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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31

DAY just outside tho Damascus gate,
Jerusalem, in digging a ditch in his
yard, came upon some mosaic work at
about four feet below the, surface
which, when uncovered as far as per-
mitted by the streets bounding the ex-
cavatlon on two sides and the wall Of
house on the third, disclosed an an
cient mosaic pavement. Further ex-
cavations await the order Of the Turk
lsh government, whose officials have
taken the site in hand, and which may
show the pavement to extend some
what further in length on one side.
The pattern would indicate that the
complete width at one end has been
uncovered. This mosaic floor is about
220 PAGES west-northwes of the Da-
mascus gate. The part already uncov-
cred is about IS feet in length by II
in breadth. The upper and larger part
of the pavement is composed of an
exquisite design, including a central
panel surrounded by an elaborate
frame. The panel has, it's chief figure,
a representation of Orpheus, in sit
ting posture, and playing upon an IL
stringedl harp. Grouped within the
pssel are animals and birds, including
a serpent and a salamander, which
latter two are in an attitude of conflict.
The work is assigned to not earlier
than the fourth century, and possibly
as late as the seventh. t,4@ 4n@. "f( Ut
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31
'ai RTE Fir, e,s
ezr1 q z Oh tics

When Senator Thomas q. Platt was
approached by the friends Of Judge
Gresham in: 1883 and solicited for his
help in securing Gresham's nomina-
ton, he was told that the prairies were
on fire for Gresham His reply was
characteristic He said in his quiet
way j 5g51 SG,.' ~ a, 49, II
Eyes, I have heard of prairie fires.
They are easily started. In the old
days a careless hunter or traveller
might drop a lighted match upon the
prairie, and there would instantly be
a fire which would sweep the country
for miles around. But when the grass
was burned the fire was gone And l
never heard of any great damage done.
In fact, I have heard it said that the
western people used to start these prai-
RE fires every year, just to get rid of
the dry grass. y - =: -. $,,$ ~. /.
I. Eve do not have such fires in New
York In that country it. requires a
good deal of effort to get up a con-
Migration. have seen a fire started
in the fields, which crept along the
ravines, where the grass was dry, and
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31
,Senafor PIatf,s Inter-
e,sfing Digest Of a
u Presidential Boon, :z.s .

sometimes getting to the fence rows,i
burning up a few dry rails 1 have
seen these fires creep along through
the fields and fence rows for: days.
without attracting much attention,
But sometimes they get into the woods,
burn off the underbrush. get into the
dead timber, and then into the green
timber. When that stage is reached
in New York we have a hot fire. 4
That's the way we look at politics.
You get the prairies on fire for a pres-
idential candidate out west with COM
paratiyely little effort. We in New
York have to do a great deal Of work.
and consider great many questions,
before we can get the timber ablaze
for presidential candidate. We may
not have such fire this year, but we
will not consider your prairie fire for!
Gresham seriously until we get into
the convention. New York is going to-
Chicago this year to name the Repub-
lican candidate for president"
Platt's prediction was verified in the
convention. BENJAMIN Harrison was,
nominated through Platt's. influence. +
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31
How Chinese Use IsIbIes.

.1 "a few years ago, = said a Chicago
clergy man, the other day. there
went up a great cry for missionelly
Bibles in the Fl oWery King dom. The
Bible Society was extremely gratifed.
The demand was unpreced tented, and
thousands of dollars were spent in
sending them nice red morocco tesla
ments. This sort Of thing went 4on
\ for a long time, but the number Of ma
tive converts did not increase accord
ingly. The missionaries investigat-
ed. What do you suppose they dis
covered 2" That they used the BIZ
bles for gunWad ding ~ No. They
made frecrackers of EN- Practically
all the nicely printed Bibles that we
were sending over there were rolled
up in nice; little rolls, a page at a
time, and made into frecrackess. The
Chinese make firecrackers at home for
an Incredibly low price, and the paper
that they were getting free cut "a con
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31
S D
AlIY

s.#58As lies are preserved IN amber. 50
men 1nsl who mine for ozocerite OF mineral
| wax sonetimes are Overwhelmed $ iii
th Ele SOFT mass Termed out BY the enor-
nous pressure Of the confined gases
and are Embedded and sealed s11p alive
Lin the sticky stuff, to be UNCOVERED,
perhaps, only 4 in the lapse OF ages, as
new 1l,siW u and an interesting fossils, unless
heir comrades, with infinite labor,
rescue their bodies. Ozocerite is found
IN Canada and Mexico, as we'll as in
Austria Iun gary, Russia, Roumania.
Egypt and Algeria, usually in connec-
ton with rock salt and coal; but SO far
it has not been discovered anywhere
in sufficient quantities to pay for the
mining except in the district Of Bory-
4 slaW, in the Austrian province of Cali
scia,5 and to a limited extent at Tchele-
/ kan, an island on the west coast OF
the Caspian Sea. Not so long ago
half hundred miners OF, ozocerite in
#BoryslaW We're killed each year in the
galleries, but since 1884 the govern
ment has taken measures to protect
their lives. America imports an incon-
siderable quantity of crude ozocerite,
only about eleven tons of the. 5000
exported yearly from Austria; but
when refined and made into ceresin
the product enters this country in the
form Of Geographic cable wax, shoe
polish and wax candles. In the latter
manufacture it is mixed with beesWax,
which not only increases the fusibility
OF the beesWaX, but also makes the
candles much whittier. Ceresin also is
employed in the manufacture of
photographic cylinders, in. MODELLING,
In galvano-plastic printing, in making
shoemaker's wax and paraine and in
many other ways. Mineral wax is
never found pure, and such of the
crude material as is intended for ex-
port is freed from earth, small stones,
ETC., near the mines It is put into
tanks, which are heated either by a
direct fire. or by steam. In the former
case, the furnace is so arranged that
the flames strike the sides as well as
the bottom of the tank, for otherwise
the wax overheats, causing partial dis;
tlllation At all the larger works in
lBoryslaW steam is used now for this
process. In the beginning the steam
must have the degree of heat neces-
sary to melt the wax. Subsequently
only sufficient heat need be 4 main
tanned to keep the mass in liquid.
state. This is continued until all
earthly and other foreign matter, has
settled to the bottom. The wax is de-
canted into iron congealing vessels
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31
What Struck Him Mos i.

An exchange tells Of an Irishman
who after honorable service in India
returned to Ems gland and found a place
as a butler in a country family was
telling his experience Ii bait
advance, the gallop, the charge, and
how, as one rider fell dead from his
saddle, the death grip Of his fingers
on his pistol discharged it and killed
his own horse. hat truck you most
forcibly when all was over and you
looked back to it r. asked a friend.
h, Is said the old servant refec-
lively, st think, sir, that what struck
me most forcible, sir, was the bullets
1 that missed me! =
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31
Is the Welsh Tongue doomed ?

Ii "a Is the welsh Tongue Doomed
At recent eisteddfod, held at Dol
sgelly, one OF the principal speakers
caused a small sensation by express
ing the fear that the Welsh language,
Tor so many. centuries the vehicle Of
.noble thoughts in prose and verse, was
doomed, sooner or later, to extinction.
1t was useless; The said, to ignore the.
fact that the census. returns Of 1871.
with those of 1881 showed a decrease
in the twenty years in the number Of
those resident in Wales who were able
to speak Welsh Of 10 per cent. The
number who We're able to speak Welsh
IN 1871 was / ,006,1 100, and the number
in 1891 was only 911 ,2S9, a decrease Of
1881 in spite Of the increase Of popu-
lation. This was the more significant
inasmuch as the decrease began soon
after the passing of the elementary ed
ucation act Of 1870. He appealed to his
fellow countrymen to hold fast to their
fine old tongue, and. urged them to in
sist upon the. Welsh language being
taught in the day schools in the same
way that English is taught, particular
ly in the lower standards He hoped
before long every child in Wales would
be able to read and write in English
as well as any English chile, and to-
read and write their own language
in addition. He appealed to the various
sections of his gcountrymen to use all
the means in their power to bring this
about.-New York Post.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31

Tradition asserts that the Queen of
Sheba gave Solomon an intricately
pierced stone to thread. He solved the
problem by forcing worm, dragging a
thread, to crawl through the winding
passage. The modern version is on
a manified scale. To test the right of
Chicago to call itself a seaport; the
steamer Northman, loaded with west
ern grain, timber and machinery, has
made the voyage from Chicago to
Hamburg by way Of the Great Lakes
and the Welland canal The white
thread of her wake can harly fail to
weave new nd important pattern into
the maritime commerce OF nations.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31
Land of the
RflCdS

Ecuador is just beginning to awaken,
|. from its lethargy, and to learn the
meaning of the words progress and
prosperity The oldest Of ali the South
American republics is rich in unde-
veIoped res ources, which are beginning
to attract the attention of foreign IN
vestors. A company of American and
English capitalists is building a rail-
road from Chimbo to Quito, piercing
the very heart of the Andes; others,
with the pioneers inherent love for
adventure, are pushing their way into
the interior ahead Of the railroad, tax
ing up land for haciendas, and pres
pecting in the mountain chains and
valley streams for the gold regions,
which were the source of the wonder
full wealth of The Incas.
It is next to impossible to get at
the popu1a lion of Ecuado or, but even
including the undivided Indians it is
doubtful il the number of Inhabitants
can be reckoned at more than /, 3O0,-
ZOO. With such a small population a
fertile land lavishes its treasures in
vain. From the coast to the interior
the virgin forests hold in store i'm
mepse riches awaiting deVelopm ent..
The epublic has gold, silver and cop
per Il large deposits, as well as large
haciendas and stock raising farms,
while it is said that it produces gully
half Of the cacao Of the world. Cacao
/ is the berry from which chocolate is
made. Alfalf corn, barley, wheat
and other grains are raised in the val
leys and on ]SSihe slopes Of the Andes,
and all sorts Of vegetables and fruits
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31
Rounding Up Mountain Lions

John McCarty, territorial game war
den of Arizona, has left Phoenix at
the head Of a party, equipped for a big
roundup of California lions in the San
Francisco mountains, about $50 miles
north of Flagstaff <'
In that country the big cats are. to
be found in larger numbers than in
any locality in Arizona, and the party
expects to bag several, hundred OF
them. At one time the California lion
was to be found in all parts of Arizona
but large Territorial and county boun-
ties have caused his determination in
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31

8, 4 patriotic New yorker. a member
OF the Sons Of the Revolution, is pre-
pairing to give to each Of the public
school buildings of New York city, a
copy of colossal size, of the famous
Houdon bust of Washington. The
model, made by Wilson Macdonald,
one Of the oldest sculptors in America,
has already been accepted. The pub
lie spirited donor believes that love OF
country should be taught in the schools
and that there is no better way OF
teaching it than by keeping the mem
ory of the greatest patriots fresh in
the minds of the pupils Naturally the
Father Of his country comes first. H..
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31
ate Of Some
Miners Ia Miner
Wax.

having the form Of a truncated coneJ
These vessels are whitewashed on the
inside to prevent the adhesion Of the
congealed blocks of wax. The blocks
obtained are from fifteen to twenty
i've il1se inches high, have a diameter Of
from thirty to thirty-six inches and
weigh from $50 to $50 pounds. By far
1 the / larger portion of the raw ozocer-4
& tie used ia Austria is manufactured
into ceserin, there being in that coun-t
1 try about twenty refneries. It isl
doubtful if the process employed by
any two Of them are identical. In.
most Of the refining works the wax is
mix mixed with from six to ten per. cent Of
sulphuric acid, heated and filtered
through bone, charcoal, or spodium,
This colors it light yellow. 1t is treat
ed again with the sulphuric acid, and,
/ finally with caustic soda, until every
particle of the acid is eliminated,
\ Fairly successful experiments have
also been made to avoid the use Of
sulphuric acid and substitute benzole,
in which case the dissolvent is eli1ni-
L mated by distillation.-New York
Press. $,.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31
Who Are Naval O ice1

Il Ca ptains5 Who Are Naval o Ulcers.
On some of the foreig steamship
lines the captains are naval officers,
and, II. If case Of war, would retain their
onn1anl q On the German steamers
the officers must first serve a year or
50 in the II naval reserve. On the
French line each member Of the crew
must serve for a time on a vessel Of
war. On the mai GRITTY Of ships, how
ever, the officers are men of the sea
who have fought their way up, step by
step, entirely by merit, and not at all
by favor. On the American line, even
after 9 man has reached the rank Of
captain, he must pass rigid examina-
ton every FIVE years. n s5 t5S.s Il.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31

An Indianapolis correspondent calls
attention to the part played by the
telephone in recent divorce case at
Noblesville, Ind. A Mrs. Maggie brought
suit for divorce. On the day appointed
for the trial her attorney, Mr.. Fippen,
could not attend, and called up the
Noblesville judge and explained the
circumstances, suggesting that the
case be tried by telephone. The judge
consented the witnesses were sworn,
and in answer to questions asked them
by Mr.. Fippen, thirty miles away, sub
mitted their testimony to the judge,
after which Mr.. Fippen delivered his
argument, talking into the judges ear
by telephone. The divorce was grant
ed.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31
Ecuador awakening to
!. Its Vast Natural Dee
posts Of Wealth.
that are to be found in any tcmperate}

that are to be found in any tcmperata{
climate. ST.
5. The Ease with which Men Die.
Us I have found that persons Of clean
life, Of honorable, upright religious
character, not only do not display ami
Indifference to the approach OF DEATH
as those Of grosser life DO. hut Wel-4
come it as a relief from care and TOLL
There is something about The ap-
proach Of death that reconciles men5to
it. The senses are dulled, the percep-Ye
tive faculties are blunted and the end
comes quietly, painlesslF Ike q gentle3
sleep. In this condition mean ON
the approach of dea those who res
lain their faculties to any degree be-
come more or less philosophers hey
know that death is ineyita Bile, that it
4 is only question of hours, and they
accept he@Verdict without any demon
sstration and in Al philosoph way.
In all my experience Il have never.
found case in which d dying NJ an on
woman complained against the inevi1.
table, attempted to- fight its approach
or even feared it. It is only in good
health that we fear dea th. When we
become Ill, when we have sustained
some injury of a very serious nature
the fear Of death seems to disapp ear -
DR.. AndreWssof Philadel phia, who has
seen 1000 deaths.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31

The Pullman company Is arranging
to establish a pension system for it's
entire force of employees, numbering
between $4,000 and $4,000 persons. Six
ty years will be made the limit Of ser
vice. For each year an allowance Of
per cent Of the average monthly pay
for the last ten months is to be given.
Thus, employees who have been with
the company forty years, receiving
$50 month, would get 40 per cent Of
$50, OF $40 a month. t = s~51@A \.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31

Dr. N. S. Davis, of Chicago, is called
the father of the American medical
association, for it was in 1S45, while a
member of the New York state medi-
cal society, that he offered resolution
recommending that national conven-
ton, representing all the medical soci-
cites and colleges in the country, be
held in New York city in May, 1S4e.
The purpose was to be the adoption OF
a. concerted plan Of action for the ele-
walton of the standard of medical edu-
cation in the United States. The con-
vention. resulted in the formation OF
the American medical society. 4 DR..
Davis is IS years old, and has been a
resident Of Chicago since 1S49. -.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31

Eugene Fields first poem was dis
covered recently in the possession Of
Edgar White, a court stenographer at
Macon, Mo. It is entitled r.Bucephalus,
a Ftail," and is believed to have been
written by the author in. 1871, when
he was a student in the state univer-
sity. Fl. w. Burke, a ST. Joseph JUS
tice of the peace, who worked with
Field On the old st. Joseph Gazette,
has pronounced the poem genuine.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31
ty, has taken the matter in hand and
organized the hunting party. S. 3s9 n.
How One Woman Managed.

A curious outcome OF technical edu-
cation for women was shown during
the past year in the, case of a man
who by failure in business was re-
duced. to poverty. He had a capable
family and his daughters at once
sought for situations as dressmakers
and milliners In the latter trade
there was no prospect Of immediate
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31
Voltage for a Feline chorus.

h An east Bro ok1yn man with an cleo
.trical turn Of mind has lined his back
yard fence with wires connected with
an induction coil. He. presses the but
ton and the current does the rest. The
voltage is not sufficient to kill the
cats, but they never come back. The
cat fanciers in the neighborhood, how
ever, are protesting f. against his
"crueltY." w. =. - 80 "
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31
OH gDerald.
/. GRAND AIARIAS, MINNESOTA

The search for frozen birds in d New
York city cold storage house, made by
the state game inspector, is. ended. and
it appears that in its course nearly 40, :
900 birds, were discov ered, all OF
which, it Is alleged, were killed out OF
season. Criminal and civil actions are
to be brought at once against several
persons. &. N
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31


enumeration, as it is customary for.
beginners to give three months IF SER.
vice, both spring and fall, without
receiving wages. The second daugh-
ter got a place to sew in a dressmak-
ing blishment at small wages, and
the father efforts to make "a living
were hampered by his advanced years.
]. ! Z hen the mother took a hand. She
had had been raised on a farm and sought
and found employ ment tying up veg
#etables Tor market. In this industry
I the chief requisites are careful count
Ing and honesty, early rising and IN
ldustry She actually made enough
money to keep the family for three
onths but then she did not have
TO spend money to dress up to the
situation, and was paid for her work
az the end Of each day Phila delphia
Record.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31

crossin g Africa, to heW his for
4 hv ia reds Of miles throlg the terrible
Congo forest, and, final would be
compelled to cross the great tWi ISL.
s.nds OF Sumatra and Borneo, in Al lati-
tude where fever Of the deadliest de-
sscription is everywhere and always
epidemic S4 4I .i ta3s
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31

Captain Coghlan, upon his retire
sment in the fal | from active service in
the navy. is to make his home in Mans
3itou. Cal.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31

siderable figure with them. But it
taught US d CELESTIAL b lesson as I
might Boston Transcri pt ~
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31

Paul Wayland Bartlett. the sculptor,
who has established his studio in one
of the eastern suburbs Of " ashington
has received a letter from the Frsnch
government accepting his statue Of La
fayette, which Is the gift to France OF
100000 American school children.
Mr.. Bartlett's design was The success
I'll ore before the Am erican jury, and
A ne was required by the French gov
trnment to erect his statue in plaster
IN the site allotted for It IN the court
II the Louvre where the French Jury.
anally passed On it.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31

The remarks against kissing attrib-
uted to Professor Crook of Chicago,
prompted B. B. Wilson, a merchant of
Mount Hope, Kan, to form an anti
kissing league. A dozen married men
were persuaded to become members.
The wife of Secretary T. j. Cox, of the
league, has revolted and is suing for
divorce, after three weeks without kiss
ing, but Cox boasts he has not kissed
his wife in many years, maintaining
that it is unmanly. The pledge one
has to take to join the league is that
he will kiss no woman, no matter if
she is his WIFE,, kissing is for women
only-the weaker SEX" Wilson says.
kissing is a weak manner of show
ing affection. We love our wives more
than those men who are all the time
kissing them every time they leave
the house. Some wives may object, but
that will not induce us to desert the
cause. My wife is in favor of the plan
and looks at it in the same manner as
I do" #s WEI u
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-31

Il Finds NIosaIc Work.
a few weeks since the owner Of q.
little property in a small Jewish col