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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-07-20
The Events Of a Day.
BY THOMAS P. MONTFORT.

BY THOMAS P. MONTFORT.
Copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Coz
"By George! but I wish I had a
chance to know her! She's about the
pretiest girl I ever saw"
Joe Martin ended with a sigh, for,
although he was not aware Of it, he
had already taken the first step to-
ward falling desperately in love with
Susan Meade.
He had seen her for the first time
in his life while walking slowly along
trail that led across the cattle range
of western Texas. Hearing a woman's
screams, he had turned off to the east
a few yards where he had found Miss
Meade in great distress.
8 In reaching out over little slough,
trying to get choice water lily, she
had lost her balance and tumbled into
the water. She had quickly regained
her footing, but the bank was SO high
and steep that she could not ascend it..
So, drenched from head to foot, and
standing in water waist deep, she was
compelled to wait for some one to
come to her rescue.
When two long hours had passed,
and she had called, time and again,
without attracting notice, she lost
hope and began to wonder if she
would have to spend the night there,
or whether it was not possible that
ST 3 might remain there until she died
starvation. Just as she had sue
sded in conjuring up the very gloom
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| feelings of joy, shame and anger. It
was joyful to know that a rescuer was
at hand, but she was too womanly to
forget for an instant the SAD spectacle
she presented in her drenched condi-
ton, and the faint trace of a smile
she saw on his lips angered her.
Reaching down toward her he COM
manded her to give him her hands,
and she hesitatingly obeyed, and the
next moment he drew her up to his
own level
I hope you are not hurt he said,
looking at her anxiously.
Not in the least she replied,
shrinking before his gaze Il am very
well now, and need not trouble you
further. I am very grateful to you for
your Kindness
Which means" he said, that may
go as soon as l like 49, s~
Don't feel that I am ungrateful and
unappreciative,' she answered 'But
F. Il know" he said. stIt is your ap-
pearance. I am not cruel enough to
take any notice Of that Isn't there
some other service I could render you?
Can't see you to your homer" ~"
Il thank you, but I prefer to go
alone
Then I'll hid you good day. .
Good day. 5ss>~~ H. >.>-.: -.
AS Joe continued on his way he re-
called her features, and the more he
thought of her the more eagerly he
wished that he might know her. She,
too, thought of him and wished she
might know him.
But it can never be-" he said to
himself, "for tomorrow I leave for my
home, back East
Perhaps shall meet him again. 2
she said to herself, for one can never
tell what may happen
She was right. One can never tell
what may happen. Joe discovered the
truth Of those words sooner than
might have been expected And he
discovered it in a way MOTTO be read
lily forgotten.
He had gone but short distance
when he met a man on horseback.
The man had been riding hard, for
his horse was wet with sweat and was
well blown
.'sAre you going to town, stranger?"
he called eagerly, bringing his horse
to a stop.
81 am" Joe replied. why ?'' ?
"I thought you might be willing to
do me a favor the other answered
quickly.
Certainly. what is it?''
My brother has just been severely
hurt and must have the attentions Of
a doctor at once. There is no one with
him and I hate to leave him alone, SO
T thought if you would just take my
horse and ride to town you could send
the doctor out
/ It all seemed reasonable enough to
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-07-20
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BY. FLORENCE KINGSTON HoFF-
NAN.
copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Coz
Few people peeping within the quiet
room where little Mrs. Cronin rocked
her sick baby could have recognized
her as the original of the flaming post
crs with which the town was literally
plastered. These portrayed a highly
colored female standing erect upon
two ferocious lions with the Stars and
Stripes waving above her head. Yet
they we're meant for her, and like the
renowned DR.. Jeckyll&and Mr.. Hyde,
Mrs. Cronin lived two different lives
as widely antipodal as theirs. Plain
Marie Blee, before her marriage
though known to the circus world as
Mile. Terephine Bellefontaine, she had
been as proud as a queen to become
Mrs. Cronin, for though all Of ner col
leagues voted Jim Slow one and a
very poor match for the brilliant
mademoiselle, it was just that very
:stolidly and tranquil affection which
most endeared him to his little wife.
Jim was a keeper in Robinson's Gil
:gantic Menagerie, and day after day
he went patiently on with his work,
cleaning the animals cages and doing
out their rations, without one single
yearning in his honest soul for any
more ambitious position, while he did
it all so quietly that the savage brutes
needed his presence no more than that
of the flies buzzing through their
cages, MI. =. -..*z..-. ',.
He and Marie were married in the
spring and had been blissfully happy
for year on Jim's modest earnings,
which, though not munificent, were
amply sufficient for their simple needs,
but when the blue-eyed baby came to
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her old lines, though Diabolo and Ger
berus, her former charges, proved less
tractable than OF yore, having been
used Tor q year and a half to the bru-
tai ferocity Of Signor Baratti, recently
dismissed for drunkenness; but she
got on pretty we'll after a time, the
mons learned once more to obey her
mllder methods, and as she snatched
llttle Jimmy to her breast each day
a1ter the performance, every kiss upon
MS rosy cheeks encouraged her to
work on for his dear sake.
During her performances Jim was
never very far away, for those were
MS of-duty moments, and though two
Dig guards stood always at the gate
OF the lion cage, whose interference
mad never yet been necessary, it
seemed to the honest fellow that his
whole happiness hung by single
thread, and in his loving heart truly
he died daily.
And now the baby had fallen ill and
though his nurse assured them it was
nothing serious and that spasms were
quite common with teething children,
Marie felt as she watched the little
form lying quite still across her knees,
Or again twitching convulsively while
her heart almost stopped beating, that
she simply couldn't leave him.
7. But, alas! When she presented her
self before, Mr.. McGrath, sole man
ager and proprietor of the show, one
glance into his fishy little eyes con-
vinced her in advance that any appeal
Leave ye off from the matinay, is. it?
Now, I'm awful sorry, Mrs. Cronin,
but it amt to be thought Of. Biz is
biz that's my motto. You and them
lions is my most drawin' card, and if
. twas to git about you wasn't goin' to
perform, we might as we'll close the
circus, for we shouldn't take in a
fiver-'' here he spat copiously and
conclusively. I'm real sorry the kid
is SICK" he added, seeing her whiten
and tremble before him, "but I guess
he'll pull through, and you amt in the
ring over half hour any way Il
How could she explain to this man
that her courage was all gone, that
every nerve in her body seemed to
quiver and snap,--he wouldn't under
stand, and with a sickly faintness
stealing over her, she dragged herself
round to the dressing tent and strug-
gled to get into her gaudy tights.
Mother Meachin, who took charge OF
the wardrobes, eyed her pityingly.
Shed had children herself long ago,
and as she saw how Marie shook and
trembled, and hearing the band, knew
L tnat in few minutes more she would
be called, she pressed fat, black bot
tie upon her, saying, with real kind
ness:
'.Take a swallow, dearie; it'll heart
en- ye up a bit; you are all shakin' like
a leaf
But Marie, after only a sip, thrust
it from her, saying, family: No
sank you, Mozzer Meachin; it make
me but more seek" and then as the
we'll known music struck up and she
kneW that her hour had come, the Ole
woman heard her whisper to herself:
.Oh! bon Dieu des Miserables, pro-
tege-moi de ces betes feroces pour Pa
mour de ton Fills unique. z thus she
prayed.
AS she bounded into the lion cage
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The Original of the Flaming Posters.
complete their happiness, Marie found
in this new responsibility stimulus
for further activity, and when the lit
tie boy was five months old, she in
sisted in spite Of Jim's protests on go
ing back to her work.
Little Jimmy was a sturdy chap who
never gave them moments anxiety;
they got a good woman to take care
Sf him, and with her mind thus re-
lleyed, Marie fell back naturally into
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-07-20
"A Huge White Affair.

An odd hat just turned out by an
artistic milliner was a huge white af-
fair, with a very slight indication of
a crown, bordered with a wreath Of
blue ribbon loops, and having hydran-
geas, pet flower of fashion, under
the brim. 3
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-07-20
Joe Appeared ON the Bank.

lest Of prospects, and was having a
hard struggle to keep back her tears.
Joe Martin appeared on the bank
5abave her.
She Iooked uD at him with mingled
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-07-20

A boy was born mid little things,
Between little world and sky .sz@4s
And dreamed not of the cosmic rings IL
Round which the circling planets fly.
He lived in little works and thoughts,
Where little ventures grow and plod,
And paced and ploughed his little plots
And prayed unto his little god.
But, as the mighty system grew, t..
His faith grew faint with many scars;
The Cosmos widened in his view
But God was lost among the stars.
Another boy, in 1owly days - <
AS he-to little things was born
But gathered lore in woodland ways,
! And from the glory of the morn.
AS wider skies broke on his view,
God greatened in his growing mind;
Each year he dreamed his God anew,
And left his older God behind
He saw the boundless scheme dilate.
In star and blossom, sky and c1od
And as the universe grew great,
He dreamed for it greater God
~ Sam Walter Foss.-
The Saint Paul globe., 1901-07-20
POETS BAD cHIRoGRAPHY .

New Orleans Times-Democrat.
joaquin Miller, the Poet Of the Sier-
ras' thinks no man alive writes more
illegible hand than he," spoke up the
reporter. Upon his visit to New Or
leans few weeks ago he told me that
his poor chirography had always been a
source of much modification to him,
end he had tried in vain for years to
acquire a. palmer fashion of writing
when news of the excitement incident
al to the great gold strikes and discover
les in Alaska first got to the outer world
Mr. Miller was dispatched to the Klon-
dixie as the representative Of a San Fran
cisco newspaper. He thought there was
a rich field before him for graphic de-
scrptive materials for stories, and he was
right; but there was also plenty Of hard
newspaper work to be done by the con-
scientious respondent. When Mr.. Mil
Ter finally got into the Klondike, he
found a score of newspaper correspond
ents, representing the great dailies of
the country, already there and ready for
news Of gold strikes and great fortunes
being made by men daring enough to
brave the ice and snow and hardships
Competitor between these correspond
ents was keen from the very first and
there was any amount of 'scooping' and
beating done away up there in the
Klondike
THE only way at that time the corre-
spondents had to get out their news was
to send it from Dawson to Seattle by
steamer, and, If 1t was important enough
have it wired from Seattle to it's destin-
alton. One day Mr. Miller ran across
Alexander Macdonald, since famous as
the king of the Klondike, and a three
times millionaire. Mcdonald had Just
reached Dawson, after having made the
greatest gold strike in the history of
the diggers, He told his story to Mr.
Miller, and likewise to several other cor
respondents. Then began a scramble
to get the story out to the world The
steamer was to leave that afternoon for
Seattle. Mr. Miller had taken no type
writer into the Klondike when he went
there, and he had to write his Mcdonald
story, which was a thrilling recital of
the sufferings and hardships of one man.
with pen and ink
1T went off all right with the stories
of two or three Others and reached 10
manager of the telegraph office at Seat
tie. The manager was able to make
out the name of the San Francisco paper.
but that was all Not line or sentence
could he decipher; neither could any op-
orator in the Office. Printers and proof
readers were summoned, but they could
do no better. Not man in Seattle
could read Mr.. Miller's copy. The tele-
graph manager could do nothing but for
ward the manuscript by mail to San
Francisco. There it arrived two days
after the story of McDonald,s strike had
been published to the world The other
stories got out from Seattle by wire, and
Mr. Miller's paper was badly beat, sim
ply because no man in Seattle could be
found to read his handwriting. -
The Saint Paul globe., 1901-07-20

after night, we were abandoned to our
own dreams, guarded only by the tickle
moon, which, wearying of her charge,
would sink to rest long before dawn.
leaving US asleep beneath the quiet
watches of the stars
All this is changed. For some reason
we have incurred the suspicion of the
god Of day, who all through our long
summer months never removes his burn
ing eye from the contemplation Of our up
turned face. In the winter, for few
hours day, the Stars and Stripes are
left in darkness.
Porto Rico. and the Hawaiian islands,
our territory became co-extensive with
hemisphere having Honolulu near it's
center. AS all of these possessions lie
north of the equator it is only during
the summer solstice that the sun shines
continuously on some part of it. Porto
Rico and Luzon are as nearly antipodal
as any islands of the Indies to the longi-
north. When the sun is setting in
Porto Rico and Maine it is rising in
Manila. When it is sinking behind the
mountains of the Malayan peninsula and
the shades of night are gathering about
Manila, the early rising Porto Ricans. if
there be any, and the Maine fishermen,
see the east crimsoned with the bars Of
early dawn Had we a coaling station in
the Atlantic, either in the Canary or Cape
Verde group, we might stand in the class
with England, France and Holland
with the class of empires upon which
the sun Of heaven never sets
Max O'Rell humorously, but somewhat
sarcastically remarked that the reason
why the sun never sets on English soil
was because it could not trust the damn
rascals. Now that the sun Is treating
the possessions of La Belle France and
those of the honest Dutch in the same
way, Max will have to revise MS humor.
To be a world-emplre has become so
easy and is such a common thing thau
we can find little pleasure in initiating
ourselves with pride over what the weak
est nation Of the globe may possess. An
empire that the sun must continually
watch needs also navy of no mean pro-
portions to guard it. While we are in
the business we might as well make our
World-empire complete by buying another
little island which will admit US to the
sun-never-sets class. 1t won't cost much
and will give us something to tell our
children.
The Saint Paul globe., 1901-07-20
FIX TERMS OF OFFICE
PLANS TO BE SUBMITTED TO STAT
UTE REVISION COMMISSION
Opinion That BI-Partisan Boards
Should Be AboIlshed-GOverno
and Regime Retire
simultaneously.

Among the accommodations which the
statute revision commission will submit
to the legislature are some covering
points which have been much discussed
and have provoked much criticism on
the part of the attorneys of the state.
One Of the recommendations which prom
ises to be popular Is that the terms Of
all administrative officers appointed by
the governor, except members Of boards
all Of whose terms 1t is advisable to have
expire at the same time, expire with the
term of the governor, who is responsible
for the conduct of all of the offices filed
by his employees.
It will also be recommended that the
legislature entirely abolish the system
of bipartisan boards which the commits
sion believes has never been productive
of desirable results
The commission also inclines to the
opinion that the numerous state boards
which are made up of the governor,
The Saint Paul globe., 1901-07-20

even the most sanguine had reason to ex-
pect.
1t is rather thankless task for a citi-
zen to attend such gathering, paying
his own railroad fare and personal ex-
penses in addition to giving his time and
labor without the possibility of public or
private recognition. This Mr.. Hoyt has
done; and he is entitled to public
recognition for his services to the COM
munity.
st. Paul occupies an exceptional posi-
tion in connection with the holding Of
national conventions. 1t has passed into
first place against all competing West
ern communities; and the selection of it
by the delegates at Cripple Creek is the
highest evidence that could be offered of
its popularity as a convention city. In
this connection it is to be remembered
that st. Paul is at the eastern extreme
of the territorial limit of the transmits
sissppi organization.
The events of the present summer
leave no doubt whatever on the sub
ject of st. Paul's pre-eminence as a con-
vention city. 1t is the city itself, the
beauty of its environments and the hos
pltality of it's representative people which
invite the attendance of so many con-
ventions. The feeling should be encour-
aged, and the facilities Of the city for the
entertainment of visitors from other
states and cities should be improved.
OF course there is a limit to all activ-
ity of that general character Indeed
it might be said that the resulting adj
vantages to the city are in greatest de-
gree fictitious. Only certain class Of
the community is Immediately benefited
by the appearance of given convention;
but the disposition of those VINO do at
tend is made friendly in the extreme un-
less the circumstances happen to be
peculiarly unfavorable.
In order to retain a leading place in
the race for municipal ascendancy 1t is
necessary to render ell such occasions
available. The reputation thus far ac-
quired ought to be improved on. No
more influential or representative body
of men ever assembled in deliberative
session than the delegates to the trans
Mississippi congress. Their presence In
this city will be a great moral and ma
terial gain; and their proper reception
ought to be prepared for with the utmost
care.
The Saint Paul globe., 1901-07-20

The opening Of hostilities upon Admiral
Schley by the Sampson forces promises to
sink them farther into the quicksand of
public contempt, if such thing be posi-
BILE. The fellow, Maclay, who poses as a
Sampson naval historian was but recent
ly appointed by Secretary Long to a posi-
ton in the navy department 1t is raid
by Maclay, but denied by Long, that the
proofs of the volume containing the at
tack upon Admiral Schley were submitted
to the secretary of war and by him ap
proved. Although the secretary has been
guilty of pernicious activity in this samp-
son-Schley controversy we do not believe
he would for moment, countenance such
an idiotic libel of an admiral as that
which the fool, Maclay, Incorporated III
his book. On the other hand it seems
equally incredible that any fellow, how
ever prejudiced, should include such Ian
guage in a book designated for use in the
United States naval academy, unless he
had been assured that the department
agreed with his views. Maclay made the
mistake of writing a history from news
paper clippings.
The Saint Paul globe., 1901-07-20
BoUeuErs FOR H. P. HALL.
Renville Farmer

RenVille Farmer.
The Sunday st. Paul Glob of July
I contained a short wrteup of the life
of II. P. Hall, the editor and gifted writ
er, since he came to that city forty years
ago. In reading the sketch it is easy
TO read between the lines the generous
character of the man By comb nation
of circumstances it lay in his power to
make or unnake men in politics Alex
ander Ramsey's defeat for a third term
to the senate may be traced chiefly to
this man as editor Of the Dispatch. His
defeat was brought about largely through
the part Mr.. Hall took in placing thu
late Senator G. K. Davis before the peo-
pie for governor and his subsequent cam
d1dacy for the senate when Judge S. ]. r.
Mcmillan was elected as a compromise
candidate. In this campaign he COM
pletely outgeneraled J. A Wheelock, the
veteran editor of the Pioneer Press, who
espoused the cause of the administration
candidates for governor and senator,
Washburn and Ramsey. And it may be
said In this connection that Mr.. Hall had
more to do with Senator Davis popular
ity with the country press than is gener-
ally supposed, although the lamented
senator deserved it all. Never rich in
worldly goods yet his influence with the
press of the state has ever been such
that it far overbalanced the power of
money on many a hotly contested po-
litical battlefield
While of late years Mr. Hall has not
taken so active part in politics he
has enlarged his sphere of usefulness by
devoting his energies to the bringing to-
gether of the forces that tend to the
prosperity Of the jobbers Of the Tw.n
Cities and the great Northwest through
the medium of his Trade Journal. pub
lished at St Paul.
But where the man more recently
springs into prominence is through his
appointment as one of the commiss. .oners
representing the state at the Pan-Amer.-
can exposition, where he denominated
Minnesota as the Bread and Butter
State" and wrote book to prove it. OF
all the speeches delivered on Minnesota
Day at the big show none made the de-
cided hit or were received with louder
acclaim than the speech of Harlan p.
Hall on that day. We will venture to
say there is not genius in the country
that can coin words that will have a more
lasting impression on those who hear or
read them than was contained in that ad-
dress, He had grand subject Min
nesota," to dwell upon, and before
critical audience, and well did he Uphold
the dignity Of his position.
The Saint Paul globe., 1901-07-20

members Of the Twentieth Century Eu-
chre clu yesterday afternoon at the
nome Of her daughter, Mrs. Dadmun, on
Lincoln avenue
The Ladies' Aid Society Of Woodland
Park Baptist Church was entertained
yesterday afternoon by Mrs. A. j. VIII
hams at her home, Bald Eagle lake.
Mrs. D. r. Anthony and Mrs. L. M.
Koehler, of Leavenworth, Kan, were at
the Ryan yesterday en- route for Duluth
From there they will take a lake trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Newell H Clapp Jr will
return Wednesday from their wedding
trip.
Miss Josephine Carr, Of Dayton ave
nue., is in Detroit, Mich
Mrs. Vassar, of New York, is the guest
or Mrs. Charles Stickney, of Lincoln ave
Miss Meade and Miss Margaret Meade.
Eastern trip.
Mrs. George II. Ranney and children.
and.
Mrs. T. O'Brien, who has been visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Malachi Kelly
Of Acker street, has returned to San Luis,
Cal. She was accompanied by Mrs p
j. O'Connell, of Hague avenue
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Z Bigelow are
in New York.
WI, anu MIS-. 1tu4ldlQ stewart, OF the
Marlborough, are spending the summer at
Lake Pulaski
Miss Young, Of Walnut street, will re-
turn next week from Colorado Springs.
Mrs. c. f. Stanley, Of the Colonnade,
is visiting the Buffalo exposition.
Mrs. A. J. Stone, Of Summit avenue, is
in Boston, to remain a month.
Mrs. w. ]. Doran, of East Winifred
street, is visiting in Menomonie, Wis.
Miss Lucy Hatch, of Wabasha street.
is visiting her sister IN Duluth.
Miss Flora Hills is entertaining Miss
Mabel Donaldson, of Tracy, MINI.
Mrs. Evans, of Westminster street, win
go to Philadelphia next week
Mrs. NJ. J. McFadden, of Ashland ave-
nue., has gone to Denver, Col