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The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-20
4 PERPIEYED MAN.

A perpexed man writes an interest," ing note to the New York Tribune. as follows: I am a man of independent
 means, left so by my parents, and af- ter repeated and persistent effort am convinced that am fitted for no occu- patton above labor of low grade This statement is in no degree due to either nodesty or self-appreciation it is literally true, proven so over and over again by honest. pertinacious, but with scarcely an exception uniformly unsuc- cessful efforts Now, ought to give up my social connection and go into the only field for which I am obviously suited, or ought to consider the wish es and prejudices of family and friends and continue to live a drone in the hive? In other words, if I have been created for no higher purpose than dig ging and delving, ought I to dig and delve, despite the chagrin my doing so might give relatives and friends, and, moreover, despite the fact that thus I might occupy the place of some one needing the work for his support? In good faith I earnestly request your opinion in the matter.
 As might be supposed, the Tribune does not give this man a very satisfac- tory answer If suggests that he may not really know himself, and Is as un- certain about what the man ought to do as he is. Perhaps the Rev. MT. Shel- don of Topeka would find no difficulty in dealing with this case and answering the questions. He doesn't seem to be afraid to tackle anything But ordinary people will be puzzled by tiff they try to think it out. It is complicated.
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FASHION NOTES.
A Noticcably Promp, Change.


 Spring hats were worn very early this year. Women whose winter hats had become bit shabby rushed promptly into spring millinery, some of which seemed especially designed for this early shift. There were beautiful stitched velvet hats laid with rows of straw that were for spring, yet did not seem out of place before the usual time for such headgear. An example of this style of millinery was hat whose crown showed more of velvet than of straw. But the velvet appeared chiefly about the face, and made it look very fine. Another sort taken up for this early shift was the taffeta hat finished in front with great velvet chouX.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-20
PROBITI TION.

There is lively dispute going on in
 Massa achusetts concerning the value of the indeterminate sentence or probation laws. The agent of the Society for the that the operation of the probation laws is a bigger farce than the gypsy moth which cases are put on probation in the courts in Boston is travesty on jus tice. That distinguished reformer Hen ry H. Faxon of Quincy calls the proba- ton officers political parasites, and says the only way to stop crime is to punish the offenders. On the other hand, in addition to the moral value of probation for minor offenders, the advocates of bills for the extension of the probation system claim that it is economical for the community. Evidence in favor of both contentious is found in a report recently issued by District Attorney Robert o. Harris of the Southeastern district, composed of Norfolk and Ply mouth counties. Under the law of 1898 he secured the appointment of a proba- ton officer to take charge of cases dis posed of by the Superior court in those counties As to the results he says: In Plymouth county twenty-two men have been taken. Of these six had to be sur rendered by the officers, two have way cred some and fourteen have met all our hopes. In Norfolk county eighteen were taken, one of whom was a young
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-20

Count Tolstoi is an enthusiastic cy- clist. He declares that he has to thank his bicycle and his vegetarian diet for the robust health he has so long en- joyed. Twenty years ago his physician < advised Tolstoi to avoid too much mus cular exercise, but the patient was ob- stinate and did exactly the contrary; in fact, he has ever been lover of sports of different kinds.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-20

Immigration at the port of New York has been rapidly increasing in the past two or three months. During the first 15 days of March the arrivals number 1s,030, or just about double the number recorded of the corresponding period year ago, and comparing with 17,5o0 for the whole month of February last. and 12,470 for January, in both of which than in the same time last year. Ital- ians figure largely in the current ar rivals.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-20

Beach grass native to the French maritime provinces has been used in San Francisco to hold drifting seasands in place. It is to be planted on the Isle of Palms near Charleston, South and thus to give a chance for larger vegetation.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-20

was very soon converted in appearance into the yeoman that you see daily in the streets, including the leggings, though mine had buttons, and the lace boOtSn
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-20

Many of the police stations of Phila- delphia are converted into churches on Sunday; that is, services are held in them, but it Is the boast of Lieutenant Finders men, attached to the Thirtieth district station house, the Record says, that their Sabbath services are not very successful, but very unique. From to 6 o'clock every Sunday afternoon hymns are sung. Scripture is read and a ser mon is listened to in the big rollroom The doors of the cells. are opened, so that prisoners can listen without being seen by the visitors. The attendance is close on to one hundred sometimes, di- vided between grown folks and children, and many people have been brought to conversion. Over a month ago this sta tion house church celebrated it's first anniversary The services are held un- der the auspices of the Providence Methodist Episcopal church, and minis ters of every denomination are invited to preside.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-20

Colonel Dulles, who says he is the in- yenter of the khaki uniform, is native of Belgium, and has lived in England for the last twenty years. He served in sthe English army in Egypt. ''Tn 1889" :" he says, 1T was attached to the British cavalry staff in Egypt. It was While holding this position that I invented khaki Necessity was the mother of this, as it has been of all inventions. l was robbed of all my uniforms, and l cast about in despair for substitute. Good luck would have it that | came across the very material of which this coat here is made It is, as you will see, kind of whipcord, and, though 1t is not exactly the same color as the etuff worn by our troops, it is, to my mind. even better i'll that respect, being more nearly the color of African soil. This stuff l gave to little Italian tail
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of working on the street sweeper's time plan.
 Whenever MT. Howells name is men, tioned to that magazine man he looks trifle puzzled, and says that MT. How els Is a very able man, but a trifie er- ratio and wholly unused to business methods. What MT HoWells has to say would not look well in print.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-20

Great effofts are being made by the English military authorities to prevent any increase in the civilian population uf Gibraltar. Owners of residential property are not allowed to add to their tenements.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements, One Cent Word each Tn. sertion. Five Gents Word for full week tseven times).
 Display advertisements, per inch, one m, tc sertion, $1. 1.20 each subsequent insertion, 4o cents; one week, $3.20; one month, Slo; cue year. $40. K
 Obituary Notices. in prose or verse. lt ID cents per line. Notices of Births, Mal,r ah ages Deaths, and Funerals. 50 cents eacn' Local Notices, 15 cents per line .,-
 Yearly advertisers are limited to theil own immediate business Gall matter to pe unoh1ectlonable), and their contracts oo no' Include Wants 10 Let, For Sale, etc.
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Shirt Sale Continued.

Such rush this morning for Mems Unlaund- tered Shirts, people coming back to asupply (re suit of trying ONE of the Port Chester Shirts that we've decided, out of fairness to our customers to continue the sale until Thursday night. Manufac- turer's cost will prevail again this week, until Thursday at 6'ocock.
 window inside display We didn't expect keep the this but felt compelled make this decision just before going press
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encountered by the English, the London Times says: "The supplies for our forces along the frontier from Steynsberg to Modder river have hitherto been sent up almost entirely from Cape Town. What it means is that 10000 men and 30,0Oo horses, mules and oxen scattered along front of some $50 milee in length, have been supplied by single feet inch from the nearest point of that front. Everything the British army consumes at the front it has to bring with it, in some cases even it's water"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-20

Italy's sanitary precautions are. inter- fering with the Jubilee pilgrimages. A trainload of 361 Marseilles pilgrims was stopped at the frontier and in- formed that every one must be vaccin- ated before entering Italy. The pill grims refused to submit and were sent back 10 Marseilles. The Government officials declare that the measure is due ern France, but the clericals maintain that it is devised solely to annoy in- ltending visitors to Rome.
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cold weather like this" growled North side.
 Gas bills and coal bills. s.''-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-03-10
PERSONAL MENTION.

Prof. Corn of Pinckneyville was in
our city on Monday.-Duquoin Palla-
dunn.
George Meredith, the novelist, in
spite of his extreme deafness, is an ar
dent lover of conversation.
Burr Snider shipped out double
load OF hogs to Buffalo, N. Y, yester-
day morning.-Barry Breeze.
Rug Yocum had one of his legs badly
sprained by keg of beer rolling on
to him on Tuesday.-Galesburg Trib-
une -.
John Wassell moved to his farm.
near Philadelphia, on Monday. He ex-
poets to engage in the bee business
Barry Breeze. ..-
Dwight Thornton, the pretty and ac-
commodating little tonsorial artist, who
has been welding the steel in j. Tram
mell's popular barber parlor for the
last year or so, has resigned his posi-
ftionsto accept like one in Sebree, KY. :.
and leaves on Friday morning. White
County Republican. a. a -. 5s=
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-03-10
How Chow Chow Originated.

'tM'n TO- bundled yeahs ago." began
"Uncle jake" "dey lived in China er
family by de name of See. Mistah See
wus er gahdnah an riz veg'tubles TO-
de folks in de city. He had er little
son wot fas called Hi. One day Mis-
tab See had gathahed fun de gahden
er basket oh onions, er basket of
caulifowah, an er basket OBJ little
pickles, an placed dem in er row on
de back po'ch. While he wus err
hitchin' up his nag TO- to haul de truck
to de city, little Hi See tried to build
one of dose funny little Chinese houses
wiz de pickles an things. Wen de OIL
man yelled to Missus See dat he wus
ready TO- to go to de city, little Hi See
wus so scahed dat in his hurry to
get de truck back into the baskets he
split er ahmful oh de pickles, cauli-
flower an onions into er pan OBJ mus
tahd an vinegar, dat was on the pooh
TO- to make er >plastah TO- Missus Sees
fathah, who had de rheumatic Dat
night Missus See foun' de mixed pick
les in the mustahd an vinegar, an
little Hi would hab got lammin' If
de stuff didn't taste, jes' raight. Mis-
tab See laiked it, Missus See talked it,
an. it cu'ed de oil man OBJ de rheuma-
tiz. Chow chow In Chinese means
sumt'in' laik lucky find, so dey called
the mixtuah chow chow az a.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-03-10
RAMS HORNS,

Divine discomfort alone leads to per-
feet content
The place of prayer becomes the
bosom of God.
He who falls before Him will be rails
ed beside Him.
Pain and pleasure are vibrations of
the same chord.
The greatest motive forces are the
ones that cannot be moved.
To jump down a mans throat is a
poor way to get to his heart.
If our hands would touch humanity,
our hearts must touch heaven.
A mans power with men often de-
ponds on his persistency with God.
There is much difference between
man of sorrows and a sorrowful man.
He who looks up may miss the gilt
ter of earth, but he will catch the glory
of heaven.
We sigh for the martyrs testings
and neglect the petty persecution
which God permits as preparation for
them.-Ram's Horn.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-03-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS,

Nine excuses out of a possible ten are
les
The wise man who boasts of his wis
dom is fool
Talk is cheap-and much CT it needs
to be discounted.
Trouble drives fewer men to- drink
than drink drives to trouble
A fair exchange is no robhery-and
fair robbery is no exchange.
You have probably noticed that only
level-headed people agree with you~
Make it an object for them, and some
men can plainly see that black is white.
The man who talks in his sleep dis
plays his wisdom by remaining a BACH
elor.
Some men are like cigars-the more
you puff them the smaller they be-
come.
Why not change the motto on the
silver dollar to "In New Jersey We
Trust?
A man who has been treated to a
coat of tar and feathers naturally feels
stuck up.
The man who says something every
time he speaks is not cut out for a So
ciety idol.
We are admonished to lick the hand
that smites us, but we feel more like
shifting the hand that ticks us.
If men could live their lives over
again they would avoid all their old
mistakes-and make lot of new ones.
An enterprising Chicago man is
about to open a training school for
pugilists. The full course will en-
brace seven languages.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-03-10
CONDENSED SMILES.

Tommy: "PaW. what is a monu-
mental liar7'' Mr. Figg: 1T means a
man who can like like a tombstone
Indian polls Journal.
Ibid old Maj. Stiggins get the drop
on you when you asked him for his
daughter?" 81 guess he did He fell
on my neck. "-Cleve]and Plain Dealer.
Il stand up Tor the people," de-
e1ared the political orator. "False!''
cried gamin in the rear; che wouldn't
even stand up for a poor old lady in
de car this morning. New York
World
II see,'' said the man who was read
ing about horses, that President. Nc
Kin1ey handles the ribbons like an ex-
pert $50 do l." murmured' the tall
youth of the bargain counter: $50 do
New York World
Older: "Why don't you enlist and
fight for your country? There's a
great opportunity in it for young
man; you might come back colonel
Younger: 'Ah, I don't need to- go to
ouch trouble to get that tit1e;' TIM from
Kentucky."- Cleveland Leader.
Henry" she said disconsolately,
you didn't give me birthday gift
by jove, that's so,' said Henry;; *but,
you see, you always look SO young that
l can't realize you ever had birthdays"
Then she was happy, and he smiled the
mean, subtle smile of man who has
saved money.
"Will you trust me, Fanny" he
cried, passionately, graspfng her hand.
with all my heart, Augustus, with all
my soul, with all myself she whis-
pered, nesting on his manly BOSOM
"Would to goodness you were my
tailor" he murmured to himself, and
tenderly he took her in his arms
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-03-10
AFTERTHOUGHTS.

It is the things we do not do that
make us weary of life.
Hardly anybody is as sure of him
self as he would have people believe.
A sanguine disposition is one that
can continue to hope for something
which it knows won't happen. g.,
Sometimes when we are most pulled
up over the size Of our shadow we are
standing in our own light t#ss
Whether man is crank. or &C.
centric depends much on his import
ance as part of the social machine.
When a man becomes possessed Of
tho idea that he is a philosopher it is
pretty hard to get him to listen to adj !,
yiec.--Indianapolis News.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-03-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Sailed whale meat is considered a
delicacy by the Japanese. The whales
are*caught off the coast of Corea, the
flesh and blubber are cut up and sailed,
and sent to Japan for food. b.,
Two babies were in a child's car
riage, near railroad track in Rock
ford, Ill. A fierce wind arose and
whirled the carriage onto the track
before a passing train, and the babies
were killed.
Over one thousand houses in Lon
don are tenantless because they are
supposed to be haunted. Seventy-one
OF them have been the scenes of muir
der, and from some of the remainder
occupants have mysteriously disap-
peared.
Unique properties are possessed by
the River Tinto, in Spain. 1t petri-
fes the sand of it's bed; and if a stone
falls in the stream and alights upon
another, in a few months they unite
and become one stone. Fish cannot
live in it's waters.
"A paul ICAd4I VI q uOuSc LII JILL
cago raised an American flag to the
window. The owner of the house tore
it down, saying that nails damaged his
property. Judge La Buy fined him
500 and costs. The tenant is bub-
bling with glee, and the flag is still
there.
Smokeless powder, strange to relate,
really throws off a shadowy vapor-
This vapor is perceptible only when
viewed through a disk of violet glass
inserted in an ordinary field-glass.
Colonel Sweet, of the Army Medical
Museum, Washington, made this dis
covery.
A British medical paper gravely
states that mosquitoes may be kept
alive two years by tenderly feeding
them with sherry and sugar. But who
wants to prolong the existence of mos
quitoes? Better give the sherry and
sugar to tramps and remorselessly
squash the insects.
A cake of ice dropped from a wagon
upon the foot of three-year-old girl
in Boston and the foot had to be am
putated. Carelessness by an employee
Of the Boston Ice Company, it is said,
caused the accident The parents of
the child brought suit and recovered
verdict of 100000
A Geographic Board" in the Domin-
ion of Canada settles all questions as
to the correct spelling Of geographic
names in the Dominica. When man
agrees with him, he calls them
learned; when the decision is against
him, he says they are photographed
jackasses.
A bedbug thrives best ON blood
diet, but it can live long on air. George
O. Smith, a Brooklyn entomologist,
confined one in tin box, where it
was forgotten for six months. When
he opened the box the bug seemed
dried up and 1ifeless; but when he put
it on the back of his hand it ait once
began to draw blood.
By collision with expressmen and
Keepers, Thomas S. Clark, who is serv-
ing flve-year sentence in Trenton, N.
j., for bank robbery, has been making
lots of money by selling canned goods,
fruits, liquors aud various articles to
his fellow convicts. An acquaintance
betrayed him. Were it not for this
friends treachery, the prison officials
say, he might soon be running an in
dependent store within the prison
walls.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-03-10
SCRAPS.

Artificial cotton is being manufacture
ed in Austria. -
Millions of bone dice are annually
imported from France 5S2
Mixed breeds Of bloodhounds an
sWer best for man-hunting.
The largest car manufacturing plant
in the world is in Pittsburg.
The estimated value Of the worlds
product of slate is $16,600,00O.
Lightning knocked a child from it's
mothers arms during a storm at Oci1-s
la, Ga.
Lightning a few weeks ago fused a
plateglass window in Chicago into the
form of cross.
There are 1900 species of plants used
for commercial purposes. OF these 420
are used for perfume.
Many scions of European royalty
hold military commissions before they
are old enough to walk.
Japanese swords have the high tenn
per of the famous Damascus blades
without their wonderful f1exibIIity.
Fisher-I'll bet you don't know what
landing-net is. Miss Anglln fcoyly)
Its slang term for hammock, isn't
it?-Puck.
Oklahoma territory takes great pride
IN the fact that it has not one poor
house within its borders, and. more
over, has need of none The ueouIe
say there is not pauper among them
Insurance superintendent (suspi-
ciously)-How did your husband hap
pen to die so soon after getting insured
for large amount? Widow-He work
ed himself to death trying to pay the
premium.-Household Words:
Robert R. Stuyvesant of New York
has just sold plot of ground which
Has been owned by the Stuyvesant
family for 216 years. It was purchased
directly from the Indians by Peter
Stuyvesant, governor of New Amster-
dam,
The better class of Japanese do not
live in the treaty ports of Japan, which
are frequented by the casual traveller.
Life in these towns is so different from
the real life of Japan that it is impossi-
BILE to get an idea of the country from
them
Peacemaker-I wouldn't fight, my
good men. First ombatant-He called
me a thief, sir. Second Combatant-
An he called me lazy loafer. Peace
maker-WeIl, I wouldn't fight over a
difference of opinion; you both may be-
rlght.-LOndon Tit-Bits.
In the center of the plaza in Lima is
a pretty bronze fountain that was
erected in 1878, gift from some noble
Spaniard, and is probably the oldest
fountain in America. The oldest bridge
IN America crosses the Rimaca river
back of the palace. 1t was probably
erected about the same time, and was
rebuilt in 1910.
In a Methodist church in a remote
Georgia community the old rule Of
separation of the sexes during worship
rs observed. This causes strangers
some embarrassment, and the other
day man who went into the same pew
with his wife was shocked to have his
spouse and himself the subjects of a
denunciatory discourse from the pulpit.
A farmers wife near wellington,
Mo-, while out feeding chickens last
week, dropped an earring, which was
quickly gobbled up by one of the fowls.
She could not pick out the particular
chicken, Sc killed them, one by one
twenty-seven in all-but failed to find
the earring. Then she began to look
around and found it in the grass, where
the fowl had dropped it.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-03-10
SOLID SHOT.

An uplook is the best outlook.
Growth makes the glad Christian.
The engine may be built in. day,
but it takes years to perfect the en-
gineer. s..~. 4. Isl i
God may deny you many toys, but
He will certainly give you the king
dom. 1865 #z-.SN e
A man is best known by what he
does when he thinks nobody is looking.
at him. # t.'ssl zs t5 d! II
There was more dancing over the
golden calf than over the two tables
OF stone RAMS Horn,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-03-10

HzaH 4ast seen my enemy, as he lay
Ae6oze me, dead and cold. "A grave
rat-aas there. and by that I knew my
zz2afes must have buried him. Let
''aaafaa rest : thought, more ia sorrow
than IN anger; che can work no more
nzEschaef now Then turned to the
usace where had buried the gold. Il
bad not been disturbed. and j covered
sst again carefully. resolving that, If By
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-03-10
CHAPTER XIV,

IN d. DcduClIu1
spring morning I
took advantage of
Pearls absence,
and went into the
woods for the first
time ii since my sick
ness. I was al
most we'll, but not
strong yet, and I
walked slowly to
the spot, where I
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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-03-10
Something {,

5 Something. e.
She This road IS very steep Can't
j get q donkey to take me up e,
Lean on me. darlin Bits,