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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
Quick Returns from Poultry.

Poultry gives quick returns to the
investor. There is no other branch
Of live stock producing that compares
with poultry raising in this regard.
In the raising of beeves, horses, sheep
and swine considerable time must
elapse before the returns are made
on the investment. Not so the poul-
try business. II year is long time
in the poultry business. If a man
wishes to raise broilers, he buys an
incubator in November, buys his eggs
to put into it short time afterwards
and in the months of early spring
has marketed his two-pound birds and
wants to produce winter eggs, he does
aot require a year to get returns. He
matches his chicks from hens or in
cubators in March, April and May
and by December is taking in money
from the sale of his eggs. The farm
ers son or daughter can take advan-
tage to invest some pocket money in
a real business, and get not only
pleasure but profit from it. This
fact should lead many of the young
people on the farms to go into the
poultry business on small SCALE
Ten thousand focks might be start
ed this spring by these youthful ex-
perimenters and be made to yield
some returns by Christmas. Hun
dreds of boys on our farms are going
into experimental corn raising on a.
small scale. Why not some others
go into experimental poultry raising?
This is field for the girls as well as
for the boys. Let the matter of quick
returns be made test. 1t would be
interesting to learn the records made
along this line. We hope that many
of our young friends will give the
p'-cter their conslueration.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
STOLE HIS GIRLS FATHER.
Embarrassing Mistake Made by Es-
Quimau Lover,

Embarrassing Mistake Made by Es-
quimau Lover.
The Duke of the Abruzzi brought
back with him from his polar expedi-
ton number Of Esquimau stories.
One of these concerns a young Es-
quimau who loved the daughter of
an enemy. The two huts Of these
persons were close together, but one
night the terrific cold ripped a great
crevasse in the ice, and the young
mans house was left isolated. A
gorge 100 feet deep and twenty feet
wide separated it from. the igloo, or
hut, containing the girl, but there was
narrow bridge of ice left across the
crevasse, and this, the young man
found, would bear his. weight.
EsQuimaus sleep in bags. The lover
decided that he would that night
cross the ice bridge, steal the maiden
he loved, bear her to his hut, and
then break down the bridge so that
he and she together might enjoy
their honeymoon unmolested.
He planned very successfully. He
crept, in the dead of night, into his
epemy's hut, he snatched up the
maiden in her sack without awaking
any one; he bore her over the ice
bridge safely. and then he opened the
sack to embrace his bride. But, be-
holding it's contents, he gave a loud
cry. It was rot the maiden, but her
father, that he had stolen. 6
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08

the guy-rope fastenings; two more
may be run from the front upright and
fastened on the sides at the rear.
These ropes give stability to the up
right poles. An extra piece Of can
vas should be stretched over the tent
roof, projecting beyond the caves and
covering the full length of the tent,
for protection against the rain. 1t is
usually easy to improvise a. floor from
the scattered pieces of wood within
reach. A. trench must be dug around
the tent~to carry off the surface water
in case of rain.
With regard to, beds it is best, as a
rule, to avoid sleeping on the ground.
A good couch can be made with pile
of twigs of pine and hemlock, sacks of
leaves or balsam, or even with a rus.
tic framework of branches covered
with the fragrant boughs. A regular
mattress savors too much of the city
which the camper has left behind. A
buffalo robe is the best mattress for
one who is roughing it, and blankets
will constitute the bedding.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
Caring for the Bull.

The bull should have ring in his
rose about the time he is a year old
says Charles L. Hill, and earlier if he
is headstrong, and as soon as it is
healed he should be taught to lead by
it, and always be handled by a staff.
A daily grooming will greatly improve
his looks and doubtless do him good.
Do not keep your bull in foul dark
pen, but if possible give him a light.
airy box stall, in sight of the herd
of COWS, and be sure and clean his
stall, and water him daily. Do not
abuse him, but still be firm with him.
Never fool or play with a young bull,
but always make him mind, and then
as he grows older never give him a
chance to know that he can. do any
thing else. Do not trust him if he is
gentle, though you may. do as you
please about it if he acts cross. It
Is always the gentle bull that kills the
man. Careless handling of bulls has
cost our own state some Of her best
dairymen and breeders. 3. 49,,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08

Vacation camping among the boys
is locked forward to for months ahead.
The very thought of flying to the lake,
the woods or the open beach with his
tent, his old clothes and freedom from
restraint is one of enchantment.
Concerning tents, the party have
considerable liberty of choice. A shell
ter tent may be stretched to keep off
the dew, wind or rain, and is merely
square of canvas, with buttons and
buttonholes at the edges, so that two
or more of them can be Joined to-
gether. Two poles are planted upright
to hold the upper two corners, and
the canvas slopes thence to the
ground, being held in position by pegs.
For ordinary vacation camping the
boys should have regular tent. The
common tent, with sloping sides, is
about Z feet high in the center, 8 1-3
feet wide on the ground and 61k to 7
feet long from front to rear. In the
army each tent is intended to shelter
six men. For the general purpose of
camping a wall tent is best. :. The
side walls are 81 feet high; the ridge
of the roof, 81 feet; the spread on
the ground is 9 feet, and the depth
from front to rear is feet. 1t would
actually shelter eight or ten boys, but
pleasure party will not put within it
more than four or five, or perhaps
six. The wall tent is the best gen.
eral, allaround shelter for the camp:
ing party.
To pitch a wall tent properly twelve
large and eighteen small pegs are re-
CURED, and there must be ridge
pole and two uprights to support it.
Spread the tent upon the ground, the
ridge pole in position. Lay the two
uprights at right angles to- their cen
tiers touching the ENDS OF the ridge
pole. From each end of the uprights
take one long step, and to the front
and rear of that point another long
step. This will fix the places for
driving the four large corner pegs.
Drive the pegs and fasten the cords
to them; plant the uprights perpen-
dicular, raising the ridge pole with
the tent at the same time. Two boys
are required for this purpose. Tie thu
door of the tent shut, and then drive
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
Hill Side Orchards,

The orchard on the top and sides
of hill must have different treat
ment from that growing on the level
or gently-sloping land. The latter
may be cultivated annually. The hill
orchard cannot be cultivated, as that
would result in disastrous washing
during heavy rains. One object in
putting an orchard on a rather steep
hill is to utilize it in a way that will
prevent loss of soil and it's fertility
by the means of running water. But
in the case of the hillside orchard
it is not generally necessary to set
out the trees on the native sod and
leave them to their fate. In many
cases, where the soil is composed OF
heavy clay, drainage is a help. We
have seen clay hillsides that would
hold water in, holes and hollows for
a week after rain. In such soil the
excavation made for the tree at the
time of setting out will prove a veri-
table water bowl, in which stagnant
water will remain for days to the great
detrimcnt of the tree. We call at
tention to this fact for the reason
that many people have the idea that
all land with declivity is naturally
well-drained.
The hill orchard will generally
have to be kept in sod, but this does
not always prevent the use of the
spade around; the trees. After the
ground has become well filed with
the roots of the trees it is sometimes
advisable to use mulch. This DESTROYS
the grass, but does not disturb the
soil. To what extent this can be prac
ticed will depend on the conditions 81
soil, slope of land and rainfall.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
The Willy Giraffe.

Perhaps the most difficult of all wild
animals to capture is the giraffe. In
addition to being very rare, giraffes
are exceedingly timid and are very
swift-footed. There is no special way
to capture a giraffe, as almost every
way has been tried, and all have been
almost equally unsuccessful. The
method which has occasionally re-
suited in capture is by using a long
cord at each end of which is a round
weight. This cord is thrown by the
hunter in such a manner as to wind
round the animals legs, either bring.
ing it. to ground or rendering it in
capable of escaping before it is made
q; prisoner. I Most Of the gira1Tec in
captivity have been caught by chance
when young - I'd i III. i . .s.=a ~
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08

Shropshire Premiums.

Every Shropshire breeder. should
send to Mortimer lowering; secretary
at Lafayette, Indiana, for d circular
relative to the special premiums to be
offered by the association at the
shows this season. The shows pro.
vided, for are the" International at
Chicago, the Indiana State Fair at In.
dianapolis, the Kentucky Live Stock
Breeders Association at Louisville,
Kentucky, Oregon State Fair at Port.
land, the Territorial Sheep Breeders,
Association at Regina, N. w. r.. the
Maritime Stock Breeders Association,
at Amherst, N. s., the American Royal
Show ct Kansas City, Mo-, Toronto
Industrial Exposition and Ontario
Provincial Winter Fair at Guelph. go
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08

visor instead. This may seem i'm
possible or foolish, but by experiment.
ing you will find that dividing by two
you will bring the same result as
multiplying by five, providing you
add cipher to the quotient-if the divi-
dend be an even number, or five if it
be odd; For instance, if you multiply
2734 by five, the product is 1850.
What is still easier, divide 2734 by
two, which is done almost instantane-
ously. Then tack on your cipher and
you have 1850. Try it with large
sums and see how much easier it is.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
Bride Was Cautious.

The marriage of Mrs. Annie Mary
e. Zahm, 80 years old, and Thomas
Wood Stein, ~ years old, by Jus
tice Murphy recently in Jersey City,
might not have occurred if Stein had
not, just before the ceremony, made a
will bequeathing to his wife several
pieces of unimproved real estate in
Flushing.
Mrs. Zahm said to the justice: 81
love Mr.. Stein, but I can not marry
him unless he makes his will. Life
is too uncertain
an must have her way" but said he
would make the will.
Mrs. Zahm declared she was not
"willful, but cautious
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
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Successful Management Of Geese.

Successful Management Of Geese.
From Farmers Review: Il The rear.
ing of geese for market and exhibition
purposes if properly managed, will
bring in a considerable income, with
little expense. A few suggestions may
be of interest and help to those upac-
quainted with their management.
have had best success by dividing my
stock into small focks of one dozen
each at the breeding season, each
flock consisting of 6 males and 6 fe-
males. If left to themselves geese will
pair, if sexes are of equal number, al
though 1-3 males and 2-3 females will
give good results. The dividing into
small focks necessitates expense for
fencing, but as tie fence is about the
only item of cost in providing quar-
tiers for them it is Insignificant when
compared with the expense of poultry
houses. The shelter for geese may
be of the rudest kind. With the ex-
ception of severe storms in winter
they need no shelter except shade, at
forded by bushes or trees. If one is
w AVA
yards should extend some little dis
lance INTO it and the eggs will prove
more fertile.
Water to swim in is not necessarily
essential, however, for l have had ex-
cellent results from tubs and small
tanks sunk in the ground. Barrels
placed on the side may be used for
nests if desired, but geese are gener-
ally Indifferent to nests provided for
them. Geese are largely self-support-
ing. They pasture much the same as
cattle. Breeding geese should be pro-
cured before the breeding season, for
in new quarters geese do not lay so
we'll nor mate so freely. Results from
young geese, too, are generally unsat-
istactory. Eggs do not hatch we'll
and goslings lack vigor. I have had
experience with several varieties, but
prefer the Toulouse. They are of lar
gest size, probably the best layers,
and they are equal if not superior to
any other variety in the amount of
feathers produced in the year. And
this is very important fact to be con-
sidered, when it comes to the matter
Of profit. consider it most profitable
20 keep only tho best of pure-bred
stock and produce stock for fancy and
exhibition purposes. It costs no more
to raise them and the stock when
raised commands much higher price,
There is also the additional advantage
of being able to sell all surplus eggs
fc-' fancy breeding purposes at great
advance above the market price,
1eese are long lived and if properly
handled are profitable to a great age
Elmer Gimlin, Christian County, ILL.,
nOis.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
No Apple Belt.

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< We sometimes hear people speak
of a belt for growing this and that,
as if well-marked territory could
be described within which produce
OF that kind could be grown and out
side of which it could not be grown.
The term has been applied to the
raising of apples, and men now and
then speak of the "apple.. belt" But
there is no apple belt, and to use
the term merely confuses the discus
sion of apple growing. = j..
The apple can be grown over q
wide area of country,-how wide we
90 not yet know, as that is largely
dependent on varieties. Thus in Wis
consin, Minnesota and northern Iowa
it seemed at one time as if it were
quite useless to attempt to grow ap-
pies. The early settlers put in apple
trees of the Baldwin, Pippin and
Green1ng varieties, and experienced
failure for the most part. They for
some time after believed that to grow
apples in those states, except in ex-
ceptionally favorable localities, was
impossible. But some lovers of the
apple were determined to do all pos
sib!e to establish the growing OF this
king of fruits in the regions where
they lived. They saw that varieties
must be developed that would stand
the severe conditions of those eli
mates. A generation has passed, and
we see those states now large pro-
ducers of apples of new and hardy
varieties. The apple growing terri
tory has thus been pushed hundreds
of miles further north than it was
thirty years ago. We are now told
that the regions of Wisconsin about
Lake Superior will yet be dotted with
productive apple orchards.
In these localities the problem of
apple growing is a hard one, but is
not too difficult for the genius of man
to solve.
More work has perhaps been done
In pushing the apple growing region
north than in extending it toward the
south. This is due largely to the
fact that cold has always been recog-
nlzed as an enemy of the apple, while
heat has not been. Yet the apple, be-
ing temperate climate fruit, is as
certainly held in check by the heat
as by the cold. In our southern
states we find large areas where the
apple is not grown. These are usu-
ally the level lands. Along the noun
tain ranges, at a good altitude, the
apple has invaded the south, and in
the west along the foothills of the
Rockies it has nearly reached the
Mexican border. Doubtless work on
varieties will yet dot the southern
fields with orchards bearing red and
yellow apples.
Great possibilities are locked up in
the variations that are found in seed
lings, and what the limit of these
varieties are no man can now guess;
for work with them has but begun.
After another hundred years of seed
ling growing and experimentation
with new varieties we shall know
more about the limitations of the
apple. We may yet grow apples in
abundance from the Canadian line to
the Gulf Of Mexico.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
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? Feat With Figures.

Here is something worth knowing,
After learning this little trick Though
st is really not a trick, but an accom-
plishment), you will gain the reputa.
ton Of being lightning mathemati.s
clan, # s. j#
Everybody knows that learning the.
tens in the multi plication table Is as
easy as winking, and that the ives are re-
not much harder. But, slight as IS
the mental effort quired in multiply
Ing any number BY five, it may be- les
.sened still more ~ discard ding the mul
tiplier entirely and ssubsti tuting 6 de-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
The WhirliuiQ.

Cut this whirligig out very care
fully and paste it on square bit of
thin cardboard "a postal card would
do). Let it dry, and then cut the
cardboard out round the whirligig, and
with tiny pin fasten it through the
center to bit of stick for a handle.
This should be about the thickness
of match and three times as long.
Now take hold of it by the handle
and slowly turn it from left to right,
and you will see that it appears to be
whizzing round and round at tre-
mendous rate.
If you paint the white circles very
carefully bright red or a bright blue
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
!: A GAMBrEK''S STORY
HOW PAT sHEEDY.D CHARGED
> .2zl.s AN OLD DEBT.
Stranger Cast His Bread Upon the
= Waters" to Some Purpose When He
Helped the Veteran Gambler Out OF
5S%& a Financial Hole.

professional sporting men meet with
many curious experiences. Here is
taie told by Pat Sheedy, the gambler:
In $780," said he, Il was playing
against a faro bank in Chicago. Luck
was running against me hard. and l
was just getting ready to leave. after
having parted with $4,000. I acknowl-
edged myself broke, whereupon an or
binary looking fellow, a total stranger
and under the influence somewhat of
the ardent, who had been playing with
a drunken mans luck, threw me over
$1,000 in big bills, telling me to go on.
and II lost that could come to him
Tor more. told him that didn't want
his money, that i did not accept help
from people did not know. He said
that was all right and begged that, as
favor, l should play half of it for
MIN. SO persistent was he that finally
l TOOK the money and began again.
You know what happens to a man
when he is up against an adverse
streak. To cut it short, I lost the
$4,000, and declining peremptorily to
go further, went out, accompanied by
the stranger.
I'VE went and had bite to eat. I
owe you $4,000 said 1 to the man,
whereupon he laughed. Rest easy
about that he said. You will have
money when l am broke, and some of
these days you may do something for
me- He gave me no address and left
me wondering greatly as to his iden-
tity. Certainly he was singular in
dividual.
I'm 1898, just eighteen years after
that incident, was operating a place
in Constantinople, where gentlemen of
sporting proclivities, mostly wellixed
Englishmen and American tourists.
could get diversion at baccarat or the
Wheel One day Turk in my employ
told me that a countryman of mine,
who claimed to know me, was lying in
prison for some sharp trick, and might
call on me for aid. The next day the
man brought me card on which was
scrubbed the words: Chicago, 1880,
faro, $4,000 There was no signature.
but l knew in second who the fellow
was. Sure enough, it was my turn to
do the friendly act.
well, l saw the prisoner and recog-
n1zed him as my creditor. 1t took
more than $1,000 to square the author
tiles, but never mind about that. The
man was the personifcation of graft
tude. 1t would be too long story to
tell of all the details, but before got
him out of the country 1 knew his en-
tire record. The man was Adam
Worth, the greatest criminal in his
line OF the century, and who had dur
ing career of rascality covering a
period of fifty years stolen not less
than $2,000,0o0, or probably twice that.
Here comes the next extraordinary
part of the affair. Worth confessed to
me that it was he who had stolen the
famous Duchess of Devonshire Dor
trait from the Agnew gallery in Lon
don twenty-five years before. How, in
association with the Pinkertons, got
him to restore it to the son of the
owner would take too long to tell, and
besides that is another story
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08
Trick With 7oothpicks.

Take three toothpicks. Call them
first, second, third. Take one person
out of the room. Then ask person in
the room to point to one of the tooth
picks. If she points to the first, say
Come" If to the second, say Come
in and if to the third say "All ready"
Then the person outside will come
in and point out the tooth pick which
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08

all the pegs and fasten to them the
guy ropes. There are eyelets in the
tent for these ropes. Two stay ropes
may be run from the top to the rear
upright pole toward the front of the
tent and fastened on the side near
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08

When small t1eshy protube ap-
pear on birds, as on the head and
neck Of a turkey cock, those parts are
sid e be "carslnc ulated. 3
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08

A.woman with her hair falling Oh
would be in q Dickens Of q at II she
should lose Oliver Twist.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08

was chosen, for he knows that Come
means the first one. Come I'M the
second, Cali ready means the third
one
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-08

the effect will be still better; only you
must not paint it until after you have
pasted it on the card and it is quite
dry.
The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1903-02-10

Mrs X. " Bsughman died Sunday
NOR ming =, about ten O'Clock. She sai-
fered . pasaiytic stroke Thursday. Jann
ary -, and Though she partially rallied
from the effects she could not re over
aud the end came quietly and peacefully
Sunday morning.
The deceased was horn in 81. Louis.
Mo- in lS49. and accompanied her parents
to Oregon tl,< next year. In 1854 she mar
ried Captain Il. W. Nau.. hmsu and the
family have resided in Lewiston since
1881. Three children still survive her.
Harry Baughman and Ralph Baughman
captains on the O. X. & n. steamers on
Snake river, and Mrs Harry Thatcher OF
Gen~see. Captain William Thomas Of
the steamer Hannafosd and Mrs. Ada 7.
Baird Of Portland, brother and sister ol
the deceased. are also well known here,
The family has wide circle of friends
who will mourn with them over their loss.
The deceased was uemiJes Of the Epis.
copAl church Of this city aud the funeral
was held from the church to-day At p NJ