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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-20
WOULD COME TO 1T.

scotchman's Protest Against Weak
Whisky and Water.
At a. banquet given by the manu-
facturers of Pittsburg at Hotel Schen-
ley to the National Hardware associa-
tion then in session, Andrew Carnegie
had been asked to speak on the out
look for business. He lodged the
question and in doing so told this
story:
''The POSTMASTER wishes me to re-
fer to a very important question:" he
said, "and it may come later, like The
experience of the Scotchman who was
driving along a lonely road in the
Highlands on a typical misty, bleak
Scotch day. Seeing a comfortable
looking farmhouse just ahead, it oc-
Cured to the Laird that possibly a
drop of spirits might be obtainable
there to help neutralize the effect of
the raw atmosphere, SO drawing up
alongside the gate, loud whoa
brought Scotch 1assie from the
house. Addressing her, he said:
":Little girl, can I get drop or
two of some spirits to take the edge
off this cold air? Some whisky and
water, for instance
I'll ask mither,' she said, courtesy
ing, and entered the house, reappear-
ing soon with glass nearly filled on
a tray. Bestowing a shilling, the
Laird took the glass and sampled the
weak looking drink.
"'My little GIRL said he, will you
be kind enough to inform me which
your mither put first in the glass
the whisky or the water?'
"*The whisky said she, again
courtesying.
"'Ah, yes,' said he, that accounts
for it. I'll come to it by and bye"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-20

There was Jim, lying upon the cot,
he did unceremoniously, falling over
the bench in his haste. He closed
and bolted the hall door and went into
the basement ward. He glanced, up
and down the double rows of white
cots, scarcely visible in the darkened
place. His eyes rested upon the cot
upon which wicked Jim had died
yes, there was Jim, lying upon the
cot-no, impossible, for it had not
been occupied since his death. He
approached it cautiously; not sound
was emitted. He turned on the near.
est light-yes, it was wicked Jim's
ghost! The fearless, orderly stood
for moment trembling: What was
that? The thing moaned; it NUT
tered; it sprang from the couch and
fell prostrate at the feet of the be.
wildered orderly. :
A broken sash and a wrecked panel
of the picket fence left in his wake,
gave practical evidence of the brave
orderlys senile agility and an inkling
of his sprinting qualities .
Wicked Jim's twin brother, delir-
ious of fever, lost to the hospital
fearless, valuable *'ord1y," whose back
pay still awaits his return, and. who.
like the hospital, is running yet, in
spite of his contrary predictions.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-20
WOES OF GERMAN OFFICERS.
Matrimonial snags in the Path Of kai-
ser's Soldiers.

Matrimonial snags in the Path Of Kai-
ser's Soldiers.
AS censor of military marriages,
German Emperor William has defined
what manner of. wedlock is permis-
sible to Prussian officers and what
marriages are ''strengthily under
said.' His new order states that an
officer with SLIPS a year must have a
private income of 1915 in order TO
marry. a district officer of gendarmes
must add private means of $525 a year
to a salary of 5000 to win the privil-
ege. Officers who haven't $3.50 pay
mustn't marry at all.
The kaiser's is the busiest matri-
monial bureau in the world. Each
officer who desires to double his
duties and ha1ve his rights" must
state his prospective father-in-law's
business and tell whether the lady is
maid, widow or divorcee, and in the
latter case why. Proofs must be in
closed of her income, education and
repute. If there is no obstacle, social
or military, the wedding bells may
then peal out their merry note.
Interest rates upon such German
investments as the "kingly and kaiser
ly" bureau will accept are low. A
young fellow practically must have
$4,000 to $4,000 in his own name
before he can think of matrimony, If
the lovelorn one has not the cash
well, in that case he can give up mis-
commission and come to a country
where he may marry on nothing a
year if he likes.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-20

even than YOURSELF"
after ages Of cramming on this side.
OF course with the governors
money"
Eyes, know" She swiftly replied
and dark red overspread her face
and neck. "You became intimate
friends, apd-how very sad-he-it
was only last week, wasn't it,"
"Committed suicide last week. Took
five grains of morphine and was as
dead as-er quite dead in no time. |
was with him that afternoon. He was
down-hearted and I just thought of
some such thing at the time. I'm
pretty good reader of human nature,
you know-pretty good. T."
"You and he were associated daily,
and were very close friends for sev-
eral years, were you not?" Her voice
was beginning to sound as if it came
from a remote corner of the long
room and she shivered as he spoke
again.
"F'or fifteen years-ever since I be-
came manager in my own right. He
was as fond of me as lawfully fond
of me, but l didn't discourage tit
pleased him. When I'd come down in
the morning after a-well, after hav-
ing been detained late the night be-
fore, I'd feel his eyes on my face,
Then he would slip up} behind my
chair and lay his hand ON my shoul-
der, for all the world like the gov
ernor used to do. And he'd say:
Take care of yourself, old man;
you're working too hard. couldn't
bear to see another name at the head
of our stationery. It would break me
all up, old man. That's the way he
would talk. The way that man loved
me\ was wonderful. Funny, isn't it?:.;;
+, Every, she replied, still more
quietly. .z>@- r..y>.*ss
"But I started out to tell you about
the suicide. Saddest thing I ever
knew. That afternoon had told him
In plain words that I'd promised an
other man his place-fellow l met on
the other side last summer. Her
brother you know You'll not feel
err Jealous when you get the cards?
gave you two opportunittes want
you to o--well you know people and II Z
s And the man. she reminded.
"Oh. hs He took It all right
business / II business, you7 know. He
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-20
Senator Hoar's New House.

Senator Hoar has bought house on
Connecticut avenue, Washington, a
three-story brick, structure. of a dozen
rooms. He borrowed the SIS, 900 which
it cost, but hopes to make a. profit BY
selling before long. He and Mrs. Hoar
have boarded for thirty three years in
hotels, Much disappoint-
ment is felt in the capital because
Senator Clark does not intend to build
a residence on the site of the old
Stewart castle which he purchased
some time ago. Finishing touches are
being put to his splendid home in New
York, and it is said the senator viii
not build again outside Montana.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-20
GEN. BELL FOOLED THE GRASS
Made verdure Think the Moisture
Came from Heaven.


When Gen. J. Franklin Bell, who
recently succeeded in restoring peace
to the Island of Samar, P. l., was
adjutant of the Seventh cavalry, Fort
Riley, Kansas, where he was stationed,
was in an incomplete state. The bar
racks, stables, administration build
1ngs and officers quarters were newly
constructed and rather luxurious for
an army post, but of lawns and shade
trees there were none.
TO obtaining these Bell applied him.
self with his usual vigor. By trans
planting alternately elm and cotton
wood trees he had the shade problem
in a fair way of solution, but the
soil of Kansas proved obdurate as to
grass, SO that( after repeated coats.
of fertilizer and daily sprinklings,
only scant growth of verdure was
produced.
One evening a group of officers
coming from the artillery post, were
amazed to see Bell on the roof Of
his house with the hose in his hands,
sprinkling the lawn. After gazing at
him for few minutes one of them
called out:
Il say, Bell, what are you trying to
do up there?"
Bell looked at the group and con-
tlnu2g his sprinkling, answered:
when you sprinkle the lawn from
the ground the grass won't grow be-
cause the moisture don't come the wav
nature sends it, Then in tone
tinged with anger, he added: II be-
lieve the grass knows it, too, but, by
the great horned spoon, I'm going to
fool that cursed grass
And he did it, too, for Fort Riley
had in a few years as fine a lawn as
at any army post in the country
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about his emaciated form. They
sought to kill the orderly. Fire is.
sued from their mouths, smoke from
their nostrils. He shouted for help
he awoke with start. He chuchei!
over his fears-after all it was only
a dream. He shook off his lethargy
and relit his pipe when his attention
was attracted by a peculiar noise. He
looked across the lawn into the
pitch darkness of the night whence
the strange sound came. My! there
we're the same grotesque figures he
had seen in his dream. He was no,
afraid, but as it was getting a little
chilly he decided to withdraw-which
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-20
For, the Sleenless,.:

i Effectiveness is claimed for yet an.
other remedy for, sleeplessness. Dr..
Won Gellhorn employs q band Of wet
muslin, about IS In. wide, wound
around the lower part Of the leg. The
.bandage is covered by gutta-percha
tissue and the stocking, and il som . 3
cases Is replaced every three Or tour 81
hours The effect Is to dilate the Va.
sells OF the log. thus Diminishing tha
blood = the head: and rodueanE. slsap,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-20
The Flight Of The Fearless.
BY HENRY DAVIS MIDDLETON,

BY HENRY DAVIS MIDDLETON.
Copyright, 1902. by Daily Story Pub. Co..
Bob Brown, commonly known
among the inhabitants of Ebonville
as Uncle Bob," was considered fear
less. No one was skeptical regarding
his fearlessness nor dared harborr the
least suspicion as to his being super
stitious. If, like most of \his dusky
brethren, he "ruther not" begin a JOB
on Friday, the invariable cause was
physical incapacity rather than su-
perstitious fear. If, perchance, during
his nocturnal perambulations myriad
phantoms darted about his pathway
as he neared the village cemetery, he
would approach the hideous spectre,
and discovering it to be only an inan-
innate illusion, he would pass unper-
turbed on his homeward way, always
attributing sundry bruises and scars
visible upon various portions of his
anatomy at the time of these esca-
pades, to his bad sight and his haste
to- reach home =: -, = ss=-,z,' --
1t was not surprising, then, that
when the new hospital desired a
strong orderly for night duty in the
two male wards, he alone volunteered
to accept the position, while the tim
idity of his fellows permitted them
only to pass the frowning institution
at safe distance and with much
trepidation.
When the first month ended Uncle
Bob" was pretty we'll initiated into
the mysteries of the hospital. For
weeks he had astonished his dusky
auditors with wild and weird stories
of his triumphs in the wards, opera
ting room and morgue Of the institu-
tion; never failing to impress them
with the fact that it would be impos-
sib1e to run the institution without his
services. He was indeed the most
fearless man in Ebonville, and was re.
garded by his peers with "supersti.
tious reverence"
It was midnight The stiffness Of
the hour was only broken by the soft
tread Of the nurses on their period
ical rounds of the wards. Uncle Bob,
seated upon bench on the lawn, just
outside the door of : the. basement
ward, occupied by the colored male
patients, smoked away upon his old
cob pipe, and hoped for the approach
of the morning when he should be OF
duty. He fell asleep: He dreamed.
He saw visions. Yes, there they
were-all the patients, both white and
black, who had died since his in
cumbency. They were after him-he
fled. They pursued him-he sought
refuge under the front steps of his
home. They followed menacingly.
There was no escape. Oh, there was
Jim, wicked Jim, now black demon!
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-20
kaiser's Costly Cannon.

The German emperor. takes great
pride in a cannon Of solid inlaid
with precious stones, which he pos
sesses. Its value purely as q piece of
jewelry is set at $4,000, and special
guard watches over It. The trustees
of the Hamburg museum, who had
cherished It for tWoscenturies, gave It
t the German government some time
ago. zs.5. 5S - a ..s,5
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-20
Grandson of Gen. Grant.

= Algernon Sartoris, ~ grandson of
Gen. Ulysses-S. Grant, is*to enter the
army. Young sartoris Is. ..2S years old,
a fine, strapping, athletic fellow. He
is ambitious to serve II. the foreign
branch of the army. HeSwas educated
at Oxford university. During the
Spanish war he served on the staff of
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee as acaptain Of vol
#unteers. ,g. 8 SSfS =. -" ~.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-20
Would Dispense With Locks.

Charles De Lesseps is quoted by
Figaro as saying that he believes
that the Americans will decide to
complete, the Panama canal without
locks and that it may be opened in
six years, time. To dispense with
locks would add greatly to the cost,
but it would be. q vast saving in tins
and trouble after the canal is opened.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-20
Portable Church Ia Philadelphia.

Portable Church IN Philadelphia.
A portable house Of. worship has
been dedicated In. PhiIade delphia It is
the chapel Of the Temple Evangelical
Lutheran church, at Twenty-second
and Race streets. The building Is 30
constructed that It may be taken apart
and sek up again whenever IS =!
deemed desira able to move 4.
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Smoked away upon his Old cob pipe
He had died mutt tering curses and I'm,
precautions. He Was leading the other
demons His b1oodshot eyes glared
lust as they had In his dying mo-
Iments;; the bandase ~ about his
Ehsad tho white gown thrown loosely
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-20

would appear that woman's
rishts constitute her wrongs. .
Don't Give any one piece of your.
mind !; you have mono 70 spare.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-20

1T was sad affair."" he said. '>
turned his profile toward her-he had
b good profile-and PASSED his fingers
Through his front hair, careful not to
aisarrsnge it. As l said before, he
fas one Of those fine. representative
Souls: the kind that quivers at I .
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-07

With the approach of Christmas, sugges-
tions for unique Christmas festivals are
in order.
"At our house." said a woman past mid
die age, I'VE always have a candle party
on Christmas morning. My mother, as the
granddaughter of a pioneer, loves candle
light, and the rest of us, by inheritance,
perhaps, also feel it's charm. We always
have our gifts at the breakfast table. and
before each plate stands tall red candle.
i'm an old-fashioned silver. brass. glass or
pewter candlestick. In the center Of the
table we have little Christmas tree light
ed with red candles-red seems essentially
the Christmas color-and by this old-time
glow of candle light we open the pleasant
Christmas packages heaped beside our
plates and on our chairs. When the joyful
Christmas hubbub is over we have our
breakfast-also by candle light. The old
fashioned candlesticks. the little glittering
tree and the holly decorations on the table
make our Christmas breakfast a beautiful
sight; and the recollection of IL enables us
all, elderly women though we are, to look
forward to Christmas with genuine and un-
diminished pleasure"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-07
THE INVESTIGATIONS OF LUCY.

what shocking things children say
sometimes" remarked the bright young
mother OF one small girl. Lucy often
amazes us and puts us to our wits end in
order to keep pace with her unbounded
zeal for information. but yesterday she dis
abled me completely.
Lucy is a wee six-year-old, slim-legged
little witch with big round eyes and has a
very curious and grown-up way of calling
me mother She came to me with those
big eyes fixed on me with almost awe
stricken seriousness and said:
Mother, want to ask you something
"'well, ask it. Lucy said. What Is ii?
Her eyes grew larger and rounder as she
said: oh, you won't like II IL ask you
of course I will. Lucy 1 answered.
Mothers love to answer all their little chill
dren's questions
"'But I know you won't like this ques-
ton, mother Lucy persisted.
my curiosity was greatly excited
Lucy said. tell me this minute what II
10 you want to know Lucys large eyes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-07

diplomacy. Besides the reasons for Ram
polas unpopuarty already cited-Ram-
polla has been a long while secretary of
state, too long for the cardinals patience.
They want a change in politics as well as
in personnel.
Question-Then Your Grace does not think
conclave will be overpowering?
Answer-It may be too far off to answer
yes or no" to that question. 1 can only
repeat that at present Rampolla has very
few friends on whom he can count-very
few, if any. The trouble with him is he
confides in no one, and therefore the great
majority of his colleagues mistrust him.
This is nothing against his character of
course-simply misfortune attached to his
great office. You remember how bitterly
Antonelli was hated. Like Pho Nono's great
minister, Rampolla is a most imperious
man; he lives entirely by himself; he is
arbitrary by nature and never knew how to
make friends. A great many prelates con-
fess to be admirers of Rampolla, but in the
conclave, 1 am sure, he has no out and
out advocate. 1 am afraid his candidacy
would meet with innumerable objections If
pushed to issue.
A PROPHECY VENTURED.
81 will now make a prophecy" continued
your correspondents informant, ION the
first day when the votes of the conclave
are recorded in the Sistine, there may be
six or eight in favor of Rampolla aside from
the American votes, but it takes two-fifths
Of the total number to effect an election.
AS you know the votes are recorded twice
each day. mornings and evenings, and if
his chances do not improve by night. RAM
polla may withdraw in favor of Angelo Di
Pietro, project of the Council and car
dinal since 1893. Di Pietro is a man after
Rampolla's heart and it is not impossible
that he may succeed where Rampolla
failed. Di Pietro's election would mean a
continuance Of Rampolla's policy, but that
very prospect may be fatal to his ambi-
ton"
Question: heard it rumored that more
than once amicable relations between the
Pontiff and his secretary of state were
threatened by the breakdown of Ram
polla's French policy.
Answer-The Holy Father might indeed
wish to get rid of Rampolla if he, Leo, were
ten years younger. But old men, es-
peciany very old men, are opposed to
changes So Rampolla retains his great
office despite his abortive attempt to couple
the fate of the church with the Franco
Russian alliance. AS matter of fact, the
Vatican is on the point of getting into a
serious conflict with France, while Italy
is closer to France than at any time since
the foundation of the kingdom.
HANS BARTH.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-07
INTERESTING CONTEST.
Ritualistic Episcopalians VIII Try to
Elect COadjutor Bishop.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NEW YORK, Dec. 6.-There is soon to
be chosen in the Protestant Episcopal
diocese of Newark a coadjutor to the
aged Bishop Starkey A lively contest is
probable. and it will be interesting because
it will show, as no other diocese could, the
extent to which ritualistic tendencies have
come to have legislative and propagative
power. The dioceses of Fond du Lac, Mil
waukee. Chicago and Springfield, all contig-
uous and in the middle West, are in the
hands of the ritualists. Some call them
Catholics. Certain other dioceses, like
Rhode Island and Massachusetts, are con-
trolled by the Breads without question. In
the South, and especially in the South At
lantic States, save North Carolina, the
Lows are in undisputed power Contests
in those dioceses hinge on some other point
beside churchmanship. But in Newark
which includes northern New Jersey the
ritualists have for years maintained a prop
uganda, until now they have fully one
third of the voting strength. They have not
yet decided upon their candidate, and some
thing depends on his personality, but they
believe they will be able to elect their man
and thus add another diocese to the list of
four advanced ones The importance of
the contest, as showing to the country the
progress Of ritualism. is realized and their
opponents are equally determined to win.
The election will take place in January
The tenth annual conference of the off,
GERS and representatives of the foreign mis-
sion boards and societies in the United
States and Canada is to be held in New
York by invitation of the American Bible
Society, the dates being the 14th and 18th
of January next. The conference will con-
tain representatives of over forty mission
airy societies, made up of practically all re-
ligious bodies
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-07
CHRISTMAS GIVING.
Children's Joy in 1t Greater Even
than in Receiving from Others.

Philadelphia Sunday School. Times.
For more than quarter of century the
editor of the Sunday School Times has
emphasized the right and privilege of chill
dren in the Sunday school to know and en-
joy the delight Of making Christmas a sea-
son of giving gifts to others, in expression
of their gratitude to God for His greatest
gift to them. A great deal more than a
quarter Of century ago the editor became
convinced that children in the Sunday
school were being injured through being
trained to expect to receive petty gifts in
stead of learning to give of their choice
treasures in the name and spirit of Him
who is the gift of gifts.
1t was a generation ago that this SUBJ
ject was first fully discussed among the
Sunday-school teachers of New York city.
AS to their opinion and decision there could
be no doubt. 1t was agreed that there
was serious harm being done by leading
children TO believe that cash returns
were to be gained by attendance at a Sun
day school on Christmas week. Large
families actually so divided up that each
child could attend at least two Sunday
schools meeting at different hours. and
The evil of this was obvious, and change
of Christmas methods was recognized as
essential, and was generally agreed on.
Yet there are Sunday schools to-day where
teachers and superintendent go on in ac-
cordance with the old-time errors adhered
to as they were a generation ago.
An ambitious Sunday-school teacher de-
termined TO have a punctual class. She
promised a cent to every pupil who was
present on time each Sunday. This an
swered very well for while. but one Sun
day no pupil was there. On looking the
matter up, she found that the pupils had
this literal fact illustrates the folly of try
ing presents instead Of love a drawing
force.
Out of the editors experience of more
than half a century In mission schools and
I'm church schools. in city and in country.
including children OF the poor, of the we'll
to-do. and of the rich. he has found the
giving plan more popular with the children
than the receiving plan, however the teach
ers might feel about 1t. Again and again
he has known of the two plans being laid
before the pupils of a Sunday school for
their choice, and In every instance the chill
dren have chosen to give rather than to re-
ceive. In every instance the vote has been
not merely a majority vote, but from three
fold to six or more fold in favor of giving
as being the bigger blessing Teachers
who are inclined to the exploded error
ought to learn from the children, or to
learn more about the children