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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-11-24
Gentle, as We'll as Brave

Bravery and gentleness are Two
qualities that often dwell side by side
in the same heart, as has been proved
time and again. Still another instance
is found in the following story to]e
by the Army and Navy Journal con-
corning the late Commander James W
Carlisle, who was in command of tho
U. S. S. "Vandalia" at Apia. Samoa
during the terrible storm of March 1e
1889. One evening, some years after
ward, on retiring to his room in the
house of his sister, where he was Wis
ltlng, ne found mouse that had fall
en- into a basin of water, and was
struggling for its life. There was
agony and defiance in that little fell
lows eye. said the commander
speaking Of it the next day.@#"As +
gazed on the helpless little creature =
thought of that terrible night on tbe
Vandalia, and, going to the window: :
gently emptied out the. contents az
the basin.' I didn't dry him with nv
towel, the tn commander added with. a
smile, but I did save his life, q
simple little story like this makes one
realize afresh, with Tennyson. thar
the brayest are the tenderest.'' 4.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-11-24

existed in former times may be in
1erred from the facts described by
Hakluyt in his account of the VOYAGE
OF NJ. Hore and others to Newfound-
lano IN 1900. They sailed from
Gravesend until they came to the
island of Penguins, now known as
FUNK island, which HaIzluyt in his
quaint language described as, <<ss@ @'=+
81. very fulfSof rockies and stones.
whereon they went and found it fnl1
OF great foules, white and grey, and
Dig as geese, and they saw infinite
numbers of their egges. They draue
a great number of the foules into their
boates upon their sayles, and took
many of their egges, the foules they
Head, and their skinnes were very like
hony combes full OF holes; being fead
Off, they dressed and cate them and
found them to be very good and nour-
ishing meate.''
The French fishermen who in those
days frequented Newfoundland slew
and skinned thousands, sailing them
tor food like behring's, and now sim
gle skim or even eggshell is worth
more pounds than there are DAYS in,
the year.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-11-24
GREAT AUX ) Eggs BRING Big MONEY

q single egg sold for $3.50.
The price still went up, and in
1895 Messrs. Stevens sold one, after a
brisk competition, for 1925. IN 1899 a
specimen realized at Stevens auction
$1,000. Then there was a slight drop
q in the value, as it was known that sew
eral specimens would probably come
into the market, but a reaction short.
" took place, prices again rose, and
the specimen figured was the one that
has. realized a higher price than any
previously offered. Not only. have
these eggs been valued by naturalists
and bought for museums, but they
have been made the means Of adver-
Using, such as attracting customers to
a billiard room. :, w.
The numbers of the great aux that
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-11-24
For d Relic Of This Extinct Bird $L678
Has just Been Paid.

81 More than half a century ago the
last known living specimen of the
great aux was destroyed. Now an egg
Of that extinct bird has been sold at
what seems, perhaps, except to scien-
lists, to be fabulous price. For it at
Stevens auctions, London, s1,67S was
paid. It took spirited bidding to get it
at that figure. - ~
The great aux was a water bird,
closely resembling those sea birds
known as. guillemots, little auks and
puffins, which are familiar to visitors
at the seaside. All these species, how
ever, possess the power Of flight, and
hence they have succeeded in preserv-
ing their lives in spite of the perse-
cution of man. But the great aux was
pre- eminently water bird. It's power
of swimming was great, but, in spite
of the celebrity of it's movements, it's
inability to fly insured it's destruction.
It formerly inhabited Iceland, the
Farce islands, and the Hebrides, and
in Trinity College, Dublin, is speci-,
men that was taken alive in Water
ford harbor as late as 1884 In Funk
island, off Newfoundland, two CEN.
turtles ago they were so numerous that
the French sailors made Enclosures of
stones, into which they drove large
numbers of the birds, killed them, and
then sailed them down for food. :.
All that. remains of theH:great aux
now are eighty or ninety skins, which
are preserved mostly: in spublic mu-
seums, and valued, according to their
state of preservation, at sums varying
from $500 each to that realized by the
last one offered for sale, at Stevens,
which was sold for S1.300. There are
also a few skeletons, mostly in public
museums, a good many separate bones,
and about eighty eggshells. The skins
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-11-24

IN. Turning Life's Pages.
It was dark December day.
Outside all looked cold and gray,
inside the fire burned high and bright,
Rejecting on all ruddy light.
I was sitting at my table, ..-sss I.
Weaving my darling a childish fable.
IN his chair beside, my little four-year-
@.,/ old sy., IT, 5s - ,.E.ss:s..;s ~
+ The freight on his sunny curls, light
ing them with gold. . - ~
His blue eyes on tablet old and torn,
In dimpled hand a pencil brown and
On every page mark, then turned it
DER, .7 :: 81.
Arrested my attention ere twenty
four.
Said 1: What are you doing, Willie
dear?"
Messing, mamma; just turnin' pages
I writes every page until I'm trough,
Den I stops when I has no more to
do
We are turning pages each and every
one,
And we have been turning since life
begun;
Every page in our life in time a day,
Every page is written in a. different
way.
Opening the book at the first, youthful
joys and childish fears: - =
But later on some trifing JOY, or pages
bathed in tears: ~
For every day another page is filled
BY our Creator who hath our for
tunes willed.
Georgia M. Horne.
Washington, Pa, Aged IA.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-11-24
THE GREAT AUX. One-third Natural Size
GAVE UF HER LIFE.
Sister Alice O'Su1livan Murdered nv the

Sister Alice O'Sullivan Murdered by the
- Chinese. :,d
Sister Alice O'Sullivan,f who was
murdered by the Chinese at Tien Tsin
and recently solemnly beatified by the
pope as a martyr for the faith, was
resident of Syracuse, N. Y. Blessed
Alice O'Sulliyan, as, she is now styled
In the martyrology of the Catholic
church, was born in Clonmel, county
Tipperary, Ireland, December /, 1886.
She was educated in the Presentation
convent and Joined the Sisters Of
Charity in her twentieth year. Her
first years in the convent were spent
in France. Then she volunteered in
1863 to go as a missionary to China, At
Shanghai she rendered the community
the greatest service, and then was
changed: to the convent and hospital
at Tien, Tsin. Here she labored with
equal success and zeal until she was
barbarously murdered with her COM
panion Sisters Of Charity. AS she was
leaving the chapel she was pursued
and dragged into the kitchen Of the
hospital. The Chinese took a caldron
Of boiling water OF the kitchen range.
and poured It over her. Then they
beat her to death. The Rev. Charles
Butcher, the Protestant chan1ain.
wrote after the massacre: ..The mur-
der Of the Sisters of Charity is an
outrage, not on nation or 4 church,
but On humanity itself. AS chaplain
~ n,nt% Sr1.E
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-11-24

Now, little one, it is your turn to
guess, for you have made me try SO
many times 81.
Well, j. guessed candy ?" mo, try
again. and then T guessed flow
ers ?" No." could not think, SO /
gave up. IN - ~. sss=
He put the basket in my lap and told
me to unite the cover When I took
off the cover what do you suppose !
saw? Why I never could have guess
ed! It was the dearest, sweetest little
white kitty fast asleep in the basket,
real live baby cat! -.
'Oh, DOCTOR said, lis this darling
kitty for. me to keep, really and true?"
He told me it was all my own kitty to
keep always, and I thanked him so
much. Well. all at once I loved that
dear little kitty nearly as much as l
did my dollies! -. -~..
Kitty looked like little ball OF
white wool until he opened his round
blue eyes and put up his head and
mewed. Oh, he was such a dear, with
little pink nose, and such: soft, clean,
white fur! There was tiny bell tied
on a blue ribbon around his neck, and
when mamma put kitty on the floor
he walked so softly I could only hear
the little bell tinkle. I named him
Kit-Cat.
! Mamma got ball of wool from her
-:Sk basket and I unwound it, and
->it-Cat would run after it when NAM
ma dragged it across the floor. He
would put out his little furry paws
and try to hold the string. I laughed
and laughed, and so did mamma.
l. klt-Cat was a great deal of COM
pany, for he would curl himself up in
my lap and sing himself to sleep in
the sunshine. K.would sit and listen
to his song, and said to mamma one
day, Mamma, dear, know the words
to kit-Cat's song. 1t sounds to me
just as though he sings, "Love me!
love me!'
If you listen to your kitty, you will
hear him singing the same words my
klt-Cat sang a long time ago.-Ray
Laurance in Little Folks.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-11-24
TAKES AMERICAN CORN.

Europe Buys This Cereal from Us on
- 49,, a Large: Scale.
# looks as though. the fight that has
been going for years to get Eu-
ropeans to buy American corn has been
won at last, for the exports of this
cereal are now on such a large scale
that.it is reasonable to assume that it
has got a firm foothold abroad. For
the past ten years the various secre-
taries of agriculture have endeayored
to show to foreigners the value of our
corn and all sorts of schemes were
adopted to- introduce it in Europe.
During the famous famines in Ireland
a number of ship loads of corn were
sent to the sufferers, but they had
such a poor opinion Of it that they re-
fused to receive it. The fight was kept
up, however, with gratifying results,
the exports last year amounting to
more than 200, 1000, 900 bushels. The
demand for this cereal is widely dis
tributed and extends to the northern
half of South America, the British pos
sessions in North America, and even to
Africa and Australia. AS regards dis
tribution, however, the most signif-
icant fact is that from eight to nine
tenths Of the total exports are usual
" consigned to the various countries
Of Europe, pre-emin ent among these
takers being Great Britain. Germany,
France Belgium Denmark and 1ETol-
land. n these countries. It Is inter-
esting to note, the use Of corn is most-
~ confined, as is the case ii the United
States, to the eeding Of live stock,
though # IS also emp oyed to a limited
extent il brewing, distilling and other
Industries and ii the manufacture of
proprietary foods and confecthonery-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-11-24

and the eggshells are in great demand
az. and realize at the present time most
extraordinary prices. ~. z a.< !.
< The length of the egg is five and
one one fourth inches, its greatest width a
little over three inches. It is blotched,
streaked, speckled and scrolled with
black and varied shades of brown and
gray. The. boldest streaks adorn the
large end Of the egg. The paler
.blotches in the figure show the pale
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-11-24
Rock Blasting Brings s,,owers

At the monthly meeting Of the Berks
County (Pennsy lYania)) 3.S IA rieultural
{ society. President James MCGOWAN at
5tributed the excel lent cond ltlon Of the
crops IN the g southern portion Of Berks
county to the heavy blasting that il.
done ct the Trappe rock quarries, near.
Han Hampton on Heavy charges of dynamite
are used. and the reverbe ions are
heard heard e Tor miles around. The very
heavy blasts are invariably followed
by showers Of rain. and it is the ire
Quent showers that have helped the
crops.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-11-24

GENEROUS b 70 W n
markings, and the
lightest S t re a k S
!. are of a leaden
gray. The ground
color is nearly
white, and the sur
face is finely granu-
! lated. No two Of
the known eggs of
the great aux are
alike in markings.
Some Of the mark
ings. are much
smaller and closer
than those in the
and other speci-
mems are to be
seen marked in va.
ried patterns.
i. When it was first
learned that the
great aux was an
extinct bird the
price of it's remains
began to rise. In
1859 a specimen
was. sold as high
as 500; in 1864 four
specimens were
sold for $3.50, $125,
$3.50 and 1928, re-
spectiyely. In 1882
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-11-24
DIR. Parker.s RetIremen nj, i.

DR.. Parker, the famous London
. Congreg ationalist preacher, pastor Of
the City Temple, who has announced
his intention to retire next year. il
20 years, old. He has been contemplate.
ing retirement ever since the death Of
his third wife last year.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-11-24
Dolly Stories: Dotty DimpIe.

Dolly Stories: Dotty Dimple.
One day when the snow was on the
ground one of mammals groWn-up
friends came to see me, and she
brought a lovely white primrose grow
ing in pot, and a new dolly! Oh, I
was so pleased with both gifts! /
thanked dear Miss Hattie Nesmith, for
that was her name, and l.. said: II
shall always love you, for you are so
good to sick little GIRL, .o:sz.s
Mamma put. the pretty plant on a
table near my bed, and ]. held out my,
hands for dolly, and Miss Hattie plac-
ed her in my arms. 5.s4. Il "a;
My new dolly was not very large,
for she was a baby. and she had on a
long white dress, trimmed with lace,
and a little white wooden sack. tied
with pink ribbons, AID such a cunning
little lace hood Oh ner head! Her
cheeks were pink, and she had little
bit Of dimple in her chin, so I nam
ed her "Dotty Dimple," after little
girl in story book.
:. 1 went to sleep with Dotty in my
arms, and when I opened my eyes
again I thought was dreaming; but
l found Dotty Dimple was real dolly
not like those in dreamland. Miss
Hattie had made tiny blanket of
pink and white stripes knit together,
and when I woke Dotty was all COW
cred up in it.
Mamma said: 'When you are able
to walk again, you shall have doll
carriage for your baby, and the blan-
ket will be very pretty to. put over
Dotty when you take her out for an
airing"
My good kind doctor came to see
me the next morning, and asked him
to guess what my dear Miss Hattie
Nesmith had brought me. He tried
and tried to guess, and then he gave
UP; then 1 showed him my new dolly,
and he was so surprised! What do
you suppose he did? He took Dotty
Dimple in his arms, and he asked her:
What is your name, little stranger?"
said: "Dotty Dimple," playing it
was nay dolly who answered
Then he made believe he wanted to
have secret with her; so he held her
up and whispered loud on purpose, so
I could hear. "Dotty, you are pretty
I nice baby, and think you will prom
Use to help me get your mamma well
again. Dotty said: eyes, doctor"
You know spoke for Dotty.
. 'Well," he said, IF you will coax
your little mamma to try and leave
her bed and sit in, the sunshine, I will
bring you something pretty. It will
be for your little mamma; but you
can make believe it is yours" 2"
.'Oh, know Dotty wished very much
to find out what my good doctor would
bring, but he only smiled and said:
Now, little mamma. it is your turn
. to guess. It is not a dolly. 1t is
white. and it is alive ,%.s#
One pleasant morning when mamma
had put me in chair for the first time
for I had not been able to move for
many weeks, my good, kind doctor
drove up to the door. He looked I'D to
the window. and was SO surprised to
see me sitting there he waved his hand
and cried out. Brave little girl!' Il. ~
Then he tied his horse and made
motions for me to shut my eyes. So
u / shut my eyes as tight as I could, and
B put my hands over my face. Them
heard the doctor come up stairs. and
4 when he opened the door he said, .'.Yo u
may look now, = so i opened my eyes,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-11-24
Jack-O'-Lantern Parades.

Children, just like grown folks, are
never never. = happy unless they are in the
q depths IS; Of a fad; and whereas the
groWn folks fads are always a nuis-
&a a1-le to their friends who don't hap
pen to&be afflicted at the time with the
! same So l[l #malady, the fads the children
enjoy most seem always, by a strange
fatality, to be the ones whose indulg-
ence gives their parents the most an
noyance.
The fad that the boys and girls like
best at present is one that affords the
grown folks, though, almost as much
pleasure as it does the children, and
that is the jack-o'-lantern professions
that are nightly events in nearly all
parts of the city during the warm
weather.,
1t is sometimes a deal of trouble to
the parents or big brothers and sisters
to make the little wagons with their
illuminated freight for little boys and
girls who are not ingenious or inven-
tive enough or too lazy to work for
their own pleasure; but after the work
is done there is a very pretty result,
and lots of fun that even the grown
folks appreciate.
In one neighborhood, and perhaps
many others, the evening parade has
come to be quite the popular amuse-
ment With young and old alike, and
there is great rivalry as to beauty and
ingenuity of idea in the formation and
equipment Of the little floats. some Of
which are surprisingly artistic and
unique. .
When the father of the family comes
home to dinner, his son brings him the
materials he has gathered during the
morning for the building of his float,
and his father, who has seen the other
mems children in the neighborhood
with handsome displays the night be-
fore, is determined that his sons show
shall not only equal but surpass the
neighborhood, and he gives up most
of his dinner hour to the combination
OF the things he has brought from
town with those his son has gathered
at home. In the evening he comes
home earlier to- make improvements
he has thought of since dinner time.
The first night he sits on the porch
and watches the parade pass by, but
the second night, after he has made
still further Improvements in his sons
equipment. he joins the. procession
himself, and the third night he insists
that the whole family except one per-
son to take1eare Of the house, and he
can't decide whom to leave at home,
because everybody ought. to, take an
interest shall take their places in the
line, to see the triumph Of his part Of
the parade-or more correctly, "pa-
'geant, after he has Joined it, .
One Of the most elaborate In town
occurred on the east side last week
when the procession was more than
two blocks long and each float prettier
than another. Birds. animals, ships
and other figures were brought out III
relief by the candles behind them and
most appropriately the procession wan
headed by a boy who bore aloft an
Iisingglass presentment Of the Yellow
Kid, his shapeless dress bearing the
characteristic insert ion, Ma thinks
I'm in bed. See! ''5#Ss
y E.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-11-24
shirt-W.ist Man uhased.

conservative, non-progressive
ystssfs of sackionary tendencIes chased
4 ohica vaist man thseugh tie
steck ya3as and almost denuded him.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-11-24

Bremorhavcn'B sacrifices at sea.
Since 1894 nearly $50 men living IN
Breme rhaven. Germany, have lost:
their lives by the wrecking or burning
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-11-24

An old jug fetched f135 at a London
auction. Il was OF notified brown
.stoneware. % date 1866.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-02-15
Is. w. GATES & son CO., Exclusive Wholesale AGENTS
for the appel

conley and CD. aIerrick for the appel
lees and submitted.
No. a3-Joseph F. Dtckerson. pialne ny
IN error vs. United States, defendant IN
error In error to District Court o.
North Carolina, at Ashevtlle. Motion OF
plaintiff in error for certiorart Court
ordered that the original bill OF excep-
tions No 81 be transmitted to this court.
No. sH.-Pickens Township in County OF
! Cdgeheld. s. c., plaintiff In error vs.
National Bank OF Augusta. Ga. defend-
ant In error In error to Circuit Court
of South Carolina. at Greenyiiie. Writ
OF error dismissed. record not having
been printed.
The following attorneys were admitted
90 practice In this court: a. NJ. Gun.
ninghan,, of Davis. w. Va; c. D. Mer-
rick. OF Parkersburg. W. Va: VIM G.
, conley. of Parsons. W. Va. and Hon,
A. E. Holton. United States attorney, oe
Winston. N c.
Court at 2 o'clock adjourned until to-
day at 10 O'clock.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-02-15

yitiated air filled with particles of dust,
poisonous coloring matter and other sub
stances. irritating to the throat and
LUNGS. It is no wonder that so many mill
hands have an obstinate cough or that SO
MANY of them die of chung trouble"
It is to operatives whose work makes
them peculiarly liable to lung disease
that DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
coyery comes as priceless boon. 1t posi-
lively cures deep seated and obstinate
coughs, bronchial affections bleeding of
the lungs. and other diseases which if
neglected lead to consumption.
.sNhcu co.uuepccd taking your medicines,
eighteen months ago. my health was com pletely
broken down. writes Mrs. Cora L. Sunderland.
Of Chaneyville, Calvert Co., Md AT times
could not even walk across the room without
said had lung trouble and that would never
be we'll again. At last concluded to Try DR..
Piercc's medicines. bought bottle OF Golden
Medical Discovery took it. aad soon commenced
to feel little better. then Eon qi5estea me 70
the Pavorite Prescription which did. Alto:
pctte, I have taken eighteen bottles of Golden
Medical Discovery twelve OF the Favorlte Pres
scriptiou' and 1--WE walls OF Pellets. am now
almost entirely we'll. and do all my work rlth-
OUT any pain whatever, and can rnn with more
ease than could formerly soaE
You can consult DR.. Pierce by letter
absolutely without charge. Hewill care
fully consider your condition, and write
you fully, giving You familiar, tatherly
advice as we'll as medical direction. Your
letter will be held as strictly private
and sacredlv conhd ential. Address DE-.
r. ", Pierce, Buffalo, N. "
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-02-15

Whiting. II he called him liar he
would fine him.
Mr.. Writing was an old man and MT.
Klotz young.
What would be the verdict? Every
body waited with bated breath.
RESULT OF CURIOSITY.
II don't want your money. said the
Great Dispenser. I'll put all hands u!-
der bond Of hundred dollars for SIX
months. and that's What curiosity Gust
Tho fighting conductor.
Richard Willis colorsd was charged
With smbezzling si25, from fish ped
d!ar.Tne fish peddier, white man, gave
Richard lot OF fish to sell, and Richard
sold the fish and then proceeded TO get
on jag. The Great Dispenser rasped the
fish peddler for employing lot OF disre-
putabie negroes to transact MS business
ordered the negro to pay back the money.
continued the case until the 18th to give
him a chance to do it. and declared
with a scowl as black as the King or
Dahomey that uo-count people shouldn
use the processes Of his court to coilece
their moEeE.
NO CIGARETTES.
Then, while he was right in the middie
of a case. called nice young gentleman
from q seat in the front. to the oar OF
the court. and gave him dose OF
.C.rutchfields roric,'' for smoking a
cigarette in the court room, anu let
him go only after polite APOLOGIES
Alex, Bean was arrested at the lime
kiln as suspicious character. He CLAIMED
to be at work with contractor, and was
sent to the gang. with the. promise OF
freedom if he substantiatel his state
ment. and the ctain-gang If he did not.
It is a dangerous thing to belong to
the Lime Kiln Club in Richmond.
J. Groscheisky was charged with assault
ing Jack Brown Mr. Graschelsky HAVING
cheyed the matter over. was sorry he
got out the warrant, and Brown. nc
paid the freight.
There were various weak and weary
sinners before the Law Giver, but ne
40 manipulated their promises and theit
pocket books that not one poor soul was va
left in the pen to tell the tale at sAe
city Jail.