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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28
English Free School Rules, 1874.


Imprimis, Whatsoever Boy comes
to School past 7 O. tn Clock in tie
Morning in Summer time, and past
o. tn Clock We Winter time (without
Shelving good reason) Shall receive 8
Lashes.
Item, Whosoever absents himself
from School, Either by Truantry by
trying to stay at home, or otherwise;
Shall incurr his Masters highest dis
pleasure, Suffer the kissing and Scot
fling Of We whole School, Tarry behind,
the Rest one hour at Night for a week,
and besides Gas a suitable reward for
his shall suffer 12 lashes.
Item, Whatsoever Boy shall at any
time Curse, Swear or take the Lords
Name in vain, Shall assuredly suffer
for such offence, Is lashes.
Item, What Boy soever addicts him
self to Obscure Talking or foolish
Testing. shall Suffer for each such
Transgression.
Item, What Boy soever absents him
self from the services of Almighty
God on the Sabbath day, and spends
that Day in a wicked man'er In play
5 5ns1& s running about Shall rs'f'Vs 20
Item, Whosoever steals from or de-
frauds his School-fellow of Ink, Pens,
Paper, Quilts, or any Other Thing.
Whatsoever, Shall certainly, when
found out and detected, receive 9
Lashes.-Notes and Queries.
Birds Are Careless Builders,
Nearly all sea birds are far more
careless in their nesting than their
cousins who live inland. The terms:
the skua, the puflns, the black
throated diver and the guillemot real
ly make no nests at ALL The puffins,
however, usually borrow a rabbit bur-
row, and are not particular whether
its original owners have done with it
or not If they interfere, or even try
to pass, a peck from the puf1in's great
parrot-shaped bill is enough to warn
them against trying to experiment
the second time.
The auks are birds of the northern
seas, and are perhaps the finest divers
of all the feathered tribes Their short
wings look in fact far more like fms
than wings, and unlike gulls, the auksj
catch their prey beneath the water.
The auks selection of a spot to lay.
her eggs is very strange. She chooses
a bare, broken ledge of hard rock,
overhanging the waves 1t looks as
though it were feat to balance eggs
in such place, and the marvel is that
the first gale does not send them
rolling over the crags. But an auk's
eggs are so shaped as to prevent such
calamity; they are much larger at
one end than at the other, and so in
stead of rolling straight ahead like
ball they turn around in circle
when started and SO keep their places
upon the rocks.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

his little brother spouted out into the
deeper water Of the ditch.
Out of breath and painting he reach
ed the side of the ditch. Water was
roaring from the irrigation pipe and
from it's volume the lame boy could
see that the pipe was choked full. He
stood gazing breathlessly at the water
as it roared foaming from the pipe,
his heart sinking within him as he
saw how hopeless it was that his little
brother could ever come through that
narrow pipe, filed with water, alive.
Suddenly out from the white whirl-
pool made by the emptying water shot
the figure of little Johnnie. Into the
ditch, without a thought of himself.
sprang the little lame boy. He hall
plunged, half swan through the water
to little Johnnie's side and, grabbing
hold of him by the arm, he fought his
way to the bank,
BY heroic effort the lame boy, weak
and fragile as he was, lifted the boy
out Of the water and somehow got him
safely on the bank. He thought
Johnnie was dead. He was limp as q
rag and unconscious. He took tn
dripping form in his arms and started
staggering toward the McAlanan cot
tage. = - =. 81 :: -. IS d
A workiaeman saw the lame bow
staggering along and stopped him, Ii
a few tbreathless sentences he told tho
man what = had happened, It was to
this chance meeting that the little b ,,
Johnnie, owes his life. 1t The working
J. man nal had l had experience with drown
ing persons, and he took the boy from
his brothers arms. II 4 5|=ta II ssi:1b, !. .377
Little Johnnie was II placed "a 4 tie
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

There is land you may not know,
Although so close it lies.
I'll tell it's name-but whisper low
Ills the Land of Shut Your Eyes.
TIC find it? Why, just lie quite still
When dusk begins to creep,
And close your eyelids with a will
Don't take single peep.
And first you know you'll not be here,
But in wondrous place,
Where Jabberwocks and Pinquins
queer
Will smile up in your face.
Where Brownies, Gnomes and fairy
folk,
With Goops and Injins too,
Will crowd around you thick as
smoke,
And whisper jokes to you.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28
Still Much Uncultivate ted Land.

Seventy-fv acres in every hundred
of England, Wales, and Ireland are
cultivated, but in Scotland only TWEEN
ty-fve acres in the hundred. England
and Wales still have over 100000
acres of common and forest land. The
largest tract of uncultivated land in
England is Darimoor, which is % miles
long and 20 miles wide, occupying
about one-dfth of the whole county of
Devon. Next comes the New forest,
which contains $4,000 acres. Yorkshire
has in all 365,o00 acres of moorland
and mountain.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28
The Virtue Of Economy.


II did not expect to get cent from
you," said lady who had gone to
ask of John Murray a contribution for
a. benevolent purpose and received
500. "You blew out one of the can
dies by which you were writing when
l came in"
1T is by practicing economy that
save up money with which to do char
table actions" was the reply; lone
candle is enough to talk by
If we look closely at the lives of
most philanthropists, and those who
have acquired considerable fortunes,
we shall find that they are now, or
were, in position to give largely, or
to carry out great enterprises, because
they never lighted, or else they con-
stantly practiced the habit of blowing
out, waste candles.
The people of Peabody, Mass, tell
many anecdotes of the great philan-
thropist for whom the town was
named, showing that he never burned
two candles when only one was
needed. Extravaganza was to him a
sin, which he, in the smallest things,
avoided. Lydia Maria Child was nev-
err appealed to for any worthy object
in vain. Her response was ever
hearty and munificent for one with
her comparatively small means and
yet she turned envelopes which had
been used, that she might use them
again, and, in every possible instance.
snuffed out the unneeded candle.
Emerson used to relate an anecdote
of a rich business man who, when ap-
preached for a contribution for char
ity, was found admonishing a clerk
for using whole waters, when only
half waters were needed. When he
had finished the. admonition, he turn
ed to his caller, heard his story, and
subscribed $500. When his visitor ex-
pressed surprise that man should be
80 particular about the expenditure II
waters, the merchant said: 1T is by
saving half waters, and attending to
such little things. that ]. have now
something to give" n STD. ". :513
Il. economy Is wealth. & This proyern
has been repeated to most OF US until
va ere either tired 81 ii Or careless oi
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28
Toad in q Passion.

In spite of the precious jewel which
it wears in it's head, the toad has few
friends, although one which Professor
Bell kept as pet would sit on one of
his hands while it fed out OF the other:
No doubt it is an ugly creature, but
it cannot help that. Why, then, should
it also possess a temper? A toad
in a passion is really and truly very
angry indeed. One was once caught in
a snare that had been laid for birds.
The moment it found itself prisoner.
it's rage knew no bounds. It struggled
furiously, and snapped at everything
within its reach. Nor does it spare
it's brother toad, but often goes for
it on land or water. s33..ss ~. !. :
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28
Mystery Of tho Dew,

=. After q clear, still night, every
grassblade hangs thick with dewdrops.
while the roads and gravel paths re-
main perfectly dry. Did 1t ever occur
to you to wonder why this was so?,
The fact is that dew IS most readily rtsa
deposited upon cold surfaces by tho
air which contains it. The slender
blades Of grass and leaves give up the
warmth they have gained during the
day more easily han do stones ana
earth, and SO they gather more moist.
ura from the atmosphera. 4 $:5;SS Rs N:
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28
:: The British Coast.

The seas around. the coast of the
British isles. are mostly narrow. The
greatest width OF the, English channel
is between Portland Bill and St. Malo
@--140 miles. It +narrows5 to 20A miles
at one point in the Straits Of Dover.
The distance between Great Britain
and ireland is even less. Tor Head is
only IL miles from, the nearest point
iof the Null Of Cantire. Between earn
sore point and st. David's head, in
Wales, u miles lis the least breadth Of
water. tf5 N ;.s$ AL s. .:4 %,ss8s5 5
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

The attendance at the larger uni.
versities of the United States is: Har.
ward, 5,576; Columbia, APP; Michi.
gan, 1872; Chicago. 3,727; California,
3,540; Minnesota, 1886; Cornell.
s,216; Wisconsin,, 2,s12; Yale. 2,6s02
Pennsylvania. $3.50. t3 & 51Ssz IT ii 5% I, sf4
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

A Boston preacher says the society
women of that city swear horribly. 1t
has always been feared that close ap-
plication to the study of Browning
would if carried on very long lead to
something bad.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

It is understood that ]. p. Morgan
receives $12,500,000 of stock in the
shipping combine for his services in
organizing and financing 1t. This
seems like a. good price, but it should
be remembered that Mr.. Morgan needs
it. He buys Old Masters.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

Soon the young king of Spain will
be crowned, and three days later the
republic of Cuba will celebrate its
birthday. Alphonso XIII. will hardly
telegraph his congratulations to be
read at the Cuban festivities.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

The Marquis of Queensberry who has
run through a great fortune in ten
years is the son of the distinguished
author of the rules which bear the
Queensberry name 1t is just as well
to give the old man his due.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

"Mathewsons twisters in the second
inning caused couple of fouls to as
cend to the empyrean and come
straight down into Yeager's nit" O.,
yes, the baseball seasons here.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

it, but it is we'll to remember that a:
saying becomes proverb because Of
it's truth and significance. Many a
man has proved that, if economy is
not actually wealth, it is, in myriads
Of cases, potentially so.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28
A Simple Trick.

Take a. glass and fill it up to the
brim and place it near a pile of pen
MES or other money. Then see how
many pennies can be thrown into the
glass without the water overlooking.
AS the pennies are carefully and slow
ly dropped in the surface Of the liquid
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

The Rev. Mr.. Hyde of New York
says that women ought to be allowed
to propose. Allowed! 1t would be in
teresting to know how they can be
prevented from proposing if they wish
to.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

If we accept the old saying that
figures cannot prevaricate we must
admit that there has been wonderful
revival Of interest in baseball
throughout the country.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

Many of the newspapers are discuss
ing what they call ''the downright fol-
ly of the beef combine" Most per-
sons, however, are thinking about its
downright inconvenience.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

Mr.. Carnegie has been elected a
member of the Plumbers guild in
London. The association with this
craft will relieve him of all anxiety
about dying rich.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

Goats lymph is said to make old
people young again, but portrait OF
a goat on the door of a down town
business place is not a sign that lymph
Is sold within at 5 cents a glass.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

An infusion Of William Waldorf AS
cor should be enough to make tho
British peerage give up the ghost at
last
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

There never was a land so strange,
Nor yet more nice to see,.
Each time you look the people,
change;
They couldn't queerer be.
And oh, the funny things they do!
The way they jump and prance!
Don't let them lay hand on you
Unless you love to dance.
They dance all night, the funny
things,
They caper and they smile,
They fy-although not all have.
wings
They chatter all the while.
To know them is great delight,
So, children, if you're wise,
You'll pay a visit every night
To the Land of Shut Your-Eyes.
Chicago RecOrd-H erald
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

Henry Labouchere says Morgan is
putting the handwriting on the wall.
But perhaps Henry is mistaken. Nor
gan may be reaching for the wall.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

A Missouri court has decided that
teachers may whip their pupils. There
are pedagogues in Missouri who have
discovered that pupils may sometimes
whip their teachers.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

An Ohio girl expired the other day
from the effects of tight lacing. Her
corset was ten sizes too small But
why mourn for her? She probably
died happy.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

when perfect politeness comes in
at the door," noted the large-waisted
philosopher, perfect honesty flies out
of the window"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

According to the Duluth Herald the
only difference between sanatarium
and sanitorium is in the charge to the
patients.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

Coffee was the only stimulant that
Deweys men had at the battle of Ma
Mia Bay. And that, it must be adj
mitted, was sufficient.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

The discovery is announced of new
comet in the constellation of Pegasus.
And every spring poet thinks he is It
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

The bank at Monte Carlo was too
strong for Mr.. Schwab, but he has
broken the automobile record.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

All a man has to do to make wo-
man love him is to make her happier
than any other man can.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

Three Castellanes have been elected
to the French Chamber of Deputies.
The Gould fortune is in politics.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28
The various routes to the North
Pole will soon be congested with expe-
ditiOns.

No, an ice trust can never raise the
price of ice; it simply reduces the size
Of the chunk
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

M People who bury the Ratchet usual.
H. manage 70 keep the grave green. ~
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

convex, and one is surprised to what
an extent this increases before it over
flows,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-07
JERMYN AND MAYFIELD.

The funeral of the late Thomas
Meehan took place yesterday afternoon
and was quite largely attended. AT
o'clock the remains We're taken to
Sacred Heart church, where the pastor,
Rev. j. l. Dunn, held a brief service,
and interment was afterwards made in
Calvary cemetery, Mayfeld. The pail
bearers We're Henry Smith, Patrick
Loughney, BARLEY Mullen, John Jen-
kins, Richard Stevenson and Jacob
Pellow.
School Directors A, w, Kilker, John
Culey, Joseph Beckwith and p. j.
Brady, of Maytield, and George Blake,
Thomas Hunter, Il. b. Crawford, w. II.
Morcom, Samuel Waters and Frank T..
Depew, of this borough, attended the
convention of the school directors at
Scranton yesterday,
Miss Nj. r. B. Jenkins, trained nurse,
home, her patient, Mrs. Charles Miller,
of Mayfeld, who has been critically i'll
With typhod-pneumona having recov-
cred so far as to be able to sit up.
The members of the Hit or Miss
Cooking club We're entertained by DR..
and Mrs. S. e. Moyer, of Carbondale,
last evening.
John Green, of South Main street, is
i'll with tonsilitis.
Mrs. Charles Meehan, of the East
Side, is recovering from her recent ill
ness.
James Jenkins, of Third street, yes
terday received the sad news of the
death of his aged mother, In Wales.
Mary. daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-07
The News of Carbonda1e.

The Tribune on Saturday about his
coinpany's purpose OF building another
reservoir to assure q constant supply
during the summer months, is being
confirmed by the activity in the vicin-
ity of Brownell's swamp. There are a
score of men at work enlarging the
area of the dam in that territory. The
big drill which will sink the wells for
the increased supply is on the ground
but has not been put into service as
yet. The sinking will probably COM
mence before the week is over. AS
stated before, the purpose OF the we'll
sinking is to get an increased supply
that this dam will not go dry this or
coming summers as it did last year.
The Reynshanhurst company is con-
structing a storage dam near the old
swtchback, about two miles this side
OF the main supply. The new dam will
be 115 feet long, SO feet wide and Is feet
deep. The waste water from the Rey-
shanhurst company's supply wells will
be piped to this dam. which will be
quite an item in the economy of the
company.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-07
DALTON.

Rev. A. j. Van Cleft. the newly-ap-
pointed pastor of the Methodist church,
has moved his household goods into the
parsonage. On Sunday he occupied the
pulpit, both morning and evening, with
much acceptance to the people
Mrs. Fred Greene, of Clark's Green,
visited her sister, Mrs. &. ID. Finn, on
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. 4, II. Miller entertained
ON Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Wes-
ton, Mrs. Clinton l.. Weston and Miss
Margaret Lewis. of Scranton.
Charles Penny and son, George, of
Scranton, spent Sunday at the Baptist
parsonage,
1t is expected that the well-known
elocutionist. Miss Cora Morris Griffin,
of Scranton, will give an entertainment
in the Baptist church on Friday even
ing, May 49,
DR.. j. G. Price will move soon into
the Carleton cottage, next to Stanley
Allen.
The final examinations for the senior
class are being held at the High school
this week. Great interest and anxiety
is manifested by both students and
friends as to the outcome. The result
will probably be announced Friday or
Monday. The commencement exercises
of the school will be held ON Friday
evening, May 23, in the Baptist church,
and an admission fee of twenty cents
will be charged to both adults ana chill
dren. The admission fee is an entirely
new departure in the history of our
school commencements, but Is to be
tried at the suggestion of many of our
townspeople, and by the unanimous
vote of both faculty and students. Such
a decision. however is wise one. II
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-07
TIMELY TOPICS.

The residents of Mayfield yard, con-
tiguous to the Cottage" are viewing
with good deal Of apprehension the
extensions of the mine settings in that
locality,
Since last fall, what settings have
occurred has been gradually creeping
towards Mayfield, which brings the
danger closer and closer to the Got
tage' and the nest of dwellings south
of this old homestead The one of last
week. which by the way was the most
disastrous of any, was in the middle
of the roadway at point not more
than a hundred feet north of the Got
tage." The cracks caused by the dis
turbance extended as far as the gate
opening into the big yard surrounding
this old landmark. This progressive
course of the mine falls gives rise to
the fear that the next one will involve
the old homestead AS there is no
telling when or where the next drop of
real estate is to occur, the uneasness
of property owners can be readily ap-
preciated.
AS to the remedy for these disturb
ances, there Is none. 1t appears that
this evil OF anthracite mining is one Of
there is no redress at hand, so the best
that the affected and injured property
owners can do is to make a virtue Of
necessity and have as big quota Of
good nature as is possible under such
aggravating circumstances. The policy
of the coal companies is to get out the
last pound of coal, without the least
thought of protection or recompense
fo, I,1p> xNrr
The cave-in after cave-in that has oc-
Cured in the Mayfield yard section
during the past year has been costly
to several property owners. while the
Scranton Railway company has been
a heavy looser, as it's tracks have
been involved in nearly every cave-in.
The Consolidated Water company has
had it's main supply pipe broken
three times, and the Ontario & West
ern road has been deprived Of water
for it's shops as many times. Another
phase of the situation is the menace
to drivers who have to use this
thoroughfare. On several occasions,
horses all but walked into the holes in
the roadway, and on Friday last when
the ground began to settle a street car
was just entering the affected area,
ana WAS Only SuNeu lFolll DelllS WIeCN-
ed by the presence of mind and activ
ity of the lnotorman in reversing and
backing the car out of the zone of
danger. Traffic along this road has
been interrupted for days succeeding
a fall. These are a few of the num-
erous effects of this apparently ir-
remediable mining evil. which is likely
to continue so long as the "robbing" of
pillars is in progress.
The departure of Terrence V. Walker
from Carbondale for the West deprives
the city of one of it's hustling enter
prising young men, young man
whose push and go-aheadativeness
when withdrawn from a community
is sure to be missed.
MI. Walker leaves for Chicago. today
where he will re-enter the service of
the International Correspondence
schools. His new position is an Rd-
vanced one and the management Of
the schools pay a great compliment to
Mr.. Walkers fitness and ability in
making the offer.