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Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-15
Negro PardOned

jackson. Oct. 15.-The governor
has issued a pardon to J. NJ. Miller.
negro convict in the penitentiary
sent up from Washington county for
life.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-15
WANTED TO BUY

A secondhand standing desk Ad
dress Business" Care Progress.
Octl5-lt
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-07
National Buttermakers.

We have received a communication
from e. Sudendorf. secretary OF the
National Creamery Buttermakers' AS
ISOLATION, announcing that the execu-
tive committee of the association has
come to the conclusion that no con-
vention should be held this year. The
next convention will be held at St.
Louis Oct. 20-27, 1904. The committee
recognizes the liberality of the offer of
Sioux Falls to entertain the delegates
this, year, and feel that one of the
earliest conventions should go to- that
city. We understand that. the Califor-
mans are endeavoring to get the con-
vention for 1905, San Francisco being
the city designated. AS all the pre-
vious conventions have been held east
cf the Rockies and the eastern butter,
makers would like TO see the Pacific
slope. the chances. OF the Ca1ifornians
obtaining, what they are liter are
doubtless good. &. fs e. So 81 F.z
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Fruit DISPLAYS,

The time of year is near when dis
plays of fruit are looked for at fairs
and conventions. Already the horti-
cultural societies are sending out cir
culars urging fruit growers to be pres.
ent at their meetings with displays.
We can but exhort in the same d.
rection. Much good has been done by
the fruit exhibitions of the past; still
more should be done in the future.
More people should contest for the
prizes. The displays are a school in
which the Intelligent farmer takes up
and keeps up the study of varieties of
fruit. One of the great weaknesses Of
our displays so far has been the small
number of persons participating.
Often leading fruit growers will be
found constituting the entire group
Of showers Of fruit. Some of them
will have their exhibits in nearly all
classes. Not infrequently very large
part of the aggregate display is made
by one man. AS a result, a consider
able amount of only common fruit is
shown, though some of the product
may be exceptionally fine. The show
man is not to be blamed, but rather
commended, as he has simply occu-
pied vacant space. What we want is
a great number of people showing
only their very best product and
methods.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-07

W. Va, and Pittsburg, Pa, a distance
OF 400 miles to the east; to Cleveland
and Buffalo, almost as great a dis
lance northeast, and from Cincinnati
to Toledo and Detroit and around the
Lake Erie front to Cleveland. Sleep
ers will also be running between Chi
cago and Cincinnati via Indianapolis
within eighteen months, and if the
plans are worked out, the sleepers
and combination sleepers and diners
will be operated between Augusta,
Me-, and Chicago and st. Louis within
three years. It is thought that SER
vice will be opened between st. Louis
and Pittsburg within eighteen months
Clearly the introduction of the
sleeping car service between Indian
apolis and Columbus, Ohio, this
month marks an epoch in transporta-
ton, and the trolley men themselves
say neither they nor even the most
extravagant dreamer can forecast
what will follow in five years. 1t is
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-07
THE TROLLE Z SLEEPING CAR

The compartments for the night
runs are made with mahogany rolls
similar to the roll tops used IN desks.
They come up out Of brass slots In the
floor and doyetail into and fasten each
other when up, making a perfectly
rigid and elegant wall, with q door
way. The upper berth lis let. down
from the wall on the same principle
that is employed in the Pullman
sleeper. The elegantly upholstered
chair Of the day parlor car, however,
is a revelation. Two of these chairs
are faced. BY pressing hidden spring
the arms spread out and become part
of the bed. The two chairs are made
into one box spring mattress bed, four
feet wide and seven feet long. The
beds and compartments can be made
up quickly and the entire car convert
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singular coincidence that the first
trolley sleepers are being built in the
very shops in which the first Pullman
car was built. It is also significant
that the builders of the trolley sleep
er have already entered an agreement
with the company whereby the latter
will not make trolley sleepers, and the
trolley sleeping car company will not
let it's space-saving inventions go into
the steam road service.
In addition to the inducement of
practically giving away nights rest
in a sleeping car, it is announced that
the dining charges for the combina-
ton service will also be moderate. It
is known that the traction roads have
no dust, cinders nor smoke to contend
with. It is thought that the sleeping
car windows can be left wide open
on hot nights. 1t is expected that all
these points of advantage will catch
the commercial trade. Though no
trunks will be carried on the sleepers
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-07

:: The sleeping car on the trolley line
has come, and the Joke OF the wags
Of olden days has been realized as q
sober fact. The finishing touches on
the first electric sleeping cars ever
built, the trolley sleepers Indiana and
Francis, were put on last week. They
made their first trip from Indianapolis
to Columbus, Ohio, Sept. Is. These
trolley sleepers are not an experiment.
They are to be a part of the trolley
line equipment as they are of the
equipment for every steam railroad
in the country.
Orders have been placed for TWEEN
ty-four more sleeping cars and COM
bination sleepers and diners, and with
in eight months the service which will
be begun out of Indianapolis to Co.
lumbus will be extended to Wheeling,
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Combination Dining and Steering Car.

who had gone out to the Cape. After
the dinner there was a display of fire.
works in the park, the principal set
pieces being the Napoleonic emblems
surmounted by imperial crowns. The
fireworks went off with the greatest
success until it came to the lighting
OF the imperial crowns, when, to the
general horror, not one of them
would take light in spite of every
effort.
All of them remained unlighted,
while all the other designs went off
perfectly. The failure was looked
upon as an evil omen and with rea-
son, for two days later came the
news Of the death of the prince in
Zululand. A calculation of the time
was then made according to the diff
ference of longitude and it was dis
covered that at the very moment
when the imperial crowns refused to
light the prince fell dead under the
spears Of the Zulus.
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Women's Business Directory.

Women's Business Directory,
Business women of Boston have had
a new honor thrust upon them, name.
ly, that Of having directory of their
very own, not a mans name appears
in any. light. But it does show a
woman engaged in occupations which
many believe to be controlled ex.
clusively by men. In fact the book
reveals that women can do just about
everything that is worth doing at ali.
And, Of course. they do it well. The
business woman's directory may be
called an enlightening as well as inter.
esting work, and in time may Il be
found chained in every drug, store
alongside Of its big brother. Boston
Evening Transcript. ~ y: %: 81. .: y.
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beds folded into parlor chairs.

beasts being on their best behavior
and not moving a limb, and soon the
aeronaut was sailing in the direction
OF Belgium. The spot at which Capt.
Henri intended to alight if possible
was Etaimbourg, and thither some of
the spectators proceeded in carriages,
curious to ascertain how the expedi.
ton would end. The captain was sue.
cessful, and he descended at the tryst,
ing PLACE at $50 without the faintest
difficulty. 1t seems that during their
aerial journey the lions evinced a
disposition to become obstreperous
but were easily quieted.-Paris Cor.
respondent London Telegraph.
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WHEN PRINCE IMPERIAL DIED.

Remarkable Coincidence That Hap.
pened at Time of His Staying.
A strange story is told in imperial
circles in Paris regarding the death
of the late prince imperial, says Van
ity Fair. On the LIST of June, 1879, a
woman who was one of the most en-
thusiastic supporters of the Napole-
onic regime gave grand fete in
honor of her birthday, and at the
same time of the prince imperial,
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Trolley sleeper, with one side

S'~SF~i3 SsAeAf OAS oIAS
and none will be carried free, they
will be taken through in the night on
the regular limited trains that will be
put into service, and the express
charges will be very small-probably
Is cents for each trunk for the 100
miles.
The cars will be geared to run sixty
miles an hour. The smallest will have
twenty berths made into ten compart-
ments The comfort of passengers is
provided for even to the extent of
electric hair curriers' in each compart-
ment for the women, electric cigar
lighters for men. Each compartment
will be equipped with electrical appli-
ances whereby the lights in that COM
partment can be raised and lowered
or put out. Each compartment will
be ventilated separately and windows
will be raised and lowered by pushing
buttons. And when the nights ride
is over all compartments will be
rolled into the walls and into the
floor, the beds will fold up into parlor
chairs and the car will be- nothing
more nor less than parlor car. :.
In addition to these features, a spe-
cial one is made of having large WON
ems toilet rooms, though all will have
compartments in which they can
stand while dressing, and can. lock a
door on their possessions. All berths
are single ones-four feet wide. The
car in every particular is an entirely
new idea in, sleepers. The combina-
ton sleepers and diners simply have
ten-foot compartment added placed
between the berths and the rear re-
firing rooms. Temporary tables will
be quite as complete and elegant as
given now 10 steam road dining
chairs Is ii $.@> il f. I5%s z+ u. y .,55
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One Cause for Poor Stock.

.
: II. T. Thompson, of Illinois, in an
address to horticulturists, said:
AS the demand for stocks increased,
nurserymen looked about for seed to
grow stock to graft on. They sent to
france for their seed, because it was
cheaper; some of it they procured in
This country. 1t all came from the
same source, the cider mill. 1t is a
Wellknown fact that for many years
at least only the wormy, scabby, poor
apples go to the mill to make cider.
Still these poor, sickly scrubs are
used to grow the foundation of our
apple trees. If what have referred
to is true of the animal and vegetable
creation, is it any wonder that we are
growing a. generation of enfeebled,
worthless apple trees? Just so long
as this is continued in propagating
trees, just so long will we meet with
disaster, and we shall deserve it. Is
1t any wonder that so many Of our
trees struggle along for a few years
and then die? You might as we'll
build house and set it on a weak
foundation, to be blown away by the
first gale that passes. You may ask
me what I would do to remedy this
trouble. I will answer, do the same
as the prudent herdsman does with
his herd, select the very best and
strongest stock he can get to breed
from. The same as the thrifty farm
er does, select the best seed he can
ind. l would do the same with the
apple, select seed to grow stock to
graft on from the very best and hardi-
est that can be found, and in the
course OF time you will grow race
of sturdy Norsemen that will outride
any gale that comes their way.
For some years a few nurserymen,
principally in Wisconsin and Mime.
sofa, have selected seed in this way;
they have met with good success. One
OF them told me that he had done so
for several years. When the hard
winter of 1898 and 1899 came he hard
ly lost tree. There are many that
might be called advanced horticulture
lists, especially in Iowa., Minnesota and
Wisconsin,, who are trying to produce
better and harder class of trees by
selecting seeds from the best and
hardest apples and raising seedlings,
some by hybridizing and then plant
ing seeds from the best of these
crosses. In my opinion, if this proc
ess were continued for several gener.
atoms we should create a race OF
hardy stock and quality of the best,
or, in the language of the herdsmen,
pure bloods.'' This has probably
been carried further with plums than
any, other fruit, and with marked sue.
cess. l asked one of the men who has
worked on this line for years, eff you
should plant thousand pits gathered
from ordinary fruit, what would be
the chance of getting really good
fruit?" He said, Every little. !
might get one or two" I then asked
him, Suppose you selected from the
best, what, then, would be your
chance of getting choice fruit?" He
answered, Every much better, espe,
cially if the seed is taken from the
stock that has been bred in this way
for several generations" It is the
same with those who are trying to
improve the apple in the same way.
They always select seeds from the
best. Many Of our best and hardest
have been produced in this way.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-07
An Aerial Journey With Lions.

From Roubaix comes the account OF
balloon ascent undertaken under
exceptional conditions. The other
afternoon at 5 o'clock Capt. Henri
went aloft in the presence of huge
crowd with two fellow-aeronauts, M.
Jean Weillat of Paris and M. Ouch
ateau OF Roubaix, who were perched
on the top of cage arranged in the
car, and containing, wonderful to re-
late, couple of lions. The start was
effected without hitch. the wild
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-07
New Buttonhole Worker.

Consul General o. ]. D. Hughes re-
ports from Coburg May IS, 1903: The
usual type of buttonhole machines has
been operated so that first one side
of the buttonhole has been worked
and then the needle mechanism or
the fabric is readjusted to work the
other side. A Swiss make works
both sides of the buttonhole stimuli.
taneously, which not only has the ad.
vantage of greater rapidity, but also
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EtSgE M E#lk ri ar III
Ca a. -
. RlUttjtEf1JRF
About. the Farm.

From Farmers Review: Forty;
years ago this summer we tore down a.
large shed about 100 feet of CIRCLE
which my father had built about ten;
years before on high ground. The
manure was we'll cleaned up and;
hauled to other parts of the 80-acreE
field. The land has been farmed every
year in corn, oats, rye or timothy
meadow. No manure or fertilizer has;
been put on that part of the field dur!
ing these forty years, but each year
the crops grow much faster and ranker
on the spot where the shed was than
any other part of the field. The cir.
conference of the shed can be traced
in the crop and a difference seen as
far as one can see the field.
IN oats, meadow and pastures and
along fence rows, the yellow dock, bur-
dock and thistle seem to grow thicker?
tnan ever. They ought to be cut andt
killed before the seed forms to spread
and seed the entire farm.
Can any of your readers tell me how!
first, to kill plantain in a door-yard|
without blowing and cultivating it,;
second, how easiest and surest to kill
patch of Canada thistles; third, how
to get rid Of rats around house, barn
and other buildings-O. Dinwiddie, In
DIANA
The experience of our cOrrespon-
dent, as noted above, gives very val
liable information. We have heard it
asserted that the effects of stable ma
nure could be seen for twenty years
from the time it was applied. But
| here is a man who sees it's effects forty
years from the time of it's application
and there is no good reason to doubt
| that it's effects will be still evident for
some years to come. 1t is an apparent
fact that barnyard manure helps crops
of all kinds to resist drouth, as the
| plants stimulated by barnyard manure
root deeper and grow ranker, thus
| shading the ground and preventing
evaporation except through the plants
themselves. The suggestion as to the
cutting of the weeds is timely and
should be acted upon at once.
| We hope our readers will answer the
queries as to plantain, Canada thistles
and rats. The editor of the Farmers
Review has found that digging up plan
tain is the quickest and best way to-
get rid of it. With sharp knife one
can cut off the plants just below the
surface of the ground. He has found
that the only way to kill Canada
thistles is to keep them cut down.
A sharp hoe is very good for this work.
| The writer was brought up on a New
England farm where the fight against
the Canada thistle was perennial, and
can boast Of having had experience in
this regard. There is no short and
easy way by which to get rid Of this
pest. Repeatedly cutting them off at
the ground will destroy them in the
end. AS to rats we have found that
| phosphorus in some form or other is,
very effective. 1t can generally be OBJ
tanned at drug stores under the name
OF "electric PASTE" OF course it has
to be placed where other animals or
children cannot get at it.
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lady for the purposes of doing life
stunt on the continuous circuit
"And what if I should refuse?"
queried the tantaliZing female, after
the manner peculiar to her sex.
Then, darling" replied his frog
ship, there is nothing left for me to
do but croak."
Moral-And so they were married
and lived unhappily ever after.-Chi-
cago News
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-07
Her Deserved REVENGE.

They were husband and wife, and as
they stood before the monument in
London she asked, whats that fig
ure on top?" That's a goddess" he
answered. "And what's a. goddess ?''
"A woman who holds her tongue" he
replied. She looked at him sideways
and then began planning how to make
a peach pie with the stones III it, for
the benefit Of his sore tooth. London
Answers. }S}..,.G ~ v &&s<
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OF a simplified construction. The ma.
chine is provided with two needles,
each of which, during the reciprocal
ing motion of the fabric or of the
needle mechanism, works one side of
the buttonhole. In order to fasten the
ends of the buttonhole the distance
between the needles is reduced, SO
that the stitches of one side emerge
over those of the other side.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-07
Responsibility of the Oyster.

It would be worth while to know
whether there is any good basis for
the persistent rumor that oysters are
responsible for a great deal of typhoid
fever, at least to the extent of being
the passive vehicle for the diffusion
OF the microbe: Of. the disease, to
which it is itself presumably immune.
The testimony of one doctor is hardly
to be accepted in so important a mat
ter.
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The Car Complete.

ed into a parlor car for the day run in
less than half-hour. A porter and a
maid will run with each sleeper It
is claimed for the sleeper that the
beds will be better than those of the
Pullman sleeper, and the extra in
ducement will lie in the face that each
traveller, or two travellers, will have
{. comfortable compartment.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-07

In the New York city directory for
1903 there are over 5000 Smiths and
$500 Browns, and 5000 names have
the prefix INC" It looks as though
the Anglo Saxon were following the
Hollander into retirement before the
rasistless advance OF the Celt. :
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An Excitino,2 Tonic

The Rev. Charles M. Sheldon; Of rs.
pekIa is burdened with = huge cores.
ponl !1e, The readers Of his works
write: to him for his views upon tie
J most l'ot diverse subj ects. Nh. Sheldon
is = cons ienttous man, and few 81
his interrogators find their letters III.
I answered. Sometimes indeed, they
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-07

How delighted Whistler must have
been to die if he had president knowl-
(lge that the post mortem crop of
Whistler stories would hold out like
it has.
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Much sympathy is felt Cor the pitch.
er on the Pittsburg baseball team who
had been released because he didn't
come up to expectations, and who will
therefore become a mere college pro-
fessOr.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-07

The American golf players and the
American dancing masters are to hold
their annual meetings in st. Louis in
1904. If the management is shrewd
it will get these two associations in
the bird cage on the same day.
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Old, Old Story.

Once upon time there was love-
sick frog who would a-wooing 60: so
he busted off his green coat and pro-
ceeded to call upon a giddy young
frogess who dwelled in Puddleville.
After swapping some small talk and
exchanging weather views he finally
got down to business and asked her
to double up with him as his leading
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get replies that take a humorous o.
an Sepigrammatic form. : X It'd 1#..35s...s q:
"A young woman OF Buffalo, writing
in behalf Of q Buffalo debating club,
asked Mr.. Sheldon recently for his
opinion of Platonic love. The clergy
mans answer was: ~
"Platonic love is. like all other ton
les, very exciting, -
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-07

Even if the powers should succeed
in restoring peace to Macedonia prob
ably the luckless inhabitants of that
region would not have the slightest
idea what to do with it.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-07

The Harry Lehr fashion of carrying
a purse attac hed to the wrist is rather
slow of adoption in this town, where
the police are alert in searching for
freaks and lunatics.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-07

BY beginning on the oyster early
you may be able to enjoy few speci-
mems before the scientific gentlemen
bob up with the annual scare about
oyster bacilli.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-07

Prof. Langley may take a fearful
revenge upon the skeptics by sailing
Lis airship all alone some dark night
and never letting anybody know
about it.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-07

With big Bill' Devery on her
side, why should Frau Cosima con-
tinue to feel that life has unlovely
aspects?
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Few of us realize how many insane
people there are walking the streets,
untrammeled and unsupported. For
instance, a Rochester man recently
eloped with a woman and her seven.
teen children.
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made up for beds and the other

There would, perhaps, have been
less skepticism about this remarkable
coincidence if the story had been pub
llshed Immediately after the event
and had not been kept secret for near
ly a quarter Of century.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-07

The hoppicl1ing season has opened
In central New York. What a JOY
Gus word, by the way, "hoppicking"
isl