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The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-05
EARLY CORN KILLED.
Coldest Weather for the Season in 80
Years.

Years.
Washington. May 5.-The weather bu-
reau's weekly crop bulletin is as fol-
lows:
The week ending May was unseason-
ably cool over the greater part Of the
country. the minimum temperatures OH
April 80 and May l and , being the
loy~ast recorded in the last of April and
the first of May for the past 80 years al
nearly all weather bureau stations from
the central and western gulf coast
states to the upper Mississippi valley.
and also a number of stations in the
central Mississippi and Ohio valleys.
lake region and New England General
been favorable for farming operations.
but the unseasonably low temperatures
have checked the growth of all Vegeta-
ton and heavy frosts and freezes have
caused much damage. Drouth has been
relieved over southeastern Texas and
over limited areas in the central gulf
states. but continues over the greater
part of the last mentioned districts and
in mort hern Texas, and rain is needed in
Florida. Notwithstanding the decidedly
cool weather during the latter part of
the week the temperature in New Eng
land and portions of the middle Atlantic
states and lake region aVerag ged above
the normal. Rain is generally needed on
the Pacific coast
The early planted corn was extern
sively killed by the freeze during the
.
souri,, Oklahoma and Texas and the
crop has suffered from cold weather
throughout the southern states. PreDa-
ratlons for planting have progressed IA
Vofabiy In the Ohio valley and middle
Atlantic states, but little progress has
been made in the upper Missouri valley
and lake region. The present season to
date has been very unfavora bic for corn.
planting being greatly delayed. Winter
wheat appears to have escaped ma terial
injury during the recent freeze over the
western portion of the winter wheat
pelt and the general outlook for this
crop continues very promising although
slight deterioration is indicated in
portions of the central Mississippi and
Ohio valleys. On the Pacific coast the
outlook is less favorable, especially in
California.
Very little seeding of spring wheat
could be done over the northern portion
OF the spring wheat region during the
past week The reports indicate that
no serious damage has been done to
early sown over the southern portion.
On the north Pacific coast the crop is
now in need of rain.
Oats sustained more or less injury
from cold in the states of the Missouri
Valley and usual growth is generally
reported in the central Mississippi and
Ohio valleys. Decreased acreage is re
ported from Illinois, Indiana and un-
even stands in Ohio where unfinished
seeding is progre ssing slowly.
Early planted cotton on lowlands in
northern Texas and Oklahoma was
killed by the freeze of April 30, and
May 1. and throughout the cotton belt
low tempera lures have proved seriously
detrimental in retarding termination
and growth, while drought continues in
northern Texas and in the central gulf
states Poor stands are very generally
| reported.
Nearly all fruits have suffered fur
! ther damage from frosts and low tenn
peratures, apples having apparently
escaped with the least injury
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MARKETS TODAY.
Wheat Opens Easier but Is
Firm Later.
Increased Receipts Eases Off the
Corn.
LIVE STOCK TRADE.
Cattle Are Steady, Ranging
from S3.65 to $3.50.
Hogs Weak and the Receipts
Very Large.
LIVE STOCK TRADE.

Chicago. Nay s.-W HEAT heat open
ed essier On lower cables and better
Meaiher. July beirs lsc e. sac lower It
sellers while the buying was credited 70
the leading long. who took enough May
and July 70 cause flmer tone 10 tae
marlct and July advanced 10 izssc- re
eeipts at minneapolis ana DuluIn ana NJ
cago were les cars; against l'2 cars last
week. ara l5l cars last year
Good buying by local traders on reports
from the southwest damage Dy ny caused
strong fHfIlne and July closed the
The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-05
THEY DID THEIR PART.
Guy Ward and Park Mitten Helped
Take Care of President

Guy E Ward and Park Mitten two
western Kansas men. were in Topeka to-
day on their way to Emporia to attend
the grand encampment of the WoOdmen.
Mr.. Ward was prominent in the entertain
ment of President Roosevelt at Sharon
Springs Sunday. Sharon Springs is his
home. He, with Representative G. z.
Woodhouse. were detailed as deputy sher-
ifs and occupied chairs just in front OF
the pulpit during the Sunday services in
order to handle the crowd if necessary.
Western Kansas people are so well be-
haved however. that even in the jam there
was not the slightest need for their ser
vices, except to aid in the seating Of peo-
pie.
Mr.. AIitten lives at Oakley and is editor
of the Oakley Graphic. He is one Of the
Kansas editors who knows how TO make
a success Of a 2.000 population paper in a
400 population town.
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Chieago Livestoek Market.

Chicago. May 5.-CATTLE-Rece to-
day 300 head Market steady. Good TO
prime steers s5.0cN5.50' poor to medium,
@f.VQ 49o: stoekers and feeders. S3-25n5-lO;
cows, $l-50a4.I5; heifers s2.50u5.30: Gamers,
$40. Texas fed steers S4-00I475
HOGS-Receipts today. 10 go head. esti-
mated Wednesday. 1900 head; left over
from Monday 2l52 head. Market steady
to strong. Mixed ana butchers. $6.S5l705;
good to choice heavy. SI.0Ou715. rough
sales. S6.S507-00
SHEEP Receipts today 10000 head.
Sheep steady to strong: lambs 10Q15c high
er. Good to choice wethers, S4.l5Q5.75;
fair TO choice mixed, $5-l2U4 $50, western
sheep. 4.l5Q5.50, native lambs, S4-s0q -25;
western lambs, S45Qa7.25.
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AwfuI Rreak.
q The absentmind-

The absentrnind-
ed professor had
been looking at
some decorative
zrt work recently
turned out by the
wife of his host.
&C onside rim g
hat she has been
It it only a short
irne, said the
3roud hus band.
don't you think
ny wife paints
,ery nicely %
She does. she
7oest" exclaimed
he q. m. p. I'm
sure it makes her
ook at least ten
years younger.
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Kansas City, Mo, May 5.-CATTLE-Rc-
ceipts today, 5000 head, including l.5o3 head
OF Texans. Market steady to easy. Native
steers, s56ga5.3o, Texas and Indian steers,
g. 65u4-SO, Texas cows, S1.750350 native
COWS and heifers. Sl.50d4.S0. stoclkers and
feeders. $3.00Q4.75; bulls. S3.o0d450. calves,
3 l5Q 6-l5; western steers, S2.S0Q5-19, west
ern cows. S2.o0Q390
Receipts today. 1900 head. Mar
zel weak. Bulk OF sales, S6;l9q6.s2ia; heavy,
S67506.STis. packers. S6.61U6. 10. medium.
3665N6.S2ia light SG.60IJ6.S0: yOrzers, S6.701r
$50. pigs S6. 4O06.55.
SHEEP Receipts today. 5000 head.
Market strong Muttous. SS0N5.9o. lambs.
S4s007.00; range wethers, S3.S546J9s ewes.
So }75n5.50
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nrisa olara Eakridee Dead.

Kansas City, Mo-, May 5.-NIiss Clara
Eskridge. second daughter of the late Gov
c. V. Eskridge, of Kansas. died here to-
day of a complication of malaria and lung
trouble at the home of her brOther-in-law
John Steele, a well known newspaper man.
Miss Eskridge returned last November
from California. where she had gone for
her health. For years Miss Eslxridge lived
in Emporia and assisted her father in his
neWspaper work.
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hard 6S1aa69c. No. hard. 67a6751c: No. 4
hard, 62GG5ikc. rejected hard, 5SQ62c. No. ?
red. 69d70c No. red, 66a68c.
CORN-May. 3715c July. 37isc. Cash.
No 2 mixed. 40Q401ac; No. white, ia
413sc. No. 3 white, 4Qc
OATS-No. , white, 3sd35c; No. mixed,
33Q33lzc.
RYE-No ?. 45lkc.
HAY-Choice timothy, So. 75a1300; choice
prairie. $3.50.
BUTTER Creamery, 17a20c; dairy. fan
cy- l7c.
EGGs-Fresh. 121ze.
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Partly Qualified.

Partly Qualified.
I'D like ter be a
udge. said the
-hrenic Ioafer as
ie dropped into
ais regular seat
at the corner gro
cery- They amt
got nuthin' ter do
but set On the
bench all day an
look wise"
We'll. said the
grocer, you could
10 the settin on
the bench, all
right.
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jealousy.

Il hear" said
one man, "that
the president has
filed the place
that you thought
was so well adapt.
ed to yeur capaci-
ties.
You were mis-
informed. was this
reply. with a man.
ner of studied
hauteur. He has
appointed another
man to the posi-
ton. but he hasn {
filed il"
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Unequal Division.

Unequal Division.
We all have
burdens to bear
in this world Of
sorrow. said ths
easy going philos-
opher.
But some of Us
have a dc.hia
load" remarked
the father of twins
that were troubled
with insomnia.
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Cotton Market.

Galveston. Tex, May 5.-COTTON-AIar-
ket steady at 101sc per lb
New York May 5.-COTTON-SpOt cot
ton closed quiet and 10 points higher Qu9-
tations per l00 pounds Middling uplands,
Sl0.S5; middling gulf. Sll.l0-
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But I pass.
continued the par
son. dismissing one
head Of his dis
course.
Raise 'er the
limit yelled a
man in a front
seat, just awaken
ing from happy
dreams of last
mig n t's p 0 k e ?
game.
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SUGAR and Coffee Market.

New York. May 5.-SUGAR-Raw sugar
steady. Fair refining. 3 3-16c; centrifugal.
96 test. 11-16c. snolasses sugar. &c. RehRed
sugar steady. Crushed, S5-45, powdered,
ss.95. granulated, AS5.
COZ FEE-Marlzet quiet. No Rio,
55kc-
MOLAssEs- Market hrm.
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Topeka Market.

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
Furnished by S. l. Lux, successor TO W.
o. Anderson & Co.. 30 Kansas ave-
oRANGE GEs-CalIfornia washington ma
vels best sizes, S3.O0G3.25. of sizes, s.. 75GD
300. choice brands, 81. 6od2. s.
EMONS-CalfOrnia. 800 and $50 Sizes
S250q2.60 per box; 240 and 420 sizes, $2.25Go
BANANAs-F Fancy Port Limons. $3.50
2.75 per bunch; extra large punches up to
PINEAPPLEs- Sizes. "a, 50. IS per crate.
Observation-Disclosures stock ar
irving freely Good shipping stock. 81 per
TABLE POTATOES-Kaw Valley. per
bu., 50d55c; Minnesota Burbanks, 65d6Sc
per bu.. Minnesota Rurals, per bu.. 65GGSc. .
Colorado Pearls, per bu., 75c: Colorado
SWEET POTATOEs-Pe bu.. 75c.
ONIONS-I<ansas, grown. per bu-, SOC;
NEW POTATOES-SI25 per Is bu box;
GREEN BEANs-l-s bu. box. 75c.
RADISHES-Hot house, per dozen
LETT i. GT3-54et y house; per dozen. 4Qe.
250soe; Texas green onions per dozen
ssRINA{e III AeHrPsr {;IlvPs 6a., lss SO sc. ,
NEW TJRNfPS-40c per dozen.
HUBARB-In small lots. PFC per lb; ;
AsPARAGTs- per doz. punches.
CUCUMBERS-dot house stock. so per
OMATOEs-Florida. s-baslSet crate.
$3.50 choice. S4.O0, 6-baslSet crate.
DATEs-Fair. 4lsa5c per lib. :Fard sasIc
Cer 10.
-CoCOANUTs- 100 ss.25: per dozen.
40c.
CHEESE-Kansas 7. A. l4c ID: New
York State. l5c ID: brick. 15c ib.: Lirnbur-
ger, 14c lb;: block Swisa. lsc ID: 20-lb.
Daisy Ice ID.
HONEY-Co1orado. 32-rack case. .s475
BUTTER. EGGS. POULTRY.
BUTTER-Country. 13c
EGGS-Case count. 11iac-
POULTRY-Hens. Sszc h.; roosters, I5c
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1oc ID: young roosters. Sc h.; live sprins
chickens. &c ID.
HAY.
Market firm.
PRAIRIE HAY-By car $500. S.. .5oes7 I 50
PRAIRIE HAY-By ton Cbaled).. 7-o9dl %
PRAIRIE HAY Qoose) -.--..-...-- 6.00ff9oo
ALFALFA HAY--By load. per $1,000
ALFALFA HAY-Baled,p per ton .$S.00Q1609
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st. Louis. Mo. May 5.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts today. 1900 head including 200 head
of Texans. Market steady to strong. Beef
steers, S400Q5.25. stocllers and feeders. 50 40
d4.60 cows and heifers. 81 25d4.15; Texas
steers. S3-S5U4.60, Texas cows ana heifers
81 30M3.75.
Receipts today. $500 head. Mar
ket strong. Pigs and ngnrs. S6501t5. T5; +;
packers s6.so06S5; butchers and best
heavy. S5.S0Q695.
HEEP-heceipts today, 100 head.
Market higher. Natives. s4.7505.75 lambs,
s5.500775; Texans $3.75Q475.
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FURNISHED by J. L. CAN. Commissions,
Grain, Provisions Cotton and Stocks.
Office ITO West Sixth street. Telephone
4S6 Correspondent Christie Grain and
Stock Company. Kansas City. Mol
The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-05
Kansas City. May ..
-nen Hieh Low Close Yes


FURNISHED BY j. f. Gal. Commissions.
Grain. Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Onice 10 West Sixth street Telephone
486. Correspondent Christie Grain and
Stock Company. Kansas city, Mol
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Chicago. Ill. May 5.-BUTTER-Aiar
easy. Creamery. 16u 20c; dairy, l5dl9c.
EGGS-Marlzet steady at 13a1dI4izc
CHEES H-New cheese firm Twins. 15d
135kc; Daisies. 13a131zc; Young Americas,
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Kansas City Grain.

FURNISHED by ]. E. Gail. Commissions
Grain. Provisions. Cotton and Stocks
office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone
4S6. Correspondent Christie Grain and
Stock Company. Kansas City. MOI
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CROP CONDITION.


CONTINUED from First Page.)
Trego-All fruit killed; . oats and bar
ley damaged: storm hard on stock
Wallace-An fruit that was in bloom
killed. alfalfa damaged. some cattle
lost; range grass was protected by
snow.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-05
Given a Light Sentence.

Chicago, May 5.-Elsie Barrett, who
was convicted last week of assault in
the shooting of Bessie Palmer. an act
ress, several months ago. was today
sentenced to serve so days in the coun-
ty Jail
city Ticket Office. Union Pacific
Railroad. 525 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-05
ToDeka Hide Marker.

Topeka. May 5.
Prices paid in Topeka this week. based
on Boston quotations:
GREEN SALT CURED FLAT. T............7c
NO TAI.I4OEV ........... ........- SO
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St. Louis. No May 5.-WOOL-AIarket
unchanged. Territory and western medi-
ums, 15al7c; fine, 110l6c; coarse. 12ol5c-
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New York. May -Noon-MONEY-
Money on call easy at 2d21a per cent prime
mercantile paper, 5@51a per cent
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eaIIantrx.

No wonder men
should have the
nerve
To let the girls
, hang on tha
straps,
For when the car
goes round .
curve
It throws the
darlirgs in ous
laps.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-05
Unexpected.

May-Carrie ex4
poets every man
she meets to fail
IN love with her.
Edith-Yes. and
il is the unexpect-
ed that happens
The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-05

Opening Liverpool cables Wheat sd
lower. corn I'd lower
Liverpool. 1870 D. M. Wheat AN5sd low
er, corn unchanged to I'D lower
Receipts of grain at Chicago: Wheat. So
cars; graded. l. Corn. 31S cars, graded, IS.
Oats. Zll cars; graded, 50.
Closing Liverpool cables. Wheat Ld
lower, corn I'd lower for the day
Receipts of grain at Kansas City today:
Wheat, 46 cars; corn, p cars; oats, 10
cars.
Northwest grain receipts today: Mime
apoiis. 40 cars Duluth. Is ears. A year
ago; Minneapolis, "a cars; Duluth . cars.
Chicago. Privileges for tomorrow: July
Wheat-Puts. l25tc. calls, 73l2c curb, 73isc
july corn-Puts 44ssc; calls, 45ssc; curb,
45c-
Bradstrects worlds wheat visible de-
creased for the week 100000 bushels.
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Chicago,
Omen High LOW cos.


FURNISHED by A. G. Goodwin. Commls-
sion Company, Commission Merchants
and receivers and shippers of grain.
Room No. 3. Columbian building Inde-
pendent telephone 1851
The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-05
Kansas city Produce Market.

Kansas City May 5.-Close-WHEAT-
Receipts today, 46 cars. Quotations
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sEx-dividend 2 per cent. *~Ex-dividend ,
per cent.
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Total for current expenses. So. $50. %

An ordinance providing for an in
crease in the pay of chief of police from
81. 600 to 81, 200 a year was introduced by
Councilman Gritty and referred to the
ways and means committee.
The much-agitated dog tax ordinance
was taken up and sent back to the judi
ciary committee. with instructions to
confer with the Foster Humane society
and prepare an ordinance which is sat
isfactory to that society
nj
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-05-30
Picks Up the Tennis Ralls


When the older members of the
family seek amusement with the game
OF table tennis, it generally falls to
the lot Of the children to chase the
balls and pick them up of the floor,
but If there are no children and the
members of the party tend toward
obesity the game is robbed of its
sport and Is apt to be postponed un.
TIL some more suspicious time. An
English inventor, having discovered
this state Of affairs, has produced the
appliance which we here illustrate
which will enable one to pick up the
balls, without any exertion; from I'm.
der furniture, in corners, against a
wall or in any other awkward posi-
ton. This device is formed of a wire
cage and a long wooden handle, the
former being made from single spir.
al spring. The space between the
coils is somewhat less than the diam.
eter of the balls, but on pressing the
cage over the ball the spring will open
wide enough to admit the spherical
body within the cage. There is suf.
tlclent space in the receptacle for the
storage Of number of balls, and the
act of picking up another ball when
one or more are in the cage does not
affect those inside. To discharge the
balls from the holder, the ends of the
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-05-30

engrossed in bugs" that he refused
to leave the train, and the conductor
had to put him off. He was winning
score 33 to 20.
1t is an enlargement and modifica-
ton of "fox and geese" or "tit.tat-
to-" with. which most school children
are familiar-and most school teach
ers as a result. A piece of paper is
marked of in squares-as many as
desired, the more the longer the
game-and. the object of the players
is to get five marks in a row in the
squares. They may be connected in
any direction. The same mark may
serve in four lines If the player be
adept. It can be crossed in any direc-
ton.
AS rapidly as the marks are drawn
five in row the player 'tallies. He
must play game of defense and of:
Tense. He must block his antagonist
and build up his own fences.
Two bugs" players when well in
action bear every resemblance to
whist or chess players. Devotees of
these two games will resent the COM
parison, but the successful s'bugs''
player INDUCES in about as much
| conversation as the astute whist
player.
The spectacle of two men sitting
opposite each other, industriously
painfully and cautiously making
marks on square of paper, with all
the seriousness which might be given
an engineering plan, is apt to produce
amusement On the part of the specta.
tor-until the spectator has tried the
game. = ~,
It has secured a slight foothold in
society circles and has devastated
two or three families already.
Once in a while man, on making
the acquaintance of bugs" exclaims
that he used to play it years ago.
Probably the name is the only thing
which is new about It, but a SUFFICIENT
test has been made to show that only
about one in q hundred knew of 1T.
It has been tried as a substitute for
dice in some saloons, and has been
found successful. In that regard it
is a temperance plan, as orders re-
suit in a greatly diminished proper.
ton when the bugs squares sun.
plant the dice box Chicogo Tribune
<
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-05-30
For the Use Of Stout Ping Pona
Players.
Proper Motions Of Faint Stars.

proper motions OF FAINT stars.
Prof. Comstock has in hand an i'm
portant research on the proper mo
lions of faint stars, thus increasing
our knowledge precisely in the field
where it will be the most useful. From
these motions, still too few In mum.
Der, he has deduced a value Of the
suns motion in space which he finds
to be in substantial agreement with
the values heretofore obtained from
the bright stars. The mean parallax
Of the stars of the 10Y magnitude OBJ.
served is about 0.005" and their dis.
lance therefore, about 40,000,OOO radii
of the earth's orbit. Stars of the eley.
enth and twelfth ,magnitudes are not
more distant than those of the ninth
and tenth and the average linear We
locity with which these faint stars
move through space is of the same or.
der Of magnitude as that of the bright
est stars and about so per cent greater
than the velocity of our own sun.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-05-30
A Wonderful Electric Cannon.


"A Norwegian scientist, Prof. Birke-
land, recently demonstrated with great
success the powers of his electro
magnetic cannon at the Royal Nor
weg1an Academy, before ministers OF
state, high officials and others.
BY means of an electromagnetic
current the professor undertakes to
discharge, with a 6h centimetre ex-
perimental gun, projectile weighing
10 kilograms. The projectiles pene-
trated the target to a depth of 40 CEN
timetres, but the professor says that
the efficiency of his gun at the pres
ent moment is such that, with a go
centimetre gun, he could discharge a
projectile weighing 500 kilograms at
a speed Of 200 metres per second
without fame or explosion.
The special value of his invention is
that it is capable of discharging pro-
jectiles with an explosive charge of
such strength that an ordinary field
gun could not stand the sheck. BY
means. of the electric current the vio-
lent shock is entirely dispensed with.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-05-30
The Blessed.


Low Is the Intel of our dear Lords door,
And who would enter in
Must the new life begin
With little children, and the crouchine
poor;
With mourners, and with meek and lowly
souls;
With those who long for good
AS prisoners pine for food,
Or kneel in dreams where living water
rolls.
Beneath those gates-too low for human
The blessed come and co.
Each bearing seed to SOW
In Gods great gardens. or His meadows
wide,
With gentle Mercy. Peace and Purity,
They find their glad employ
Sowing the seed Of JOY
Nor know its name. nor what the fruit
shall be,
Sometimes the memory Of a long past
day,
When they had suffered shame
And death for Christs dear name.
Sweeps DER them like cloud above their
way;
But on golden morn there falls Voice:
Come. O We blessed, come!
1t is the harvest home
And all the fields are white with Joy.
Rejoice!'' q
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-05-30
Crank Day at White House.

The appearance at the White House
Of an old man named Barney Hughes,
who said he was 100 years old and
that the President had promised him
a house and lot, which he had come to
get, moved one of the secret service
men at the White House to say that
Friday is cranks' day there. Why it
was so he was unable to state, but
it was fact. II have often won
dered about it," he remarked after he
had persuaded Mr.. Hughes to go away.
Nearly all these funny-house people
come here on Fridays. Ever since l
have been here have recognized the
fact, when Friday came around, that l
would have some work to do, because
it was sure to bring on a concourse
of muddy-headed people" -New York
Times.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-05-30
His "Character."

There was an opening for q butler
in the family where Bridget was cook
and she promptly applied for the
position in behalf Of her brother.
l*I take it that his reputation NOR.
ally is all that could be expected"
suggested Madame.
Excuse me, but would you mind
saying that question over aging" ask.
ed Bridget.
II say" repeated Madame, "deubt.
less he is a man of moral character"
"Sure, mum, sure-but I don't
know if I'm afther un'erstaudin' YOU"
Madame waxed slightly impatient.
"Qh, is he q good man, Rrtdget2' {
Good, is It: Sure he could lick tn
eyes out Of any shpalpeen from Cork
to Kilkenny" was the enthusiastic
reply. - n ~,