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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01
Elsie Learns About Money.

Elsie's first experience with money
occurred when she was so short that
she had to climb UP on a stool in
order to see the clerk behind the candy
counter. Then she used to take a
penny out of her little white mitten,
reach it out to the clerk and say,
"A little tandy mouse, p'ease. So the
first thing Elsie learned about money
was that she could exchange it for
something she wanted. On day Elsie's
uncle came to visit her, and he gave
her more money than she had ever
had at one time in her life-a bright
new silver quarter. 1t was SO pretty
that Elsie thought she would keep it
always. She carried it everywhere she
went, and thought about it most Of
the time. Then she began to be afraid
she would lose it, and it worried her
very much until she thought of a
place where she could hide it. When
no one was looking she picked out
a tiny spruce tree in the field where
she often played, and under this tree
she planted her shiny quarter. Then
she ran away to play, happy in the
thought that her precious money was
safe. Next morning she went to look
at it,. She dug and dug all around
the tree, but she did not find it. She
looked under all the other little spruce
trees, for, strange to say, they all
looked so much alike that she could
not exactly remember which one was
the tree where she buried her treasure.
She never found the money, but she.
learned two things: First, money is
a great care in itself and of no use
unless it is in use; second, buried
money is as good as no money. The
next money Elsie had was a whole dol
lar bill She could hardly believe that
the little rectangle of green paper was
four times as good as the shiny money
she had lost. They had to explain to
her that four shiny silver quarters had
been locked up for her in Uncle Sans
big treasure house, and that the green
bill was just to say that she could buy
dollars worth of something and he
would pay the silver or gold for it.
The bill she hid on the shelf behind
the clock, and on rainy days she would
climb up and look at, it and plan what
she would buy with it at Christmas
time. When Christmas was near she
went with Auntie to town to spend the
dollar. She bought a jack knife for
Brother Hal, handkerchief for papa
and a pretty cup and saucer for
mamma They were all SO pleased and
surprised with her presents that Elsie
made up her mind that all money was
good for was to spend in making other
people happy. Some day l will tell you
how Elsie first learned that money had
to be earned and how she earned her
first money.-New York Press.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01
HOW CHINESE CURE PEANUTS.

They Are an American Product, but
Receive Oriental Treatment.
The trans-American railways have
their agents in all parts Of the world
commercial agents. industrial agents,
tourist agents, livestock agents, car
service agents and oriental agents, as
well as the regular assortment and va
riety of freight and passenger agents.
The oriental agent of the Great North
ern railway in this city is Mr.. Moy
5Wu-yen, a highly interesting China
man who carries in his pockets a hand
full of cheese peanuts with which, from
time to time he regales his friends.
In the midst of business he suddenly
conceals his hand beneath his blouse
and asks, Will you try a Chinese pea
nut y The hand, soft as that Of a gen
tie maiden, reappears with the nuts
and you are tempted, says the New
York Press. You yield with pleasure,
accepting one. 1t resembles the native
"goober, 49, which ex-Gov. Campbell
failed to corner, but is The most de-
licious morsel in thenut shape that you
ever tasted. Mr.. Moy laughingly tells
you, when you ask where more nuts
can be had, that they are not Chinese
peanuts lat all, but the familiar old
Virginia . gOober' prepared in the Chi
nese fashion. We take the raw nut, q Z.
he explains, and dry it perfectly in
the sun. leaving it many days on the
house top. Then we soak it in salt
wafer brine, you call it--for three.
days. after which we again dry thor
oughly. This may take aWeek. Then
we put it in an oven In a pan OF very
hot sand and CONT nually stir until it is.
cooked we'll done. That is all. Nothing
could be more simple. The peanuts
the Italians roast in their sheet-iron
cylinders? No Chinaman would touch
one! We say Chinese peanuts to have
fun with our friends There are no
Chinese peanuts. S
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01
The Moon BABY.

The Moon Baby.
There's beautiful golden cradle,
"a That rocks in the rose red sky;
4 have seen it there in the evening air,
When the bats and beetles fly;
With little white clouds for curtains,
And pillows of feecy wool.
And a dear little bed for the Moon
Baby's head, II. s
SO tiny and beautiful.
There are tender young stars around it,
81 That wait for their bath Of dew
i In the purple tints that the sun S warm
prints sG1 rs
q Have left on the mountain blue;
There are good little gentle planets
I That wait to be nursed and kissed
And laid to sleep in the ocean deep,
ssx. Under silvery folds of mist.
But the Moon Baby first must slumber,
& For he is their proud young king;
So, hand in hand, round his bed they
stand sss#::. -
And lullabies low they sing,
And the beautiful golden cradle
=. Is rocked by the winds that stray,
With pinions soft, from the halls aloft,
+ Where the Moon Baby lives by day.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01
A Shadow OF Her Life.

Somebody once asked a tranquil old
resident of Nantucket If her life had
always run as smoothly as she could
wish; if no great sorrows or disap-
pointments had ever come to mar it's.
serenity.
The old lady sat looking out of the,
window for a moment, and then turned
to. her. questioner with a little smile
on her sweet face.
III It suppose you'll think it's foolish,
maybe she said, "but I did have one
great disappointment, and I've never.
forgotten it. There was a man that
came to the island once with a hand
organ and a monkey. He got as far
as the corner Of our street, and
thought he was coming right this way,
but he didn' t. sS
II was housed with a cold and
couldn't go out to see him and his
monkey, so only caught just q.
glimpse Of them. They played half an
hour in the next street.
. sDisapp like that stay by
folks all theirslives,'' she added, after
a sympathetic ejaculation from her
visitor. It was more than thirty
years ago, but I've never ceased re-
GREETING ! didn't see that monkey. rye
been wonderfully blessed in every 9TH
5er way, dear; but that organ grinder
never came to the island again
never! - ouths' com panion.
With money you can move the gods
without it you can & move a M a1,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01
Aunt Kate Penny's Lecture.

Somebody asked in rhyme not long
ago, t.Did you ever see a rabbit climb
a tree?'' And went on to explain the
reason why no one had, by saying that
it Simply couldn't do it, don't you
see.'' That isn't much Of a reason, is
it? Perhaps you know the real reason
why and will tell US; but. I'm going
to give as my reason, that it wasn't
taught how when it was young. If
its home had been up the tree think
it would have managed it as we'll as
its cousin, Signor Squirrel, don't you 2?
But that isn't at all what / started out
to lecture about, for I dare say all of
you know three times as much as, I
do about squirrels and ra bbits and such
I meant to ask was, can
you write with your left hand Or
throw a. stone? Or brush your hair??
Or use your knife? Or button your
shoes? Or catch a ball? Or do a hun
bred other things? II you can't it is
high time you began, for you will find
plenty of use for your lef hand If you
only train it as your right hand is
trained, and develop the left side
muscles. Don the discouraged because
it is awkward for q time; just remem-
Der that your right hand has been
trained ever since you were a little
baby reaching out after the pretty red
Worsted ball. Jack Alling broke his
right arm not long ago, and he was IN
despair when he was allowed to go
about little, because his left hand
didn't do as he was accustomed to have
his right hand do; he had to have his .
meat cut for him. like a baby, and the
soup always splashed out Of the spoon
but he started to train his left hand,
and IT WASH long before he wrote me
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01

leIS, whose sJranc is up the RAPIDLY
lowing Belize river. 3. 81 "
As few clumsy looking stbungoes';.
cross the lake and one American built
Steamer, the Victoria, which carries
passengers to and from Granada, It is
here that the aspect Of the landscape
changes and the great chain of mount
ANS forming the backbone of the two
american continents finds its lowest
repression. The great forests of the
eastern coast have disappeared;
and fertile table lands, luxuriant
groves and grass-covered prairies OF
s 'sl' an with rising mountain peaks,
deep raVines and roaring torrents char.
acter1ze the scenery as the traveller
Journeys onward. And it is here that
the sparse population of the country
IS chiefly concentrated. They are broad.
~ separated into two distinct classes,
the Ladino and the Indian Ladino is
general term meaning the upper or
better class, and is applied alike to
T all white natives, creoles and mesti-
zoes, whatever their origin. The pure
blood Indians form the most despised
class. The dark-skinned Ladino will
readily account for his dark complex
ion by claiming negro origin, while
he will sturdily deny that Indian blood
lows in his veins, so deep set is the
stigma which was cast upon the abor-
igines by the early conquerors. I
The West Coast indians.
The Indians of the interior and west
coast differ from those of the eastern
slope in their attributes as greatly as
do the varying aspects of the country
While the Mosquito and other tribes,
all more or less related, are a dark
brown, bushy-haired people, who have
made no progress in the arts of civil
ization, those of the tablelands and the
western slope are yellow race, who.
at the time of the conquest possessed
civilization closely allied to that of
the Aztecs. They are at the present day
an amiable, polite, Industrious and in
teresting people, though unprogres-
sive. Their industry is of the most
painstaking and in many instances I'M
thinking character. They do things be-
cause their forefathers did them and
consequently waste their time in slow
and antiquated methods. ~ = e, Z - p:
The construction of the canal will
draw thousands of foreigners to Nicar-
aqua: and the effects of this new and
heterogeneous element upon it's pres
ent population is hard to anticipate.
There are vast fields awaiting owners
to develop them and indications of
gold and silver mines to be discovered
and exploited. The immense forests of
the Mosquito country with all their
valuable timber and rubber, are as
yet UNEMPLOYED and there are prairiss
capable of sustaining millions of cattle,
while on the higher elevations the cot
fee tree grows in reckless profusion.
In such a country with it's thousands
of square miles of undeveloped, Enin-
habited territory, it is not hard to i'm
agine when the difficulties of travel
are once removed, the influx of a busy,
striving population from the already
crowded centers of the old word.
which shall make of that region. so
richly favored by nature, a land of
blessing to it's civilized inha bitants.-
Thomas R. Dawley, Jr. ]
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01

For eight crops corn, wheat, oats,
barley, rye, buckwheat, potatoes aha
hay-covered by the reports to the de-
partment of agriculture, the farmers
Of the United States received almost
S2oo'ooo,ooo more in 1900 than they OBJ
tanned fcI' the same products in 1899.
Buckwheat and barley were the onlv
crops in the list which showed a de-
crease in value, and the advances, in
corn and hay especially, made this de-
hcit seem slight. We quote the statis
tics mainly as a matter Of record. The
contented smile on the American farm
er's face is proof enough of itself thar
he is doing very well indeed.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01

Games Played by Chinese Children. E
y It is interesting while Anassiean boys
and girls are playing their games and
enjoying their sports to read Of the
enjoyment the children of other eoun-
tries have. Chinese boys and girls,
for instance, have their games that
they play with just as much enthusi-
asm as do their American cousins
One of these is ''the hawk catching
young chickens The children stand
one behind the other, having the larg-.
est boy to protect them from the hawk.
The hawk, the child who, as we say in
most games, is it, comes to catch the
and forth and the protector keeps be-
tween the brood and the hawk. An
other game is pointing at the moon or
stars" The children form themselves
into a ring, with one of their number
blindfolded in the center. The ring
moves around, the players singing. The
ring stops and the boy in the center
points. The person toward whom he.
points must take. his place blfndfolded
in the center. Another game is kick
ing the marble The. players have
two marbles an inch or more in di-
ameter, one Of which is put upon tho.
ground and showed with the foot. The
other is put down and one boy tells
the other to put it a certain direction
from the other. If he shoyes it so as.
to hit the other and still go in the
desired direction he wins double and
is entitled to two kicks. # he simply
goes in the position indicated he wins
and is entitled to one kick Chicago
Record.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01

Bavaria has resumed relations wit 4
Greece for the first time since the
Athenians drove out the late King
Otto. AS one result Prof. .Furtwangler,
director Of the Munich ;Glyptothek,
will go to Aegina next summer to ex-
cavate the site where the Aeginetan
statues of the Munich museum were
found, in the hope Of discovering evil
dence that may decide what is the
relative position of the groups to each
other.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01

In expectation of an heir, the King
and Queen Of Italy have had bro uaght
to Rome the tortoiseshell and ggoold
cradle which was used for King Victor
emmanuel when baby. There is
very curious family cradle" in the
possession Of the Errolls. 1t has. a
carved wooden serpent at one end and
dove at the other; the idea being
that the child who uses the cradle will
possess the wisdom of the serpent and
the harmlessness of the dove! -
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01

Andrew Carnegie's last speech to his
Workmen at Homestead contained a
passage well worth remembering. La
Dor, capital and business ability" he
said, ARE the three legs of three
legged stool. Neither is first, neither is
second, neither is third. There is no
precedence, all being equally neces-
sary." All efforts to make the stool
stand on one leg or on two have been
failures, but when it rests upon all
three it is hard to upset.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01

A mammoth black walnut tree on
the farm of E. P. Gaus in Williams
county, Ohio, has just been. sold for
$4,000. Several lumber dealers have
examined chips from this tree, and all
have declared it to he the finest speci-
men of that kind of wood they ever
saw. The tree was eight feet in d.
ameter, forty feet above the stump, and
extended seventy-three feet from the
butt to the first limb.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01

That the art Of cooking ranks high in
the estimation of British army officials
is shown by the recent grant of So, 500
to the widow of the late staff sergt.-
Maj. Thompson, in recognition of the
valuable services rendered by her hus-
band who was for many years the
chief instructor of the army school of
cooking at Aldershot.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01

Some remarkable relics OF the early
civilization in Egypt have recently
been unearthed and deposited in the
British Museum. Among them lis a
beautiful impression tof a royal seal
which represents the king wrestling
with a hippopotamus and .spearing a
crocodile. That must have been the
kings busy day.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01

Thirty-eight inventors have taken
out hundred or more each OF United
States patents since the beginning Of
the year 1872. Mr.. Edison leads all
with 742 patents, Prof. Elihu Thorn
son is credited with 4444, and Mr.. West
fnghouse and Sir Hiram S. Maxim both
occupy high places on this modern
roll Of honor. Should our government
set out TO decorate" the men who con-
fributed most to national wealth and
progress during the nineteenth cen
tury, the list Of inventors would yield
names as deserving as any to be found
Ia the record OF statesmen or soldiers.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01
ppEN.,S COP11zkss

Ss such a pretty letter with it, telling how
ne called 'a' his right hand THE teacher
VINO was sick and the left { the pupil
VINO has been left in charge Of
#sehoolful Of duties" And his sister
Jessie was SO impressed with his prog
't that now she is taking writing
lessons and fencing lessons A"On both
sides. as she expresses it.
T ANY left-handed boy or girl
who reads this lecture will please read
it upside down; II mean put right in
the place Of left New York Press.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01

Recent experiments in wireless teleg-
raphy, in connection with the French
fleet, have been SO satisfactory that it
has been decided TO provide the whole
Mediterranean squadron with wireless
apparatus, which will be subjected to
decisive tests during the coming cruise
Of the squadron.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01

The Minnesota senate has passed,
with amendments, Senator Chilton's
bill prohibiting the marriage OF in
sane, epileptic and idiotic persons, and
requiring medical certificate Of all
applicants for marriage licenses.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01

. Miss Ella Ewing, the Missouri giant
ess, who is feet inches in height,
recently built a house for herself. Her
new home has doors 10 feet high, CELL
ings 10 feet high and is equipped with
chairs, tables, beds and everything in
proportion, 81 @ss s#
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01
The Lost Prfncesses.

r
The following story Of two little
princesses was written by a bright
little pupil of the second grade CAL
houn street school Hortense Moran,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. P. J. Moran:
once there were two little girls and
their mother was queen and their
father was a king, and one day they
went to walk without any one with
them. - --,-s
But they went SO far that they met a
man. The man said to them, What
is your name, little girls?' They said,
I'VE have lost our way" But said
the man, 'tell me your name7 They
said, Our names are Elizabeth and
Claire, the daughters of Queen Eliza
BETH" well" said the man, II will
take you to my home until can find
your mother" So they went with him
to his home. It was a, very nice little.
cottage and had very pretty roses and
other flowers that like, and there
were children around there, too. Eliza
beth and Claire had very happy times
with the other children, and when they
were lonesome the people of the house
would say, go pick a lot of flowers
and make some wreaths and sell
them Now, as the queen was very
worried over her children, as they had
not come home, she and the king went
to hunt them, and they did not find
them. They went home in misery and
retired, and when the morning came.
they hunted them again, and the man
that took them to his home was hunt
ing their mother, too. Then the king
and queen went home, and did not find
them in a long time. y But every day
the children played and had fun. One
day the man found their mother and
told the children, and the children were
glad, and so the man took them to their
mother, and their mother thanked him
for keeping them safe, so the queen
gave the man five thousand dollars.
The king and queen and their two
little girls lived happily ever after,
and so did the man.-Atlanta Consti-
tuition. 81 a. 49,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01

But they are harmless people. under
chiefs who make their own laws as
occasion requires. .s .,s .'s. ls
Method OF Dispensing Justice. s
When one of their number has trans
crossed council is held around their
tribal fire, the gravity OF the crime dis
cslssed and the penalty which the guilty
one il Il must pay decided. Usually fine
is fixed. Being notified OF the amount.
q the eulprit without demur seeks pas
sage to some port where, finding en-
ployment, he remains till he has accu-
4nfa1l1ated sufficient to pay the fne.
Waereupon he returns to his people
with Joy and thus reha litates him
self. As the chief means Of conveyance
among these people is BY their narrow "
5dugouts which they paddle up and
down dow the numerous streams intersect-
ing their intermina able forests, they
make admirable canoemen and are eag-
1erly employed as such at Belize. Brit
ish Honduras, by the mahogany cut
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01

The poet records that he shot an
arrow into the air, but could not see
where it fell to earth. Long afterward
he found it in the heart Of an oak. It
liz for protection against reckless use
OF firearms, possibly in the, hands of
other needless poets, that the Adiron-
dack guides have recently appealed to
the legislature. The modern small
bore rifle sends bullets far beyond the
necessary hunting range, and fire.
quently kills persons whom the gun
ner cannot see. A true aim, a steauy
arm, a square hit are in all the walks
OF life justly commended. But what
about the so-called spent" bullet, with
its lingering power to wound? Must
not society as well as law hold the
sportsman responsible? /.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-01

line, VIII represent the San Juan river
carrying off the water Of the lake to
the ocean. The area OF the country IS
$500 square miles, sufficient to main
tain a population Of a million people.
The great lake is a remarkable sheet
of water, 125 miles long and from forty
miles to seventy-fve miles wide From
the middle Of the lake the shore line
ION either side is invisible. There are
a number of islands in the lake, in
Guiding the two VOLCANOES, Omepetec
and Mederia which rise to an altitude
respectively Of $3.50 and A;200 feet,
North Of this great lake there is an
other but smaller lake connected with
the former in times OF flood. "
Through the Great Forests. Il
There is a remarkable difference in
the character Of the country east and
west Of the lakes The mountain sides
and the ,plateaus Of the eastern slope
are covered with perennial green, while
the country west Of the lakes during