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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-10-12
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y Lii'n .e,ell s old home, near Hodgens-
Vile .ll kentuck ky, will probably be CON
v 81 ted into home for ex-s1aNes. Such
Is the plan Of Thomas T. Thomas. q
wealthy al" h negro and ex-slave, who has
entered 9 'e91 's into negotiations with David
crear, Of New &! York q city, the present
owner 'll' OF the farm, for the purchase Of
]. the sblrthplace of the great enancipa-
tor TO Should Mr. Crear decidd To keen
the farm he will offer the frhe s use Sc of
It for the bull ding Of a honae for ex-
slaves, The logs comp ising the origi-
nal lIsca.bin, in which the ex lpre , dent
was born, which are at present on ex-
hl Ditto at the Pan America Eexposi-
=tion, will be brought back to The farm
and erected on the site Of its original
locatlon ADD itional land viii be pllr-
chased and cult Vated to supply pro-
lsions for the ex-slaves. .sss
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-10-12
THE QUEENS PREACHER.
How Bishop Carpenter Prea ched to Il

How Bishop Carpenter Preached to the
III scullery Maid.
ssa4# Of DR.. Boyd Carpenter, the bishop
Of Ripon, whose preaching was much
admired by the late Queen Victoria,
the following remark is quoted by a
writer in Black and White: Alb d
I'll never address the. queen at ali, z
he told somebody who asked him if he
felt nervous when preaching before
Queen Victoria. II Il know that there
will be present the queen, the princes,
the household and the servants down
to the scullery maid, and i preach to
the scullery maid. Z The remark is
typical of the man. DR.. Carp enter has
always been a royal faVorite, but he is
infinitely appier in the cottage than
IN the palace. He is not ashamed to
ride in a bus, and he has often told
the story Of penny ride from West
minister to Charing Gross. When the.
ticket collector came around the bishop
found to his establishment that he
had . lad not penny in hisspocket, and his
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-10-12
Chumpleigh-You say my cousin was
a high-strung young fellah? .
Boozefighter Bill-Yas, speshly after
he stole that boss.
BEHAVING LIKE ALADY.

A little girl from an East End slum
was invited with others to a charity
West End of London In the course of
the meal the little maiden startled her
hostess by propounding the query:
Does your husband drink?''
why, no." replied the astonished
lady of the house.
After a moments pause the minia-
ture querist proceeded with the equally
beWildering questions:
How much coal do you burn? What
is your husbands salary? Has he any
bad habits?"
By this time the presiding genius OF
the table felt called upon to ask he1
humble guest what made her ask such
strange questions.
WELL was the innocent reply
mother told me to behave like a lady
and when ladies call at our house they
always ask mother those questions..''-
Spare Moments ,:,,. Dr. - +. =.
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ODD CASE OF MIND CURE.
Breaking of Thermometer Cure
= -. - Woman of Fever. y ~ y
. Major Noble.

breaking of a THERMOMETERS Cures
i Ir{z ..~ Woman OF Fever. p "
A prominent Philadelphia physl-
clan. who has looked skeptically upon
all the new theories Of curing disease
without medicine, says he has recently
seen an instance of the influence OF
the mind over the body that has
greatly surprised him. One of his
patients, a woman who ten years ago
was saved from a wreck at sea, has
since been subject to attacks Of fever
regularly once a year. AS there seem
ed to be no particular reason for these
spells of illness, his usual treatment
has been to send her out of town, and
the change was always beneficial. This
year, however, a wedding in the fam
lily prevented the trip, and, the fever
increased with such severity that the
doctor became seriously alarmed. One
day the patients temperature was alb
normally high, and the doctor, to seq
If the heat of n the atmosphere could
partially explain it, took a thermome-
ter from the wall to note the tempera-
ture of the room. The instrument
slipped through his fingers AMI fell to
the floor, breaking the glass tube.
Turning to his patient, he saw that her
face was less flushed, and as be felt her
pulse and watched her, the fever rap
idly abated and left her quickly: The
thermometer had been on the wrecked
vessel, and it was always on the an
niversary of the day Of the wreck that
the fever appeared. It was inferred
that at these times the woma4's nerves
had responded to the terror and anx-
iety Of that experience, and t he break
ing of the thermometer had shattered
the nervous strain Of memory kept
alive by its Observation-Disclosures
Record. >zs.iz +, 60"
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FORGOT HER PART.

From the London Spare Moments: A
Well-known countess was announced
TO speak at costers' gathering in the
East End recently, so the little daugh-
ter OF one of the costers-a flower sell
er-was. deputed to present the count
ess on her arrival with beautiful bou.
quet.
The evening arrived, with an enthu.
slastlc audience in the hall, and pres
emily the countess was announced.
The little girl, who had been coached
as to what to say, walked along the
platform to where her ladyship stood
and in her confusion convulsed every
enc with laughter by shouting out:l
ERE yer are, mum. Only penny a
bunch-market bunch fer a pen1y!' +
the countess smiled, accepted the
flowers, and the child got the penny.
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CONNIE no AN UNDERSTANDING.

COMING no AN UNDERSTANDING.
Mr.. Frank r. ockton, the novelist,
was at a southern resort recently and
there met q Baptist clergyman. IN the
course of their conversation the min
ister called Mr.. Stockton 1doct or, = at
which the novelist was much annoyed.
I'm not a doctor, z said Mr.. Stock
ton. S#
= questionin Ugly. But doctor;
Tn, I'm told the women Of the smart set,
or sso-called 400, in New ork drink a
great deal. e q D
4 don't know Z 4 said Mr.. Stockton.
But q do know that I'm not doctor"
No p again, questioning But
I'D octor, I'm Informed that drunken
ness ness is on the increase among those
ladies' Il .. ISL
I don't care, Z replied the novelist,
so long as you don't call me-, doctor,
because I'm not one 2 .s
sNo?" queried the clergyman for a
third time. But have been told that
when they cant get liquor they drink
their cologne, doctor" p,
."Oh, !" sighed Stockton, t'you refer
OF course, to the Colonial Danes. =
! New York Sun. 81 s ct. 8. w. y
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ATTRACT AUDIENCES.
British Parsons Have Some Curious Waya
of Advertising.


of Advertising.
The Rev. J. H. Scott, rector of
Spitalfelds, sent out a notice which
read as follows: eff you want a smoke
(free) come next Sunday afternoon at
3 o'clock to Christ Church Hall. A
free cup Of tea If you like Tobacco
gratis Two hundred persons re-
sponded to his invitation. To each
man was given enough tobacco for
couple Of pipes, and the gentlemen who
were to conduct the services also
lighted up" After a good, long
smoke the services began, and when
they were over a cup of tea with bread
and marmalade was given to each one
present. "Wery nice and sociable-like,
to be sure" the congregation pro-
nounced the Reverend Scott. A Meth
odist clergyman at Barrow was taking
walk around his parish the other
day, when he saw two women hard at
work at their washtubs and number
of men looking on and smoking. He
invited the men to 'fcome to chapel
an invitation which they fatty and
grufly refused. At length one of them
salu: 'Say, here, mister, you do ten
minutes work at that there dolly
(washtub) and We'll come and tsar
what you've got to say" In a trice
the minister threw off his coat, rolled
up his sleeves and had his arms deep
in the suds. For ten minutes he wash.
ed away like a veteran 1aundress and
then went away, telling the men he
should expect them to keep their part
Of the bargain. His congregation was
increased by half a dozen the next
Sunday, and two Of the men are now
regular members of his congregation.
Lord Rupert Cecil, the Marquis of
Salisbury's son. has posted notice
outside of Hatfield church, of which ne
is rector, saying, 'sBicyclists are espe-
cially invited to come in the uniform
of their clubs" The chaplain Of St.
James Chapel Royal has made a de-
cided chit" by holding afternoon serv-
ices for people who have dressed for
dinner. One or two other clergymen
have added to the attractiveness of
their services by having Mrs. James
Brown Potter recite from the chapel
rail. .-- Z
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h . &
ten to the contrary by the litterateur,
who is accustomed to taking striking
exceptions as types, says NJ Charles
Seignobos in the International Month
". There are not in all France more
than twenty electoral districts in
which the election is carried by money.
q could point them out one by one.
They are the environs of Paris, in the
country places of the Pyrenees and Of
the Alps, and in the Center. It is true
that the Conservative candidates often
believe themselves obliged to incur
large expense, but the electors, even
when they profit by them, continue to
vote according to their opinions
Money holds very little place in the
electoral life of France.
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KINDERGARTEN LEGISLATORS.
Little Sketches Of Odd Proceedings in
- Z3E "a. Hawaiian LegisIature. -

Little Sketches Of Odd Proceedings in
.E Hawaiian Legislature.
..It is curious to watch the kinder
garten stage of a people just learning
to use political freedom and putting:
Into operation the machinery of legis--5
latiye government, remarked Civil
Service Commissioner Rodenberg to a
Star reporter on his recent return from
the Hawaiian islands. s.The Hawa-
Han legislature is a very amusing
body in some respects There are ma.
tive members and American members.
Translators of both languages are.
employed, but the original remarks Of.
members will be delivered in first one
language and then the other. The ma.
tive members regard their official posi-
tions with great solemnity, and their
comprehension Of the power of the leg
islature is sometimes ridiculously IL:
Illustrated by the bills which they intro-
auce. Not long ago bill was intro
duced by a native member to repeal all
the laws Of the United States which
might apply to the islands. Following
this was a measure which provided.
that any person might become a 1icens-
ed physician simply upon payment Of
the fee for securing the license. AS a
travesty on these bills a young Ameri-
can member one day introduced a bill
with all solemnity to prevent the
waves from beating on certain por-
ton OF the beach which was used for
bathing The august body sat in sol
emn and dignified silence while the
measure was being read, and it did
not occur to II that it was not a mat.
Ger for its earnest considerable on. -.
Washington Star,
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-.
DEEP SEA, REAS0NtNG,

The mermaid who had always COZ.
tended with much warmth that Rear
Admiral Sampson would come out 81
the controversy with flying colors, was
pressed for a reason for her great con
fldence. t@,- t.,.. III
why cont you see, if the worst
comes to the worst said she, .tMr.
Sampson can easily prove an alibi.''
The deep-sea reasoning of mermaid
makes all the knowledge Of the an
clients look like driveling idiocy..-New
York Marine Journal. ar =,
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wife, who was with him, was in the
same unhappy state Of penniessness.
Dr. Carpenter made up his mind to
borrow the money when he alighted
At Ch iE:Elg Cross, but before BIZ reach
e 60 his destination, workingman, with
. oag OF - tools Dis. thrown over rs shout
aer, turned to him as he left The bus
ana q. said: Don't bother abo{t that;
I've s''e made n that all right" Almost be-
tore the To bishop COULD say Think you,
me man with the bag was g9ne and
r. =. carpenter found that he had paid
ms fare and that Of his Wifi to- the
end q of the journey. ~ a.
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GOOD LUCK FOR THE esTRI.s.

34 GOOD LUCK FOR THE GIRLS.
When the subject Of bulldogs was.
reached the z IS Ma or took a hand, or.
rather, he monopolized the CONVERSE
ton. The !" Major was Sam E. Little
Of near New burg, Ind, ana he gained
his sobriquet as; an Indian fighter and
frontiersman s5$5$t {S. n
1. You can talk about your fighters
and your fierce beasts, but had a
couple Of genuine English bulls that
beat them all Why, when j. came to
figure it down those dogs cost me a.
fortune in incidentals alone. They
We're 50 mean that they wouldn't let
anybody come in the yard. Every time
| wanted a pound of coffee, I'd have to
go after it Or hire somebody on the
place to make the trip. Those dogs
wouldn't allow the grocer to come in
the nelghborhood. And as for the ba-
her and butcher, they avoided my
place as. if it was a pesthouse. @@
But that wasn't circumstance to
what they did to the young fellows
who came to see my girls, or, rather,
the ones that wanted to come. I had
i've girls. They were all pretty and at
tractive, but somehow there weren't
any fellows hanging around my place.
| believe that one fellow did come once,
but one Of the dogs got him as he went
over the fence on the return trip and
he did the mantel act three times a
DAY Tor two weeks. But to see those
girls at a party or a dance you would
think from the way the fellows took on
that there wasn't another girl in the
state. ts, >s.> s%:.%sI u. -,
r One day the two dogs got in fight.
Both of them had these kind of teeth
that project over their jaws, and when
once they got hold it took thunder
to part, them. Well they both got a
hold that day, and as. the sky was
clear. the hired hand took an ak. We
! buried them together. And don't you
know that the next night there were
half a dozen buggies hitched in front
OF the gate. And it kept on that way
until about six months ago, when the
last OF the quintet was married, And
I'm thanking Providence that it didn't
thunder. louisville Courier Journal
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Wen Qualified.
Morgan ought t.

Diggs That man Morgan ought to
make a good yachtman.
Biggs-Be Because why? M
Diggs---FTIes has such marked ability
for raising the wind.
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LITTLE. LAUGHS.
Disproying Experience.

What's this, a grocery trust
Humph, we thought the tendency of
the times in the grocery business was
leash" and mo trust. Springfield
Union. .5S 5a:,s.. /. Il
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A notwithstanding Parson.

. Rev. Jones Colvin, Of Youngstt town
q, 50 years old, known as the marry
ing 5parson J" broke all records the
other day BY marrying Il couples il
"a hours. .,''
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During one month no less than 32s
tons OF eggs were sent to England
from Bulgaria. +. - %5@. : :.
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"a 81 5,I.* Schley.t immed1 a tie SUI
render from Gen.. Toral, who COM
manded the beleaguered Spanish
forces, if it could take up a. position
opposite the city of Santiago. He
urged Sampson to make the attempt,
but the commander of the American
{ fleet did not seem to see it that way.
Then it was that Shafter declared
that he would do it. Capt. Stewart
Brice,. son of the late Senator Calvin
Brice, one Of Skaters military fam
lily, and Col Creighton Webb, inspec-
tor-general of Gen. LaWton's division,
and other adventurous officers came
to Gen. Shafter with a scheme for the
army to do what the navy seemed to
be afraid Of doing. They planned call
Ing for volunteers to man an army
transport, putting on the vessel bat
terry Of field guns, and with it force an
entrance to the harbor and take up a
position behind one of the islands in
the bay, where they would be out of
the line of fire from any battery and
vet be in position to rake the city.
I Shafter took kindly to the plan,
which was kept a deep secret. but, like
all secrets, the scheme leaked out and
scores of officers were eager to volun-
teer, some Of them offering to go as
privates But just as the scheme was
taking tangible form Gen. Toral made
1t known to Gen. Shafter that he was
willing to come in and nothing
more was done with the transport
proposition. Z.
The day before the Spanish fleet
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Willie's Expianation.

Willie's grandmother gave him q
penny to invest in candy, and the lit.
tie fellow rushed of in great glee, bul
presently returned in tears. nv
what S the matter, Willie?" asked the
old lady. Did you lose your cent?
mo, grandma, = sobbed Willie, g y
didn't lose it. II only swallowed ii. =
A Modern Wonder.
She's a wonder Of the age,
For she is upon the stage, S3.
And you will agree with US if hel
you've seen; .5.5
81. For she's over forty Z.
But she manages to fix
So she looks to be around about six
teen
hilsd elphia Bulletin.
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The nourlshed soul makes steady
nerves. "a =. - .1-s .&..E ~ III
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nH. IEE TIM TO LA UGH.
SOME GOOD JOKES, ORIGINAL AND
SELEGTEnL

JUS Icee i'm Disrepute or How the Judge
a. Jared I'M g 81 earned Decision, Stunt
=$$z Humorous Anecdotes, {. and 35 Incl
dents i# s. i85sss Is. s$5f8#5 5
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ISM #aumlTaI would Rear-Admiral w.
leave the harbor at 7. Sampson
Z 8 O'clock the following morning. On
that day / was told by officers that the
French consul had told Maj. Noble
that CerVera was getting ready to-
leave and would make the attempt the
next morning, re- n, .
None Of us believed that the Span
ish admiral would attempt such a des-
perate movement. We were told that
day that the news was wig-wagged NJ Il
| by order Of Gen. Shafter-from the
| shore to Admiral Sampson. If this was
done Admiral Sampson did not be-
lieve that Cervera would make the
dash, for when the Spanish ships left
the harbor, Sampson, aboard the New
York, was steaming toward Siboney to
| hold a conference with Gen. Shafter.
About $3.50 o'clock on the morning
of July 3 we heard several Of the navy
guns roar. No one in the trenches Of
San Juan hill paid any particular at
4 tention to the booming, for we thought
/ the Warships had begun their daily
bombardment of MORO castle and the
other batteries. MI if
Z But the heavy cannonading grew
stronger and we could hear the Span
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WAS SAMPSON WARNED?

and jaunty in their fresh-laundered
white suits, came into the parlors OF
the governors palace in Santiago,
where Sshafter had his headquarte
The army officers, dirty and fellow,
their thin faces showing the effects OF
fever and lhar dships and lack IS
of E food, focked around schlley.
Admiral Sampson stood az az.
most alone at one end of the long
room. but Schley was the center Of an
enthusiastic crowd He was congratutl,-
lated again and again. Generals, coles
nels, majors, captains and lieuten1ia7lnrts
pressed his hands. They threw. their ne i
arms around him and told him he was
a great man. OF course every army arm Of
5ficer paid his respects to Sampson, put
most Of them did it in a conventional
way. There was no warmth to tne u
greetings. 5.zs " n. III.
#5 1T was not until we reached Mon on
tauk Point that we learned that enc
Brooklyn's op
was held up as <~.-.--->>>
IseV1d e ne e that ~ 6x71 >-ass& n
Schley was faint SM
hearted, even COW % MsSSa h
ardly. But at SAM III INV !
tiago, on San Juan s'ssaSSW T.
hill, at Siboney and ~ = !
in the trenches no ~seaAs1gsgSass
one had even hint Major Noble.
ed that Schley was a coward. 5.=.
The boys who had faced Spanish
shells and Mauser slugs, who had
fought. while fever burned their blood
who knew what fighting meant, seem
ed to hold contrary opinion to that
entertained at Washington. They said
.sschley did it. Sampson wasn't in 1t.
It. was Schley who licked the Span
iards. - ii. 4 +. a. 5zs n.
.. MALCOLM MCDOWELL.
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=Cervera's fleet dashed out Of Santiago
i Bay to its destruction he would be we'll
equipped to play the part of a. star
witness in the coming Sampson chley
Investigation. He did not seem to re-
gard Sampson as a great fighter in
those days. 81 t.. /.
We who were with the doughty
soshafter have very lively recollections
Of the generals bringing his huge fist
down upon the quiVering camp table to
emphasize the string of characteristic
strong words he used to express his
opinion Of Admiral Sampson. A s. .
M Why doesn't he force his way into
the bay2" said the general Is he
afraid Of scraping some Of the paint
from the bottom Of his ships?" S
This was after the Spanish fleet had
been destroyed. There were no war
ships flying the Spanish flag in the
bay, but it was said then that the
channel was mined and that j, any
hostile craft attempted to force an en-
trance it would be blown over the
mountains. .=: FIX. #z
81. Gen. shafter was a !. rank skeptic
about the mines The Cubans had told
him, and their report was partially
-corroborated by some refugees, that
any mine or torpedo which had been
laid in the channel had been there 50
long that it would not explode, They
said the only danger to an American
ship was in the shore batteries.
Lieut.. John Miley, who was Shaft
rer's executive officer, but who has
since died in the Philippines with the
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Purity OF French Elections. 35
yenality is wholly exceptional in the
Erench election, whatever may be writ
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rank of lieutenant
colonel, told me
that shafter often
declared that a
steam launch or a
torpedo boat with
only a one-poun[der
r]apid-dre gun on
deck could force an
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lsh batteries open
ms: ing up. In a few
minutes a continue
GUS roar came over
the hills; the indi-
vidual booms seem
ed to be lost in the
concert, and our
men began cheer
ing. They thought
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E made its dash out Of the bay It was

2 u tal1lE'E Its1 y GstAG
G q N M Q n t a / k
around Gen. Shat
ter's head Quarters
that the rench
consul in Santiago
had been told by an
Off Ter Of Cervera's
fleet that the Span
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of condemnation.
He was censured
for taking the New
York /: out Of line
when he could just
as well have made
the trip to Siboaey
on one Of the mos
quito fleet or in a
steam launch. e