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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-09-07
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averages four mills to ton mile, SO
That the total revenue from the freight
business ,11's for that year amounted to
S200, 600. The expense is to be meas
#s1lred by a unit which is called the
train mile. In this instance it is the
freight train mile. The Immediate
cost OF running a. freight train mile
can can be computed readily, and it in
81 2cludes: Cost Of fuel for the locomo-
tive, and the wages of an engineer, a
fireman., a conductor, couple Of brake
men and fagman. The number of
cars may be anything you please so
lar as these expenses are concerned, for
1t will not affect them much. In the
present case say that the average
*trainload was 400 tons, large, but
a sound figure. Therefore the number
OF train miles that had to be run to
earn the 100000 was 125, 900. Train
mile cost was reckened at Is cents.
Therefore we have: Expenses. 1913 ,75O:
profit, S106, ESQ. Not the actual profit,
to be sure, but we get on better by
Keeping the geese separate from the
hens, and the figures have their use.
Take the company's report for. the
following year, 1900. The same work
was done, let us say, $4,000, 900 ton
miles. The average trainload, how
ever, was 500 tons. No wonder the
road found itself with more money
to. divide than it had in the year 1899.
For, by increasing the trainload the.
number CT train miles was lessened,
and train expenses were inevitably re-
duced to the, tune of nearly SIS, 900.
The gross revenue remained, of course,
the same. The figures are disgrace
fully rough, but they tell the truth.
They. shout it through a megaphone.
The way to make money is to Increase
the trainload. A we'll known technical
writer in Wall Street calls this the
touchstone Of successful or economical
railroading.' To save train miles is
to save money drop by drop, to save it,
with a sure promise of drops enough
in all to make an ocean.--New York
Press. -
# It iss estimated that one crow viii
destroy 100000 insects every year.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-09-07
n Gg,ilI EfGve So Mem
bers, and the Electoral
College 4z6

s. = . ~ i
cause the admission of Oklahoma and
perhaps one Or two other territories to
statehood between now and the next
presidential campaign. Is " decidedly
probable sE
No state lost any members through
the recent adjustment Of representa-
ton in the house and in the electoral
college. On the other hand, many
states gained. Arkansas, California,
Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Louis
lana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Mis-
souri,, North Carolina, North Dakota,
Washington, West Virginia, and Wis
consin will each have to choose one
member more next year than they
chose last year. Minnesota, New Jer-
.sey and Pennsylvania will each gain
two members. Illinois, New York and
Texas will each gain three members.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-09-07
A GIANT VARIABLE STAR,

{ In the constellation Gemini is
Well-knoWn variable star, zeta, of less
than the third magnitude when light
est, witch, according to an estimate
recently set forth in the Observatory
by Miss Agnes M. Clerke, may be
ranked among the giants. of starry
space. The comparative insignifcance
Of Zeta Geminorum among the visi-
BILE stars appears to be due to it's
enormous distance. If removed equally
far away, our sun would be only one
thirtyseventh as bright as zeta Gem
inorum when at its maximum bright
ness, and Miss Clarke computes the
gravitatiVe power of the star at 225
times that of the sun.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-09-07
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T. q ~ { Q. 8

Railroading,, in its beginnings and
Throughout its exuberant youth, saws
Carl Hovey in Ainslee's Magazine, was
ia business which made use Of nerve,
& big head for planning and plotting
and a constant ap-dash application,
after which the returns were pretty
sure. Nowadays It's all as sophisti-3
Gated as cash register "a successful
year indicates that some one has
taken enormous pains to study the fig
ures, and that the result Of his dill
gence has been a pretty accurate
knowledge OF the class OF business that
would pay. A railroad carries freight
and sa1 passengers for a living. The
managing head, in order to direct the
business proftably, must know what
slt costs him to provide the service for
which the public pays. Common sense
and the instinct of self preservation
demand this course at once, but they
sare not so forward in suggesting what
as TO be done first. How can one come
sat such a knowledge? It costs SO much
!. annually to maintain the track and
the terminals, SO much to pay the sal
aries OF the train crews. yardmen..
clerks, officials, and law department.
loo. How much, then, will it cost to
carry six carloads of potatoes $50 miles
out on the main line to Berryyille?
The problem looks like one by which
cunning pedagogues advise little boys
That that it is impracticable to add hens
and geese together in the same sum
or useless to seek to know the cost of
seVen-eIghths pounds Of butter in
catch question where you are told only
the price of a pound Of lard The diff
Terence is that the railroad figures do
show glimmer of sense. But this
proves to be Wil-o' '-the-wisp leading
nowhere. Nothing can be done with
them until YOU have slaughtered most
of the items wholesale and arbitrarily
have selected a few promising ones
with which to do business. Let us
say the line carried in the year 1889
f50. 600, 900 tons of freight a distance of
one mile; the work has been meas
ured, with this result, which stands on
the books as 50, 900 900 ton miles The
pay for doing the work, measured also,
- asG
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FILTERED WATER BAmRoo.

Mr.. R. H. Yapp, an English natur-
alist who, has recently explored the
mountain ranges Of the Malay PENN
sula, reports the hitherto little known
fact that in several species of bamboo
the hollow internodes-the parts of
the stems between the joints-are
stored with large quantities of nat
urally filtered water. The knowledge,
of this fact might be of great service
in an emergency. Mr.. Yapp also dis
covered two species of ferns, growing
on trees, whose thick, heshy stems are
filled with galleries tunneled by ants,
the ferns thus forming living nests for
ants. -, Fl
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NUMBER Is.

reach tEFs upper level. a glance at,
the plesRse will show this plan on
which tho apparatus Werks, tie treada
Sorafliag Systematically at the, bottoa
OF the lift by causing the supporting
bars to pass into alternate upper and
lower slots or guideWays, thus bending
the conveyor out Of a straight line to
form the treads and risers. OF course,
the. the moving handraiI is also provided
to aid the passengers in maintaining
their balance. " +.
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THE BABY's FIRST SUMMER.

@ Fortunate is the city baby who is
born in septemb Der or October, for then
he will have but one summer to pass
through while his powers Of resistance
are very low. By the end OF the sec
ond -tEIt. year the child should have deVel-
oped considerable strength Of constitu-
ton, and ought, if properly cared for,
TO triumph over many evil influences
TO which the younger infant is very apt
to succumb. ..@@..
Inc primary cause Of infant morta11
aty In cities during midsummer is the
intense heat, and next comes. in the
case OF bottle-fed children, the giving
OF indigestible food or. Of milk which
has begun to change. The baby's life,
III other words, depends upon his be-
ing kept cool and being properly fed.
Y These matters are Of such import
ance that in most of our cities the
health boards issue each summer leaf.
lets containing directions for the care
os the baby, and distribute them
among all the tenement-house dwellers.
In these leaflets, mothers are
warned particularly to keep the baby
ar and all its surroundings absolutely
clean. The child should be sponged or
bathed once or twice every day in
lukeWarm water, dried by wrapping in
E SOFT towel, and then put into clean,
Dry clothes. The clothing should be
light and loose and changed often.
The baby should never sleep in the
clothes which it has worn during the
day, nor wear in the day those which
nave been slept in at night. It should
sleep in a separate cot, and never
IN the bed with its mother. The sleep
lng-room should always be well aired,
the windows being open day and night.
During the day the baby should be
kept in the open air as much as pos
slble, and a daily ride into the coun-
try on a trolley car, or an excursion on
the water. if there is any large body
of it accessible, will do more, per-
haps, than anything else to keep the
little one in health. '.,+4- &
It should never be forgotten that a
baby needs water to drink, and plenty
OF it, in hot weather The water
should be boiled, then poured into a
bottle, half filling 1t, and wei shaken
TO restore the air lost in boiling. This
is then cooled, not iced, and given to-
the baby in small quantities at FREE.
quent intervals through the day.
"A nursing baby has an immense ad-
vantage over one that is bott1e-fed,
and on no account should weaving be
attempted just before Or during the hot
weather. If artificial feeding is neces-
sary, the physician should be con-
suited as to the choice of food, for
among the many kinds on the market
some are good and some are not
a baby's diet will be considered
more fully in another article on the
prevention Of summer complaint.
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er pony with a paddle. He rides over
the roughest waves, and penetrates the
toughest waves, and penetrates the
surf and breakers without fear. Oc-
casionally he is dismounted, but i'm
mediately regains his seat. His lit
tie raft Is unsuitable and defes the
stormiest sea, although of course he
never goes far from land.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-09-07

slapped our friend famfIiarly on sshe
] back crying: Well, Old chap, hSw
about cotton q The unfortunata
]. broker gazed at him for moment
with an expression Of deep disgust,
and then replied, slowly: 9 Young man
= never ne 7'e did like you much, even when
cotton was high. y ~ $z.s .s.s B
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-09-07
AN ELECTRIC STORM DErEcroR,

r By connecting a form of electric co..
herer, invented by Professor Lera,
which is capable Of registering cleo
trlc discharges taken place in the at
m-osphere at a distance Of several
miles, with a telephone receiver, Mr..
! %,Tlomrmasina, I IN an Italian experimenter,
has produced an instrument, named
Observation-Disclosures, : which enables
an observer to follow the course Of a
storm SO far away that, no trace Of it
appears above the horizon. When the
receiver is held at the ear, the listener
hears the sounds of the storm as if it
were raging in his Immediate neigh
borhood. In one instance an approach
ing storm was thus detected 12 hours
before Def re it passed over Intra, the place
Of observation. u .s.
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sem mblance to the crater Of minia-
ture volcano. In the water thus en-
closed the eggs are laid, and when they
have hatched out the young frogs are
secure from enemies until they are
able to take care of themselves. In
the meantime the parents remain in
the. neighborhood as if on guard.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-09-07
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
Sugar Cane OF China.

The sugar cane of China is said by
botanists to be an entirely distinct spe-
cies from that of India, and this fact
is supposed to indicate that the de-
velopment of sugar cane was carried
on independently by two different ma.
tions at the same time
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-09-07
PERUVIAN SEA PONIES.

E Among curiosities of human inven-
tion are the small, gondola-shaped
floats called caballitos, little horses
employed by fishermen on the coast
of Peru. They are made of sticks of
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-09-07

be a wonder to the shoppers and have
proved themselves a great convenience
and necessity being always ready to
carry passengers without the neces-
sity OF waiting for a return trip as in
the case OF the ordinary elevator. Now
comes an inventor of Philadelphia
with an Improvement on the original
moving stairway with its low treads,
the new arrang ngement taking the form
of stairs which are made to rise on
the endless chain conveyor. These
stairs afford a Arm foothold on which
tba passengers can stand until they
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-09-07
FROGS, NEsTs.

In Brazil a species of tree-frog
ttiyla5 faber) constructs in the water
a curious nest, or fortifcation, to pro-
tect It's. eggs and its young from the
attacks of fish. Starting at the bottom
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-09-07

VI q pond, the
mother, frog erects
"a circular, tubelike
wall of mud, which
at the top projects
above the surface
of the water, where.
it bears some re-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-09-07
Teaener-Why, Willie, what niea
clean face you have this morning.
WILEY Yes'm. It's only o'clock.
NEXT BEST THING.

From the Ohio State Journal Miss
Millicent Darlington, who, when Mr..
smithers proposed, had told him that
she was to wed Mr.. Coldcash, was
moved to pity as Mr.. smithers stood,
irresolute, with his hat in his hand.
II hope you will come and see us
some time" she said, for she didn't
know what else to say. f
!. But you will be married and will
have born to you a beautiful daugh-
ter, answered Smithers, with much
emotion; then will come and en-
gage as your coachman. and, if for
tune is with me, elope with your
daughter z
Then Smithers walked slowly out
the yard and toward a monastery.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-09-07
Substance Similar to Rubber.

SuDsGance S11ntlaf to Rubber. ~
NJ. Col OF Paris has discovered that
a substance similar to rubber may be
obtained from the japanese spindle:
tree. The announcement was made to
the Academic des Sciences.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-09-07
Telescope, Above the clouds. "

y Another mountain observatory is
projected. It is to stand at an e1eva-
ton of 5000 feet near semmering, in
the Austrian Alps. The neighboring
valleys are frequently filed with
clouds, while the chosen peak towers
clear in the starlight.
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ElectricaI Power,

& In paper read recently before the
5societe Internationa des Electricians
M. Picou, who was the engineer-in-
chief for the electricity supply service
at the Paris exposition, gave some in
teresting figures. The total duration
OF the electricity service at the fair
was ,756 hours, during which public
lighting was supplied for 500 hours,
and the average number of hours Of
running Of the generators was 7IS.5.
The total connections to the mains
represented IL .265 kiloWatts practi-
scally 10000 horse power.
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cane, firmly. bound
together, with a
high, turned-up
Prov. The rider
; rests on his knees
and guides his wat
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-09-07
HIS STOCK DRoPPE1, 4

Il T. g. IN Short Stories Some
years ago Well-knoWn Philadelphia.
broker found himself with a large
quantity g Of cotton on his hands and
the market rapidly going to. pieces.
Ruin was staring him IN the face, and
he b, was, vas, not nnaturally y, feeling very.
much depressed. After the closing of
theSexchange one afternoon he was re-.
turning to his Office n the company of
q friend. who was doing his best to-
cheer him up, when he was accosted
by a young acquaintance OF his. one
of those cheerful idiots who never
under any circumstances happen to
say the light thing. This youth
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-09-07

Wind shakes, are circular cracks in
q tree separating the different layers.
They are supposed to be caused by
wind, and greatly injure the lumber.
made from such tree
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THRILLING.

Chinm es, ladies, de score Wuz %
toS7s Three men were on base, and i
WIZ WIZ Just ready ter make er home run
Ian '---- js.$
The Ladies' IN then?
Chimmie- Me mother called ma in.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-09-07
LITTLE LAUGHS.

1T -
&z4 Slow. .s* ss
I'VE call our little branch railway
the g. O. - -. 81
Whats that for % ??''
's Get out and push"
Those Printers. 1.
We'll, that's the worst yet
5s1sW hats the matter ?'' ss.
My magazine poem entitled sBaf.
fed appears under the head sRahled.
Springs Of NILS Conduct
You haven't any manners. Jack;
why didn't you offer to escort that
young woman home ?''
oh, Il have manners all right; but
didn't have street car fare. z
81 Safer ON His Back.
Pinching bug Say, what makes ycu
wear your fur overcoat in such hosI
weather? s..
Gaterp Oh. half the moth ballai
we get now are no good
There can be no Christian meessng,
w3t - s4
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-09-07

There can be no Christian mestsne,
without Christ In the nlfdgt. a
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& II isa estimated that one crow viii
destroy 7oo0 600 insects every year. Il
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-03-16
Nezvs
Of The PAYERS,
llpRowN's I'M TowN.N

browns in Town" Is said TO be an
uproarously funny play on the farce
order, illustrated by capable artists;
and the action Of the play takes place
during one summers day, Three acts
are used in which to tell the story; the
first being morning, the second after
noon, and the third night. The plot
hinges on the desire Of ayoung couple
to keep their marriage a secie ct, until
they hit upon an idea to spring the
news upon the young mans father,
who objects to his sons marrying until
he reaches certain age. The young
man, who assumes the name Of Brown,
seeks seclusion in a country place ten
miles from the city, but to his mex
pressible dismay all their friends and
relatives drop into the same place,
The complications that arise from the
fact that the young man tries TO keen
his marriage from them and his plan
to efface them effectively but grace
| fully are said to be very humorous.
,Brown's in Town" comes to the
Grand opera house, Tuesday, March 10
Prices, $1.00, Toe and SOC.
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1.-THE FAST MAIL.
Gost in the shuttle last week. J

The east Mail'' which stopped
here awhile Monday hight got
away without wreck. 1t is sur.
prising to all who went to see Il,
that with the crew in charge Of the
train it has not been size tracked
before it got into Mississippi, but
we are glad to say it left the sta
ton here on-time, with all the crew
on board.
The Olympia Opera company
closed three nights engagement
at the Grand Opera house We'd
nesday night The company
PLAYED to average-sized houses
| al! three nights, and while the ca;
| tertainments we're not the best II
the world theater- goers were, as
whole, very well pleased, Monda,
night the bill was "Said Pasha;''
Tuesc ay night, Ezra Dlavaio;'
Wednesday matinee, "Chimes Q
Normandy" and Wednesda,
night, "Princess Of Treblzonde."
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Life Will be More
Pleasant In Future,
What Will Be Accomplished by
Electricity in the Next
Half Century.

IN brilliant paper on the antici
mated triumphs Of electricity during
tbe next 81 years, 7. G. Martin, in sue
cass declares that the farmer, ths
chemist. the miner and the mouse
holder will be among the CHIEF bene-
6c;aries. while railroads will discard
steam for the third electric rail. lie
continues:
"Of course, we shall see by electrici-
| ~. The telescope is a beautiful ap-
naratus, but Anticipated in many re-
snects. 1t is not unlikely that the
| electric heater and electric fan Will pc
riyaled by mechanism creating tne
| sensations Of GOODNESS and warmth
4 more subtly. Electricity, while aboi-.
ishing many outworn methods and
1 predecessors, will, meanwhile, pc re-
A fining upon itself. 1t will obtain much
Of its supply Of current directly from
fuel, without boiler, engine OF ayna-
mo. BY present methods, we get only
about five per cent. from fuel, Of the
possible energy in it; and our best
house lights have an efficiency Of only
about three per cent There lie two
great problems for the twentieth cen
fury. Electricity will, however, fur-
nish economical 'cold-light' lamps, In
which no stick or filament OF carbon
consumes. 1t will transmit without
tangible circuits. 1t will help to make
the balloon as feasible and common
Mace as the automobile. But its ma
ture bids fair to rest in mystery
"The electrical successes OF the next
SO years will depend upon men who
have been trained to be electrical en-
gineers and inventors. The triumphs
Of the past so years have been achieved
entirely by men who had no electrical
d education in their youth, and whose
Il mastery Of the five 'c's' Of electricity
B copper, carbon, castings, coal ant
u cascades--is due to their own efforts,
y 1T is not rash to assume that tn
a electrical inventions near at hand vii
II at least equal those in the past Q
u Morse, Edison, Bell, Siemens, Kelvin
Tesla, sprague and others Of equal in
4 tellectual rank in their respectiv
d branches. The greater lies before.
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!. J, wlnow,s LOVE- AFFAIR

Receives 4 seihacI if she has
offensive breath through ronsti-
nation, bfliousness or Stomach
Ftrohble, but Dir. Kings New Life
ltPlIIs always cure tlipseg troubles;
clean. the system. sMeeteiI thu
breath hanisll the headache; best
IS the world for liver, Kidneys
and boweis. Only 25c at tinlay' 4
drug store.
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onion. !. weather prophets,

In some country households there
are to be seen at the present time 10
large onions placed in row, with
pinch Of salt on the top Of each.
What mission have these odoriferous
roots to perform? They are there,
an English agricultural paper ex-
plains, as weather prophets. The
onions were set in position on
Christmas day. They will be kept on
guard until twelfth night Then
the believer in their prophetic Office
win examine them with serupulous
care. On some onions the salt will
have melted; on others it win have
remained dry. Each onion represents
month A rainy month is Indicated
where the salt has melted and a dry
month where it has kept intact.-N.
+
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GROCERS.

Wanted-For literary work, writer's
correspondents or reporters every,
where. Experience unnecessary. a
nav for MSS, stories, news, poems, etc
"a. W. Union Associated Press New
| York
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