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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
Designs for ParIor Kites.


and having placed it on some kind of
very thin paper rsilk paper is the best
trace it's outlines with pencil
Make as many Of these tracings as you
like, and cut them out neatly; you will
then have a lot OF pretty little kites of
a kind that you never saw before,
perhaps.
To add to the effect, gay-colored
paper should be used for making the
kites, or they may be painted in vari-
Gus designs with water-colors or cray
ons.
To make the kites sail properly, the
round, or shield part should be made
a little heavier than the other end,
and this may be done by putting a
few waters on it.
To fly the kites, throw them up into
the air as high as you can, and they
will come down gradually, spinning as
they come, and showing their gay
colors with pleasing effect Half a
dozen of them spinning at once in the
parlor makes a pretty sight, one that
all children would enjoy. The higher
you throw them the better it will be-
They may be thrown from any ele-
waited place in the open air if there is
no wind say, from the upper windows
of the house.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
The Colored Band.

Wen de colo'd ban comes ma'chin' down
de street
You kin hyeah de ladies all erroun' re-
"Aint dey handsome? Amt dey gran
Amt dey splendid? Goodness, lam!
wy, .dey's pu'fect fom dey fo'heads to
dey feet'
An SIGH steppin' to de music down de
line,
'Tain't de music by itself dat meks it
fine;
Hits de walkin', step by step,
An de keepin' time wild Hep"
Dat meks a common ditty SCUM divine.
Oh, de white ban play hits music, and
hits mighty good to hyeah,
An it sometimes leave a ticklin' in yo'
feet;
\ But de heat goes into business
Fur to help erlong de eah.
Wen de colo'd ban goes ma chin down
de street.
Paul Laurence Dunbar in New Orleans
.Times-Democrat.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
Ballad Of Old Sonqs.

Life is song and love is sweet
Sing me then to the old refrain,
Laughing lyrics with tripping feet,
Pattering music like drops of rain.
Ragtime, ruffles our weary brain,
Oh, for the ballad of surge and sway,
Words that wave like field of grain
Where are the songs of yesterday?
Stately in tune with the measured beat.
But coon songs fill us with pensive
pain,
Yet it's ever and always the thing we
meet.
Ever and always and over again,
Till it verify makes Of life bane!
Singers, a respite of you we pray
From the baby warm by the razor slain
Where are the songs Of yesterday?
Verses like this we madly bleat
Trying to voice our deep disdain
For the song and dance described as neat
In comic operas tangled skein.
Oh, for the time of a poets reign!
These limping filters to drive away,
Is there nothing to lose and nothing to
gain?
Where are the songs Of yesterday?
Poet prince to our pleading, deign
Make US laughing, loving lay;
Tell US in tune what we ask in vain
Where are the songs of yesterday?
New York Herald.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
Would Solve Servant Question.

A certain West Philadelphia family
has an invariable rule that the chill
dren shall take turns in saying a
grace before meals. This grace fol
lows a set form, but at the Sunday
dinner, when papa is at home, an ex
tempcre addition or enlargement is re-
quired.
The household had been suffering
from a long succession of incompe
tent cooks, and the other Sunday, as
the family assembled at the table, the
mother lamented that she feared the
dinner was spoiled, and that unless a
good cook could be obtained imme
diately a contemplated trip to the
country would have to be abandoned
It was little Ernest's turn to say
grace, and he echoed the prayer OF
all present: IT, ::
"Bless, oh, Lord, this food for GU,
use, and US to Thy service, fol
Christ's sake. And Lord, please send
US Z good cook before Friday
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
Oriqin of the Dictionary.

The average person seems somehow
to think of dictionaries as the inven-
ton of DR.. Johnson, and altogether
modern product. DR.. Murray correct
ed that idea. They were not the work
of one or several men, he told his
audience, but growth developed
through the ages. They began with
the gloss es-that is, the explanations
in easy Latin or English-or hard
Latin words, written by the monks
between the lines of the manuscripts.
The CLOSES grew into traslations, and
collections of CLOSES by this monk or
that from all the sources available to
him made glossaries or dictionaries.
Little by little English supplanted the
easy Latin explanations, and the
words were arranged in a rudiamen.
tary alphabetical order, thus forming,
so long ago as 1000 A. D., Latin Eng
lish dictionaries. The uneducated
Normans overthrow English learning;
and it was not till the fifteenth cen.
fury that the revival came.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
Little Brown Hands,

Little Brown Hands.
They drive home the cows from the pas
ture,
Up through the long, shady lane,
Where the quail whistle loud in the
wheat fields,
That are yellow with r1pening grain.
They find in the thick, waving grasses
Where the scarlet Tipped strawberry
grows;
They gather the earliest snowdrops
And the first crimson buds of the rose.
They toss the hay in the meadow:
They gather the elder bloom white;
They find where the dusky grapes purple
In the soft-tinted October light.
They know where the apples hang ripest
And are sweeter than Italy's wines;
They know where the fruit hangs the
th1ckest
On the thorny blackberry vines.
They gather the delicate seaweeds
And build tiny castles of sand;
They pick up the beautiful seashells-
Fairy barks that have drifted to land;
They wave from the tall, rocking tree
tops,
Where the orioles hammock nest
swings.
And at night time are folded in slumber
BY song that fond mother SINGS
Those who toll bravely are strongest:
The humble and poor become great;
And from these brown handed children
Shall grow mighty rulers of state.
The pen Of the author and statesman
The noble and wise of the lands
The sword and the chisel and palette
Shall be held in the little brown hands
Mary H. Krout.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
Conundrums; Old But Good.

Conundrums; Old But Good.
What can be found where it is not ?
Fault.
When is a turkey like a ghost?
When he is goblin.
Why is the letter like dinner? 1t
comes before (tea).
When is an artist like a cook
When he's drawing water.
Why is troy weight like dishonest
grocer? Because he has no scruples.
What question can only be answered
by the word "yes"?> What does yes
spell?
What word is it that to which if you
add a syllable will become shorter?
Short.
A word Of five syllables-take one
away and no syllable will remain ?
MonOsyllable.
Why would a pelican make a good
lawyer? Because he knows how to
stretch his bill.
What is the difference between a
spendthrift and a feather bed? One
is hard up, the other is soft down.
When is a penniless state of things
the cause Of rejoicing in a poor mans
family? When bread is a pennyless
per loaf.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
PRINCES ESCAPE FROM PRISON.
How Louis Napoleon Fled from tho
Fortress of Ham. :

TO" LOUIS Napoleon Fled from tho
Fortress of Ham. :
Prince Louis Napoleon, afterward
Napoleon ILL.,, effected his escape from
Ham in 1916 in a singular manner. He
was imprisoned for his attempts
against the French government, made
at Boulogne in 1910. At o'clock one
morning the prince, having shaved his
and thrown blouse and
Worklngman's trousers over his own
clothes, and wearing wooden shoes
quietly walked out of the prison, carry
ing Bookshelf over his shoulder, to
complete his disguise He was taken
to be one of the painters then at work
in the prison and was passed by sew
eral persons. A carriage was waiting
in the neighborhood and by 3 o'clock
in the afternoon he was at Valen-
ciennes, where he took a train to
Brussels, and he arrived in London
two days later. Meanwhile in the
prison DR.. Conneau, the princes physi-
clan, had placed a dummy in the
princes bed and told the governor that
the prince was confined to his room
by illness. This satisfied the governor
until Z o'clock in the evening, when
he insisted on seeing the prince and
discovered the fraud. BY this time of
course, the prince was over the from
tier DR.. Conneau got off with three
months of prison. Within thirty one
months Prince Napoleon was the first
president Of a French republic, sup
planting King Louis Philippe, who
had abdicated.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
Clock Of DECEPTIVE Value.

Judge Newburger has clock which
is at once the Joy and the bane of his
life. Its case is of old Delft; and it is
a gem which would make an antiquari.
ans mouth water. But it's dingy ap-
pearance calls forth so much adverse
comment from uncultured visitors to
his Office that the judges feelings are
constantly "riled." A man with long
whiskers CHANGED to observe it one
day recently and exclaimed:
"Why, Jedge," that's measly look
in old clock. What do you keep it
fer? Looks like it costs six cents"
: my friend" replied the Judge,
"whatever your other virtues may be,
you're utterly ignorant as to the value
of time."-New York World.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
Swimming Don'ts.

l. Don't 60 into the water soon
after meal, nor for at least two hours
after hearty one. The main efforts
OF the body must be in the line of
digestion then, and the action Of the
water, as we'll as the violent exercise
prevents or retards the digestive pro.
cess.
2: Don't go in when too tired
to make it real pleasure. Swim.
ming is delightful pastime under the
right circumstances.
g. Don't swim too far. Keep within
the limits of your known strength
even on 'dare, except in cases of
emergent need. Better swallow the
dare than enough water to sink you.
f. Don't presume on your good
health by going in to often, nor when
you are too warm or the water is too
cold.
5. Don't come out Of the water SO
chilled that your lips are. blue and
your teeth chatter.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
A Word to Bows.

You are made to be kind, boys, gen
erOus, magnanimous.
If there is boy in school who has a
clubfoot, don't let him know you ever
saw it.
If there is a poor boy with ragged
clothes, don't talk about rags in his
hearing.
If there is lame boy, assign him
some part in the game that doesn't
require running.
If there is hungry one give him
part of your dinner.
If there is dull one help him learn
his lesson.
If there is a bright one, be not en-.
vious Of him; for if one boy is proud
Of his talents and another is envious
Of them, there are two great wrongs
and no more talent than before.
If larger or stronger boy has in
jured you and is sorry for it, forgive
him. All the school will show by their
countenances how much better it is
than to have a great fuss-Horace
Mann.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
STORY OF THE GOOD BOY.
No "Honesty Is the Best Policy" 70,
Him Anv More

Him Any More.
A rewsboy picked up a $40 bill in
front of one of the big hotels yester-
day. Another young artist of the
brush that is black, but artistic, saw
the pickup and guessed it was money.
He made loud plead for a division.
"Halvers, or I'll squeal," he yelled.
While Red was hesitating an elder
ly, benevo]ent-looking man stepped
out of the hotel and gazed at the pave.
ment in an inquiring manner.
Red saw the man and guessed that
It was his money. He impulsively
ran to him and inquired:
DID you lose somethin', mister?"
why, yes, little man, just dropped
a bill. Did you see it," he replied
with a winning smile
This it," said the boy, extending
a ,grimy paw in which was gripped
the bill.
The other boy stood the picture of
alarmed establishment
The old man took the bill and said:
THAT is it, little man. 1 am glad to
have it, but it affords me greater
pleasure to know that there is such
an honest, bright boy in the lowly oc-
cupation which is your start in life.
I predict that you will be great man
some day. Honesty is the greatest Of
virtues. Thank you, my good boy"
Red stood very still until the old
man had entered the hotel. Then he
said things. The things he said show.
ed the perfection of his training in the
slums. They were emphatic, but I'm.
printable, and the end of the long
sentence was "an' I fought I'd get
half Of de x and make reppytashun
for bein' honest, and beat Swipsy out
O. de cut"
And Swipsy looked at him in silent
scorn several seconds before he stalk
ed away, leaving the good boy to
meditate-and-sw - Kansas City
Journal.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
The Penetrative Coin.

To perform this trick, you must
have handkerchief with a counter
the same size as a quarter of a dollar
sewed up in one corner OF it. Take
your handkerchief out Of your pocket
and ask some person in the company
to lend you quarter, which you must
seem carefully to wrap up in the hand.
kerchief, but at the same time keep
the garter in the palm of your hand,
and in it's stead wrap the corner in
which the counter is sewed into the
middle Of the handkerchief, and bid
the person who lent you the quarter
feel that the money lis there. !.
Lay the handkerchief under a hat
upon the table, and taking a glass in
the hand which holds the quarter,
place it under the table. knock under
the glass three times, saying, Presto!
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
THE SCIENCE OF BUILDING.
Exactitude Which characterizes the
Construction Of Skyscrapers.

$onStFuctton OF SkyScraper3.
Many of the great steel structures
that are being built in every city are
are planned and nodded in some dis
tant city-like the material for. Solo,
mons temple of old-hundreds Of
miles away. 1t is in\ some rolling mill
town Of Pennsylvania that most of tie
gigantic framework for the modern
skyscrapers are built. All that re-
mains to be done is to put them to-
gethe~, and the building rises up like
a house of blocks.
Every piece is fitted together and
numbered before it is taken away
from the steel mill. So exact are the
measurements that not even the drill
ing of hole is necessary for fitting
the rivets which fasten the plates and
girdens together. The watchlike pre-
cision with which these parts are
made was shown in the construction
of one of these buildings which is now
being erected in Chicago.
One of the large cross Orders was
missing in the framework of the Sec
ond floor, and though it did not inter-
fere with the placing of the frame
work on all sides and above it, the
contractor was worried to know what
had become of it,. When the frame
work had grown as high as the sixth
or seventh story and the missing
piece had not been found around the
railroad yards or heard of from any
other source, he wrote to the steel
mill, describing it as closely as pos
sible, ordering that it be duplicated.
BY the return mail he received the
following reply:
LAS ground space is more valuable
in Chicago than here in the country
we are storing missing girder for you
We knew that you would need a steel
derrick on that floor, and kept the
girder out so you would have room
Will ship it after the remaining
stories have been completed"
The mill men had figured correctly
on the building hundreds of miles
away, and the girder could not have
been placed in position, even if it had
been on the ground, on account of the
derrick.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22

all black cards, and, finally, mixed to-
gether as originally.
The explanation of this trick Is sim
pie. The upper edges of a pack OF
cards are cut in such a way that, as
shown in figure, all red cards have lost
a little from left CD to right (2), the
black ones from right (2) to- left %.
BY catching the cards on the upper
left corner only red cards will appear,
and vice versa the black ones.
Finally the performer shows the
whole pack, in which all cards are we'll
mixed together.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
He Waited For the Finish.

Before a man is married." said the
humorous lecturer, ''he is only half
a man."
There" said the maid of uncertain
age as she nudged her escort, did
you hear that?"
"And after marriage" continued the
lecturer, she loses his identity en-
tirely."
eyes," answered the escort afore-
said, II heart that"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
Books.

Ah Mariana seemeth me,
Like nothing else so much to be
AS a rare volume, richly bound,
IN which, when opened, there is found
No knowledge, sense, nor sentiment,
But litter unintelligent.
While Isabelle is like book
Made for the uses Of a cook
Which may be handled carelessly
AS never other tome should be,
Within discover her beadroll
Collects for body, not for soul.
And .Araminia is a tract
With Wordy controversy packed,
Not with the things of mild report
Informed, but full of smart retort,
Cad! while true man knows himself,
Such will be left upon the shelf
But Daphne doth the heart delight,
Like volume bound in vellum white,
Wherein may all men plainly see
Sweet wit and dainty poesy
Wide thought Of human joys and woes
And wisdom such as love bestows
&C. Leech in the Era.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22

regular order, but say, the nickel, the
dollar, the ten-cent piece, the quarter,
the cent, the half-dollar. Each player
holds each coin two seconds before
passing. When all have had all the
coins, the light is turned up, paper and
pencil are supplied, and the players
write down the order in which the
coins were passed. The one getting
the correct order, or nearest to it, re-
ceives a prize.
OF course the order is decided upon
by the hostess beforehand,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
BRUIN HAS A HEART
CAPABLE OF STRONG FEELINGS
OF AFFECTION.
At Least, Here Is Story Which Goes
to Prove It~Bear Cub Always Kept
Friendly Feeling for His Bene.
factor.

''Its funny how people like bear
stories" said man who was showing
a friend around the bear pits at the
geological Park, in the Bronx "Only
the other day stranger was here and
ne showed me newspaper that con-
tanned story from Gloucester, Mass.
or TWO or the crew Of fishing
schooner who had bumped into an ice.
berg while they were in their dory,
and how polar bear showed up and
groWled at them, and then drifted
away with the iceberg.
THE stranger asked me if l thought
1t was true. I don't see anything
strange about it, although I am not
so we'll up on polar bears as I am on
land bears. l suppose polar bears like
to peregrinate, and this one that was
seen by the Gloucester fishermen was
probably making voyage for his
health
"A good many years ago was in q
lumber camp in Minnesota. Becoming
tired of the long and dreary winter,
concluded to go South. The Missis-
sippi River was frozen over at that
point, and as was hardy and had
plenty of time, started on my journey
on skates.
After l had been out several days
just emerging from it's cubhood 1t
seemed to be friendly and I tossed it
some of the provender from my bag.
1T evidently appreciated this, for it
made no effort to leave me. It fol-
lowed me all day, and when I went
ashore in the evening to pass the
night, it would have followed me if 1
had not escaped from it by strategy.
When l went on the ice next morn.
ing the bear showed up. I don't know
where it had spent the night, but it
joined me, as l have stated, in my
journey.
"A day or two later I found as I
travelled farther South that the ice was
becoming unsafe, and left the river to
resume my journey by land, in leis.
urely way. The bear stuck to me-
It had become very affectionate Then
it occurred to me to turn into it a
source Of revenue.
Il adopted it and taught it various
tricks, lingering in the vicinity where
| had quit the ice, for more than a
week. When l went out. to forage l
secured the bear to tree. On my re.
turn it always greeted me as fondly
as a dog would have done.
Then | started with it giving bear
shows in the various towns. When I
got to Kcokuk l found a bigger show
than mine in town, and as I was get
ting tired of the business, I sold my
pet TO the manager and resumed my
journey like white man.
Some years after that while I was
in Colorado l went to a show and in
passing the animals l saw a bear
which looked familiar I spoke to it
and it recognized me. 1t cut up such
capers that persuaded the keeper to
let me go into the cage, and when l
got there that bear was so affection
ately demonstrative that I was posi-.
tive of it's identity.
When quit the cage it moaned, and
not long after l ran across the show
man again and the keeper told me
my bear died of broken heart soon
after I had left it. I am convinced
that bears can love, and anything that
can love never forgets. New York
Sun.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
Fancy Dress Costumes.

Very pretty costumes are Old Glory,
Night and a Grecian maid. For Old
Glory the skirt is red and white strip
ed, the waist blue with silver stars; a
plain silver crown with one large silver
star in front completes the costume.
Night is a costume of some soft
black material which will float grace
fully and is covered with silver or gold
stars. In the hair a silver or gold
crescent is fastened.
The Grecian maid is a simple Greek
costume, but it is very effective.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
West Point BUILDINGS.

During lne next few years $6,500, 900
will be spent in new buildings at the
Military Academy at West Point,
which will make that Institution equal
in it's architectural features, dormitory
conveniences, lecturerooms, laborator-
les and other buildings to any Of the
great universities Of the world
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22

come quickly!" Drop the quarter from
the palm of your hand in to the glass,
show it to the spectators, and, remov-
ing the hat, take up the handkerchief
by the corner that holds the counter
and shake it, and the quarter not be-
ing there will appear to have passed
through the table into the glass.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
He Was Bald, Indeed.

He was evidently a countryman, for
when he took a seat in the cheap
restaurant be looked around with rus
tic curiosity. His wondering gaze fell
on the head of the man that was fear
fully and wonderfully bald. Look,
mother" he said excitedly to his wife.
"Thar amt hair enough on that mans
head to Spite pound of butter.''-
New York Press.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
His Fatal Error.

/ she-"I smell smoke!"'
He-"Yes, of course. That's just
my miserable luck" -, 49,:
"She-"Why, what do you mean?"
He-"Oh, nothing; only I'll never
buy another suit az clothes at Z fire:
sale" =, n =. =
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
Paper Flowers.

Buttercups-Cut like the figure of
yellow paper. Take some wool of the
proper shade and fluff it out for the
center, and fasten it on one end Of the
wire for the stem. Then slip it over
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
A Memory Test Game,

Take six coins, a silver dollar, a
fifty-cent piece, a twenty-five cent
piece, a dime, a nickel and cent.
Have the room darkened, or blindfold
the players; let the coins be passed
quickly from one to another, not in
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-08-22
Buttercups.

the stem and push it up against the
center. Fasten by twisting the green
paper to cover the green stem, around
it.
Tulips-Cut out like the figure. Cut
five or six of these and join together
by twisting the wire around the base
of the petals and use the rest of it for
a STEM The flower has more of real