal colony
at Puerto Princessa, the capital, with a
military garrison. There is fine har-
Dor, and the town is surrounded by a
fertile country. Three tribes. of natives
inhabit Palawan. The Moros. who are
Mohammedans; the Patacks, who roam
in the north, and the Tagbanaus, who
occupy the central portion, near the
civilized elements, are said to be n in
II llgent and superior class of Malays
They practice agriculture so far as nee
essary, and have houses made of BAN
boo poles and palm leaves. But most of
their time is spent in the forest, hunt
ing, fishing and searching for wild
honey. Each tribe has local govern
ment, presided over by a petty mag
'strate, and the office is hereditary. The
affairs of each community are directed
by a council of elders, who administer
justice according to their own ideas.
The Spaniards have never attempted to
ciVilize them, although few missions
have been established by the priests.