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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
SIEPIES OF The CHINE SE SECRET SOCIETIES.

police and the han ers-on were ordered
to clear the street and to keep all pas
sers-by and curious urchins5 back while
the rival occupants OF the residences
were ordered to stay within doors:
Then the constable put the box con-
staining the hen at the point IN the
roadway 4 midWay between the two
houses, and as the setting sun was
ltingIng the clouds in the; west with Its
last rays he removed the cover of the
box 81 and retired Il on tiptoe. Biddys
jumped up on the side Of the box,
shook her gathers, hoped into the
street, picked in the dust for a moment
and then, calmly marched into the yard
OF one Of the claimants, proceeded to,
fly up into a tree to go to roost. Call
ing the woman Of that house to the.
door, Franklin told her that he had de-
.cided that the hen was hers, and, in
turning to the other, who had come out,
said tstAnd il you give me any more
trouble about that hen will assess
you $3.50 for COSTS All the neighbors
were well satisfied as to the justice OF
the decision, and Franklin's reputation
as a judge was much enhanced thereby
among the native population. z He had
very shrewdly thought that If no one
else knew to whom the hen belonged
probably Biddy herself would be the
most certain witness in the case. +:
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
55G GREEN ENGLIsHMAN,.

SAstonished and Disguised After Drink
/ u Ing q Glass OF Soda Water.
Holding his handkerchief in his
\ hand; choking and sputtering, I. Fish
err AZ Arms staggered up to the desk at
/ the St James Hotel. Clerk Daley cast
Ia com passionate eye upon him, and and
reached out a supporting hand,
says the Denver Republican It was
a few seconds before the stranger could
catch his breath, and when he did he
sputtered again, this time with anger:
e You-you--you!'' then halted to
gain energy for a second attempt at ex-
pressing his feelings. s You advised me
to do it and / did it. drank it before
I knew it. Oh, my!'' He pressed his
handkerchief to his mouth and made
suggestive sounds. Such dose!
Catch me trying drinks don't know
ever again on some one else's author
ity. Clerk Il Dailey's face bore an
amazed look Of innocence. II only adj
vised you to drink soda water he
said. II did not force you to do it.
would not have advised you if I had
known you were SO unused to the
drink a. Soda water!'' calculated Mr..
Arms, in a forcible and injured tone.
soap suds, that's what it was The
mysterious interior commissions seized
him again.: and he felt called upon to
use the handkerchief. LOG here" he
said, turning to a person who was an
interested spectator to the episode,
hes been playing a trick on me- I
swear. He's taking advantage Of me
because I'm an Englishman, and not
much used to the country. I had a
mining deal on here, and came
straight as fast as could from New
York. 4 got the deal off my hands
successfully few days ago, and then
when we fellows had a good time told
Daley here this morning was thirsty,
and he advised me to take some soda
water over here at the drug store. So
L went. ! wasn't paying much yatten-
ton and 1 took a long swis at what
the boy put before me. Oh! soap suds
weren't in it. It was some pink, fuzzy
stuff that tasted like hair Oil and tar
ointment mixed into one. Il had a
mouthful Of 1t before I tasted it. I'll
bet it is game. between Daley and
that boy, !" and with this. expression of
his opinion he subsidized into a numb
ling silence. That's his first expert
=ence with real American soda water
said DALEY, after the man had disap-
speared into the bar 81 heyTd onst have
it over Id Eng1 land, YOU know, and It
gives them a little surprise when they
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
Nearly Every Chinanan Belongs to Some
One 81 the Organize tons.

FL Balfour long resident Of
Shanghai said 4 here is not the
slightest doubt that If one of their old
generals were to raise the standard of
rebel lion he nig bit B have 100, 900 men
about him in the time it took ito spread
the news from Nankin to Hankow."
l derick Boyl says Of this Z. 6 olao
Hui" that it is a military conspiracy
VIII se agents travel about as doctors,
bearing news from one center to
another, and seeking for new members
as they go. It has broken out several
times since General I Tseng- Kuo-Fan
organized it at the time of the siege of
Nankin. In 1871 it had planned to
blow up the powder agazine at HUI
koW, but a letter describing the plan
reached the wrong person and many
important members Of the Kolao Hui
lost their heads. Several times since
then foreign papers have told Of, it's
doings, but the present Boxer disturb
ance exceeds previous outbreaks in
Importance. > l5s +: s;S q >s.5 r.
&T: Thorough Initiation. 80
There is a Mohammed society
called the Hui Hui jim, which must
have other enticements for persons to
join than its Initiation ceremonies,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01

b It would be hard to find Chinaman
that did not belong to one secret So
cietya at least. Often he belongs to
several Hui, !" and is active in them
all, whether he lives within or without
the boundaries Of the As lowery King
dom. These societies are of all sorts,
but the most influential Of them have
at heart the expulsio on ,of. the Tartar
dynasty, to which the present Emper-
or belongs, and placing a Chinaman in
his place. From the Chinese view
point the Emperor is a foreigner,
though his family has ruled for $50
years. Such a period is only. "a mo-
ment in Chinese chronology. j .ss s1s5
OF the societies SO eager to be rid of
Tartar. rule some are Of ancient ORR
gin, as old as Masonry. In fact, sew:
eral learned Masons who have studied
the Chinese societies have found start
ling similarities in organization de-
grees, rites and methods OF procedure
Dr.. Gustavet schlegel and William Stan
ton, earnest sinilogues, have written
~ J4O 4A4du IL Il w h6I,S -
des, Hue, Dyer Bell, Boyle, Arthur.
Smyth and others have said much The
China Review and the Shanghai Daily
Press, North China Daily News, China
Mail China Gazette, Hong Kong Tele-
graph, etc, give many references to
the doings Of these societies. AS a.
writer in Blackwood' IS Magazine says,
China offers a congenia1 soil for the
growth Of all sorts Of illegal combina-
tons. This is due to the general mall
administration Of the country. Under
oppression and tyranny secret socie-
ties spring into life as weeds grow on
a rubbish heap; and SO Ubiquitous and
cruel is the political system of China
that it is only by combinations that
the people can resist the most fragrant
wrongs the mandarins seek & to inn
pose upon them. H.. II .,zj l55.1 ...ts
In some provinces where large FAM
lily clans exist the mem bers band them
selves together under the patriachal
head of the tribe, and succeed in resist
ing the illegal and sometimes even the
legal exactions of the local authorities.
In Tu-khein, for example, the Chang
clan numbers something like 10000
persons and SO well are they organized
that the Emperor's writs run among
them only by consent. of the elders.
Such a combination presents a diff
Guilty in. the government Of the prov
ince, and the klessSs manda arms, find
ing themselves poWerless to- enforce
the usual exact ions from the members
of the clan, make up for this inability
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
THE DCELAR-
History Of FERN, hat H. Bsooms
Work wide. 81 2s IS sssT8


Our word dollar dates back to 1875,
when resolution was passed by con-
gress which provided that 1t should
be the unit Of money Of the United
States. IL Anothe solution wag passed
in 7S5, August s., providing that Ut
should weigh ss75.e4 grains Of pure ST ~
yer. he mint was established inaa1 792,
and then required to coin silver dollars
containing 37L25 grains OF pure silver
This was due to the influence Of Alex
ander Hamilton No dollars were
coined until 1884, and then irregular
They are now worth 500 each. In 1894
the coinage OF regular dollars began
Our coin was the adaptation Of. the.
Spanish mil1ed dollar coin very pop
ular wherever the Spaniards travelled
The coin was called ..piastre,' Z meaning
q fat piece Of metal It IS SYNONYMOUS
with plaster. 1t is supposed that the
Spanish took the German .thaler'' and
called it by the name Of plaster" The
word dollar is entered IN Bailey's: Eng
lish Dictionary of 4 As, and was used
repeatedly by Shakespe at the be-
ginning Of the Seventeenth century, esA-
pecially In Macbeth, IT: 81: It'll she
dlsbursed $4,000 to our general use,''~
and in Temp II !: !, II. +. The ques-
ton where Shakespeare found the word
dollar is answered BY the fact that the
5Hanseatic towns maintained a great es--
Enlistment called the Steel Yard in
London. The Steel Yard merchants
were mostly North Germans, who
would call the German thaler as if it
spelled 1'dah-ler. = The same merchants
originated the word sterling, an alb
breYiation Of the word tt.esterling" AS
the Hanseatic trade was particularly
brisk on the Baltic and in Russia, the.
standard coins of the Hanse merchants
were called esterlings, and sterling
came to mean something genuine and
desirable. The world dollar is the
English for thaler, the first of which
was coined about 1855, and corresponds,
quite closely to our present American
silver dollars. The word thaler means,
coming from a dale or valley, the
first dollar having been coined in Bo-
5hemian valley called Foachimisthal. It
was under Charles v, the emperor OF
Germany, King Of Spain and Lord of
Spanish America, that the German tina
Ter became the coin of the world
Golden Thoughts. -. - -.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
Tiny volcanoes In California:

Not far from Laytonville, Cal, a six
acre patch Of ground has raised a CROP
Of little volcanoes. A few nights ago
a tremendous rum bling and roaring
drew attention to the fact that Is.
spouters had broken loose on the side:
of the mountain. each resembling a.
volcano in shape, with the character
istic crater. and from each crater
gushed mud and warm vapur. Each
Volcano was about five feet high and
the liquid mud, steaming and sputter-
ing, was thrown to a height Of 525tf feet
and ram down thu sides OF the little
hills like streams OF lava Great
crowds of people hurried to the place,
and for hours satEon the mountain side
and watched the phenomenon. ~,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01

by putting heavier burdens on those
outside the protective influence Of the
Chang tribe. 4 $1S i5#. .:i5: .s
To some extent a Hui or secret So
ciety can protect Its members from the
mandarin, and thus give to them bene-
FITS such as the Chang clansmen enjoy.
Often it does this by blackmail. IT con-
vinces the mandarin that 80 long as he
does as the Hui wishes the Hui will be
with him, otherwise it will be against
him; IL will create disturbances and
see that reports OF these disturbances
reach the proper officials IN Pekn. II
the Hui is powerful, the mandarin is
rather a manikin, to which strings at
tach, that parties with conflicting pur-
poses pull in opposite directions.
4 81 The Oldest secret Society.
4 The Triad is one Of the Oldest, per-
haps the very Oldest, OF the Hui. n has
various names, some call it, q len tt
III, others T'ien-Ti -HWey or the Hung
League, and in Canto and America
Sam Hap appears to be the designa
ton. It's symbol IS "a triangle.
The Kolao Hui, one Of the most pow
erful societies il China, sprang from
his empire to crush the White Lotus
the I''ien- has over 600, 00o
members. Il dates from the Tai-Ping
rebellion 10000 when Ward the
American, organized the Ever Victor
ious Army, with which Cord lon won
his sobriquet &c hinese e IS military
- It's Orgy tion and forms a large
part8o the present horde of Boxers.
Its Headquarters are ia B Human 81, and
Honan.s riting Of ID ten pears ago.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
& No Wonder,

I "a good story is told of a madman
who was confined in a Scottish lunatic
asylum, and whose particular infrmity
was an unmistakable belief that every
day was Christmas day and that he
was dining stump tuously on turkey and
roast beef and a good slice Of plum
pudding. His real diet, however, was
OF the plainest, he being served twice
daily with dish Of oatmeal porridge.
After daily describing to his attend
ants the pleasures he had tasted ii his
cut Of turkey or what not, he as regu-
slarly added !: ct, somehow or other
everything I eat tastes Of porridg 80
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
Outside information as to the .H.- H, /

Outside information as: to the '.H. H.
Us" is meagre, but the first. step is
a sound thrashing, which purifes ex-
ternally, and the second is couple of
gallons Of soapsuds which the victim
must drink for publication internally.
Of another Hui, the Wei Keaou
White Lotus, 4 the do Nothing or
mo Hypocrisy society, Mr.. Balfour
says it is more religious than the 9TH
;ers. There are; many women members.
It's members wear white clothing and
are, therefore, consp icuous: They are
strict vegetarians and hold all prop
erty in common, each member having
the usufructs Of " hat was his or her
property before inf ion, but enjoying
this only SO long as the Hui does nog
ask for it. Strange to say, most OF
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
4 Not to Marry Shop Girls.

i s :, actoryS and shop girls are rated be-
low 81 par il the matrimonial market Of
;kt'leWanee, 4. according to a special
correspo rld dent Of the Chicago Journal.
According to report an organization OF
!, men zen; n. has been formed to discourage
sWeatshop work among the young wo-
men Each member is pledged not to
marry "a young woman employed in
places such aslment toned The men
argue that factory and shop work un-.
fit young women for household duties.
The young women who stick close to
the precepts OF house excepting are the
ones whose names are likely to ap-
pear in the marriage notices hereafter.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01

While laughing at a joke, George
McCabe was seized with coughing fit
and choked to death in New. York.
McCabe went into restaurant at No.
ia Park Row one evening last week
and ordered a beef stew. He found a
collar button In the dish and showed
At to the cashier Well, do you want
a shirt, with collar and cuffs attached,
with a ten-cent, stew?', was the CASH
ier's rejoinder. McCabe began to laugh,
then suddenly coughed, choked and
fell to the floor unconscious. He was
dead in a few minutes DR.. Smith, of
the Hudson street hospital, said Nc
Cabe probably died Of heart disease.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
Automobile Fatalities.

Many serious automobile accidents
have recently happened in New York.
A doctors assistant was killed by q
head-on collision with one Of the ma
chimes while riding his bicycle and a
prominent citizen met his death
through his automobile running away.
It refused to answer to the controlling
lever, reached a speed OF thirty miles
an hour and then struck 4 the curb,
throwing out its occupants. The ma
chine continueud its erratics course
down the street and was finally
stopped by people who threw obstruc-
stions in front Of it. The wheels kept
on turning just the same till the power
was exhausted. The machine was not
hurt zss @ s II IS. Z. s S.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01

ID D. ~
What is the duration Of a wink!
The time occupied by, the. several
phases of the movement has been
measured, and it is found that the
mean duration Of the descent Of the lid
is from seventy-f1vex to ninety one
thousandths of second. The interval
while the eye is shut was-in one case
only fifteen-hundredths of a second.
The rising of the lid occupied seven
teen-hundredths of a second. A spe-
cially arranged Photographic appar-
atus was used. The colloquial phrase
that something is done quicker than
a wink is therefore expressive to a
degree that may be stated in fractions
of a second. IT, r.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01

The fron-handed suppression of the
bread riots in Milan, just two years
ago, together with the severe punish-
ment melted out to the, deputies and
others convicted of participation In
them, has borne it's inevitable fruit in
the increased return of Socialists to
the Italian chamber at the recent cleo
tions. The Socialist party has in
creased from seventy to ninety, and
in a chamber of sos members ninety
Is a very formidable proportions. &
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
. s ES - - - y u Il 5ry7Lsy5 - -
Where Cape Nome Is,

I Cape Nome is situated on the shore
of Behring sea at the south of Snake
river, Seward peninsula, central west
ern Alaska, U. S.. A., sixty-f1ye degrees
north latitude, and !: 166 degrees west
longitude, and, by ocean route, distant
from its base OF supply, Seattle, some
2,7o0 miles. In making the ocean trip
from Seattle one steans westward for
1900 miles across the North Pacific
ocean to Dutch Harbor, on the Aleu-.
tian archipelago, and thence north
ward 800 miles to the land Of gold.
passing en- route the government seal
:rookeries on the Pribyloh islands. 81
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01

Mrs. Mary Bryan Cobb, w. j. Bry-
ans great-grandmother is alive, and
has just celebrated her ninety seventh
birthday. She is the eldest Of the
surviving daughters Of the evolution,
her father having been Major Daniel
Gano, a colonial artillery commander,
and her grandfather was the famous
fighting chaplain the Rev. John
Gano, who was brigade chaplain Of the
revolutionary struggle. Her husband
was a hero of the war of 1872.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01

Youth and age seem to be on even
terms in politics. Mr.. Morgan Of Ala
hama and Mr.. Gear Of Iowa have just
been sees reelected to the Senate, although
both of them have passed their three
score years and ten by half q decade.
MI. Beverage Of Indiana, on the other
hand, is hardly more than half the
age Of either Of them. and vet he is
not the youngest man in the upper
house. ga ID i3-.,6 5F s. 55.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01

s@ If the ideas of A. N. Arckae;a Syrian,
should be adopted, the picturesque
cowboy of the, western prairies would
give way to the still more picturesque
Syri-n horseman. Mr.. Arckae has
evolved the plan in his journey across
the country. The other day he was at
the Union station at Denver. waiting
for an east-bound train to take him
back to New York, after a visit in the
interest Of business to San Francisco.
The problem Of finding suitable occu-
patton. for my people who are coming:
80 the United States has been long a
serious one to me-" said Mr. Arckae,.
and # struck me when saw the
treat cattle ranges over which the
herds roamed, that the Syrian, who is
by nature horseman, is exactly suit
ed to Me work done by the cowboys
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01

# "A Scotsman from the Balmoral es-
tate recently came to this country with
his wife. where he found a situation
which necessitated his becoming 4
naturalized American In 4. company
with his wife, he attended the court
to go through the necessary formality.
You must renounce allegiance to ali
foreign princes, potentates and sover-
eigns, and especially Queen Victoria,
said the official. Sandie's Jaw drop
ped, for he was loyal to, land an ex-
tenant Of the queen. \ .'Dinna dae it,
Sandie!" cried his wife. f Remember
the black silk dress her majesty gave
mel" Sandie scratched his head In
perplexity. AN the Draw kilt We had
frae her sandie!., screamed his wife.
Sandie thought Of the situation. Fif-
ty shillings a weeki ~ our ain cousin,
only six times removed, was piper .rae.
her, Sandie!" shrieked Elepsth. sam
die eyed the Bible on the official'ss
desk. : An she pinned the Victoria
cross on your ain fathers breast,
Sandie, walled the wife s. No II q roar
ed Sandie, his mind made up; I'll no
;forsWear the auld Teddy: ! smaun find.
smother job! 4.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01

Detroit myc biologists are elated over
the discovery near Pontiac Of the So
called fy mushroom, which Is very
rare IN that part of the country. This
mushroom gets Its name by killing
dies which light upon It. IT IS about
three inches IN diameter, has white
gills and, when fully expanded, some
what resembles an umbrella blown in
side out. Most nycolo gists are 81 The,
opinion that this ushroom is deadly
poison. 1t II said that Russian pea
SAINTS use II very much - / Chinese use
opium b
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-12-29
CHANGES IN THE INDEX.
Present Owners will Retire the First of
January aud Give Way to New ones.

Col G L. Smith has disposed Of
his interest in the Fairnlont Index
plant and will retire after January
first. His son Earl who is managing
editor of the Evening Times and will
also retire at that time. @. S. Nc
Kinney becomes the sole owner of the
establishment and will return to the
duties OF editing the Index. 1t has
not been decided as to whether or not
the Times will be kept up. 1t has
been making great hit but 1t is a
very expensive matter to publish a
daily paper in small town.
Col. Smith has been one Of the most
prominent newspaper men in the state
and he will be greatly missed The
state OF his health has caused the
change. Mr.. Mckinney is admirably
equipped for the place as he has had
great deal Of experience and will
make the Inder even a greater power
over this section of the state than it
has been In the past.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-12-29
Church Notes.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH: The pastor
has returned and will preach morning
and evening at the usual hours. Sun
day school $50 a. IN. Y. 2. S. G. E..
Gas p. IN. All are invited.
BAPTIST CHUReH:-There will be
regular services at the Baptist
church tomorrow. Preaching by
the pastor at the usual hours both
morning and evening.
M. P CHURCH: Preaching morn
ing and evening. In the morning
the pastor will deliver the annual
New Years sermon followed by the
administration of the Lords Supper.
Sunday school and Young Peoples
meeting at the usual hours.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - All of
the regular services will be held to
morrow in the Presbyterian church.
The pastor has suggested to all the
members and friends of the church
that the last Sabbath of the century
would be most fittingly observed by
attendance on the church service
Every member of every family, con
nected with the church is expected
to be present.
M. r. CHURCH At the Methodist
Episcopal church the pastor will
preach morning and evening. Morn
ing subject "Christ's Final Trial be-
fore Pontius Plate Evening sub
ject "God honors those who honor
Him. Sunday School,. class meet
ing and Epworth League services at
the usual hours. On Monday night
a Century Watch Meeting will be
held. Readings by gifted elocution-
lists, the old hymns by the choir and
congregation, special sermon by
the pastor, the Holy Communion,
and other impressive services. Ev-
erybody welcome.