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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

friends but the boy was named for
his father, not his grandfather. The
old man was not angered, even if he
was disappointed. His daughter was
happy and had all she needed. Later
the mother and the son visited the old
folks in Denver and the young hrs-
band joined them. One day the old
man said he wanted to make his SON.
ln-law present.
man.
The -- block which cost me
more than million,' replied the old
man.
81 appreciate your kindness, but I
cannot accept it. l don't need it, and
could not accept it if l did," was the
reply.
"'Then,' said the father-in-law, I'LL
give it to my Gaughter.'
HE was told he could do so if he
could prevail upon her to accept it.
He failed. Then the old man. prouder
than ever of his daughters husband,
told him:
"I'll sell you the darned block on
your own terms-you.'
"'Straight goods?' asked the young
er man.
eyes, was the reply; what's your
offer?'
The young man thought moment,
then answered.
"'Ill consider your wishes. III
give you $500 cash.
"'Done,' said the old man.
THE second boy" said the narrator,
in conclusion, twas named for his
grandfather New Orleans Times
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charge against the bank. He'd let
this report go to the directors of tho
bank, with the idea that if the error
was detected he would account for
it by the blot, saying he had made a
natural mistake.
when the sheet went through I'M.
questioned, he proceeded to get pos
session of the $1,000 by opening an ac-
count in the name of a fictitious per-
son, and crediting this account with
$1,000. The banks accounts were thus
forced to a balance.
'Then by drawing checks on tho 40.
count of the fictitious depositor he
would draw the money out. When
we nabbed him he made confession.
He had been stealing about $4,000 q
year in this way.
That was the bank" continued the
inspector, where, when the directors
found the hole in the bottom, they
fitted UP a presidents Office in mag.
nificent style, went out and got an
ambitious millionaire, showed him the
Office and asked him III he WOULDN'T
like to be president aud then sold him
their stick at $780, He wasn't in a
month before the bank failed" -New
York Sun.
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Beating the ''0ld Man. -

Talking about getting married."
said the man who has lived in many
places, ''let me tell you what hap
pened to the right sort of a chap out
west. Let's say the old man lived in
Denver. He had millions. The young
man was making his living. Said he
to the old man, I want to marry your
daughter, and we are engaged The
old man replied: Well. she has been
accustomed to great deal, but has
nothing in her own name, and of
course l want to know what you can
do for her.
''To this the young man replied: I
want your consent for her sake, but
we will get married anyhow. AS for
my means, your daughter knows just
low much and what have. It's salts
factory to her. l want you to satisfy
yourself as to my family and charac.
ter and let my money be matter be-
tween your daughter and me-
1.-The older man satisfied himself as
to the young mans character and
family, and offered him an interest in
his business.
"'I don't want it, replied the young
man. I am doing pretty we'll, we'll
enough for myself and your daughter
am not marrying her for your money
nor for what you can do for us.
merely want your consent for her sat
isfaction.'
Gle got it. Shortly thereafter the
young couple went to Mexico, the man
on a $4,000 salary in gold. In due
time son was born. The old folks
and the young folks were the best of
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card? I'm an old union printer my
self"
Here's my card, all right" said he,
digging it up.
Sure" said his new-found friend.
This fellow is all right. This card
shows that he left Kansas City this
morning; so how could he have
burgled Bags last nighft?"
He was turned loose.
DO you want to go to work." ask.
ed the friend. What can you do?"
Anything that anybody else can do
straight type, ads, job work, bend
rules, drive in dutchmen, kick press,
anything at ALL"
"All right; I'll give you a job-$1o
week." said the country editor-for
he it was.
You're on" said the printer, but
l want to get fixed up little first
besides, it's too late to go to work
today
Here's a dollar,' said his new
boss; you'd better go to the hotel
tonight"
Mr.. Printer went and got shaved,
boots BACKED, brushed up, supper at
the hotel, and everything that he
thought was coming to him, and was
standing out on the sidewalk, picking
his teeth, when he heard another train
whistle for the same crossing. He
made break for it, climbed up to his
old perch on the blind baggage" and
followed after his "pard," little be.
hind time, but shave, a shine and q
supper ahead of the game, besides the
change out of the dollar.-Washingto
Post.
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81 - THOSE - 81
HELPFUL BROADWAYS ~
THOSE

said the woman. II can crawl II, l
am sure"
Very WE'LL" said Broadway, here
goes"
It required considerable reaching
and scrambling on the part of the
woman and much lifting and balanc-
ing on the part of Mr.. Broadway. but
the passage through the window was
finally effected and the woman landed
on soft rug inside.
I'm SAFE" she whispered. Thanks,
ever so much" Then she closed the
window.
The Broadways hurriedly descended
the steps. What number is this?"
she asked when she reached the
street did you notice?"
Zone hundred and eighteen" he said.
Mrs. Broadway was the first to see
the sequel to their samaritanism in
the evening paper.
mo. 11S-l1S," she said, wonder
ingly. why, that is where we helped
the woman in through the window last
night, wasn't it, Jasper?"
Yes" said Broadway. What about
it?'
"she-she lied," painted Mrs. Broad
way. "She made that up about living
in the house. Nobody lives there
that is, nobody was home last night.
Everybody is away in the country.
Even the servant in charge happened
to be away last night and that won.
an knew it. She-she was a thief.
She must have had accomplices. A
little woman like her could never have
got away with all the stuff the papers
say she took. It all comes of your
lifting her in through the window.
The idea of man Of your age lifting
a strange woman, anyway! l didn't
approve of it at the time, but didn't
like to say anything; you are always
so apt to accuse me of being jealous
every time l open my head about such
things. But she certainly was
smooth"
Broadway read the account of the
robbery gravely. We'll be in luck, -
he said, IF the authorities do not
light on US as her accomplices
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students club have been paid for with
shoveling snow or washing dishes.
Prospective lawyers and doctors
and preachers are at present learning
preparation for future careers by de-.
veloping business in butter and eggs
shipped in from the home farm, or
by working up trade in coffee and
spices "a popular business enterprise,
or by assisting in laundry manage
ment. Others run boarding clubs, or
clerk in stores, deliver daily papers,
collect bills or read gas meters. Some
young men reach college equipped
with trade and can serve as bar
bers, cobblers, or carpenters. Not a
few take stenographic notes and run
typeWriters, or report for Chicago
newspapers the impossible happenings
OF student lire. Many pulpits within
radius of sixty miles of Chicago are
regularly filled by preachers who at.
tend recitations on the campus from
Monday to Friday and go to their
charges for saturday and Sunday.
Uncle Sans life saving crew, housed
on the edge Of the campus, gives EN-.
ployment to a group Of able-bodied stu.
dents, and pays them a good salary for
faithful service. In fact there is
scarcely any field Of employment nee
essary to modern life which has not
been invaded by ambitious students
provided it is of the sort that will
leave margin of time for study.
The path of the student who works
his way is not strewn with roses, and
the career Of such young man calls
for genuine heroism. The time given
to earning money must, of course, be
subtracted from the total sum of work
ing hours, and only the remainder is
available for study. Consequently the
number of years given to the course
must be heightened or else the wage
| earning student finds himself at dis
| advantage beside the student who has
| no responsibility outside his books
However, this disadvantage is in ne
small number of cases offset by great
err sincerity and earnestness on thu
| part of the poorer student.
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- LACONISMS -
~ IN NRoM LIE III

A philosopher laughs at the world,
but let the world laugh at him. and
it takes all his philosophy to stand it.
Love is blind, and the man and
woman in love are said to be blind
also-yet we have Biblical authority
for the fact that when the blind lead
the blind they shall both fall into
pit.
When the rich boast to their betters
Of common ancestor" the empha-
sis should be laid on the first word.
The demand of old age for respect
simply because it is old, is as absurd
as for bread to demand butter Just
because that should be it's compile
ment.
Money may make the mare go but it
is generally the going of the flly
which uses up the most of it.
The bachelor girl has one advantage
over the married woman; she is al
ways ''girl," no matter what her age
may be.
1t is we'll to distrust the sincerity
of the girl who is 80 awfully glad to
see YOU and then looks over Your
head to discover who else is coming.
There is not much choice between
meek man and meek woman, but
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Luck of Tramp Printer.

4 reformed tourist of the govern
ment printing Office recently told how
he was once captured for burglar
out in Kansas. He and his partner
had succeeded in getting about 100
miles west from Kansas City on the
blind baggage" of an express train,
to a point where their road crossed a
train stopped.
Then" said he, "everything alive
in the neighborhood seemed to be NOV
ing, and, armed with pitchforks, hoes,
clubs, and all sorts Of weapons, mob
surrounded us and dragged us from
the platform of the carat least, they
got me; but my partner kicked one Of
them in the jaw and broke his hold,
and, jumping on the again-moving
train, escaped. They dragged me up
into the town, calling me thief and 4
scoundrel and other things, even say
ing that anybody could tell by my
countenance that I was a burglar"
He demanded to know the crimes
with which he was charged.
"Oh, we know you,' they yelled.
you're the thief that broke into
Baggs' grocery store last night and
stole five boxes of sardines."
Give boxes of sardines-me? I
wish I was! I haven't eaten as much
as that in six months. Oh, how wish
I had as much as one, only one poor
little sardine!"
"Who are you, and where do you
come FROM" asked one.
"Im printer, am" said he, 'and
I'm hunting work."
IT you're q printer, where is your
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Work Way Through College.

The quality Of ambition that led
Abraham Lincoln to close a day Of
hard manual labor with porting over
q book by the light of a pine knot is
not known to the present generation.
Scores of young men and women are
to-day repeating Lincoln's heroism in
forms adapted to the demands Of mod
ern life. Brain and sinew are being
turned to account to yield, beyond liv-
ing expenses, a surplus sufficient to
afford educational advantages.
Abundant examples of this spirit
are furnished by the Middle West.
Visions of round dollars finding their
way into his pockets as a result of
moving lawns or currying horses have
lured many a young fellow from the
farm and from the miscellaneous Occu-
pations in small town to the pursuit
of knowledge.
Ample Illustration of such a move
ment may be had from the statistics
of earnings Of students in the AGA
denny of Northwestern University at
Evanston, Illinois, during the last
year. The Academy registers 495 of
the 1900 students on the Evanston
campus, and of the 4S5, IS per cent
have earned money, much or little
from September to June, amounting
in the aggregate to more than $4,000
This sum is exclusive of the summer
occupations. common to students
through which money enough is often
accumulated to pay a large share OF
the next years expenses. The $4,000
represents in some cases small
amounts from irregular employments
such as clerical work, which enables
the student to spend on concert tickets
and general pleasure dollar here and
a dollar there that the home allowance
will not cover. By many young man
however, his share of the $4,000 has
been expended on the necessities OF
life. Raking out furnaces and build
ing up the fires before daylight or
winter mornings has meant lodgings
for more than one young fellow with {
thirst for knowledge, while meals in {
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They were on their way home at
a. m. AS they turned into their own
quiet cross town street after leaving
the cars Mrs. Broadway sighed
YEARLY.
Dear me- she said, "how glad !
am to get near home once more, but
how very lonely it seems around here.
l don't believe there is soul abroad
except ourselves"
Broadway looked sharply up and
down the street. Eyes, there u.s." he
said. There is woman ringing the
doorbel at the house across the
street. She seems to be having trou-
BILE to get in
The apparently forlorn condition of
the past-midnight prowler touched a
sympathetic chord in Mrs Broadway's
bosom. She had been locked out her
self on several occasions, and knew
how it went.
The poor thing she sighed. Lets
go over and ask her if we can be of
any assistance to her,.
The woman on the doorstep gave
the bell another push as she saw
them approach, then turned and faced
them.
I'm in terrible fix" she said,
helplessly. Il have no key and this
bell seems to be broken, and l can't
make anybody hear, and I don't know
how in the world l am ever going to
set in
Mr.. Broadway reached over the
stone balustrade to the front window
Il Think he said, there may be a
way. | think may be able to boost
you in through the front window. l
am sure I can if that window is not
latched"
He pressed upward on the sash and
the window rose slowly and with a
slightly creaking sound. 1T is all
right" he said, and pushed still hard
er. Now he said, when the apera-
tnre had assumed proportions COM
mensurate with the anatomical struc-
ture of the woman, "if you can bridge
the chasm you will be all right
"Oh, I can do that easy enough"
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8&S an Mzz111gzzD s
>lgkl$S9 Zzzzz&z

There was CONSERVATION among the
doves and sparrows lowering over the
roof of one of the houses on the boule-
ward at sight Of huge white bird de-
scending like cloud directly upon
them, says the Chicago Tribune Re-
firing to safe distance, they watched
him alight on the edge of a chimney
and hitch up more securely bundle
that he carried under one wing.
"Mercy!" exclaimed a tiny bit of a
brown sparrow, recognizing the
stranger and hopping forward and
perking his head to one side. you'd
better not stop here with that"
"Why?" inquired the newcomer.
There is mothers meeting in
progress downstairs and they are dis
cussing things"
"Um! 1 think this is the place am
looking for, and, folding his long legs
under him, he calmly went down the
chimney.
Ladies" she was reading from
paper, 1.-The moral, mental and physical
training of the child"
|: Ladies'" interrupted the stork,
whose entrance had been unnoticed.
Il have here an excellent specimen of
the subject under discussion. If YOU
will permit me will just show you-'
Mercy mel"
"Gracious!"
"Goodness!'
The EXPLANATIONS in various tones
of alarm and dlsapproval and the
scraping of chairs over the highly pol
ished floor would have disconnected a.
less experienced advocate.
|: Dear me-" said one member of the
club, Il don't want him. l have too
many outside duties"
"Nor IT, objected another. II have
just been elected to the orphan asylum
board; I shall have my hands full"
you would find him. began the
stork.
terestfng enough when he is young"
interrupted sharp voiced dame, at
the same time lifting lorgnette war
ranted to put to fight the most un-
daunted composure. After one had
devoted ones life to his education and
training and nodded his will to ones
own he would marry some impossible
creature"
HE would be perfectly lovely,
know sweet voice murmured from
a corner of the room, but after years
Of care and loving sacrifice, and one
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War Plans Forever Secret.

Schemes like this one are frequent
subjects of great state secrets. Here
is one that will never be known. There
died at Moscow last month Prof. Phil
ipoff who, had he lived few weeks
longer, was to have communicated to
the St. Petersburg Academy of Science
the secret Of deathdealing engines
of his inventing which, he claimed,
would make war impossible.
A dose Of prussic acid accidentally
taken when experimenting killed the
inventor, and the theory lies buried
with him in the grave.
In the archiepiscopal library at
Lambeth palace is the clue to a plan
of campaign as terrible, as far as can
be judged, as any that Cochrane or
the Russian devised. 1t was the
scheme of Lord Napier, and includes
the designs for an arm to destroy
a whole army at once, and to scatter
a feet, no matter how large. That,
again, was never made public, but
remains in manuscript form just as it
left Napier's hand. He ayerred, and
the statement has never been quAs
toned, that for wager, to prove the
efficacy of his invention, he gave
proof upon a large plain in scotland,
to the destruction of a great many
head of cattle and f1ocks of sheep,
whereof some we're distant from.
others half mile.'
It was his desire that his secret
should never be known, as ''for the
ruin and overthrow of mankind there
are too many devices already framed"
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Nearly everybody must remember
the story of the man who had discov-
cred a way to set water on fire. OF
course, the story turned out to be
untrue, but it served to emphasize
the fact that if man should really
possess so terrible a secret he would
be the most dangerous of mortals,
for he might at any instant start a
conf1agration which would destroy all
the life on the world, if not the world
itself.
A secret of which Great Britain will
probably want to know something if it
is ever threatened with invasion is
the "secret war PLAN of Admiral
Cochrane, tenth Earl Of Dundonald.
It was declared to be an invention cap
able of destroying any fleet or fortress
in the world When first he made his
announcement it was referred to a
secret committee consisting of the
Duke of York, Lord Keith, Lord Elk
mouth and the two Congreaves, who
pronounced it "infallible, irresistible,
but inhuman." 1t was on the latter
ground alone that the scheme was
not adopted.
When the inventor entered the SER
vice of Chilli the Prince Regent exact
ed from him a solemn pledge that he
would never betray his knowledge to
any other power. He kept his prom
Use, and though the plans were recon
sidered and their adoption advocated
when the Crimean war broke out, the
matter was allowed to lie in allegiance.
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there is no choice at all in meek
nowadays.
If more men would only take wives
then their complaint that some women
dress too young would certainly
cease.
All the world loves a lover-but
very few people love an engaged
couple.
It is not considered correct to talk
with cigar in your mouth, so perhaps
the time may come when men will
encourage their wives to smoke.
Chance is a lady who often goes
under the name of good Judgment"
Pity may be akin to love, but any
self-respecting person will recognize
it as poor relation, Of whom one is
not proud.
A dentist is man who, no matter
how rich, is obliged to live hand.to-
mouth existence.
If love is an accident, is marriage a
catastrophe?
Man wants but little here below
but he doesn't want to be short on
that little.-M. C. Aynar in New York
Times
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Curing "Sick" Jewels.

Curing "Sick' Jewels.
mo flaw in that stone,' said the
ieweler to a customer who has hand
ed him handsome turQuois, "but it
is sick. Leave it with me for two
weeks and I'll cure it,"
The customer went out, but a re-
porter who overheard the CONVERSE
ton asked some questions. "All jew
els except diamonds are liable to NAL
adies," he said. "Rubies, sapphires
and pearls have their separate all
ments, but diamonds are immune
from their great hardness. This tur-
euois given me to cure is bilious,
that's all. Precious stones are all af-
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Sing On.

Sing On.
Soon the shadows will be gone;
Soul, sing on!
Night is drifting to the dawn;
Soul, sing on! 't"- "a ,--
Soon the wales. of morning blest,
Tired, yet thankful, thou shalt rest
With Gods roses on the breast
Soul, sing on!
Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitu
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fected by surrounding conditions. The
general cure is the application Of
acids, but it requires an expert to do
it. Pearls suffer most. They age early,
and lose all their value in reflection
of beautiful colors. A dead pearl il
not worth much"