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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-20
An improved Plane.


The patents have been secured for
the automatic plane invented by Jerry
w. Kirby of this city. The plane Is
one of the most novel and efficient Of
all the labor-saving devices offered in.
a number Of years. 1t is operated by
means of an automatic roller. When
the plane is pushed ahead the roller
is even with the rest When the
plane is drawn back the automatic
roller moves forward and downward,
at the same time raising the bit so that
the plane does not drag over the sur
face.
The old-fashioned plane has always
been found awkward and heavy. I'm
der the new process the entire instru-
ment is made of pressed steel, weigh
ing not more than two-thirds as much
as: the old one, and selling for about
half the price. The rollers are hol-
low and so arranged that it is practi-
sally two planes in one, one being ball.
bearing and the other on spindles.
In front of the cutting bit there is an
automatic light adjuster. When a de-
feet is discovered in the rollers they
may be taken out and new ones in
serted. In short planes the rollers
are small, while in jointed planes they
are large and few. The new device
has been adopted by about 80 per
cent of the carpenters who have seen
it.-Butte (Mont) Inter-Mountain.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-20
New Eyeqlass Advancement.

Whether or not the invention pre-
sented in the accompanying illustra-
ton is practical we cannot say, having
never had the pleasure CD of making
practical test of this new eyeglass:
but it would seem as though consider
able bravery would be required to
place the glass in the position in
which it is designed to rest. This DO.
sition,, as will be seen, is directly over
the eyeball, with the edges of the
glass inserted beneath the upper and
lower lids, to maintain it where it will
aid the eye in it's work. The specific
form of the lens is, of course, 1mma-
terial, and will vary with the require
ments of the user-that is to say, the
glass will have more or less magnify
ing power or will be arranged to CON-
pensate for astigmatism, etc., after the
manner of ordinary glasses. It Diff
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-20

tlirned out gradually, the auditorium
1sa semptied silently, the darkness deep
ems peacefully The animal feels tho
oncbmtng Of the shadow and creeps
Into. Into the deepest coverts. The unnum-
hered multitudes Choose their own
place and close their eyes for the
list time as peacefully as ever they
lay down to Sleep" The vast major
INV OF animals go away quietly when
sItnat time comes;, and their death is
not not recorded because man has eyes
only for exceptions. Something calls
HE Il1 creature from his daily round;
Age or natural disease touches him
gently in a way that he has not felt
before. ah1sfor He steals away, obeying the
Old warning instinct of his kind, and
Dicks out a spot where they shall not
shnd him till he is well again, and
there he dies.
.s Man thinks himself a little lower
than the angels, and it may be so,
but OF this we may be sure, there is
that in the dumb hour which marks
the kinship' of man with the uncom.
planning animal submissive to the de-
cree OF nature, and noble in it's obe-
.dience to the call of the voice that 81
lences all other voices..-The Hospi>
tAL..
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-20

on an adjustable support at the rear of
sulky, with chain gearing to rotate
them rapidly as the machine is drawn
over the ground. AS the fittings on
the face of the rollers mesh closely to-
gether, it is easy to understand how
any weed or grass which once gets be-
tween them will be drawn up, until it
is finally lifted out of the ground,
roots and all. TO insure the killing OF
higher growths, the machine has been
fitted with series of rotary blades,
which feed the tops of the weeds
down beneath the face of the first
roller, instead of allowing this roller
to strike the stems and push the
weeds over, without uprooting them.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-20
Real Ice on the Cake,
Miniature Snowo4M Gathered "a the Back Yard Used By
New Cook to Ornament the Piece de Resistance Of the
Feast1a1e as Told q ! Mothers Meeting

It was at the Mothers meeting, and
as they were discussing that question
of never-failing interest, the servant
girl problem, tale of woe followed tale
of woe in sorrowful procession. =,
''You ladies of Brooklyn do certain
ly seem to have. great deal OF
trouble" said the visitor from North
Dakota, but, as my young son aptly,
though slangily, puts It, there are
Others = sgs .s.s i .z:.5 , Is ss II . sz .
n ~ q In my section OF the country the
help comes mostly from the Swedes,
of whom there are large settlements
scattered all over the state. They
make good servants, too, after they
are trained, but in the training-ah.
there's the rub! A short time ago
I had occasion to engage cook. Not
for love or money could 1 find what
wanted, so finally was forced to go
to one of the Swedish villages. l
found a girl who was Just over her
sister told me, but who, she also as
sured me, would be quick to learn.
So back to town I went with my
greenhorn, groaning inwardly at what
was before me. But her sister had
said truly-Minna was quick to learn.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-20
Each Had the Wrong Bottle.
How 7hon3pkns Hair Restorer Cured His Wi1es Cough,
While Her Kennedy Started the Hair Growing
His Bald Pate-7he Hired Girls Part

Here's story John w. Gates tells:
Did you hear about Thompkins and
his wife? No? Well, Thompkins' wife
had a cough, so she told him to get
her bottle Of cough medicine. When
he was buying it the druggist re-
marked incidentally that he had some
of the best hair. restorer that ever
gladdened the head of a baldheaded
man. Thompkins is ba1dheaded, but
he pretended he didn't hear. He
bought cigar and talked politics with
two or three of the boys for a while
and just before he left for home he
said kind of carelesslike to the drug
gist:
"Say, old man, got any stuff that's
good for the hair-make it-er-sort
Of grow, you know?"
"Oh, yes," said the druggist.
''Well," said Thompkins, guess I'll
take bottle. My brother-in-law is q
regular dude and likes such things.
The two bottles were about the
same size, but that wasn't the drug
gist's fault. Thompkins opened them
both when he got home. That night
after he had undressed he happened
to think that it might be good thing
to try little of the hair restorer. In
the dark he got hold of his wife's
cough medicine and he plastered it
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-20

Her great difficulty was the language
the idioms Of it, should say-and
many and funny were the mistakes
she made on that account But these
expected.
One day when I was expecting
company to dinner, she specially dis
herself. In giving direc-
lions l told her to make. loaf of
sponge cake, and to ice it in her best
manner. Ssz.lsss.zs<" z"ss| y -
yes, she could do thai, and
let me add, she did. I need not worry
about anything she told me, smiling
away like the Cheshire cat
'"The dinner was a perfect success,
so much so that I was Dragging to my
envious neighbors of the treasure
had found in my greenhorn cook.
when Minna brought in the des.
sert, the cake did look simply splen-
did, and Minna triumphant; but as
she set it before me I turned cold
with horror, for that girl had taken
me most literally and had iced the
cake with the most immaculate minia-
ture sn0wdrift she had been able to
scrape together in the back yard."-
New York Press.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-20
Gives a Pretty Liberal Receipt
"Se1<hdade Merchant" Tells His Son Few Things That
Lead 10 Success-"Get Up with Determination If You
Want Go to Bed with Satiskaction."

You've got to believe that the Lord
made the first hog with the Graham
brand burned In the skin, and that
the drove which rushed down steep
place was packed, by a competitor.
You've got to know your goods from
A to lizard, from snout to tail, on the
hoof and in the can. You've got to
know 'em like a young mother knows
baby talk, and to be as proud Of 'em
as the young father Of q twelve pound
boy, without really thinking that
you're stretching it four pounds.
You've got to believe in yourself and
make your buyers take stock in you
at par and accrued interest. You've
got to have the scent of a bloodhound
for an order, and the grip of bulldog
on customer. You've got to. feel the
same personal solicitude over bill
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-20
The Dread Hslt* Of Death,
Different Working Of Animal nstncts Ia the Presence Of
T. the Great DestroyerDolnb Brutes Steal AWAY :
Their Whole L5ea Serh,sion and Solitude T.

To every man death cometh soon
or late. In every life's day there is a
dumb hour. It may be in the mo.
ments Of dawn or when the vitalizing
energy is at noon, though sometimes
1t comes not till the chill and dark
OF midnight has fallen. There is no
more pathetic and yet irresistibly at
tractive subject for the serious stu
dent OF medicine than the investiga-
tlon OF the mysteries Of that process
of physical dissolution which men
speak of as dying. -
And yet there is SO personal an in.
terest in the quest that only the brav.s
est minds can grapple undismayed
in research into the problems Of
death. =, :.....
We may learn much by a reference
to animal instincts in this as in so
many other matters. Mr.. William J..
Long in his recently issued and most
charming volume, School of the
Woods: Some Life Studies of AMI
NAL Instincts and Animal Training"
attempts to reveal something of the
mystery and pathos of the dumb hour
as seen in the dumb beast. In his
study on How the Animal Dios'' he
shows that life's curtain is usually
rung down quietly, the footlights are
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-20

all over his bald head. It was good
and sticky and it hung right on. Mrs.
Thompkins had a violent fit of cough
ing during the night and in feeling
around the closet for her medicine
got hold Of the hair restorer She
took big dose and then hollered:
"Fire!"
Thompkins awoke with a yell. There
had been little slit in the pillow case
and he had rolled around with his
sticky head until he had made great
hole in the case and had all the feath-
ers worth mentioning faring out from
his Uranium so that he looked like
the banshee in an Irish folklore tale.
He came rushing to Mrs. Thompkins'
assistance. She thought it was the
evil one taking a half-holiday and
again hollered, this time louder than
ever:
Fire! Police! Fire! "
The hired girl ran out into the night
with nothing on but a sweater and a
pair of rubber boots and turned in a
general alarm. It cost Thompkins
$3.50 to make it all right with the
flremen, but he says the experience
was cheap at the price, as the cough
mixture started his hair growing
again. Incidentally MS wife's cough
has disappeared.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-20

- Encouraged by the innocent.
:. Stories OF. good Bishop Williams Of
Connecticut continue to crop out
wherever clergymen meet. One just
told at. the General Theological Sem
mary relates to his first sermon in the
parish to which he was called just
after he was ordained. He was rather
nervous when he began to preach, but
as he progressed he noticed an old
man sin. aafront pew, who. seemed In
=tensely Interested In the sermon.
Whenever the preacher made q point
the old gentleman nodded vigorously
in approval. This was very encour.
aginSt to the not oVerconfd dent parson
and after the services ae inquired Who
the man was. ,ss85z.s.s,
M The old msn Ia thes e pew1r
answered q vest hs u
one The harmless Inmates q the
insane aalum around tho cornsr. .
.NeH York Tinss. !.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-20
Has a Sure Ague Cure
Kansas Man Declares Sudden Immersion ia Icy Water Wa
Too Much for the Chizs IN His Case-E4as Hard
. - Work Getting Others to Do Lkewise.

day a feI1er in a billed shirt come
along and says:
Why don't you scare 'em OFF,
meanin' the chills. Jump in the river
and drown 'em!' says he. Then he
rode on, a4aughfn' at his own joke.
But the thought stayed with me. The
very next day had another shake.
sometimes they do double up on
felIer and come every day, and it made
me tearln' mad was tryin' to pull
corn when it come On. was already
SO weak could hardly hol1er to the
mules, and the chill made me feel too
meas1y mean te live. was ready to
do anything to get rid of that pesky
ager~ I was Jest desp'rit. Leavin' the
team a-standin' in the field, made q
bee-line fer the river. When I got
to- it didn't stop to think whether l
wanted to jump in or not. l jest
jumped without carin' was already
froze, and the water was icy and pow
erfuI cold, and the shock like to a.
busted me, III own, but I grftted by
teeth SO hard they couldn't chatter
and soused myself clean under sever
al times. Then crawIed out, drippin'
like a drowned rat, and lit out fer
the house to change my clo'es, and
then [ found that the chill was plumb
gone- Yes, sir, plumb gone., And as
sure as l. live 1 hain't had the ager
since. It's the only sure cure I've
ever known of fer the shakes, and,
like many other great discoveries, it
was found out by accident"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-20

superstitions or she'd be the laughing
stock of everybody, but it didn't seem
to make any difference. I think she
must have been weak mentally. Don't
you?
by the way, I saw the new moon
over my left shoulder last night. What
do you suppose will happen? just
know that Reginald will bring me 4
box of candy when he comes to call
tonight. The last time saw the new
moon over my left shoulder was the
very night he proposed. g..
Still, of course 1 shouldn't forget
that I spilled some salt to-day. Maybe
that will make difference. Anyway,
I'll know what's the reason if I don't
get the candy, and there's some salts
faction in that. Do you know when
anything unusual happens Il can. al.
most always figure right back to what
caused it? %
But I'm mighty glad I'm not super
stitious, like so many girls l know
New York Times. .-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-20
Tho Largest FIyinu Creature.

No animal combines all the most
favorable conditions for a flying ma
chlne-weight, power, spread of wing,
etc. The birds with the greatest
spread are not the strongest, and the
most powerful are not those of the
longest flight. The frigate bird is,
perhaps, the bird which lives most
in the air, yet it's muscles are rela-
lively weak and it owes it's pre-emin.
ence more to skill than to muscle.
The albatross has a maximum weight
OF kilogrammes and a spread of wing
OF 3k metres, but the width of wing
Is relatively small, so that the wing
surface Is not above ITO Of a square
metre, which is much less than, that
of the condor or the California vul:
ture.
We must go back to extinct crea-
lures to discover the best-designed fly
ing machine. The pterodactyls, huge
flying reptiles, which lived in the
Cretaceous period, had wings 2 7-1O
metres long, but small, narrow bodies
and very light bones, much lighter
than those of birds. The total weight
OF their bodies has been estimated at
about twelve kilogrammes, so that
their fight must have been as easy
as that of the butterfly.
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Progress Of Invention.

An electrically charged wire grid.
iron is the newest fly killer. ..,..a
A red colored solution now obviates
the need Of a dark room in photog-
raphy.. -,>,>>E ~ <.&4 r. =
I A French scientist has cheapened
the production of liquid air by half,
SO that its use in the arts may now
be profitable. >,s s. :i9 :zs ;,:. ':.ss=
The use Of electricity in deyeryday
affairs is eveloping enormously IN
Great Britain. The usual price is 21k
cents per unit. :, sr,s L: II. Il. s< ,s..
a. bill is proposed in the German
reichstag to prohibit the use Of phos.
phorus in making matches, on the
ground that the government has &C.
squired the patent of =. new ignitinx
substance harmless to the health .of
the employees and has placed it at
the disposal Of the match faetoxies. q
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-20

reason it has occurred to an Austrian
inventor that an automatic device for
lessening the shock and reversing the
engines would be of practical value
on all vessels. An idea of his inven.
tion can be gained from a study Of the
drawing, in which the artist has de-
picted the portion of a ships bow
which lies under water, with the
apparatus in position. This consists
of an extension Prov, in which is
mounted a sliding head, projecting at
such an angle that it will strike any
hidden object which would otherwise
damage the ships hull. In the end
of this head is plunger, normally
extended as shown, and serving to
close the electric circuit which. >. re.
verses the engines. The sliding head
is backed by series of strong springs
or pneumatic or hydraulic compress
sion chamber, yielding under the pres.
sure as the vessel strikes, and airing
the reversed propellers in clearing
the boats. -
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-20

Jonathan King, the .'gobbler hunt
er" OF the Ozarks, has sure-pop cure
for lager" In region of the noun
ta1ns where the chills prevail lives the
old man, who won his sobriquet, ..gob-
bier hunter" because Of his prowess
in killing wild turkeys. He is a man
that Is looked up to in his neighbor-
hood. He owns good farm and his,
heart Is as tender as his outside ap-.
pearance is rough. The poor noun
taineers round about know of this:
goodness of heart as do no others.
HIS corn crib is open to them if the
winter is long and cold, and his kind
ness to the hands on his farm is we'll
known to all:
But the thing that most dis
tinguishes Mr.: King is his tried and
true remedy for the lager" He never
tires of telling his shaking friends
about it and never ceases to urge,
them to get up the courage to try it
once, just once, and, he assures them,
they will never have the Shakes
again. He tells of his own experiences
with the remarkable remedy in this
fashion:
1T was in the year of '76. Me and
my wife and ten of the children were
shakin' to beat all, the whole sum-
mer and tall. Long toward Thanks
g1vin' the rest of 'em quit, but I kept
on eatin' calome1 and quinine and
sh1nnydinec and shakin' my clothes
to tatters every other day. was
about, wore to a shadder, when one
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of goods that strays of to a competi-
tor as parson over a backslider,
and hold special services to bring it
back into the fold. You've got to get
up every morning with determination
if you're going to go to bed with sat-
isfaction. You've got to eat hog, think
hog, dream hog-in short, go the
whole hog if you're: going to win out
in the pork=packing business.
4 That's. a pretty liberal receipt, I
know, but It's intended for a fellow
who wants to make a good-sized pie.
And the only thing you ever find in
pastry that you don't put in yourself
is fies.-From Letters from a Self
Made Merchant to His Son." by
George Horace Lorimer = BY permis-
sion of Small, Maynard & Co., Pub.
fishers, Boston, Mass. - y 49, ~
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-20
POPULAR SCIENCE
A New Machine for the Farmer.


Not many years ago the farmer was
compelled to plant all his seed by
hand, walking many miles and carry
ing heavy burdens to SOW the grains
or plant the potatoes which were to
yield the harvest in the fall, and even
3he grass had to be cut with scythes.
Now all this labor is performed by
machinery, while the farmer rides
over the ground, guiding his team,
and accomplishing more in a single
day than he could in week before
the inventor set out to aid him in his
toll. Still another machine has been
brought forward, this time a weed
puller, invented by a man in Mime
sofa. Our picture shows the invention
doing its work, and gives an idea of
the mechanism by which it is operat-
ed. Two f1uted rollers are mounted
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-20
necessary beture the glass eye can be
inserted. The inventor of this device
is a resident of Missouri.
Trolley-Ferry Bridge.

Trolley-Ferry Bridge.
A French engineer by the name of
Arnodin has bought out an arrange.
ment whereby congested bridge traffic,
1t is claimed, will be relieved, and
terryboats may be done away with.
His invention is trolley-ferry bridge
and consists of car suspended above
the surface of the water at any height
desired by means of steel cables run
ming on tracks placed on the. under
side OF a bridge-like structure. An
overhead electrical conductor fur
nishes the current to the motors
which propel the truck, the operator
managing it in a manner similar to
that employed on trolley cars.
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course, 1. can't make 1T now to save
my life, even If I hired a special en-
gine and car, for the wedding is set
for tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock!'
while he began pitching his things
into, his trunk I wrote out message
to, his sweetheart and hurried it TO the
telegraph ofice Ny friend left on
the first train out.and after his as
rival In Chicago he wired back:
It's all right She has the mea
sles.' New York Sun.
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She Was Free From Superstition
Chain Of Circumstances Proved the Claim Made by the
Girl That She Was Above Believing In Such Nonsense
OF Course 7here We're Few Litde Exceptions

"Superstitious!" she exclaimed
scornfully; mot bit of it. have
too much sense for that. OF course
there are some little things portending
good or bad luck that occasionally
claim my attention, but superstition
is only the failing of the weak. l.
"Wait a minute. There's a pin on
the sidewalk.
There! Now I have it. Do you
know every time have seen a pin and
failed to pick it up Reginald and I
have quarreled? Strange isn't it?
wouldn't dare to pass one now.
"But we were speaking of supersti-
tions. I've heard it said that every
body is superstitious to a greater or
less extent, but don't believe it. Do
you?:: OF course I knew you didn't.
But you do find superstition in. the
strangest places. I once knew girl
who actually believed in ghosts. Real
sensible girl in other: respects, too.
Funny, wasn't it?e- used to<tell her
that she would have to get over her
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-20
FORGOT HIS WEDDING DAY.
Busy Wall Street Man Makes Dash
&: for Chicago One Day Late. ss%

Busy Wall Street Man Makes a Dash
for Chicago One Day Late. ss%
=, \, 1--WE hear good deal about the
busy men of New York. said one of
them, ..but& I. have q friend in Wall
street who has broken the record.
I.Was in his apartment:a q few nights
ago after the theater, and ne was chat
ting with me about the deals Of the
day, and as he chatted he was rum
ming over q bundle Of memoranda. All
at once he stopped as II he had been
shot.
s5 s. Great Scott he exclaimed. I'm
to be married tomorrow TO : woman
N Chicago. and I had forgotten the
date completely. Say. old man. come
With No and help me to mack 10. OF
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To Prevent a Shin eroundina

TO PreVent a Ship Grounding.
In nearly every issue of the daily
papers accid dental grounding accidents
to vessels are reported, with the loss
varying from temporary delay to the
complete wreck of the ship. Often
times no blame can be attached to any
one, and the ship strikes a hidden
rock or shoal before warning can be
given or any action taken. For this
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Have Times Movements Down Fine.
Chronometers now record the mil.
5lioneth part Of Z second of time.