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Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-12

"Jackanapes" Is among the new vol
umes Of Dana, Estes & Co.'S Young OF
Heart" series. 1t is by Juliana Horatia
Ewing. The portrait Of Jackanapes is spir-
tied and convincing. All that is manly,
lovable and unselhsh is to be found in the
heart Of this splendid. impulsive youth.
The story is a magnificent commentary
on the text: "Whosoever shall lose his life
for My sake shall find it."
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-12

In Doctor Gryson,' a fall novel, pub
lished by Scribners, Frank H. Spearman,
who has already won a reputation as a
writer OF stirring railroad stories, has, in
this his first novel. abundantly demon
strated his talent for more sustained fc-
tion. His thoroughly original theme is
the career OF an eminent surgeon, the hero
Of the modern drama that the warfare OF
science with death and diesase constitutes,
and interviewer with 1t is a love story of
unusual intensity and charm. The scene
is Chicago and the background OF situation
and events forms a photographically real
istic picture painted with stirring vigor.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-05-10
Eodging an Avala nche.


Orders were given last week oy che
local council at Bleiber5 to the peas
ants near that place to remove all out
side objects and to descend to the next
village in expectation of the fall of q
lawine. The peasants objected 20 thi:
and one of them, miner, named Tai
ga, refused to leave until o'clock in
tie evening, when a rulnbling above
frightened him.
With child in his arms he began
to descend in the darkness, but was
caught by the nrst lawine, which
knocked him down anG rolled the
child down the hill. After finding it
with difficulty he looked round for
his wife and baby, who were nowhere
within call. - rescue party of half
a-doZen men, after much digging.
found the woman alive and breathing.
after being twenty minutes under the
snow.
The men had scarcely reached the
village, when the second lawine. came
laundering down. Since the catastro-
phe Of 1879 the cottages have been re-
moved some distance to the right OF
til, mountain.-London Telegraph.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-05-10
&. LAKE HAS NO OUTLET
Remarkable Natural Phenomenon Reported by American
Traveller

Gssa ~ Is resident Of New York fetches back
him from a visit in Australia
1he sstoryof a most startling lake.
AXE George, the largest lake of New
sssouth Wales, Australia, has no out
let sss except evaporation. For a series
Years 1sf the brooks that tumble down
s1ne slsl mountains which edge the lake
Slna u ssteadfly contribute to it larger
4ailtlf of water than is evaporated
from tssurface.
ssss theI#fhe2 lake steadily rises. The
.WssattefSpushes north and south until the
9lak laas aas; tWenty-one miles or moro in
lsengfh 18th a width of seven or eight
miles i
For another series of years the water
|S1o'llonlghtsbY ~ l!ls the brooks may be steadily
smaller than the quantity eyaporated.
*Ihe ! ens.theS}lake begins to fall, shrink
1ng F 1n nsasfew years to half it's former
dimensions, this process going on
sometimes S till Lake George entirely
L isappearsn except for fcw water
!. nolles91nIthe lowest parts of it's bed.
5lhe lIaBkeSWas in flood during 1891, ex-
4 =Htendlngnorth e and south for TWENTY
one s miles with a depth of twelve feet,
IWlce@in a the last century thousands
! Of sheepssand h cattle were pastured on
/ large areas now covered with water.
4 IEhey I were: the most numerous repre-
!. .sentatltes there of the larger forms of
/ animal I. z 4, lie just as fish and water fowl
\ ssare5to-day-
Fhe cabins Of the stock raisers or
4 fsquatters, as they were called were
\ scattered 8: I. over the meadows. Veg
letah3les were raised and patches Of
Wheat. heat So little was known of Lake
George in those days that the herders
really had feeling of security and
|xpe111naneEcy, 1eE but the day c-me when
the rising water swished around the
aPins,s drowned some of the stock. and
sd1pYes the souatters to the highlands
lSss Everybody knows now that the bed
sofE l2 Lake. George offers very uncertain
/ tenure to settlers. When it comes in
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-05-10
PATHETIC. TALE OF WOE
Young Mans bizay ssEy M y HI Tss psnsts ofec

J. X. l.. Carter is young man OF
considerable personal dignity. He is
also extremely careful Of his personal
appearance. and therefore he has been
of late spending sometime in the den
lists chair. Mr. Carter admits that the
man who sits in fitting chair, with
a towel tied round his neck and his
corks, does not present dignified ap-
pearance, but he contends that the re-
suits justify the means employed.
Last Thursday young Mr. Carter
went over to the dentists Office to see
about having one of his front teeth
fitted with a crown. AS preliminary
step it was necessary for the dentist
to take a plaster cast of Mr. Carter's
mouth.
Mr. Carter leaned back in the chair
and the dentist and bis assistant came
II, the latter bringing with him the
hot and liquid plaster. The plaster
was inserted and Mr.. Carter was told
10 shut his teeth down hard.
It'll take five minutes the den
list said, ''for the cast to harden
Then I'll come in and relieve YOU"
The dentist and his assistant went
>ut of the operating room, leaving the
young man in the chair. Just as they
left the room the telephone bell rang
and the dentists wife asked him to
meet her on the ground floor
oo+ hoc, --..,,4
TO meet" she said, IN clly keep you
moment
Tie dentist went down the eleva-
tor. saw his wife, and started to re-
turn, but he was met at the elevator
door by the starter, who gave him
startling news.
Pm sorry, sir but there is some
thing the matter with the elevators
and they are all shut down. They'll
be running again in 10 minutes"
The dentists's office was ON the 17th
floor, and he new it would take him
half an hour to climb up, even if he
survived the trip. So he sat down
and waited.
Meanwhile young Mr.. Carter in the
dentist chair sat and felt sthe plaster
harden into a rocklike grip on his
bicuspids and molars. Soon he found
himself unable to move his jaws. He
went out into the reception room, but
the dentists assistant was out in the
hall trying to find what was the mat
ter with the elevators. The waiting
patients in the reception room looked
at him as if he were crazy.
Half an hour later the: dentist got
back to his office. He found Carter
speechless, but purple in the face with
rage. 1t took the joint7apd long-con-
tinued efforts Of the dentist, his assist
ant, a cold chisel, a~couple of drills and
a gimlet to- separate Mr. Carter and the
cast. The first thing he said when he
recovered the power of speech was not
ala fit for publication.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-05-10

to view again perhaps no attempt will
De mace 10 utilize. 1t on so large a
scale as was one in the 30's and 40's of
the last century,
The lake lies at the lower end Of a
basin SO walled in by mountains and
nils that the drainage into 1t has no
chance to escape to the sea- 1t was
long before this fact was discovered.
some early maps show Lake George
as the probable source of small river
known On the coast, but q careful sur
vey finally revealed the fact that not
drop of water escapes from the basin
except to the clouds.
The native blacks have always re-
garded it with superstitious dread.
When they piloted the first exploring
party to the lake in 1920 (the first
reports of it's existence came from the
blacks in 1879 splenuid sheet of
water was found.
The whites were first perplexed and
then amused by the stories the natives
told them. 1t was years before it was
discovered that the natives had been
trying to tell, in their imperfect way,
of phenomena that mystified tnem 1t
all seemed very uncanny to the poor
blacks, who feared the lake and usually
avoided it.
Since 1849 the lake has never been
wholly dry. 1t varies much in size,
sometimes being only eight to ten
miles long and four to six feet deep
and then swelling again to it's largest
proportions. At times one may drive
on dry land across a part of the lake
where few years later there are ten
or twelve feet Of water
For nine years after 1855 a farmer
used the narrow, north crn part of the
lake as cattle run, cultlvatlng at the
same time about ten acle es of wheat a
year; fifteen feet of water covered this
part of the lake in 1876.
A little money, therefore, is a dan
oorOnc th;no
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-05-10
LOOKING FOR PRINCE HENRY.

New York Spectator Asked If He Was
in Army Wags<z,.
Amusing incidents oeaaEred in the
crowds that were waiting at various
times to see Prince HeREE- In front
of the metropolitan. Opera House the
night Of the gala performance for
hours the driving rain h1sa soaked the
thousands that fI1esa Broadway
Mounted police galloped Up and down
and trolley cars chargsza into the
swaying lines of the people. The hours
dragged along and the aa1ne SET for
Prince Ha1ry's arrival passed, and
still there was no sign
Suddenly there was sssRzry of hoofs
and rumble of Wheels Rad squad
of the troop accompanying a forage
wagon galloped up
There he is! There he zs." shouted
the excited crowd. Them one solemn
old Yankee, who had Eraea silently
waiting for hours, peere9 s8gt from un-
der his umbrella, and, e1tehing sight
Of the army wagon anxi1sKsly inQuired
of the driver:
"Say, Mr.. Soldier, have you got
Henry in there?'
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-05-10
A Peripatetic Christmas Gift.

A merchant in Belfast, Me-, received
a Christmas present that has history
He has been in business about twenty
five years and one of his first orders
included dozen lemons, one of which
proved to be green and consequently
dried up very quickly. The next
Christmas he received from his Gus
toner a very large popcorn ball with
the lemon inside. He saved the fruit
very carefully and several years later
put it in the middle of a barrel of flour
which he sold to the same customer.
This year on Christmas day the lemon
was returned to him in the guise of a
present, packed in fancy box.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-05-10
Natives Keep the Secret.

The Antaimoro, one of the Oldest
tribes OF Madagascar, possess the Sc
cret of making from the pulp of a ma.
tive shrub, very beautiful and en-.
during kind ofs paper, resembling
parchment. Each family possesses a
few sheets Of this paper, on which its
chronicles and traditions are recorded
and the same paper is used for tran.
scribing the laws of Mohammedanism.
The paper is said to have been invent.
ed in the middle of the ninth century
by a Mohammedan shipwrecked zon
the coast, who desired to transcribc
his torn and water-soaked copy of the
Koran in an enduring form, says
Youths Companion The Antaimoro
will only make the paper for sale when
some pressing necessity arises. NJ.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-05-10
SEVEN MILLIONS IN GOLD.
Greatest Amount OF Bullion Ever Ca

Greatest Amount OF Bullion Ever Car
ried in q Single Vessel
II notice that the newspapers have
recently spoken of the carrying of ST.
100000 of bullion to a foreign country
by one of the ocean liners as the
greatest amount ever transported -
said man who has been with the
navy for years to reporter. 1T is
entirely wrong. In 1885 there was
brought from the mint in New Orleans
to the treasury in Washington $11,-
100000, and let was brought in d
steamer.
THE government decided to trans
port $15,000,000 from New Orleans. 1t
was first thought best to bring it by
rail, but this was assuming great
risk. The cabinet discussed the mat
ter carefully and it was finally decided
that the safest way would be by water.
The members of the. cabinet. saw that
s here was a. chance for q hc1d-up fsthe
money was brought By train.
The United States ship Swatara
was first designated to carry the
money, but it was found that she
would be inadequate to transport the
whole amount, so the wooden sailing
steamer Yantic was pressed into SER
VICE to help out. We removed from
the SWatara her magazines. The shells
from the shellroom were removed, as
were also the sails from the sailroom,
So that all available space was utilized
fc:' packing the coin. The only weap
on OF defense was a G2tling gun.
THE money was conveyed from the
mint to the vessels in wagons. A
squad of secret service officers watch
ed the WORK. The two vessels were
in tow and the trip from New Orleans
to the Washington navyyard occupied
a little more than four days. Consid~
cradle wind was encountered off Hat
te7aS, but otherwise the trip was
without incident. The money was car
lied fro11 the navy yard to the treas
u-y by an express company.
The money was in boxes of $4,000
each and in bags. My recollection is
tEat the money was in silver dollars,
or the greater part of it, for, while
unloading at the navyyard, one Of the
bags, rotten from being in storage so
long, gave way, and large number of
silver dollars were scattered about the
wharf.
The Swatara was a historic craft.
John Surratt was brought back from
Malta in the Swartara. The prince of
Wales, now King Edward, paid her u
visit once when she was with the
American squadron at Vi!lefranche in
inc Mediterranean. She was then
the flagship. The prince, when he saw
her, asked:
is this a yacht or a mcn Of war;
The Swatara is now in rotten row
IN the navyyard at San Francisco,
waiting to be surveyed. The $11,000,-
OO0 carried by the Swatara from New
Orleans to Washington was the great
est amount of money ever carried by
a single cratt.'
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-05-10
FLY THROUGH SPACE
ERAIN ON MON0-RAlLWRY TO MAKE
so2 MILES AN HOUR
English Company Plans TO Construct
Line Between Manchester and Liver
pool on Which Convsyanees WIN
Break All Existing Records

A company has been organized in
England, and parliamentary powers
obtained, for the construction OF a
hign-speed mono-railway between
Manchester and Liverpool The dis
tance is thirty-four miles and the mag
nitude of the undertaking may be real
lied from the fact that the estimated
cost of the line, including works, land,
and buildings, is not far short Of two
millions sterling. This line is intend
ed to he an express railway in the
highest sense of the term for the thir-
ty-four miles between the two cities is
to be accomplished in twenty minutes,
an average speed of 0ne hundred and
two miles an hour This is about for
ty miles an hour faster than the high
est speed attained by cur fastest ex-
press trains drawn by steam locomo-
tIves.
Each train will consist Of only one
vehicle carrying eighty passengers
The electrical equipment consists of
motor or motors with an equivalent ct
1000 horse power. This power is ap-
piled by means of chain gearing to two
or more of the eight dous3le-hanged
wheels which rest On the mono-rail,
and by which the carriage is suspend
ed. There will be no gradients of any
Importance on the line, and as none
of the curves, it is stated, will exceed
radius Of seven hundred and fifty
yards, it is expected that the trains
will easily negotiate the curves with
out causing and discomfort to passen-
gers even at the high speed contem-
plated. AS regards deEzslment, the
center Of gravity viii Be kept so low
that it Will be an absolssaxa Impossibil-
lty for the train to jump she track At
one hundred miles per hsszr, however
it will be readily undefstaDd that the
most perfect provision InGst be made
for checking and stopping, both as re-
CARDS signaling and hrakszng- power.
The trains will follow axach other az
intervals Of only ten m1zasztes, the dis
tance separating them being thus
about seventeen miles, u is proposed
to subdivide the line into 1--WE sections
of about seven miles eaez, and the
main Oh until the train kas passed the
next, always giving the following
train seven miles in whi12a to pull up
should anything have gene wrong with
the preceding train. AS regards brake
power, it is intended to use com hi
nation OF the Westinghouse and an
electric brake, which can bring the
train TO a standstilf frana a speed OF
one hun6red miles per Raazzr in a dis
tancc OF about five hundExa yards The
word ran is used adviseszky, as the eff
feet Of such sudden reizyafation could
hardly faizto be extremely disagreeaole
to passengers; and although an emer-
gency brake is essential, She chance OF
it being called into reaxxSs;ition is IN
the highest degree reraoSe As regards
acce1eratao5a, it is clainHsa that full
speed CAR be attained iEs q distance Of
one and three-quarter gailes from
starting point, as the railway will be
free from all switches. points, level
crossings and Intermediates stations
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-05-10
matador by one of the bulls; farther
down it says with pitiless laconism: Il

down it says with pitiless laconism:
when the trumpet gave the, signal
for the banderilla the afternoon :. was
threatening. The rain, the thunder
and the lightning gave most singular
aspect to the combat. The banderillero
"Fatigas'' slipped in the mud as he
was planting his last rosette and was
caught and tossed by the bull. It was
not possible to remain longer in the
Plaza, so relying on the benevolence
of our readers. we retired.''
Caught and tossed! If the fear OF
the storm had not made the reporter.
run away, they might have been able
to add something else. The horn OF
the bull struck the unhappy. jose in
the left breast, and as the beast tossed
him, it pierced his heart.
They have buried Jose in the lonely
Sacramento, and the matador who
gave his friends such a fright went
next morning to Seville, where he will
lead to-morrow's *corrida.''
To-day the house of Soledad is as
she left it. The candles of the altar
have burned out and covered the can
delabra with smoke and stains; the
crested canary is singing sadly because
there is no one to give him his seed;
the balconies remain open; the child
rem are being cared for by the neigh
bors on the third floor, and in the
next house someone is playing on the
piano the "Alegrias y Penas,'' and the
voluptuous waltzes Of Walteudfel, and
in the doorway the neighbors are COM
menting upon the catastrophe.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-05-10
Superstlt3oas Of Grexff Men.

SuPerstltjoas Of Grenh Mea.
Napoleon was superstnaDus about the
lick the Great and the eueat Peter OF
Russia were superstitious a5out dozens;
of things Marlborough, bDth as Jack
Churchill and the duke. wzs supersti-
tious as well as thief 2nd traitor
Nearly all the Stuarts were superstl
Henry OF Navarro was Euperstihous,
but that never kept him 1rpn thou
sand infi6eHues and. aaEadterdes All
the children of Catherine OF Medici
were scared to death by saser supersti-
.tions, but they could I've. cheat and
murder just. as we'll.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-05-10
Manila Has 1E4 Layvera.

There are 154 lawyers in the city OF
Manila, as shown by the register in
the supreme court. Of these fifty-nihe
are other than Spanish and Filipino,
being mostly Americans. Many of both
classes hold salaried positions under
the government in tho legal work Of
the departments.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-05-10
The Last Banderilla.
copyrighted, 1905, BY Daily Story Publishing co.,
BY GABRIELLE GAROFFI.

My neighbor, Soledad Jimenez, an
Andalucian with black hair and fash
ing eyes, is the beauty Of the street.
orders Of the first swordsman of the
Plaza de Madrid, and this afternoon
there is bull fight. Jose arrived yes
ierday from Malaga; he is an honest
fellow, modest and sympathetic, who
thinks great deal of his wife and of
the two pretty children who add such
happines to his humble home. If he
tries very hard and undergoes many
nal dskips and takes many risks with
The bull, it is in order to bring little
cOmfOrt and warmth to that nest OF
love that just now in the winter is
very cold; perhaps it is because OF
the fatigues that he endures that he is
known among his comrades by the
alias of "Senor Fatigas."
SOledaG went to the station very
early this morning and when, just
after daylight, l opened my window,
there appeared much rejoicing in the
house of the bull-fighter. She, seat
ed by the balcony, was hastily patch
:ng the red and yellow cloaks that
here and there showed black stains OF
blood, hardly dry: the children were
playing with the ribbons of a rosette;
stretched on a chair was the costume
Of blue silk with it's trimming of
black cord. SOledad was singing. and
from time to time, said something to
her husband, who was changing his
clothing in the next room; two turtle
doves in divided cage were wooing
each other passionately and crested
canary, constant companion of the
Andalucian, was pouring out its full
throated song.
Did they applaud you great
deal?" asked Soledad of Jose.
"A great deal, child of my soul;
more than 1 DESERVED
And you didn't have any accident:"
Nothing of the sort One Of the
DUKES bulls desired to knock me
down when I decorated him, but left
him with the desire, because | didn't
stay there
'Ay, Pepe! What joy it would be
f you would only go into some other
ousiness.' y
There's no use talking about it:
I'm 80. good for anything else and by
keeping on at the bull-fighting I will
be able TO provide all the things that
We want 50 much
AS the street is so narrow | lost
nc detail of the dialogue. Jose finish
I'd his toilet and came out into the
pa-lor; ne kissed his wife on the fore
1ead and repeatedly embraced his
:hiilrC1. Soledad gave her husband
glance Of great love, and said in a
very sad voice:
Yesterday I was i'll again I hate
% to have those attacks; it makes
ne so sad to think that"
JOst:s face became cloudcd:
You shall call the doctor to-day.
Sole'lal. You occupy yourself too
much with thinking OF me. dearest
one; but this cannot continue and
must be remedied at once no matter
what it costs. After all, the year will
cot go so badly with us; more than
sixty fights will be almost certain to
make me matador.
Three o'clock in the afternoon.
The street seems almost deserted;
the shops are closed. 1t is street
where workingmen live and-it is
Sunday. Jose has just finished dress
ing; q shirt, white as snow shows all
The beauties of embroidery and rrff1ing
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-05-10

Success is more or less: a>b1uff, and
the reason so few men succeed is that
they mostly all get calleu. ;.
Young men think old men fools, and
old men know young men to be So
Metcalf. = ss., -. Al. :,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-05-10

Mr.. Carter is now pa.tronizing an
other dentist. and the dentist whom he
deserted has absolutely forbidden his
wife to call him up on the telephone
during business hours.-Chicago Trib-
une
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open carriage, drawn at full trot en-
ters the narrow street with a great
deal of ostentation, escorted by a
number OF ragged urchins. Seated
in it is one of the companions of
"Fatigas," dazzling the passers-by with
his rich, gold-embroidered cloak, and
smoking fine cigar. Jose does not
keep him waiting. He quickly takes
leave Of his wife and children and
then, pretending great indifference,
he goes down the stairs and gets into
the carriage, which drives away to
get-the other "Peon" and the matador.
don't know why it is, but Jose, once
he is in the carriage, never looks back;
only as they go around the corner, he
turns his head to see the handker-
chief which the graceful Soledad waves
to him in loving "Adios''
The bull-fght must have already
commenced
The afternoon has become dark;
leaden clouds are rapidly hiding the
rays Of the sun and in the houses the
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-05-10

Prayer is the pulse of the Christians
life-there is no secular, no sacred,
all is God :. y, ~. E# .sss 5s