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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16

at me in a manner which spoke vol.
umes to any one imaginative enough
to think they understood the language
OF birds when they are hungry.
Their food consisted of sugar and
water which was fed to them with a
straw. Immediately upon seeing they
would poise in the air and lick the
drop on the tip until they were salts
fed.
Occasionally they would poise
before the big red flowers printed on
the curtains. They recognized the
+ pictures of flowers on sight and en-.
deavored to press their bills into
them. Artificial flowers were ap.
preached in the same way.
In word, these most helpless, the
smallest of all birds, required no edu.
cation, no training from parents; it
was all instructive.
The absolute lack Of fear was the
most interesting. The birds followed
us about the house, went to their mis-.
tress when called, even flew down
from an upper room at a call, follow.
ing the stairway when an ordinary
bird would have kept close to the cell.
ing, butting it's head against it.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16

horseback, had run over a young Mex
1can sll woman, knocking her down and
seriously injuring her. The trial took
place in the largest cabin in the neigh
borhood, which was packed with
roughly dressed, much-bewhiskered
men. The gambler, who was rich;
hired able counsel to defend him. Al
calde Blackburn called the young
woman, who told her story in broken
English, but frankly and honestly.
When she finished, the alcalde per-
emptorily ended the trial. The attor.
ney for the defendant protested We.
heeImently, but the alcalde ran his hand
through his hair until it stood up
straighter on top than ever and re-
marked:
If this court knows herself, and she
think she do, fine you $500 damages
and assess upon you the costs of put
tin this yere gal in good condition.
When asked what he meant by
''good condition." he replied that the
"gamblin' chap must pay the doctors
bill and all other costs of the woman's
illness. A more learned judge might
have made a more formal ruling, but
scarcely juster one-Kansas City
Journal.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16
Humming Birds as Pets

Of all the birds, the humming birds,
especially when young, seem to dis
play the least fear, says a writer in
Country Life in America.
1t is difficult matter to train a
young canary bird to follow one about
the house or to come when called, yet
we have had several humming birds
which were perfectly domesticated
and more thoroughly tame than any
bird l have ever seen.
Two humming birds that grew up
with us were given a small place in a
closet in our sleeping apartment At
the first approach of daylight they
would fly out into the room, the door
being left ajar and directly to the bed,
lowering over my face, their loud hum
ming noise awakening me at once.
There was no mistaking that the
birds wished their breakfast, and they
could not be driven away. At times
I would pretend not to see them. and
they would hover over my eyes. so
near that the wind from the rapidlv
moving wings was quite sufficient to
arouse me.
When held out my finger, one or
both would alight upon it and gaze
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16

During the siege of Ladysmith in
the Boer war, Henry w. Nevinson and
the late T. W. Maud, British war cor
respondent, were walking up the main
road of the village when they caught
sight of black thing moving rapidly
across the road close in front of their
feet. 1t was about three feet long or
a little less and was moving very
swiftly. In perfectly straight line
it darted forward, without the usual
snake-like wriggling or other visible
means of movement. Accustomed
from boyhood to hunt adders on the
Cumberland moors, Nevinson dashed
upon it with his stick and broke it's
BACK With Single blow 'Neverthe-
less, it still continued to move for
ward, as snakes will, no matter how
desperately wounded, and the war cor
respondent sprang on it's head and
stamped it into thaodust with his boot.
At the same time Maud, who had only
just perceived the danger, stamped on
it's back. The long and deadly body
gave few little jerks and then lay
still. The snake was carefully lifted
on the end of stick, carried back to
the cottage, where the two men lived,
and carefully deposited outside for fu-
ture examination.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16
Gods Angels in Disguise

When the lessons and tasks are all ended
And the school for the day is dismissed
The little ones gather around me,
10 bid me goodnight and be kissed,
on, the little white arms that encircle
MY neck in their tender embrace!
On, the smiles that are halOes of heaven
And when they are gone I sit dreaming
Of my childhood too lovely to last,
Of JOY that my heart will remember
While it wakes to the pulse of the past
Ere the world and it's wickedness made
A partner. of sorrow and sin,
When the glory Of God was about me,
And the glory of gladness Within
All my heart grows as weak as a
Woman's,
And the fountains of feeling will flow,
When 1 think of the paths steep and
Where the feet of the dear ones must
OF the mountains of sin hanging o'er
Of the tempest of fate blowing wild;
On tnere.S nothing on earth half so holy
AS the innocent heart of a child.
They, are idols of hearts and of house
They are angels of God in disguise:
HIS sunlight still sleeps in their tresses,
Ihose truants from home and from
heaven,
They have made me more manly and
mild;
And know now how Jesus could liken
The kingdom of God to child
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16

with the large gas engine plant will
come, as an almost inseparable ad.
junct, the gas producer, taking the
place of the steam boiler now acces.
sorry to the steam engine installation,
so that the large coal pile will re.
main in evidence as before, and the
spontaneous ignition troubles as we'll,
even with certain precautions against
them, in the way of selecting and
storing the coal. Experience in some
cases has dictated the safe height to
which coal of certain sulphur percent.
age may be banked, but this height
will vary with some other governing
conditions easily enough imagined.
The gas engine, therefore, will, after
all, have to depend for favorable con.
sideration upon its. several other well
known good points rather than upon
the one mentioned in the opening
lines of this paragraph. y
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16

1nnumerable stories are being pub
lished in Japan about Capt Hirose,
who died in an attempt to bottle up
the Russian fleet at Port Arthur and
who has been proclaimed war god. -
A. man who knew him in childhood
says: "As child the captain received
with us the >primary-school instruction
at the Kwansho school. The boy is
father of the man; and even in those
early days the boy Hirose distin-
guished himself far above his school
fellows both in play and scholarship.
1t was he who was the champion of
the sport of sliding on the snow down
Ebi hill. He never had his face
stained with daab of ink when. we
played the poetry cards at his
fathers temporary residence, simply
because he was never beaten even
once. Then whenever we boys had
exercises in versification his perform
ances nearly always won the best
mark, and even when they failed, at
rare intervals, to come to that level
of excellence they never fell below
the standard of second best. In short,
he was carried by an unconquerable
spirit in anything he took a hand in.
*'Hirose took great pains in the
training of his body" says this same
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16

ask M not life for the dear ones,
An radiant, as others have done,
but mat life may have just enough
10 temper the glare of the sun.
Would! pray God to guard them from
evil.
But my prayer would bound back to
All! a seraph may pray for sinner,
But sinner must pray for himself.
The. twig is so easily bended.
nave banished the rule and the rod:
knowledge,
God:
Ny heart is the dungeon of darkness,
My frown is sufficient corrections;
My love is the law of the school.
I shall leave the old house in the autumn
r. i :sStraverse its threshold no more;
IA Ea 'tlow7l shall dear ~or1es
That meet me each morn at the door!
shall miss the good nights and kisses
And the guile Of their innocent glee;
The group on the green, and the flowers
That are brought every morning for
me.
shall miss them a morn and at even
Their song in the school and the street:
I shall miss the low hum of their voices,
When the lessons and life are all ended
And 1,tlHsS the death e says The school is dis:
May the little ones gather around me,
10 bid me ''goodnight'' and be kissed
Charles Dickens.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16
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lacemakinq Machine.

1t would be a revelation to the shop
pers who visit the city stores in
search of finery to trim their gowns
to know the story of how the lace
which they so much prize is made
how whole families and even towns
in continental Europe are engaged in
this work, especially in the long win
ter months, when they are shut in by
the ice and snow. Some of these toll
ers have to-day the aid of electricity
and fine machinery in their work, but
for years and years others have been
toiling on old-fashioned hand looms,
and even with no loom at all, turning
out the dainty fabrics with only their
needles.
The great value of this product and
the enormous amount of labor spent
in its manufacture have led the in
ventor to study out every POSSIBLE
means of simplifying the manual part
of the work. A simple little machine,
with the aid of which even the young
may be taught to manufacture some
neat pattern of lace and on which
a skilful woman can soon learn to
turn out complicated patterns, is that
shown in the Illustration The mode
Of use is to attach the ends of the
threads from all the bobbins to fiat
strip of ribbon just beyond the pin
covered roller and then Intervene
the threads on the bobbin to form the
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16
The Land of USed-t0-Be

There is no map that shows us where
Its hills laugh at the sky:
No map-or we would journey there
Where fowered valleys lie.
The little Land of Used-to-be-
A fancied land, forsooth,
Which has for mete and boundary
The dim frontiers of youth.
o, little Land of Used-to-be,
Your roses were so red!
Your skies were azure seas where ships
went sailing overhead.
A land of laughter and of song, l.
Where bees contented croons
Kept time with swaying poppy blooms
through summer afternoons.
We seek the pathway to that land,
But seek it all in vain *. H. =.
Sometimes the rain seems like a. hand
That taps upon the pane SSss=*%5& =
And lulls us softly into sleep
Blent@ with q reYery s.zss5l s55a
Wherein our clad hearts find and keep
The Land Of Used-to-be. Is ~ Il Z. 7,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16

O., little Land of Used-to-be,
So far, and fair, and faint,
Whence mellow songs come murmuring
in accents old and quaint!
Your trees were all SO broad and high
And prodigal Of shade
Wherein the scattered sunshine in mo.
saics leaped and played. !
Ofttimes we look to where it lies
For this we know full we'll:
Its distant glamour never dies;
We never lose the spell.
All, would that we might rise and go
Down paths of memory
And find the land we used to know.
The Land of Used-to-be!
0, little Land of Used-to-b be, -,
( What treasures Dc you hide! N4H
The singing streams that romped and
ran through meadows green and
:.a wide; 2s..s p Tas~ .:Ss5 II -
The birds. whose songs it seemed to us.
Were echoes of our glee- III: b. =.s.. T. :.
E Why is It we can never find the Land Of
Usedtto-b be 2? 80 8,
D.N. in Chicago Tribune. );
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16

Where the span is not more than
ten feet the arch can be moulded all
in one. When the diameter is greater
the concrete should be nodded into
blocks and then laid up the same as
stone If the culvert is not more than
five feet wide, the arch may be put
on fiat, but if wider it should have a
little crown. The plan shown des-
cribes the mode of building an arch.
1t has a 2 by II inch plank on the bed
of the stream; on this staad by
inch upright, which should not be
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16
Concrete Arch Over Stream,

A, 2 by 12 in. plank; B. by in up
rights; c, by in. scantling on up
rights: D, center supporting arch; E,
concrete
more than 21% feet apart; en- top of
this by 4 inch scantling is laid
lengthways Of arch; then a center cut
out of the plank, or inch boards and
covered with inch lumber to hold the
arch. The earth should be we'll ram
med around the wall when filling in.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16
Fitting Rafters on a Barn.

T.. Nj am building a barn 8O by
80 feet, and wish to put on two sets
of rafters, to meet at the perline plate.
What length should the rafters be
and how should they be fastened?
Each set of rafters should be 12
feet long. The lower set should pro-
ject one foot over the lower plate.
These should be sawed so as to sit
squarely on the plate, the projecting
foot to be two inches deep. The up
per end of the rafter rests on the per-
line plate, and the lower end of the
upper rafter lies beside it. The top
sides of the two rafters should be
flush. The Upper rafter fits on the
perline plate with tongue on the
lower side to drop down on the in
side Of the plate to form a brace The
rafters are all spiked to the plates if
necessary. The lower rafters should
have a 9-foot rise and the upper ones
seven.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16

Cutting willows down will not kill
them. Osier beds can be scut for a
great many years for the offers with
out doing the roots any harm. The
only way to get rid of willows is to
root out each bush. The easiest way
to do this is to hitch a chain round
the bush near the bottom and then
drag it out by the roots with a horse,
after loosening the bush by cutting
some Of the main roots with an ak.
Many acres have been cleared in this
way in Manitoba, and it is found the
most convenient way of doing the
work. If the bushes are not very
large the land may be burnt over and
then plOwed with a heavy scrub plow.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16
Tells Amount of Precipitation.
As Yet Unknown to sci-nc.

1t can be said with reasonable GER
tainty that electricity and magnetism
are states of disturbances in the uni
versal ether, although the exact kind
Of disturbance cannot yet be defined
partly because the mechanism of the
ether itself must be sufficiently known
In order to diferentiate it's disturbed
conditions from its normal conditions.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16
Cement for Kitchen Walls,

I want to put up concrete kitchen,
l6 by 20 feet, and IA feet high; the
end will join the present building,
leaving three sides to build, two sides
20 feet long, and the end wall 16 feet,
with gable ends. How much gravel
will be required and how much ce-
ment, the wall being six inches thick ?
Your wall would require 19 barrels
OF natural rock cement and Is yards
OF gravel. making the concrete one of
cement to one of gravel; or, if Port.
land is used, IA barrels would do the
work, making the concrete one of ce.
ment to seven of gravel. This esti-
mate is given on using all gravel (no
stone for fillers) as the wall, being
only six inches thick, very little stone
can be used.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16
Support for a Chimney.


A. E. B.-I wish to build a brick
flue Is feet high, 80 bricks to the foot
| want it to rest on floor having 4
by 6 inch sills, II feet long and 16
inches apart. If the stills rest on the
6 inch sides would they be strong
enough to bear the weight?
If the chimney is built at the end
of the building so that it rests on end
of the joists these will provide suf-
ficient support, but if it is built in the
center Of the room supports should be
provided Immediately underneath. If
the chimney starts from the ground
floor small abutment can be built
under the joints or sills, which will
hold the weight.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16
TO BUILD CONCRETE ARCH.

Strong and Lasting Structure COM
paratively inexpensive.
S. S.-Please tell me how to use
concrete in building arches over
streams and under main roads.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16
Clearing Land of Willows,

Subscriber.-I have some water
willows on my farm. l have cut them
down, but they grow up again. think
they will have to be dug up. What is
the best way to get rid Cf them?
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16

Every man knows how wife should
be managed, but few are able to do it
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-16
Simple Mechanism for Home Use,
Heating by Electricity,


In the fourth installment of a series
OF articles on the heating and ventila-
tion of workshops and factories, by
Ernest q. Beck, says the Electrical
Review, in it's book reviews, the use
OF the electric systems is discussed.
With other heating systems it is i'm
possible to realize the ideal condi-
uons, but with the electrical systems
there is no such difficulty. The eff
cheney of the method is nearly 100 per
cent, since there is little leakage, and
the loss in conducting mains is usually
negligible. The system is economical,
since 1t is easily regulated. Although
IN point OF actual cost of the heating
medium, the electrical system, as COM
pared with hot water and steam, is at
a disadvantage, the bill for electric
heating is often less than that for
steam, because electrical energy is
supplied by meter, and the consump-
ton varies exactly on the power de-
Veloped. This more than counteracts
the higher cost of the current. Some
OF the decided advantages of electri-
cal systems, apart from the questions
OF economy and energy efficiency, are
the absence of piping and valves.
economy of floor space, the ease with
which the energy is delivered to the
heater and with which radiators can
be moved from one position to an
other. There is no difficulty in main
talnlng circulation of current, as is
often the case with hot water systems.
The disadvantages of the electrical
systems are: Care must be taken in
Installing the wires, to see that they
are thoroughly insulated, and the ra-
dlators themselves must be construct.
ed SO as to guard against short cir
cults. The actual heating surface
must be encased to protect it against
accidents. While electric heating sys-
TENS are not widely used yet, the au-
thor believes that they will become
very popular in the future. They
would seem especially suited for shops
which are lighted and operated by
electricity
Tells Amount of Precipitation.
A tipping bucket attachment has
been added to the rain gauge of the
weather bureau on top of the custom
house at St. Louis. 1t accurately tells
OF the amount of precipitation. The
rain is drained into double bucket.
so poised that it tips on receiving a
certain amount of water. Every move
ment of this kind is registered bv an
electrical connection.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1904-10-27
He Gives n Concert

! The street takers have many ingeni-
Gus ways Of calling attention to their
wares, but It remained for a sales
man OF the colored persuasion to give
free concert as a means Of attract
Ing the populace.
The colored man sells watermelons
on these warm days-great. luscious
green things which are said to come
from Georgia and to be sweet clear to
the rind. Besides the watermelons, he
takes with him in the wagon three
very black pickaninnies with clear.
sweet voices The wagon drives into
a street, comes TO a stop, and imme-
dIately the voices Of the quartette are
raised in an old plantation song. the
refrain Of which is something about
-watermillyon."
The sweet sounds bring housekeep-
ers to the door to see by whom they
are being serenadsd; they observe the
fruit. remember that there is no melon
on ice to be eaten before retiring. and
purchase Of the itinerant
Jean de Reske.
He is a real Southern darky who
knows good melons when he sees
them. and so he is in danger Of be-
coming rich.
1t Is pity that the oyster. the ber-
~ and the -four barrel man cannot be
Induced to change their bansheeIike
walls to something not quite 30 lachry-
nose and rnther more like the song
that the vender Of watermelons throws
In a. good measure when he sells his
fruit They would be greeted with
much greater enthusiasm by the
II they did this.-Baltimors
SewA
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1904-10-27
A to Wheat Growing.


There seems to be a general opinion
that wheat production has greatly
fallen on in sections located outside
the great wheat belts, and while this
is so in some States. and particularly
so with some individuals, statistics
show that the falling OF Is not so
great as is generally supposed On the
other hand. there are Individual farm
ers who are good wheat raisers who
have given up their farms almost en-
tirely to other crops. simply because
they do not feel able to compete with
the great wheat sections of the West
1t is doubtful IL this is good policy.
for while the farm may frequently be
used to better advantage. there is
always a market in any section for
crop Of good wheat. and always use
for a small crop on the farm. Then.
too, wheat Is one of the best OF crops
to use In a rotation, having a value to
the soil In this respect so great that
# would pay to grow 1t even IL the
sale was comparatively limited II
1t could not be sold at fair price II
has considerable feeding value. par
ticularly where poultry is kept Do
not cut out the wheat entirely until
you have investigated its value on
your farm
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1904-10-27
~(OS~
FIoor for Hor.e STAN.


The average horse stall Is disgrace
TO the owner and. usually. the worse
part about IL Is the door One OF the
best floors known. that may be made
at small expense. is constructed as foi-
lows: The foundation is of small
stones with a cement coating on top;
4 good cement floor. In other words, so
laid that there Is a fall OF about one
inch to the foot from the manger to
the rear. Then a slat floor is made or
good oak material an inch thick and
two inches wide.
These strips are cut the required
length. are set on edge about one-half
inch apart and cieats nailed across at
intervals of a foot. Holes are bored
in these cieats so that the liquid excre-
ment which passes between the Stats
may pass over the cement floor TO the
rear. Two by four strips are put In
at intervals to keep the SLATED floor
from being springy. Every few days
this Slated floor is taken up and the
cement floor underneath cleaned. so
that in this way the horse always has
a dry bed
A gutter should be provided for
when laying the cement floor. at the
rear of the stall. so that the liquid
will run on to some vat pro-
vided for 1t and thus be saved. In
the illustration figure 1 shows a sec
ton of board at end Of c,eets with
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1904-10-27
1U0HeeyG'S J]Oduaqs,


she made sunbonnet. Selling the
sunbonnet for IS cents. she bought ma
terlal Tor bonnets and aprons In this
way several dollars were realized.
Her brother. pleased with her thrift
ness. gave her some land. which she
planted TO sweet potatoes. cultiyating
IL with the assistance OF small boy.
The products OF the first year brought
her $40. Later. she entered a State
educational institution. where she re-
mained until she graduated with hon
or. During the course she received
some assistance from an aid society.
all OF which was repaid. Miss Weiss
entered the medical college at Balti-
more. Md. where she paid her tuition
by nursing. and was graduated from
there with honor. She is now d prac-
tielng physician In Meridian. Miss..
near her former home. aud her income
Is a good one.-Success.