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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
FOR sH ~ 5 DRESSINGS.
Tho Juices 81 FRUITS Being Used /

Tho juices Of Fruits Being Used fos
Tfsis Purpose.
Il you see a fruit basket containing
oranges, lemons and bananas on your
friends dressing table do not eat them
Ife may need them IN his business and
keep them there as an adjunct to hia
boots and shoes People who have
tried it say that orange juice is The
best dressing in the world for black
leather. Take slice OF orange and
rub 1t thoroughly all over the boot OF
shoe. Allow it (the boot or shoe1 to.
dry and then brush quickly with soft
brush until the article you are polish
ing shines like looking glass a
convenient dressing for tan shoes is
the inside OF a banana skin. Rub il
well and evenly all over the shoe, and
it will remove all spots and dirt a.
well as give a fine polish, which is
brought out by using a flannel cloth
for Wiping dry and another for pol
ishing after drying. Some persons use
slice Of lemon as a dressing for rus
set leather and recommend it to their
friends. Patent feathers are the most
uncertain, coy and hard to please Of
any kind of shoe made. You can pay
any price you please for a pair of pat
ent feathers and they will crack the
first time you wear them. On the
ether hand, you may buy cheap pair
that will not crack until they are near
" worn out. Everybody has his own
faVorite prescription for keeping pat
ent feathers in good health, and is
ready to defend it against all corners.
Hearts that stood the storm when
seas were rough and which sorrow but
more closely tied have been driven far
asunder through a dispute over the
best way to take care Of patent leath-
ers. The shoeman will tell you to
heat them before you put them on anu
they viii not crack, but the shoe man
will not guarantee them, and tells you
this only to be agreeable and make
conversation A good way to treat
patent feathers is never to polish them
with anything except fine sweet oil or
vaseline. It is necessary to take a
clean sponge and clean the shoe thor
ough1y before applying the oil or vase
line. After this treatment the shoe
must be rubbed dry at once with fan
mel Or some other soft cloth which will
not scratch the patent fnish.-NeW
York Press.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
Range of Modern Guns.

tt is evident that few besides ord
nance experts know the effective range
OF one of the modern breech- loading
rifles. Proof Of this lies in the fire.
lqueney that newspapers are asked to
state in their columns the distance
that a shot or shell may be fired, the
thickness of metal it will pierce, etc.
The new 16-inch breech-loading rife
recently finished Ct the Watervliet ar
senal, and which is to remain with
the army exhibit at the Pan-American
exposition, will no doubt excite the
question among lay people as to
whether such guns could do much
damage in Manhattan if mounted on
an enemy's ship off the harbor. A
table of ranges and muzzle velocities
of this gun, prepared by Lieut.. -Col. r.
M. ingalls,, shows what it is capable of
doing. With 45 degrees elevation, and
projectile weighing 2,370 pounds, Civ;
en- muzzle velocity OF 1000 feet per
second, its effective range would be
.14.9 miles, while with muzzle We
.locity Of 1900 foot seconds, its range
would be "a miles. The table also
shows distance Of travel with other
Yelocities, and governed by weight OF
charge Of powder, but sufficient has
been stated TO prove that with the
maximum muzzle velocity projectile
could be sent nearly twice the distance
from Sandy Hook to the battery.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
Russia's White CITY.

For three months in the winter
,Archangel, now to become the grea,
western port of Russia, scarcely sees
the sun, and for three months in the
summer seldom loses sight of it. Yet
there is no city in the whole of Europe
which lies for so many months-fo1
the greater part Of the year, in fact
under a mantle of snow; and because
of this the Russian fondly calls it ..the
White City,
White, too, it is in other ways. All
the chief buildings glare with white
paint and blink with white blinds. The
churches-and in a Russian city they
are but few--are also of pure white
only the cupolas are green, and the
crosses on their SUBMITS gold. And
white. are the private houses of the
better sort-except where Norwegians
and Germans live, for buff and blue
and red then streak and diaper the
pine walls and edge the gable ends
But street-posts, gates, pillars, walls
fences-these are all white. And in the
summer, for every official you see in
a blue or gray tunic, you see ten in
white caps and white uniforms. Bright
color alone is left to the women and
children; pink blouses, green skirts
scarlet petticoats, orange aprons, anG
blue. kerchiefs are common enough
while a group Of children will always
look like a cluster Of old English flow.
ers. But otherwise, in summer as in
winter, this old city Of Archange1
now destined to be the capital Of &
new Russia in the near west, is E
White City, indeed.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
HE wAN,TED no KNow ",


He ambled up to the winodW IN a
careless manner and put his elbow on
the shelf for support. Then he drew a
strong breathyou could tell it was
strong without looking and smiled at
the clerk.
Afsh-his-- inf ormashun burro?" he
as. asked, In deliciously thick accents.
The clerk nodded and looked wise.
Fish where Ebay hic tell foksh
things ~ Hi
Tt is.''
Wise guysh.''
IS The clerk looked annoyed and waxed
sgroggy as he inhaled the atmosphere
llng ering just outside. ssz#
II you have any business with me
please state it at once" he said, an
grily.
cash it 'zackly -hic-telpt right
noWshoh elpme! shee, zish way. Came
down town shevenin' t. balance
oo'oksh-no can't balansh anyshing
ne, she''Rah f'r-but shay, whashwan'
tell y.sish met a frien' shay, you
frien' O. mine pr !.
+ Yes yes, I'm friend Of yours; but
get move on, old man. and let that
crowd behind you take a peep
|. The visitor wasn't so certain about
that, but after surveying the angry
II@llne just subsequent to him, he stopped
hesitating and went on:
+ *Sho men my frien' we took drink
IE-hic-an' here am 'Rah f'r-but
shay, #WhasWan' know -his-infor-
mashun blrro?''
Certainly, hurry up" is.s M AZ
We'll, vanish know--shay, I'm GO
In home I vanish know ish my wife
got club Denver Times.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24

GROUND.
IDENTIFY favorite nesting place Of
theirs, for in the branches there are
the ruins of nests evidently two or.
three years old
Close to the catbird's tang1e and w.
ing on the ground in a poor apology
for a nest were found a recently
Matched mourning dove and a white
egg from which the little bird had
not yet picked its way. This nest was
close to the stalks of some close grow
ing bushes and would never have been
discovered If the old mother bird had
not gotten up and flown away in a
terrible fright when the nestseeker was
four or five feet away.
With the instinct OF most OF the
ground building kind the old bird went
off with an apparently broken wing
and did her best to decoy danger away
from her helpless little ones. 1t is a
wonder how these little doves escape
the proving cats which hunt in the
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24

the nest completely A day or two
later something -boy or beast--had
discovered the deserted nest and stolen
all four Of the eggs.
II the yellow warbler builds another
nest and succeeds in raising it's brood
where the coWbirds cannot find 1t the
first catastrophe may be all for the
best. Even when only one cowbird's
egg is laid in a nest and is Matched
out with three or four young warblers
the latter are likely to get far the worst
Of it. The young coWbird from the
moment it breaks the shell is bigger
and greedier than it's foster brothers
and sisters. It will crowd them to the
side and insists on eating much more
than its share of the food which the
yellow warblers bring for their
young. ".
s Across the barbed wire and rail
fence from the warbler's nest is a big
woods pasture. Close to the fence
grow thick clumps of hazel brush
and wild crab and plum trees. In
some places the thicket is SO dense
that man has hard work in forcing
his way through it.. High up in these
tangles, six or eight feet from the
ground, two pairs Of catbirds have
built their nests. They are apparently
safe from all but other bird enemies,
for the long, sharp thorns and the in
terlacing branches protect them from
attack from the ground. This is evil
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
THE ROBINS.

&r * - f1E $HOBlNS.#Z $3.50. ,#., g.
teressing family, but there is an old
white cat with three kittens under the
hay NOW stairs, who spends hours
standing motionless, all but the tip
of her tail, in the tall orchard glass
and who thinks that dinner of young
robins would do her own children
much good.
There is a little yellow warbler who
built down in the pasture wood lot
and who had equally hard luck in a
different and really peculiar way.
The yellow warbler's nest was in
itself an exquisite thing. 1t was built
near the top of some thick bushes
about five feet from the ground. It
was lined with soft, silky gray MOSES
and threads Of vegetable tissue and it
looked like the inside Of spun silver
cup. 1t was built so artfully that
leaves and branches hid it on all sides,
and it took hard work and good luck
to find it even after one knew it was
there. 1t was found the day it had
been completed, when the mother bird
was just ready to begin laying her
eggs.
But there was another bird out that
day, sneaking through the bushes like
a pickpocket, looking for chance to
leave one OF its eggs in newly built
nest. The sneak was coWbird, which
never builds a nest of its own and dis
misses the whole subject Of maternal
responsibility from its mind when 1t
has left an egg in some other bird s
nest. One of these big brown and
black cowbirds found the yellow warb-
1er's dainty little nest and laid one of
its big spotted eggs there. Then 1t
few back to the pasture again, and got
down on. the ground among the cat
tie, with others of its sneaking kind.
Sometimes when yellow warbler
finds coWbird's egg in its nest it
will build a false bottom over the egg
and proceed to make its nest above
it on the second floor. But this poor
warbler got no such opportunity. This
has been cold, late spring, and the
Warblers and other similar birds have
been slow in building. Also there
were many cowbirds about, looking for
a chance to saddle off the Matching and
rearing Of their young on their bet
tiers, and before the yellow warbler
mother could get a chance to lay one
of her own eggs in the nest she had
built it was actually filed almost to
overdowing with four big coWblrd
eggs. This is believed to be the record
in the way Of cowbird greediness OF
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the two, with the customary result
Neither Of the disputants succeeded
IN 10 convincing the other, nor even in
shaking his opinion.
Well said Uncle Jerry, drawing q
long breath Of relief after they had
gone away there isn't very much diff
ference, after all, between an agnostie
5a an a cognostic.
lt was q new word, but seems ona
OF legitimate coinage,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
Wa1king on Mountain Side.

Walter Page, the editor Of the
Worlds Work, has organized party
to walk through the most romantic
parts Of the mountains of North Caro-
lima this summer. The expedition is.
to be in charge Of his brothers, Henry
and Junius Page Of Aberdeen, N. C.
The party consists Of Walter Pages
two sons, Ralph, now at Harvard uni
versity, and i've other Harvard stu
dents, and arthur, younger son, VINO
is going to q technical school in Law
srenceville n. X, and three classmates.
An old negro, Uncle Isaac, /" an ex-5
slave in the Page family, will drive a
pair OF strong mules to d wagon.
which Is TO contain tentA provisions.
etc,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
hard 70 CHOOSE

From the Youth s. Companion: Uncle
Jerry Ardhedd had two neighbors,
both Of a somewhat ntroEersial turn.
One was man who commended that
nothing could be positively known
that was not capable Of absolute proof
or mathematical demonstration; the
other was disposed to dogmatize about
everything.
and a long argument on things theo-
logical and otherwise ensued between
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
O,dest Ghurci, iii the Countr s.

Oldest Church In the Countr 4.
The oldest Protestant church in the
United States is st. Luke s, at Smith
field, va, writes William q. Curtis in
The Chicago Record Herald. St. Luke's
was erected in 1852, and was restored
In 1894 as nearly as possible to its Or
iginal condition and appearance, It is
4 beautiful old structure Of early Eng
glish gothic, with mullioned windows
T: and stately tower, and has been used
for public worship almost continuous
II for two centuries and half The
original church erected on Jam estown
island by the first English colonists
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
Wild Hawks.

All farmer boys who like to shoos
hawks would have been delighted to
have seen the immense flock Of hawks
that surrounded an Indiana town re-
Gently There must have been 5000
ID the flock, at least 400 were killed
before the birds concluded to move
on. What they were doing or where
they came from. were equal mysteries.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
sfNatural selections
HE RAISED THrw

That's Gilders. He's made big
pile
Yes, and there was a time when he
had to depend on my brother Jack tc
bring up his children
Nonsense! When did that happen? s
Often. The kids used to run in pref
ty frequent to their fathers Office,
which was in the buildin' where Jack
was elevator man. - -- Philadelphia
Press. -!,s-.zl e., J. 5:ss@S al .5sa
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
DistrustfuE.

sticl5ney-I don't trust that new
bookkeeper. . setz.. +: :
Pickney your umbrella where
he can get it; then il. he steals your
umbrella you'll know he is thief.
i Stickney-Good scheme! Er-do you
mind stepping out moment while I
put the umbrella into position Ohio
State, Journal. @z.S&
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
LOST IN THE CROWD.

Tess (meeting Jess on the street,
What's the matter?"
JEss--'.I've lost something, and I
can't think just what it's @s ,5z
Tess Its wasn't your"
Jess--"O! / know now It was that
little Mr.. Snipp, who was alking 18th
me,' "a.
Tess Then it was nothing, after
all p iladelphia Press.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
Hos,and Keeps Old ocean 1t Bay.

Holland Keeps Old Ocean At Bay.
There are at present about i 600
miles Of sea dikes In the Netherlands.
The total length Of dikes is difficult to
estimate, and even If it could be esti-
mated would mean but little, for It
must be remembered that the dikes
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
A MARINE VIEW.

The ship had dropped anchor in the
lower bay and the captain was nerv-
ously pacing the deck waiting for the
owners tug, say the New York Trib-
une. a man hailed the ship from a
roWboat and said he was coming on
board. ..
The captain recognized him as 2
boarding house runner, and ordered
him Off. The runner insisted.
"The minute you come over the rail
OF this ship, I'll shoot you like dogr'
yelled the captain. = -
You'll hang for it if you dot" yelled
| the man making his boat fast to the
ships side. <S %
MY ships my home, and I'd have as
much right to kill you as man on
shore to kill a burglar" continued the
the captain. "That's the instructions
got from the owners ON my last trip
Just then the owners tug arrived
and the runner took to his oars.
wouldn't have had right to
shoot him If he'd insisted on coming
on board ?" asked the captain. The
IioWner had consulted his attorney since
the captain had been in port before
and had to modify his orders.
| ''The law is different than we
| thought, he said. .'The ship is not
your home, but your yard. You can de-
fend your cabin as if it were your
house. Thee forecastlee is another
building in your yard, the quarters of
your servants. You can't keep their
| friends out by force =.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
WELL ,RECoMa1ENDED.

Mistress--'sYou say you are well
recommended" Iss .
B Maid-*Indeed, ma'am, I have thir-
ty-nine excellent references #...s
Mistress And you have been in
domestic service?'' ~
:: Maid-s'Two years, ma'am elias,
cow Times. i .. go TN
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
His Usual Lack.

.@ First Burglar (disgustedly) -Only 81
in the house and the silver all plated!
Second Burglar-Yes; an I s'pose
I'll get ketched into the bargain. I al
lus do get collared for these mean lit
tie jobs that wasn't wuth dom. Puck,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
Her Legal Prfyi,epes.

The following allegation in a bill TO,
divorce against a wife was held by the
Supreme court at Washington not tc
state any legal ground for divorce
She was quarrelsome, vicious IN dis.
position, murderous in threats against
the plaintiff and his parents, hysterica1
and ungoVernable in temper, crazy il
her actions, and by her causeless ane
unprovoked boisterousness, screaming
DING, and other wild conduct, b
day and night, an intolerable nuisance
to all her neighbors. = 4.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24

in North America under Captain John
Smith-the church in which Poeahon-
tas was baptized and married has all
disapp eared, except a picturesque, ivy
clad tower Of brick, surrounded by a
grove of trees
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
Of time been destroyed and rabpi1t J.

of time been destroyed and rebuilt re-
peatedly. It has not been SO much a
question Of building them as it has
been OF maintaining them and keeping
them Where they were. Besides pro-
#teeting the country from the invasions
OF both fresh and salt waters, the dikes
have served to reclaim no less than
s2l0, 600 acres, nearly all Of which are
good fertile land - National Geograph-
lie Magazine.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
COUPLED IN THE BETTING.

There goes the old colored man
who has been trying to get the judge
tol let his boy off, :" said the barber.
Yes said the police captain. II
wonder If he was successful Id
No" volunteered the bailiff. tsHe
was arrested with another colored boy,
and they were fined ten and costs each.
The judge told the old man he could
not let either Of them co. h. =
why not?''
II don't know, but I suppose it was
because they were coupled in the bet
ting
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
A Rising Scale

4 TEST never saw any girl so am
bilious as that Chicago heiress. She
had her choice Of German baron, a
French count and an English duke.
Jess-So she took the duke, eh?
e Tess--No, she took the baron, but
she has arranged to marry the count
next and then the duke P Philadelphia
Press.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24

ten two coWbird eggs are found in the
same s5 nest, but rarely if ever have.
four been found
The greed Of the cowbird in thus
completely occupying the warbler's
nest brought Its own punishment with
it. The warbler, disguised, abandoned.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
LITTLE LAUGHS.
"A Wide Experience.

H. A Wide Experience.
Jenkins has just written book on
How to Succeed"
Il wonder if it will be success?"
It ought to be. Jenkins has failed
at everything else" Life H..
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
Quicker Than Thousht. z

A little boy hearing some one re-
mark that nothing was quicker than
thought said he knew better than that:
Whistling was quicker than thought.
Being asked to explain, he said:
"In school the other day I whistled
before I thought, and got licking fog
1.-THE Evangelist. 4%r
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
OverbalanceG.

Miss swagger--Exponents of phys
zeal culture tell us that we should nor
incline the upper part of our bodies
forward in walking. = j.
Miss ;Swelldom-I know, but it's
simply impossible to stand erect while
they wear these hang -over-in- front
hats.-Ohio State Journal.
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MAKING THINGS PLEASANT.

Herbert: Va, you say nothing
would make you happier than to know
that never deceive you. Then must
tell you that I sold your diamond pin
to the peddler for 80 cents and blew
the money for fireworks. =
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24

The man who has never written
foolish love letter has not yet taken al
the degrees
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Not Prepared for 1t.

ToWne Poor Subbubs is laid up.
He volunteered to open car window
for a lady and
BroWn-Ah b! Burst blood vessel. I
suppose?
ToWne worse than that. The thing
went up SO easy that he pitched head
long through the window. Philadel>
phia Press. rs
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
Wings sprouteds

Mamma, 2 asked little Nellie. what
is an angel q
An angel? Well, an angel is o
beautiful young girl that aies. =
But, mamma, why does papa al-
ways call my nursie an angel r.
z responded the mother, after
3 moment OF thought. four nursia Id
going to fly Immediately Kansaa
City Star.
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IN THE BIRDS FLAT BUILDING.
intentions may have been perfectly
honorable, but why should the redwing
be reused to such a sudden pitch of
fury at the sight Of him asks writer
in the Chicago Tribune.