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Mower County transcript., 1903-05-27
Ia rlore Phone Extensions.

Articles of incorporation which have
been filed at Augusta, Me-, by E. II.
Moulton of Minneapolis, provide for a
Tristate telephone and telegraph COM
pany with capital stock of $6,OoO,OOo,
which will construct extensions of the
Twin City Telephone company's lines
through North and South Dakota and
Minnesota. There will also be exten-
sions into Wisconsin. Other incor-
porators of the new company besides
Mr.. Moulton, who is president of the
Twin City company, are L. l.. G..
Brooks and F. G. Nelson of St. Paul,
both being extensive stockholders. The
company already has lines IN Wiscon-
sin and this state and is about to
establish an exchange at Grand Forks.
The line to Austin is under way, which
line will have extensions both east and
west in the southern part of the state.
The organization of the Tri-State
company is only part of comprehen-
sive plan to cover the entire territory
tributary to the twin cities with lines.
The company will establish as thorough
a system in the long distance field as
that which the Twin City company
has in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
The Twin City company already has
connections with the Consolidated
Telephone and Telegraph company to
Duluth and Superior and with the
Minnesota Valley Telegraph company
to Mankato. It has connections also
with the Rapid Service Telephone and
Telegraph company, which now runs to
Hastings, but which will be extended
from Hastings and to Lacrosse, Wis.
Mower County transcript., 1903-05-27

THE recent state senate defeated the
proposed amendment to the state oil
inspection law providing density test.
This is the reason given for the poor
burning quality of illuminating oils
now sold. Under the present imper-
feet law, oil inspectors are entirely
powerless to interfere with oil that will
not explode, as the flash light test is
the only one used. The illsmelling
stuff now sold which burns with a
murky yellow light stands the test al
though itis cheat and a sWindle on
the consumer.
Mower County transcript., 1903-05-27

A CHICAGO paper says that senator
Foraker Of Ohio is exceedingly adroit
and clever and most capable debater
and that if he could keep his temper
under better control and suppress his
animosities and jealousy he would be
a great man. Long ago it was said by
a wise man that he that ruleth himself
is greater than he that taketh city.
Self control is one of the marks of true
greatness.
Mower County transcript., 1903-05-27

PRESIDENT Elliott, addressing the
Boston teachers on the entertainment
of the delegates to the coming national
educational association, advises taking
the Westerners to Revere Beach, add
ing that "a bath may be good fol
them." We have no idea that the
Westerners are in half as great need OF
a bath as those very same conceited
Boston bean-eaters.
Mower County transcript., 1903-05-27
Greatest America can Festival.

In Memorial day the American people
have an observance of greater breadth
and scope and appealing to more varied
emotions than does that of any other
national festival. Washington's and Lin
coins and other birthdays commemorate
particular men, but this commentaries
all who have served the nation in the
crucial war test of its energy. Labor day
is emblematic of industrial achievement,
but Memorial day is emblematic of broad
er forms Of achievement. The Fourth of
July exempli6es national. pride, but Me.
mortal day conjoins joy and sorrow
Christmas the American people share with
all other Christian nations. but Memorial
day is all their own. It is the great and
high American festival, and as such as
the years go by will it be increasingly re-
garded and observed.
Mower County transcript., 1903-05-27
The Victories of Pence.

All glory to the old boys in blue, who
fought in the cause of freedom! All glory
to the younger boys in blue who took up
arms against Spanish tyranny and misrule
Let Decoration day be fttingly celebrated
and with flowers bespread the. graves of
those who have joined the mightier hosts.
But let us learn from the day the lessons of
peace, knowing full well that her victories
are more profound than wars, for they make
for the kingdom of Heaven on: the earth and
the universal brotherhood of man.
Mower County transcript., 1903-05-27
A Great Day for Children.

Decoration day is an object lesson in pa
triotism to the children. How eagerly they
recitation or chorus! Nor will they forget
the lesson thus inculcated. I'M the days
to come, should the flag once more need de-
Tenders, they will gladly come from the
ranks which to-day are learning that he
who dies for his country lives forever in the
hearts of his fellow countrymen
Mower County transcript., 1903-05-27

THE Iowa supreme court rules that
the law enacted in 1892 providing that
saloonkeepers are liable to the wife,
whose husband has been ruined by in
toxicants, is still in full force in that
state The law is a just one and may
held to make saloon men more careful
Mower County transcript., 1903-05-27

The Worlds Fair aerial tournament
to be held at St. Louis next year has
another entry. w. L. Tanney, of
Wheeling, w. Va, has invented an air
ship with which he is going to compete
for ahe 100000 prize.
Mower County transcript., 1903-05-27

WE see by the St. Paul papers that
automobilists who neglect to take out
licenses under the new state law are to
be prosecuted. The state law requires
each chauffer to take out a license
costing So and to place the number of
the license in letters AZ inches high up
on the back of the machine.
Mower County transcript., 1903-05-27

SOME of the janitors in the st. Paul
school buildings get larger wages than
some of the teachers in the same build
ing. We do not think however that
there will be any rush to change posi-
tions on account of better salaries.
Manual work is not so popular as
teaching with many.
Mower County transcript., 1903-05-27

The right kind Of bee keepers sup
plies also pull bred italian queens to
out cross your apiary will be kept at
Glen G farm IL miles northwest of Of
Brownsd ale village during the coming
season. F. A. TIoKNoR, Austin, MINI.
Mower County transcript., 1903-05-27

The long drought east is causing a
shortage of vegetables in New York
city and prices are going up by leaps
and bounds. Out in North Dakota
around Bismarck they have had no
rain this spring. Southern Minnesota
is the garden spot where we have
enough rain and to spare.
Mower County transcript., 1903-05-27
Union Soldiers i'm the Field.

Union Soldiers i'm the Field.
The number of soldiers on duty in the
federal army during the civil war is given
as follows: July l., 1861. B3,5ss; January
l, 1862, 81, ,204; January l, 1863, sos, 1902;
January l, 1864, 6ll,25o; January l, 1865,
620.924; May l, 1866, 797, ,S07.
Mower County transcript., 1903-05-27
F O K S AL F.
Mower County Inn
proved Farm Lands
BY ED. PETERSON, Sergeant, rlinn.

240 acres, one and one-half miles
southeast OF Sergeant, good build
iogs and we'll, gas engine for pump.
ing, price $53 an acre.
l40 acres, three miles south Of
Sergeant, no buildings, price per
acre $44.
12O acres, two miles north Of Sar-
geant, fair buildings, price per
acre $50.
l20 acres, three miles west OF Sar.
gea0t aud three miles east uf Wal
than. good buildings, we'll and
windmill, price pr acre 800
Mower County transcript., 1903-05-27

Stops the Cough
aid Works off the Cold
Laxative Bromo.Quinine Tablets cure cold in
one day. No Cure, noPay. Price Is cents.
Mower County transcript., 1903-05-27

80 acres, one mile east of WAL
than, price per acre $5l.
200 acres adjoining village Of Sar-
geant $45 an acre. I
One seven room D yelling in Aus
tin, near Catholic Church. price
$500.
26O acres adjoining village of
Waltham at $500 an acre. Good
buildings.
One Saloon Building in Sergeant.
20x7O feet, with fixtures and stock.
price $4,000 complete.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
THE WORLDS OLDEST TREE.
Cypress Of Soma, in Lombardy, Has
the Record.

Cypress Of Soma, in Lombardy, Has
the Record.
The cypress of Soma, in Lombardy,
is said to be the oldest tree in the
world of which there is authentic rec.
ord. 1t is supposed to have been
planted in the year of the birth of
Christ, but the Able Belize tells us
that there is chronicle at Milan
which speaks of it as a grown tree
i'm the time of julius Caesar. A rival
to this is the eucalyptus, or gum tree,
near the foot Of Mt. Wellington in
Tasmania, which is $50 feet high and
fully 80 feet in diameter. =,
A gigantic trunk in the province of
Oxaca, in Mexico, measures 200 feet in
circumference at its base, and accord
ing to an average rate of growth it's
age would exceed 5000 years. Cy-
press trees in parts of America are
very slong-ived; by counting the con-
centric rings where they have been
sawn through it has been estimated
that 1900 years is no uncommon Pc
riod Of growth with them. Many other
examples have. been quoted of vet
eran trees which, grow in California,
Ceylon and elsewhere, and some Brit
ish oaks and yews are of extreme old
age. = ,..... - 49,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
In Extremis,

In Extremis.
rs the door well barred? And the win
dow?"
YEA"
And the outer gate, is 1t firm and fast?
There was one rode by on the bitter
That cried, Beware! I shall enter there
And set my seal ere the dawn Of day."
1T Is all secure. Sleep sweet, nor fear:
There Is none can dare to enter here. -
Quick! Cover me close and sit on guard
And shield by sight, for seem to see
A Pallid Presence that beckons me:
His brow Is cold and he's green with
Oh, how could he enter If all is barred?'
There is none has entered. beloved.
Cease,
These are but visions that vex your
peace"
'Oh, hold my hand, for to part is pain.
You see 1t not but there's One defies
Our bolts and bars and bids me rise
And fare with him thro' the valley dim.
Whence none may ever return again."
Oh, strange and sad! Ere I answered
Nay"
Dark Death had stolen a soul away.
Susie M. Best, in Independent.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
His Shoulder to the Wheel.

Eugene H. Lehman, the young COL
orado student who was the first Amer
lean to be awarded the Rhodes schol-
arship at Oxford, is self-made stu
dent. His credentials were indisput.
able, for they showed a percentage
higher than those submitted by score
of other students.
Naturally he had to- submit to the
interviewers of boys journals, and
Success" papers, SO that his career
might be the inspiration for other
struggling youths. s*.a% -.
"How did you manage to. work, your
way through college SO successfully ?"
asked an important representative of a
very unimportant journal.
by keeping my. shoulder to the
Wheel" replied Lehman, tartly.
The answer will be appreciated
when it is understoo that young ,Leh-
man worked his way through Yale
with money earned in pushing an in.
valid il her chair for IS cents an
hoslr. X r &; VI s Il NJ s> NJ !. III > 1i
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
PRETTY CIRCUS WOMEN.
They Must Have Good Looks Nova
days as Well as Good Muscles.

They Must Have Good Looks Nova.
days as Well as Good Muscles.
There is a new kind of circus girl,
just as there is a new chorus girl. The
latest thing in chorus girls is slight
and piquant, and in marked physical
contrast to the opulent, stalwart beau
ty who was formerly considered the
only type adapted to stage display.
The new kind of circus girl is strik.
ing principally on account of her in.
creased comeliness. The hard-faced
dyed-haired rider with her set smile
and CHASTITY little coquettries is a
thing OF the past.
The women are nowadays fresher,
prettier and nearly always better
d. essed than they ever were in the
past. Comeliness seems to be regard.
ed now as important as their athletic
skill.
One very mediocre acrobat was a
woman called the beautiful Geral
dine," who was successful ten years
ago from one end of Europe to the
other, not because she was skillful in
her work, but because of her supposed
ly great beauty. Yet to-day she would
not seem so much above the average
Of looks at the Madison Square Gar
den.
Their dressing is also more tasteful
IN it's colors and the women who this
year ride in habits are in every way
smarter looking than they were in tic
past. But it is her looks that differen.
tiate the present-day circus girl from
Eer predecessors. She is rapidly be
coming thing of beauty as we'll as Of
muscle and daring.-New York Sun.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
The FREE KIDNEY DOCTOR.

/ Us the pao pls . vie
00ubt and bocoiaS cured
while they doubt who
praise Doon's Pills the
highest. E.as III. b,
+ Aching backs are teesed.
Hip, back, and loin pains
overcome. Swelling o{ the
limbs and drop1y signs
vanish. ~" r. :,
They correct urine with
trick dust sediment, hirh
eolorod, pain in passing,
dribbling, frequency, bod
.Wettng. Doan's Kidney Pills
remove calculi and gravel.
Ralieve heart palpitation,
sleeplessness, h eadeo.he.
nervousness, dizziness.
.TAYIoRsvILLE, MISS. -"I
tried everything for . weak
back and rot: no relief until I
nsod Deans Pills"
J. N. LEWIS
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
SURE NOW.
The Truth About Coffee.

It must be regarded as convincing
test when family of seven has used
Postum for five years, regaining health
and keeping healthy and strong on
this food drink.
This family lives in Millville, Mass.
and the lady of the household says:
For eight years my stomach trou
Eous and irritable and no medicine
helped me.
81 had about given up hope until
five years ago next month I read an
article about Postum Cereal Coffee
that convinced me that coffee was
the cause of all my troubles. I made
the Postum carefully and liked it SO
much that l drank it in preference
to coffee but without much faith that
it would help me.
AT the end of a month, however
4 was surprised to find such a change
i'm my condition. I was stronger in
every way, less nervous and at the
end of six months had recovered my
strength so completely that I was
able to do all Of my own homework
because of the good Postum did us
knew that what you claimed for
Grape-Nuts must be true and we
have all used that delicious food ever
since it first appeared on the market
" Eve have seven in our family and I
do the work for them all and L am
sure thatI owe my strength and health
to the steady use of your fine cereal
food and Postum. I'm place of Coffee.
I have such great faith in Postum
that I. have sent it to my relatives
and never lose 3 chance to speak
we'll Of It." Name furnished by Pos.
tum Co, Battle Greek, Mich. x 1. .= #
Ice cold Postum with q dash OF
lemon is a delightful cooler" for
warm days. & s,s.s s*S n ss .ss
Send for partic ulars by mail OF ex.
tension Of time on the 81, 500 90 cooks
contest for 1876 money prizes 81 S N n
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
Method in Her Madness.

The feminine coterie was holding
garrulous powwow in the drawing
room, when suddenly mouse loomed
up amid the scenery. It was all Of
the fair ones in q go-as-you-please
race to the lawn with the exception Of
one maid Of more or less uncertain
years. ~ s i B: - Ill "
Why didn't you run, too?" asked
the strong man who rushed CALAMITY
to the rescue. . .s. 6 r. ;;::5 L /:
ii was in h=hopes,' sobbed she Of
the unreeorded birthday 81 ann1versar-
tes,s that m-might be scared out Of
,s-several years ear g-growth il I re-re-
NAMED. " Sg 5. { # Z n ss BIZ
Where pon the strong man took on
= sympa tlhetic look and said never .
word. si
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08

A splash of yellow light fell from
the doorway of the cafe OF S. Maur1n
into the still, blue darkness of the lit
tie quay, where couple of Pickering
lamps only served to make the gloom
more profound. The moon had not
risen and the pale radiance OF the
stars showed the long, slow swell of
an oily sea. Against the wall of the
quay lay tiny sailing yacht. Farther
out. midway between the horns OF the
harbor. a fishing boat with widespread
sails that seemed hardly to catch the
faint evening air drifted like a
shadow through the night.
In the cafe half dozen men, fishers
of this little port, lounged idly over
their glasses. Old Antoine, the inn
keeper, drOWsed as usual in his cor.
ner chair. Jean Modesto, his grand.
son, sat with a torn net across his
knee and his black head bent. The
rest slipped their coarse wine and
talked to each other spasmodically of
the weather or the prospects of a
good catch.
Suddenly Jean Modesto, looking up
from the tear in the net, made with
his hand the sign of the cross. The
Others looked at him with curious, half
frightened eyes. He was staring
through the open doorway at the sea-.
There was an instant of heavy silence.
The glasses ceased to clink and only
old Antoine snored softly in his cor
ner
Jean Modeste's eyes fell again to
his net.
THE Fisher!" he said, in a low tone
of explanation.
Every one, except the sleeping inn
keeper, turned at once to the door.
Between the horns of the bay the one
wide sail was driving lazily nearer.
Again there was silence in the cafe,
an odd, unwholesome stiffness, heavy
with i'll omen and expectation of evil
to come.
Presently big Jules Bontemps took
a draught of his wine and set the
glass down Ioisily on the table at
which he sat.g
For my part" he said, II don't
!OelleVe IN tnlS F1SQer-Lnere! every
sail you see near S. Maurin it's the
same thing with you all-the Fisher!
I'm stranger-I-thank the good
God there's no Fisher in the port Of
Nice-no! Now, will any of you tell
me, my friends, who this Fisher Of
yours is, and what he seeks?"
The question was addressed gener-
silly, to the whole company present,
but nobody answered. Instead they
all looked at Jean Modesto as he bent
over his net.
"Who he is" he spoke medita.
lively. "Ah, for that-no one can \tell
you. What he seeks-that's another
matter. They do say
He broke off and glanced again
through the open door. The black
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
THE .!.lE L.Ek e / 81 LEE.
4 Longevity Of M4a Increasing, Gays a /,
3 2# ~ g. Au sfas.s irgelclan. u f5.;,s i

= s., =. s5,3 lelan.
j MedicaI men are discus ins ! lecture
BY Professor Pnuger, of Z the Univer-
sity 81 Bonn, on longevity, in which he
asserts that the average length Of
human life is steadily increasing, says
tho Indiana Medical Journal. He
maintains that one-third of Ill the
deaths registered In Munich are due to
heart disease, brough, on by the i'm
moderate ~use Of beer, and that tohacc,-:
co also claims 4 large pencentage Of
the victims. Among forty csntenari-
ans who have come UNDER his notice
there was only one smoker, while
nearly all protested to a moderate use
Of alcohol. What Professor Phuger
most seriously warns people against
is the thought and fear OF death. The
mind must be occupied, he says, in
order to secure longevity. fHard-work-
ing men who retire rarely live much
longer.
: The German census statistics show
that in 1871 the centenarians mum.
bered lat men and 2S7 women, but in
1900 only five men and thirty women,
The above press report is of interest
AS is we'll known in Munich the con.
sumption of beer per capita is greater
than elsewhere in the world and the
percentage of heart disease is higher
Beer has worse influence on the
heart than either wine or whisky
Tobacco is better borne by adults and
the aged than by youth. No child
should be allowed to smoke before the
age OF twenty-one.> Wine has been
said to be the milk of old age; il
should not be used until past the noon
OF life. That the German census
shows reduction of old men since the
war with France is natural. The age
OF industrialism, of city life, OF strain,
OF alcohol and of the veneral diseases
with Increase of tables dorsalis and
general paresis is the present age of
Germany as it is of the United States.
Only the sedate and the temperate in
ALL things can expect length of days.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08

'"The fisher!" he said, in low tone.
sail was drifting very slowly toward
the land.
"Well, what do they say?" Bontemps
asked, impatiently.
The young man turned again to his
act.
'"They say" he answered, in the
same low, unwilling tone, that he
fishes for the souls of men,"
Bontemps stared for second. Then
he flung back his rought black head
with great laugh.
"The souls of men! All, my faith.
that's good! Are you Christians,
then. in this harbor of s. Maurin?"
"Aa good as any in the port of Nice"
Jean Modesto replied. with q touch
of heat.
Bontemps laughed again.
mo offense, my friend. But come,
It's absurd, you know. It's moonshine
that's what it is. This Fisher Of
Jean Modesto cut through, his speech
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
PATENTS.

List of Patents Issued Last Week to
Northwestern Inventors.
Charles Benedict. Lidgerwood, N.
D., grain elevator: Andrew Carlson,
assignor to F. E. Mailer, St. Paul,
Mimi, track gauge; Joseph Darrah,
Rolla, N. D., safety lantern and foot
warmer; Charles Shabley, Wessing-
ton Springs, S. D., harrow; Charles
Smith, Hassel, Mont, dam for irrigat-
ing bitches; Gustaf Steinback, Elk
Point, S. D., cultivator; Oscar Tor
gerson, Mapleton, N. D., draft equal
izer.
Lothrop & Johnson, patent lawyers 911
and 912 Pioneer Press Bldg, St. Paul..
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
MADE AN IMPRESSION.
But Not Quite the Kind Of a One She
Had Intended.

6ut NOT Quite the Nlnd OF One She
Had Intended.
A fashionable girl was upstairs and
had just turned out her light when she
heard a caller ask for her. She made
dive for her powder box in the dark
and busted her face, and then went to
the parlor and found a man upon
whom she was anxious to make an
impression.
And she did. He was puzzled at her
appearance, but, being a gentleman,
said nothing. She sat and chatted
gracefully and had delightful even
ing.
AS soon as he had gone she rushed
to the mirror, as every girl does when
her beau leaves. She gave ono
scream and went off into Mysteries.
Instead Of putting the puff into the
powder box she had put it into the
powdered charcoal used for her teeth.
Springfield Republican.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
FOR WOMEN
Much That Every Woman
Desires to Know
About Sanative Antisep-
tic Cleansing
And about the Care Of the Skin,
Scalp, Hair and Hands.

Too much stress cannot be placed on
the great value Of Cuticura Soap, ONT
ment and Resolvent in the antiseptic
cleansing of the mucous surfaces and OF
the blood and circulating. fluids, thus
. afording pure, sweet and economical
local and constitutional treatment for
weakening alterations, inflammations,
feelings, irritations, relaxations, dis
placements, pains and irregularities
peculiar to females. Hence the Cuti-
cura remedies have wonderful infu-
ence in restoring health, strength and
beauty to weary women, who have
been prematurely aged and invaded
by these distressing ailments, as well as
such sympathetic Affections as an@mia,
chlorosis, hysteria, nervousness and
debility. x
Women from the very first have fully
appreciated the purity and sweetness,
. the power to afford immediate relief,
the certainty Of speedy and permanent
cure, the absolute safety and great
economy which have made the Cuticura
remedies the standard skin cures and
humour remedies Of the civilized world.
!. Millions Of the women use Cuticura
Soap, assisted by Cuticura Ointment.
for preserving, purifying and beauti.
lying the skin, for cleansing the scalp
:! Of =. crnsts, scales and ydandruff, and the
stopping Of falling hair, for softening,
whitening and soothing red, rough and
sore =: hands, for annoying sirri,ations,
ana lucrative weaknesses, and for
many sanative, antiseptic purposes
which readily suggest themselves, az
well IS for all the purposes of the toilet,
bath and nursery. Il, 4=2#:. !
FORM Of Choeolats Coated Pis c BE- vsI 81 CO., ONT.
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xpvss aDseg 9 Chen Corp. Sole PrnpsiseoeA 5s So.