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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-12-22
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Fifty-two dollars year is the sum
ex-Judge Talcott of Valparaiso, Ind,
sets apart for living expenses. What
is more remarkable, he succeeds in
keeping within this linlit-and both he
and Mrs. Talcott profess to be more
than satisfied with the amount of food
they allow themselves. These figures
are six times as impressive as the Chi
cago University economists, who have
recently provoked wide discussion by
declaring that man and his wife can
subsist at cost of $500 a year.
The $1-a-week expense limit is more
startling in view of the age Of the re-
markable experimentalists Judge Tai
colt is IS years old, but is strong, we'll
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PROTECTED BY
INSURANCE

The late Duke of Edinburgh's life
was insured for 6 100000 and that
huge sum will have to come out of the
Golfers Of the insurance societies.
Scarcely single English insurance
company was without some interest in
Prince Alfred's life, but the critical
state of his royal highness' health dur
ing the past four years had given the
companies ample warning that the day
of reckoning was approaching. They
will not in consequence be heavily hit
by the dukes sudden death, even
though the sum is Of considerable
magnitude, for most of the firms had
secured themselves with guarantee
societies. .,:-.....
Royalties have ever been extensive
insurers. Many of them while they
enjoy practically unlimited incomes
during their lives, are unable to be-
queath anything except to their eldest
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THE LAST RESORT.

a Grim Tragedy Which Followed
Close Of Ncw-found Happiness.
s'Helen!' called man in Il mufled
voice, as he pushed open the door to
the squalid apartment at the top Of
the tenement.
"What? You, George?'
Eyes, dear. Get up; rub your eyes!
Look what I have broughtv'
The man lit candle and pushed
small table to the side of bed. Then
he threw upon it one roll Of bills af'er
another and handfuls of gold until the
top was literally covered.
''Look, my poor girl! It's money
rea! money! Touch it! Take some of
it in your hands! Rub your eyes and
count it Ten thousand dollars! Think!
All ours! What happiness! Starva-
ton, ruin the street, the morgue, were
before us this morning. Now we're
saved; we shall" -.:.fs.
The woman stared at the money and
then into her husbands face. .s
1&&'".Wkere did you get it," ~:
"Oh. that's all right. I got it easily
enough mean, I won it. Yes, dear,
won. it. OF course, you don't under
stand. At play, my little girl. At the
gaming table. Last chance. Just like
4 novel, my pet. I risked everything
on the turn Of a card; no, mean the
cast of a die. No, hell; mean On the
fall zcf a ball. And there's the money.
1t will buy food and fire. Take it
listen! Somebody's on the stairs!
Hide the money! Put out the light
Goodsby, Helen. I'll never be taken zen
alive!''
when the police burst open the door
d moment later to arrest the MUIR
derer they found much money on the the.
table and q pale-fa ced, girlish woman man
dead upon the pillow. Ssh. Be. IS y.
In the yard back Of the tenement lell
Ave stories below, they found the body
AZ d man. Philadel phia Times.
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sons. Insurance gives them the op-
portunity Of making some provision
for their younger sons and daughters.
King Humbert of Italy was no ex-
ception to the rule among the royal
houses, and his tragic death will make
a heavy call upon some of the insur-
ance societies, who will pay out con-
siderable sums to Queen Margherita.
London underwriters are appreciably
affected by his death.
Queen Victoria has been a small
gold mine to insurance companies,
owing to her majesty's long life. Not
only did the queen insure her own life,
but hundreds of leases in the city ex-
pire with the queen, and the holders,
in consequence have all insured her
majestys life. The Prince of Wales
Is. similarly insured for large sums,
but there are not many policies on
Kaiser Wilhelm.
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Live On One Dollar d Week.

and active. Mrs. Talcott, who is some
ten years younger, has an almost girl
ish freshness of complexion and does
all the work about their home. AS the
Judge has an abundance of means, the
$l-a-week dietary regime is adhered to
purely from choice.
Their regimen consist of oatmeal,
mush, milk and sugar, for breakfast,
bread and milk and sugar for dinner
and cornmeal mush and sugar for sup
per. Once a month this is varied by
a meal including small amount OF
meat. households that have difficulty
in making both ends meet on ten times
the sum that affords this aged couple
so great contentment would do we'll to
study their diet. LII 90
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Deadly Fumi- Gaseous Bomb.
Professor Camphausen ct Amster-
dam Is out with q bomb generating
fumes that will make breathing Diff
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nh 8 -oIa.rch of Invention.

give no doubt good many people
VIII listen in vain for Ga briefs trump
st when he finally comes. 5
.ss How SO ~
Because he's pretty sure TO use e' 9
neranllone. Cleveland Plain Dea 4e
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or, UNDER A SPELL.
BY JEAN WARNER f !, ]: r

CHAPTER Nv. (Continued.)
Twice the young girl read the letter,
and then, sfinging it upon the blazing
hearth, she fell upon her knees with a
low, pitiful moan. a
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-12-22

CHAPTER VI.
Companion Picture,
Over the yclvety lawn, where fount-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-12-22

r emotion. II knew you would not fear
to come. though we have to choose
strange and lonely meetings, my Sybil.
It will not always be thus. my darling
twill not always be thus
You are in danger here she, said.
c'inging to his bosom and lifting her
male, anxious face to his. ooh, father
dear father! why did you come here to
seek me? Let us fy-let us both fly
far, far away, where we can find safe
ty and peace!'' . 4. .#ss. s.s s #ss
Safety and peacep'' he repeated, bit
sterly. Those are not words for me, or
for you. either, Sybil. Justice and right
is our motto, child, and right-justice
and right, at any cost-at any costv' =,
Has not the cost been to great al
ready :" she whispered. "And the gain,
where is: i? oh, papa, papa! think of
Iyollr homeless Wanderings, your law
less life! Think Of me, friendless, lone
/ ". fcrsaken. haunted by day and by
night by fears dare not shape into
q words! Think of your cherries age.
my blighted youth! Has not the cost
been already far. far too great ~
Let him who must pay the reckoning
look to it,! was the fierce reply. s'Ve
4 must not stop to count the cost, Sybil.
&NOt8a pain, not q sorrow. not d fear of
yours, but shall be repaid d thousand
fold!s Only trust me, my darling. Lis
en to me, obey me. IT. is only OF your
future I think-f or your utnre / plan
NJ own Is darkened, hopelessly:: you
are the only CLEAN of hope and sun,
shine lett TO gladden. my troubled way
Willmar tribune., 1900-08-29

ing savages who practically make no
use of the soil and other resources
available-there is no rational objec-
ton.
To the conquest of countries already
densely populated, where there is no
room for genuine American colonial
tion-to the subjugation of millions of
people and their government as SUBJ
jects upon the assumption that they
are not capable of governing them.
selves-there is great objection.
That sort of thing unquestionably is
"disruptive not only of our national in
tegrity AM morals, but also of our ma
tional peace, prosperity and perpe-
tuity.''
As to the trust issue there can be no
mistake. The republican party is re-
sponsible for the Dingley tariff, in the
absence of which nine-tenths of the
trusts would be harmless. -t-.'
The trusts recognize the republican
party as their party. They 60 to it for
such legislation, including the Porto
Rican law, as will help fatten their
bank accounts. They multiply and
wax defiant of law when that party is
in power. @,.%' 49, -: z = g.
These notorious facts point unmis-
takably to the only party from which
relief from trust extortion is to be ex.
pected.-Chicago Chronicle. -
Willmar tribune., 1900-08-29
An Artistic Elevator Man

Full many flower is born to blush
unseen. The conductor of one of the
senate elevators is genius in disguise
says Washington letter.
The elevator man is a natural artist,
During the interval when he is not the
custodian of an ascending or descend
ing statesman he is busy with his pen
Gil, and the result of his work adorns
the elevator car. Like Correggio, who
drew with charcoal on the white.
washed wall, because he had neithe,
pencil nor paper, the elevator man
finds in the daily weather bulletin card
the medium for the display of his tai
ents. Yesterday the card bore an ex.,
quisite landscape, diversified with
mountains and water and ships, while
the day before the picture represented
a Venetian street. The chief d'oeuvre
of the artist was copy of the Venus de
Milo, admirably drawn, who posed in
all her armless beauty above the pro-
sale words: weather cloudy. and
warmer, with southwest Winds" The
elevator man is student at night at
the Corcoran art school, and hopes
some day to graduate from his present
ioh
Willmar tribune., 1900-08-29

ing at the mints. They want more
good money, sound money, honest
money, not more bank bills based on
interest bearing bonds, but more
money coined and issued by the gov
ernment.
The words "16 to /" used by
the ''spasm" organs of Mark Hanna
and imperialism as ''scarecrow' will
scare no one and fool no one. The
answer is that the ratio is not an is
sue-that the republican party has
adopted that ratio By providing for
the coinage of millions of dollars at
that ratio, and is now trying to turn
over the making Of money to banks
instead of retaining this power in the
government.
Let this question be honestly dis
cussed. Let it be understood that the
democratic policy proposed by the dec
laration of the democratic platform
in favor of "the free coinage of silver
and gold at the existing ratio of 16 to
L." means solely more metallic money
or its representative paper certificates,
and less ''bond money" issued by
banks, that are mere paper promises
to pay :'16 to 1" money. - =
More good money and less poor
money is Ahe issue.
More Of the existing kind of gov
|iernment money and less of the kind
Of money that the people have to pay
double interest on if they want to use
it, and single interest on ii they don't
use it.
This is the issue not the RATIO
Illinois State Register. ..
Willmar tribune., 1900-08-29
No Business Scare.

The managers Of Mr.. McKinley's can.
vass for second term apparently are
planning "a business scare" as the
most convenient means to the end
which they have in view, For the pur-
pose of forcing large contributions to
the campaign fund in the first instance
and Of stampeding the voters ultimate
" they seem to be striving to excite
the public mind anew on the silver
question. There is manifest a disposi.
ton among them to divert political
discussion from the concrete problems
Of the hour to- what is at present an
idle and untimely abstraction. In
other words they are doing their ut
most to make the country believe that
the free coinage Of silver is involved
in the result Of the election in Novem-
Der, and are employing premises and
conclusions which are equally fficti-
tious.- Boston Globe.
Willmar tribune., 1900-08-29
GOLD DEMOCRATS FOR BRYAN.
Getting Back to the Only Party That
Relieves from Ex.
s1%% III tOrtiOn. F@r,s' r.. +@.z, -

The Palmer and Buckner democrats
OF Mclean county, ILL, formally an
nounce that they are now supporting
Bryan and Stevenson. sS,@% sS$-
They have issued "a statement in
which they declare that their views on
the silver question, which was theslead-
ing issue in 1896, have undergone no
change. ~ts@~~: - :. -
But in their judgment this issue has,
for the time being at least, given place
in Importance to two others, which
nave been forced upon the. country by
the republican party and which now, in
their belief, threaten our basic nation
al principles and organic national
llte." They state these issues as fol-
lows: .-~:
1. "un-American colonization, dis
ruptive not only of our national integ-
rity and morals, but also of our ma
tionalpeace, prosperity and perpetuity.
2. "The fostering of trusts and of un-
just and fragrant private monopoly"
Ihe colonization to which the Nc
Lean county democrats object is in
N~~A oAA AACdu. 4IOp6T1y speaking,
it is not colonization at all, which
means the sending forth of people from
parent country to occupy the wilder
ness and plant there the laws, the insti-
tutions, the civilization of that coun-
try.
What the republican party has un-
dertaken to do is not to people q
wilderness, either adjoining or remote
from the United States. with Ameri-
cans, but to establish American do
minion over countries already as dense
ly populated as Illinois or even Massa-
chusetts-over millions of people occu-
pying regions where there is no room
for American colonies in the proper
sense of the word.
To true colonial tion-that is. to the
overflow of American people and insti-
tutions into unoccupied territory or
territory occupied only by few row
Willmar tribune., 1900-08-29
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Teacher-'Name several kinds a.
lights, Willie Willie-.Gas lights,
electric lights and Israelites. .'-Indi-
annapolis News.
Grounded. tLightning-rods seem to
be out of date" "Yes, the business
was run into the ground long ago.
Philadelphia Bulle in.
No, Doubt of fIt-Teacher-ssIn the
sentence Patrick beat John with his
fists what il Patrick% Bright Boy
Hes rish."-Philadelphia Press. -.
A Wild Goose Chase.-"Yes, both
the criminals got away without any
trouble. what were the police do
ing% "Chasing theories. ."-C1eveland
Plain Dealer.
''But, my dear husband, it really is
unjust OF you to abuse mothers-in-
law so; there are good ones" 'Well-
well, never mind; haven't said any
thing against yours-it's only mine
I'm grumbling about .''-Boston Tray
eler.
"We amt goin' t. let our Alfred go
| t that school no more'' ''What's the
reason?' ''It's wicked place. He
came home last night n said the
teacher'd ben maxim 'em read pro-
fame hist'ry."-Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin.
Lawyer-''Why didn't you come to
me? 1 could have given you some
good advice" Mr.. Kraft-''I don't be-
lieve it. Any advice you'd give would
be necessarily poor, or you'd sell it.;
and the kind you sell is too DEAR
Philadelphia Press.
Reformer-"But, tell me, have you
never had any qualms of conscience
about your business of selling liquor?"
Saloonist-"Often. Thousands of
times I have thought what fool
was not to have labeled my stuff as
vegetable extracts and natures rene
dies and sold them to folks who like
a nip if they can only fool themselves
into thinking they are simply taking
medicine. Boston Transcript.
Willmar tribune., 1900-08-29

one who will vote upon so splendid an
abstraction as equal liberty and re-
public true to it's ideals?
With Mr.. Bryan himself rests the de-
termination of the question whether
'the paramount issue" shall be in fact
paramount. Mr.. Mckinley, by his
frank declaration of the republican
purpose to hold and to rule the Philip.
pines by supreme authority" outside
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of the ef-
feet of this poisonous graft of empire
upon the healthful stock of the repub-
lic-renews the inestimable opportun-
ity to make "the burning issue of i'm
perialism" the pivot of the election
N. Y. World. -
Willmar tribune., 1900-08-29
The Cause Of Free Silver.
sasssssssass9sss5ss3as aaasaaaaaaaea.aas,
THE DOMINANT ISSUE.
The Irrepre~sible ConAict OF the 1
World Il Aggregated Wealth
Against the Commonwealth.

1t Is not an easy ma tier to determine
in the light of practical politics which
OF the three great questions before the
nation should be the dominant issue in
the present campaign. From my stand
point the money question is paramount
since the irrepressible conflict of
the world is aggregated wealth against
the commonwealth-mo against
property and the products of labor.
Every move made by this and all
other nations that have sought to e.
tablish monometallism (alias the gold
standard), in place of bimet allism has
mad, and still has, as the ultimate pur-
pose the impoverishment, subjugation,
degradation, oppression and practical
slavery of the industrial classes, and
the aggrandizement of all the owners
OF money obligations by making mon
ey great and all other things small in
exchange for money as expressed by
Amos in chapter 8, verses 4, 8: MAX
ing the ephah small and the shekel
great and falsifying't the balances by de-
ceit," ETC., am heartily in accord with
Mr.. Bryan in his refusal to abandon
one iota of his demand for the restora-
tion of bimetallism at the old Jewish
ratio of 16 to 1, which is also the con-
stitutional ratio, the present coinage
ratio and the ratio of the worlds stock
and supply of the two metals. Iwould
not, however, have the democratic
party fight. as in 1896, on the defensive,
but would attack the republican party
on its chosen battlefield, in its citadel,
the newly adopted gold standard which
is indefensible from any point of view.
Either economically, commercially, re-
ligiously, of right or of reason. It can
benefit no class except creditors, and
Willmar tribune., 1900-08-29
RULES FOR SMALL FOLKS.
Sensible Suggestions for Parents
Concerning Their Care in
Summer.

Provide outdoor amusement, OF
amusement on the shady side of the
veranda, for children during the in
tense heat of the day (from 12 until
4) and on rainy days-at other times
they should be out of doors. They
should never go out in the morning.
however, until they have had some.
thing to eat, if only a glass of milk
and slice of bread. To play out OF
doors before the system has been forti
fed by nourishment is to court malaria
and they should be indoors again be.
fore the dew begins to fall. Children
should eat regularly three meals day,
says the American Queen.
All vegetables and fruits given them
should be absolutely fresh and ripe.
1t is very important that the bowels
of children should be kept regularly
open, and this can be done by iudicious
diet.
Children are often tormented during
the summer by mosquitoes or other in.
sects. They can be protected from
them by sponging weak carbolic acid
on their skin and hair and even on the
clothing, if found necessary. If al.
ready bitten eider-flower water applied
to the parts will give relief.
Let the pillows upon which the chill
dren sleep be low and filled with hair
not feathers. In soft feather pillows
the head sinks low and becomes over,
heated.
When child is asleep don't cover its
face with handkerchief. Let him have
the full benefit of the air; if it is neces.
sary to cover him to prevent flies or
mosquitoes from disturbing his slum.
Der, throw piece of netting over the
bed or carriage. The child can breathe
through netting, but not through cam.
brio.
Willmar tribune., 1900-08-29
Haunted Hotel II Reformed.

One of the popular and successful ho-
tells in this city, was known Is years
ago as haunted house, says the New
York Press. Tenants were kept
awake at all hours of the night by the
most remarkable noises. These were
so persistent that leases were cast to
the winds and rooms vacated without
notice. It acquired SO bad name that
women would not pass by it, but
walked on the opposite side of the
street. It's owner was in despair. FL
nally he was forced to close it for 4
season, which allowed the walls to set
tie and the plumbing to adjust itself to
.sinkings and shinkings, swellings and
twistings. A brave man slept there
for week and reported that he had
heard no noises of any kind. Another
brave one leased the house for 80 years,
opened it in fine style, and to da is
turning away hordes Of would-be pa
irons z35s
Willmar tribune., 1900-08-29
THE GREAT ISSUE.
AZ the Democratic Platform Says, I,
In Imperialism, and Not
l. 10 to /. $500 ~

The democratic convention was right
and wise in declaring that ''the burning
issue of Imperialism is "the para
mount issue of the campaign.'
It is the way of the American people
to settle one issue at a time. ;: In the
war of 1861 the one object Of the north
was to save the union. Every thing else,
as Lincoln so often said, was side is
sue. In 1898 the one object of the "a
tion in going to war with Spain was
to free Cuba. Other consequences were
not considered.
In all our presidential elections one
issue has been paramount-determin-
ing. In 1860 it was to stop the exten-
sion of slavery into the territories. In
1864 it was to sustain the government
in prosecuting the war. In 1868 it was
to 'preserve the fruits of the war" In
1876 it was reform-the battle cry OF
Tilden. In 1884 the election turned
mainly upon the political character OF
James G. Blaine. In 1892 the domino ant
issue was the odious Mckinley tariff
In 1896 it was. of course, free silver at
IL to /.
This year, as the Kansas City plat.
form truly declares, ''the paramount is:
sue" is ''the burning issue of imperial,
ism, involving the very existence of the
republic and the destruction of our free
institutions" Surely nothing can be
more paramount or more fundamental
than this.
Why, then, is there any question
that this is the one dominating issue
Why did Mr.. Mckinley in his speech o1
acceptance so promptly accept the
challenge of the 16-to-1 plank in the
democratic platform and seek-to make
that again the paramount issue? i
it not, as the Brooklyn Eagle so acutely
says, because honest money is a uni
versal INTEREST,"" Is it not because the
shrewd republican managers know
that ten hesitating voters will vote tt
protect their money and DrODertv tr
Willmar tribune., 1900-08-29
The "Government Ratio,u

Sixteen to one" is not the demo-
cratic party's ratio-it5is the govern
ment ratio has been the government
ratio for generations, and has never
been condemned nor questioned. It is
Jefferson's ratio, Jackson's ratio, Lin
coins ratio, Grants ratio, Cleveland's
ratio, Harrison's ratio, and Mckinley
himself has not even suggested its
change. Every dollar coined from JET
ferson to Mckinley, both Of silver and
gold, has been coined at the ratio Of
10 to l, This coinage aggregates about
$3.50, ,OO0, 900 in silver dollars, 81, 900 ,OO0,-
600 in gold, making q grand total Of $2,-
$50, 900 900 United States metallic
money full legal tender coined at the
government, ratio Of 16 to IL. illinois
State Register.
Willmar tribune., 1900-08-29
SAID NOT A WORD.
Mckinley Made No Allusion to Trusts
in His Speech of Ac-
ccDtance.

Mr.. McKinley's speech at Canton, ac-
cepting the republican nomination for
president, and announced in advance
by Congressman Grosvenor, the presi-
dents mouthpiece, as ''the real repub-
lican platform of 19OO," contained not
one word concerning the trusts. %
This is at least logical on the part
of the president, disappointing though
it be to the American people suffer-
ing 50 grievously from trust monopoly
and legislation for the further en-
richment of the trusts at their ex-
pense. The president could not de-
fend the trust evil. Defense of that
evil is not possible to the cunningest
special pleader. The evil stands con-
demned on it's own showing.
And assuredly the president could
not, in his helpless vassalage to the
trusts, denounce them. They own him
and dictate his policy through Mark
Hanna, their accredited instrument.
They elected him to the presidency in
1896. They are contributing the slush
fund to be used in his campaign for
reelection this year. They look to him
for the extension of their power and
the streng ngthening of their greedy
grasp on the commerce and industries
Of the country. He is pledged to their
service, body and soul. ss##% S5s=5
Therefore the president Of the Unit
ed States did NOT dare, in accepting q
denomination To the hiph office which