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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-09-26
"reminiscences.

Do you remember where the little boys
INDUCED in innocent and harmless joys
It is .yon 'desolate and parching spot
There on the rank weed ridden vacant
Where once their laughter echoed to the
AS they threw snowballs at the passer-
by.
Do you remember where the snow man
- stood
With eyes Of coal and skeleton Of wood?
That is the paace-that patch OF blistered
Neglected even by the dew at dawn:
There where Industrious ants with pru-
dent haste
Are burrowins to shun the arid waste.
And do you see that man, that swelter-
ing wretch
Whose ss. s9tterins Dante might delight to
Whose collar willis; who sazes hollow
Adown the, street where once he walked
with PRIDE?
IT'S he who wrote in wtntry days much
About the gentle joys: Of summertime.
Nv ashingtOn Star.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-09-26

the tree till the rope was all used up
and the bar was a prisoner at the
stake,
Then Aunt Hubby went back to bed
and was snorin' away as If nothin'
more had happened than only jest GIT
tin up to give the baby peppermint.
Long in the forenoon O. next day
Uncle Jep come a-stragglin' home.
"'Huldy,' says he, II it hadn't been
fer Jonas borrying that other gun o.
mine and not fetchin' of it back, I'd a
killed that pesky bar dead, yisterd'y,
an won them $780, he says, ding his
ugly plctur's! he says, meanin' Jonas.
well, Jeptha.' says Aunt Huldy,
it's an all-pervadin' good thing that
you didn't do it, she says.
"sWhat fur?' says Uncle Jep, hard
ly believin' his ears.
"'Why, cause If you'd a. killed that
bar dead yisterd'y,' says Aunt Hubby,
couldn't "a ketched him alive last
night says she.
'Arter Aunt Hubby got through
laughin' at Uncle Jep standin' there
starin' at her with his mouth wide
open and his eyes almost bulgin', she
took him out to t'other side o. the pig
pen, and there, sure enough, was the
rampagein' old bar that was worth
$50 alive tied so fast to the big pine
tree that he couldn't hardly boiler.
Uncle Jep didn't say nothin'. He
couldn't. He jest chopped down the
tree, trimmed the limbs often it to
make it a log, hooked the steers to it.
and drug it and the bar over to tho
Eddy. Old Nose forked over the $50
only too quick, and $40 besides for the
pine log, 50 that Aunt Hubby and
Uncle Jep didn't only git their COW.
but they had quite snug fgger to
stuff in the old coffee pot fer future
reference, besides. And what did
Aunt Hubby do? She made Jonas a
present Of the borried gun and
thanked him fer borryin' it and not
fetchin' it back
Though l dunno as l ought to
thank you, NEITHER she says to Jonas.
1T was a smilin' Providence that done
it, she says."-Ed. Mott in New York
Times.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-09-26
SuperStjtionS.

If two persons raise their glasses to
their lips simultaneously they are in
dicating the return of a friend or rela-
tive from foreign parts The, same in
timation is conveyed by bubbles in cof-
fee or by the accidental fall of piece
Of soap on the floor.
A Pickering flame in the fire or an
upright excrescence in a burning can
die is interpreted as predicting the ar
rival Of, guest, whose stature is
judged by the length of the fame or
excrescence.
If one drains glass of the contents
of which some one else has partaken-
he will learn the secrets of the latter.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-09-26
Your Dietary.

Eat when you are hungry-if you
have the price. Drink beer with your
ice cream If you like to. Eat grated
cheese on your raw onions if you
think it good. Drink milk with your
cucumbers and sleep the sleep of the
just man made perfect Take
cracker with every drink of liquor
and live to be 1000 years old. Drink
whisky with your bananas and forget
the cramps. Take vinegar with your
salad; it retards digestion. Eat
cherries with milk and sugar. Drink
Chinati with macaroni. Drink tea
while eating meat. Avoid salt: it
dries up the skin. In plain English
do as you please-so long as your
'stomjack" is able to stand it. VIC
late all the established rules of
health and you may live to a good old
age.-New York Press.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-09-26

and that it was never going to get
light" ;. @~s::* Z, s s.>=s> I. Is
Its only land that wasn't late
100 years ago '%' %:z ~: * FL
Get in, jack" shs. said, impa.
tiently. She hoped no one was ON
the shore to see.
Il would, If but knew" he said,
meaningly. =
Then know, Jack; and do come"
As Jack walked home from the lit.
tie cottage that night he thought 100
years was the shortest space Of time
imaginable. He broke into a happy
whistle: If l but knew-if l but
knew!"-Ruby Douglas in Boston
Globe.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-09-26
Aunt Hulda's Bear

his dyin' kick that the bar was COM
IN. for him hot-foot before he. had
even thought O. loadin' his gun. And
the bar KEEP him dodgin' and skirmish-
In 'mongst the trees for half an hour
before he could git a load into his
gun. And then see what that bar
done. Soon as he see that Uncle Jep
had his gun loaded, the aggravatin'
bruin begun to dodge amongst the
trees himself, and he done it so slick
and quick that Uncle Jep couldn't cit
his gun onto him no way, and the
first thing he knowed the bar had
lodged out o. sight.
IF that amt a dirty. mean trick
wouldn't say SOL says Uncle Jep.
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SHE DELInERATED TOO LONG.
Old Lady Needed Time to Make Up
Her Mind.

Oio Lazy Neeoeo lime 10 MAKE up
Her Mind.
A. large woman carrying a heavy
bundle started to board Broadway
car the other days, says the New York
News. The car had been delayed
several minutes by big. truck, and
the conductor was in even a more
genial mood than was his won't
The woman laboriously-> placed the
bundle on the floor of the car, grasped
one of the handrails and placed one
foot on the step. Then she paused.
What street is this, ~conductor?"
she asked. Thirty street,
madame. Step lively if you are going
with u.s." replied the Metropolitan en-
ploye, in the soft, persuasive tone
affected by his tribe. -.
How. far: is it. to Twenty-seventh
street," continued the old woman.
'Ten blocks, madame. For heavens
sake get on or get off,
"Now, don't get smart young man"
responded the old woman your
nickels come easier than mine. l
don't know whether it's hardly worth
while to spend good money for TO-
block ride or not, and 1 amt goin' to
move until I make up M mind
There was a murderous CLEAN in
the conductors eye, and it is hard to
fortell just what would have happened
had not the old woman been CON-
PEELED to loosen her hold on the car
just then by a. passing dray. r.
AS the car swept by it was easy to
see from her frantic gesticulations
that she had decided to spend her
money and ride. But it. was too late.
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Aunt Hubby, had some amazin'
p1nts, said the loQuacious; and rem
lniscent man from the Knob country.
SO had that bar. He was genuine
speciment O. what the Knob country
could turn out in the way O. bar when
1t sot out to do it, that bar was, and
he had been raisin' the very old Ned
amongst the pigs and farm projuce
generally for SO long, and had KEEP so
regular and aggrayatin'ly shet of all
the traps and tricks that was sot and
tried to waylay and circumvent him,
that at last what did old man Nose,
over to the Eddy, do but declare he
would give $40 in cash for that bar
fetched in dead, or $50 if anybody'd
run him in and hand him over alive.
'Alive!' folks hollered when they
heerd of it. Anybody that tries to
fetch that bar in alive they says,
will more than likely find their own
selves bein' fetched in dead!' they
says; but folks didn't know it all, and
they hadn't stopped to consider Aunt
Hubby.
"'Jeptha,' says Aunt Hubby to Uncle
Jep one day, jest about that time;
'Jeptha,' says she, seems to me that
If l was you I'd sort O. take holiday
this AFTERNOON and wander over lords
Big 1njin Swamp. Mebbe you mowt
run foul O. that pesky bar. OF course
seys she, you can't hardly expect to
get him alive, but all things being
mortal" here below says she, you
mowt accidentally: git him dead. If
you do says she, it'll be $50, and $40
will buy q. cow says She =
Uncle Jep didn't see but what
that'd be a. proper idee, and he
knocked. off stump-grubbin', took his
old smoothbore rifle and started out.
"Jonas went and> borried that 9TH
er gun O. mine, ding his pictur, and
hain't brung it back yit,' says Uncle
Jep, as he started. I ?
1.-THE bar II fetch jest ezac'ly az
much it you git it with the smooth
bore as it will If it had come tumb-
lin down before the gun that Jonas
borried,' says Aunt Hubby. so don't
waste your time grumblin',' says she.
Go look for the bar
$50 Uncle Jep went, sayin' that If
he got on to the trail o the cunnin'
old varmint he'd foller it If he had to
camp on it all night. He got over
jest this side O. Big 1njin and hadn't
see no sign O. that bar or any other
bar, and was beginnin' to think that
If him and Aunt Hubby didn't git
COW till they got it with the price O.
that bar they'd never quarrel about
who'd do the milkin', when he herd
'somethin' snort. He turned, and there
he see the bar, standin' right out in
plain sight, and actin as If he was
afeard Uncle Jep was goin' on with
out seem him. Uncle Jep knowed it
was him, cause that bar was the only
one in the hull Knob country that had
a white spot on it's brisket.
"'This is the first time l ever was
to shootin' match for a cow says
Uncle Jep, and the idee tickled him so
that he had to take his gun down from
his shoulder: till he could git through
his laughin'. "A shootin' match for a
cow says he, and he hauled up a'gin
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-09-26
Mr.. POOLE AND THE PRINCE.
Tailor Who Made King Edwards
Clothes to Be kniuhted.

Clothes to Be knighted.
Poole, the London tailor, is about
to receive the accolade. Why not?
Has he not done more to make Ed
ward VII presentable than all other
artists in the United Kingdom put to-
gether? Clothes make the king as
we'll as the man. Poole makes the
clothes; ergo, Poole makes the king.
When Edward was simply prince of
Wales he owed Poole at times as
much as 100000, and even suffered
the tailor to address him in public
places without fear of the tower.
There are several distinguished
Pooles in England, but none so
famous. as Tailor. Poole.
Speaking of Poole, one of his Gus
toners says: Ellis accounts are rem
dered' once year; just around
Christmas. If not paid, he waits
twelve months and sends second
bill. Such as do not pay on receipt
of the second statement are dropped
from his books, and never again are
they allowed to give an order in his
establishment" New York Press.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-09-26

Elinor glanced roguishly at the
young man sitting dejectedly beside
her on the sand at Milton point.
"You may have as many minutes
as this sand takes to run through
my fingers" she said, taking up
handful of warm, white sand from
the beach. and then if you con-
tinue to be disagreeable and cross,
rH-well, never mind, you'll regret
it, Mr.. Jack Robinson"
She let the soft sand trickle slowly
through her sun-burned fingers like
a minute glass as she hummed care
lessly, softly, If I But Knew"
The young man turned impatiently
and looked out across the broad ex-
panse of water. How easily the
white winged yachts skinned over
the water. He wished his little craft
of love would run so smoothly
"Elinor," he said turning to her,
twill you stop singing that song?"
When your present fit of i'll temper
blows over" she retorted, watching
the last few grains of sand fall from
her fingers. IF I but knew your
heart was true,' she hummed on, ig-
nornig him.
See here. what can I do to prove
to you that I am sincere?" He
watched her dust the sand from her
pretty palm.
DO? You make me feel like a
princess of we olden time Then
brave knights won fair ladies by acts
of courage, but now
eyes, now?" he said, looking up at
her eagerly.
20, now we don't even take mans
word for anything" And Eltnor
laughed. merry, captivating laugh,
which chased away the frowns from
Jacks brow. He could never be angry
with her for long.
Suppose we play we are living
100 years ago." she said, after
minute.
'Ill play anything you like"
land do anything like?" she ask
ed, looking at him obviously. Her
tone was half-serious, half-playful.
Anything" he replied, firmly.
That is provided you'll accept that
as proof that I love you. I've said
all I can to no avail"
Elinor did not reply nor look up;
she was tracing her name in the sand
thinking. She had tried to believe
Jack, but, somehow, at times, she
doubted that he really meant all he
said.
*He was such serious sort of
fellow, and she-O, she was frivolous
and scatter-brained, according to her
own estimate of herself. Why should
he love her? And yet, why should he
say SO if he did not?
At last she covered the sand letters
over and looked up. Jack" she
said, would you really do anything
for me? Even if it was silly and
and awfully dangerous-just to prove
to me that you like me?"
mot to prove that like you, but
that I love you-yes." He laughed
little at her serious face.
do you see that big rock out
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said at length, and looked into his
eyes to see how he would receive the
suggestion.
"And you'd like to believe me, Eli
nor? Tell me that-but, no, don't;
I'll do it. Are, we not living 4 hun.
dred years ago."
Elinor wished now that he had
promised to do it, that she had not
asked it. Suppose a storm should
come up and the waves would dash
over the rock and sweep him OF and
and he was not able to SWIM far
enough to reach the shore.
Jack" she said, little nervously,
"let's move forward hundred years;
I don't like it way back here. IL
might believe you."
But Jack would not pass over the
century so quickly. He would do as
she had asked him: he would spend
the night on the big rock ard then
she might believe him. "
Elinor sat in the window OF their
summer cottage on. the shore and
watched the tide come in, wave by
wave. One by one the shadows fell
and the figure out on the rock became
less and less distinct. At last she
had to go out to the beach to see it
at all.
Higher and higher grew the water
mark about the rock and yet the
figure did not move; it sat on the
topmost point, looking out over the
sound. :.
At last it was too dark to see the
figure on the rock and Elinor walked
up and down the beach in front of the
cottage. She was supposed to have
retired, but somehow it seemed to
useless to pretend to sleep.
She wondered if the ladies' in. tho
centuries long ago slept on as usual
while their knights were sin : danger.
O, she wished tomorrow would come
when she might live again in. the
twentieth century,
The searchlight of sound steamer
was thrown on the rock, and by its
light she could see the waves break
and smash about the ragged edges.
Running close to the waters edge,
she looked up and down for a skitf,
one of the old flat boats she and
Jack so often f1shed in Finding one
far up on the shore, she dragged it
down to the. water and jumped in.
Stroke. by. stroke she pulled out
toward the big rock, but the tide was
strong and the boat heavy. i; It seemed
hours before she came anywhere near
it. --''~t '~ =:
Jack, jack" she called. - .:I'm-O.
it's such hard pulling" 5-E:g u j !:
"Elinor,'' was all Jack said as he
took hold of the rope; with one hand
and hers with the other. The place
was not nearly SO rough as: it had
looked from, a distance: &
Jump 4in,'' she said. :'y1 S<xz
aGBut the. night hasn't begun. vel" >,
he replied, still standing on The: rock
i ss'What,' she. almost !, gaabed, II
/ thought it must surely be morning
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'Sneakin' away like that, you pig-steal-
In thief % the night, you'll says he
III I'd had the gun that Jonas borried
and hain't brung back yit, bet you
wouldn't a-done 1t, consarn his pictur!
But sence I'm on your trail I'll foller
1t, by cats, and show you some tricks
that maybe you hain't heerd on yit!'
says Uncle Jep, and he follered the
bar till night, and then bunked in at
ELS, t'other side O. the swamp, sos
he could be on hand early next morn
m to show the bar them tricks.
Aunt Hubby woke up in the night
some time and heerd the pig squeal.
in. She jumped out O. bed and run
to the winder. The moon was shinin'
bright as day. Aunt Hubby jest give
one look, and then says:
"'B'ar arter the pig!' says she. "A
sockin' big bar, and he'll have that
pigpen smashed down in less than a
j1hy,' says she. And there amt a
gun in the house! If there was says
she, I'D sneak out and blow the top
o'that bars head off, says she. The
idee TO- Jeptha lendin' his one gun to
Jonas, who hain't brung it back yit,
and then goin' off with t'other one
and campin' all night on bars trail!
Consarn that Jonas! If 1 had him
here rd-no, l wouldn't, neither!' hol-
lers Aunt Hubby, who'd been looking
out o w1nder all the time she was
talkin'. No, I wouldn't, neither!' she
hollers, clappin' her hands. 1T was a
smilin' Providence that made Jeptha
lend that gun to Jonas and KEEP Jonas
from fetchin' of it back!' she hollers,
and then she scooted down to the
kitchen, grabbed her clothes line, tied
a slippin moose in one end of it, and
started out on run lords the pigpen.
The bar stood on his hind feet
bangin' away at the pigpen, and the
splinters was flynn tremendous. Then
the door went smashin' in, and the
bar reached in an yanked the pig
out. He hadn't much more than done
it, though, when from round the barn
Aunt Hubby come rushin'. She give
yell. The bar dropped the pig like
hot p'tater, and fore he could turn
and see what it was that had skeert
him Aunt Hubby dropped the moose
end Of the clothes line down over his
head, pulled it tight, and jumped be.
hind the big pine tree that stood jest
comfortable jump away. :.
! eft was q smilin' Providence says
she, that made .Jeptha lend his other
gun to Jonas and KEEP Jonas from
fetchin'. of it back says she, for 9th.
erwise me and Jeptha would be out
jest ten do1lars!' says she. - -, :,
: "The bar come to himself and
sprung after Aunt Hubby. i; He slung
his big fore legs around: the tree to
ketch her where she stood, holdin' on
to- the rope, and in less time than it
took him in to fetch a: good breath Aunt
Hubby had .circled round that tree
enough times to bind him to the trunk
as snug and lastin' as il he'd been a
knot CROWN there. and she KEEP RICH:
on windin' the rope around him and
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-09-26
Why He Petted the Rat.

A magistrate visiting a British jail
saw a prisoner who had a rat, in his
possession. The magistrate said:
"Ah, you have pet, I see." eyes"
said the convict. II feeds him every
day. thinks more Of that ERE rat
than any other living creature :That
proves: said the magistrate, "'that in
every man there's, some good impulse,
if you can only find it. How came you
to take such fancy to the" rat?"
"'Cos he. bit the warder," said the
convict, cheerfully.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-09-26

and whanged away at the white spot,
on the bars .chist., -. :a#,, =. :.
."The bar give a start, felt of his
chfst with one O. his paws aszif some
thin was ticklin' OF him there, and
then turned look on. Uncle Jep, as
much as to say: L. =" S.y5- .-s1. =
{" Look a-here, now! What a you,
handlin' that gun SO ding ~keerless
around here for? a:s: il z.aay:.. 2s. ~:
/ THE: bar looked mad, too, and Uncle
Jep was so took back at the unmiti.
gated critters not tumblin' and givin'
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IF: / But Knew

is caught out there It would DO
awful to stay there all night"
Elinor shivered at the very thought
of it. Should she 80 on?
"And what then? Who ever stayed
out there all night?" he asked, know.
ing well what was coming.
"Why-why, nobody" she hesitated.
would you do it,"
DO you ask me to-" He looked at
her intently. She was building a
pyramid of sand
I'D believe you if you did," she
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-09-26
The Irony Of Fate. .

= A lady purchased a nice new door.
mat the other morning with the word
welcome" stamped thereon in glow
ing letters, and the first to come along
and put his number elevens on it was
a tax collector. :9. ftEz - r
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Origin Of Ox-TaiI Scum.

Ox:tail soup, now regarded as a ma
tional English DISH: was first made by
the very poor of Huguenot refugees
from France, after the revocation of
the edict of Nantes, because OK tails
then had no market value.
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rock out
She Let the Soft Sand TrickIe Slowly

She Let the Soft Sand TrickIe Slowly
Through Her sunburned Fingers.
.there?" She pointed to a large, rock
just in the edge of the now low tide.
II do"
"You know when the tide is high it
is long distance from the shore?
The water almost covers it and
:splashes around it and makes a ter.
rible noise" $3T# I8% =%# = /
Does it," he asked, amused. =
yes. and unless one is very good
swimmer one cannot possibly get in.
antil the tide goes out again, If one
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A. .Eioraj,CIock.

In the public gardens of Edinburgh,
Scotland, is great floral dial made
of golden feather pyrethrum with the
twelve hours marked; on it. A zinc
receptacle in the shape of a clock
hand; planted with dwarf vegetation, is
moved by clockwork and marks the
time with great correctness.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-09-26

The Mexican Pantheon.
President Dia5 Of Mexico has inau-
gurxted the work upon the Pantheon
which is intended to be & monumen:s
to tho illustrious men OF. his country.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-09-26
Curious >Weiis,

A well recently drilled, in Canada
PRODUCES sand instead Of water. Tho
sand comes up in a fine stream like a
fountain. The force by which. it is
driven to the surface from a depth of
100 feet has not yet been discovered.
A miraculous well was discovered re-
Gently in New Guinea at a depth OF
900 feet. Anything made OF iron or
steel dipped into the water at once
becomes magnetic. ~ - =
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!. Fresh aWater IN. Gulf.

+ Whenasthes Mississippi J river ii at:
Hood oneScan drink fresh water from
the gulf ten miles from the rivers
mouth =, .:s + s5= I BIZ 7
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55::t5:sLowell's Cotton zfnd1stry. sst :
~% There are more than II, 900 MACHINE
tending operatives in Lowell, Mass.
caring for 1888, 900 spind and earning
over 100000 q month in wages. = q
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1903-10-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.

4 good coal vein has been foun5
near Muldrow. l. T.
Rain has damaged cotton In Greer
county. oklahoma.
An alleged policy shop was raided AZ
Dallas and eight arrests made.
Mrs. John q. Sparger a prominent
lady OF Bonham. Tex, Is dead.
First National bank of Perry, Okla.
capital stock $4,000 has been author
iEed 90 DO business,
Rialto Grain and Securities company
OF ST. Louis was niiei and six OF
the Arm arrested.
Jackson oil company az Sour Lake
Tex. has brought In a we'll good foi
1000 barrels per day.
Two cases ~ yellow fever arc said
10 be on farm east 81 Carrie
Springs. in Dimmit county Texas.
Buford Rowland. twenty years old
was struck by lightning az Galnesvill,
and Il IL feared he may be blind.
The city council OF Houston has
passed an ordinance requiring sepa'
rate cars for negroes on the street
railway lines The negroes object