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lawn or out on Long Island where we
could have German garden and grape
vines growing about the house, as they
do over the houses on the sunny slopes
OF the Rhineland at home. Our oldest
girl was born. a little glimpse Of the
angels coming into my life with her
enc was SO beautiful and so much Ike
What my sisters had been i'm Germany
Then came Observation-Disclosures NV
orother-in-law's family took an inter
est in everything that we did-too much
interest / used to think. and IT caused
petty jealousies on my part which had
better never have been. But they were.
and it's too late to remedy it now.
/ will not tell you all the sorrowful
tale that followed. II will not interest
the public. Suffice it TO say that finally
was sent to BiackweITs Island for
non-support Of my wife. and there L was
that March night i'm 1900 when a friend
wrote me the message which tortured
me with the desire to get out of prison
ana ny TO my wife. Offering her sun
port and comfort in her coming hour of
trial
thought Of her alone and almost
Irlendless In the great city, and of the
long weeks Of illness that must ensue
before she could again take up her
work. this time to support two children
instead of one. 1t wrung my heart
was more sorry than / can tell Won for
all that had happened.
Beng gardener, I had been per-
mitted to work outside the prison a
GOOD deal and on this particular night
was out late. I could look across the
dark water 20 where the lights of the
great city twinkled like the stars IN
the sky. / knew that over there
irlendless and alone. was my wife. and
that now she needed me more than she
had ever needed me before.
In the agony of that moment every
thing was forgotten. / forgot all the
quick. angry words, all the hard looks
and the harder thoughts. All that I
remembered was that she was alone and
in trouble
Without more thought I turned i'm
the growing darkness, ran along the
shore Of the island toward Hell Gate.
and pulling my cap over my eyes. |
sprang into the water and struck out !
for the Long Island shore. There were |
too many boats plying up ana down the |
nearer channel There were too many /
sharp-eyed policemen on the Manhattan /
shore. had friends in Brooklyn. and /
could find them. I could change my /
wet clothes under kindly roofs there.
And, after all, had only six months |
more to serve. aud what difference did
[ make.
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that she might have gone to Mexico
to escape me, went there and searched
through the countryside around the
City of Mexico, where a great many
americans are engaging in fruit Gull
t.Ire.
Coming back to New York, l picked
up az old newspaper printed on the day
following my escape from the Island,
and found the report nad been circu-
lated that 1 was drowned Then under
stood. My wife supposed that ] had died
She may have gone back to Germany, 1
thought. and / wrote to her friends
there 1 got no answer.
Then one day I found her by acct
dent. / met her face to face on the
street, she and my little girl, whom I
had never seen, a baby in her trundle
carriage. The sight brought the tears
to my eyes, and, after had made many
promises and had gone to work. my wife
consented to return to me, and we lived
together that Winter.
1T was then that / heard that the
keeper at the Island had lost his place
through my escape, and that was held
responsible for his ill-Iuck. The news
put my break from jail in a new light,
and the desire to return and give myself
up was continually with me.
Perhaps this made me moody and
fretful' for almost as soon as Spring
came my wife disappeared again-prob
ably offended with me for something or
other-and, try as 1 would, could find
no trace of her.
searched continually. 1 walked the
streets and the parks hoping to fnd
some trace of her. But l could not. I
was heartbroken, and was determining
10 return to the island and give myself
up when one day / found a man who
new where she was.
He put me in communication with
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HOW GEN LEE ROBBED A ~ROBBER" IN ROME

n UARTERMASTER General Lee,
W of the army. was travelling in
Europe some years ago with his
wife. The long. hot. dusty trip to
Rome from Naples had quite fatigued
Mrs. Lee, and she retired directly after
dinner.
The General, eager for the sights of
the city. asked a friend in the hotel
to direct him TO the Coliseum. He
would see it as Lord Byron saw it, by
moonlight.
The directions were readily given.
and with them a warning to look out
for the clever pickpockets that in
tested the region. With suppressed
emotion the General approached the
historic arena.
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the World, A D. 1868, until the year
72OS of the Creation and A d. .7O1, in
which year. on June 10. it was dam
aged in a great fire which ragged in
the Kremlin; it was mute until the
year 1898 of the Creation, A d. I7s5.
The Ali Powerful and Glorious En-
press Anna Ivanovna caused the met
al of the bell, weighing 5000 pools. to
be recast, to the Glory Of Col and the
Holy Trinity and "a honor of the Holy
Virgin of the Cathedral of her Glori-
Gus Assumption, and added 1000 poods
OF new material; the year = of the
creation, A D.. 173-. being the fourth
year of Her Majesty's glorious reign"
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Of the late James AIacNen Whistler.
the artist 1t bears the following in
scription. the dates of which do not
agree with those cited above from
"Murray's Guide to Russia:
Alexis Mikhailovitch. OF happy
memory, Autocrat of Great and Little
Russia and White Russia, ordered a
copper bell, weighing 5000 pools to be
cast for the Cathedral of the Pure
and Glorious Assumption of the Vir-
gin in the year 1852 of the Creation Of
the World and 1645 of the birth of
Jesus Christ This bell was in use
from the year 1857 Of the Creation Of
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On entering the vast enclosure he
noticed figure in the shadow some
distance away. The person approach
ed and saluted, but the General, re-
Numbering the warning, turned away
and walked to the far side of the en-
closure. The stranger followed al a
respectful distance.
Again the General shifted his base
OF observation, and still his shaGow
pursued. This is decidedly unpleas-
ant thought the General "TH lust
get out OF here before anything hap
pens. I'll look at my watch as an ex-
cuse, for my retreat must be iusti-
ed and orderly" Then he felt for
his watch. 1t was gone! Caution
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Montferrand. took upon himself the
difficult task of raising the bell, and
completed the operation with much
skill
Its weight at present is $4,000
pounds, its height from the top of the
ball and cross placed upon it by the
order of the Emperor Nicholas L. is
twenty-six feet four inches. and it's
circumference sixty-seven feet eleven
inches. It's maximum thickness is two
feet, and the weight of the broken
piece about eleven tons. These meas
qrements were taken by Major c. w
Whistler, civil engineer, the father
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She was always the soul or goodness.
1 went into a Harlem saloon where I
was to meet the man who would take
me to her.
"a man who proved to be Detective
MeEvoy, Of the West 125th street sta
ton. came UP and shook hands with
me, claiming he knew me. I didn't re-
member him, but he got me to admit
that / was William Fink. Then, with
Detective Hawthorne, he arrested me
and I was brought here.
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Love Led This Man to Break Jail to Swim Hel Cote and
to Search Four Years. From Mexico to Manitoba Only
to Be Sent Back to Cell by the Wife He Hoped to HELD

:" FTER breaking out Of prison
s asa Cate Z: ' ssa n: :sass a5ns'
all over Canada, the United
States and Mexico for my
wife and children, was thrown down
by her as soon as I had found herr
said William Fink, gardener, now a
workhouse prisoner at BlackweIls
Island.
Il am forty years old, and have been
married dozen years, but 1 don't un-
derstand women yet"
Fink, a rugged. burly German-Amerf-
can, who was formerly a sailor of the
United States battleship Maine. was
sent TO Blackwells Island in November.
1899. for non-support of his wife and
child He disappeared upon the night
Of February following. and as he had
not been heard from up to the time of
his arrest on February Is in Harlem. il
was supposed that he had been drowned
in Hell Gate while trying to escape.
His wife and two children. one Of
whom was born while Fink was on the
Island, supposed for long time that he
was dead. Mrs. Fink wore mourning
for him. When she suddenly discovered
a few weeks ago that he was trying to
find her. she notified the police. and
he was arrested and sent back to the
island to finish his term Of imprisop
merit.
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her, and /, found that she had sent one
Of the children home to Germany and
had given the other to her sister for
keeping, at her home on West 18th
street.
"On Friday night, February q. 1 had
planned to meet her. and talk il over
had a good place 20 work and was
getting good money. 1 could take care
of her. 1 determined that nothing should
ever part us again. 1 knew that it had
not been her fault that we had parted.
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turned to anger, and anger brought
the lust for fight.
The soldier was in better Grim. for
finally the stranger collapsed. and the
guard. rushing on him, bowled him
over and with little effort recovered
his watch and fob.
On his return to the hotel he found
Mrs. Lee anxiously waiting. In ex-
PLANTATION of his absence he told his
experience But" he concluded, II
got my watch all right, and he pro-
oueed the timepiece in triumph.
your watch." cried Mrs. Lee in
horror- Your watch? Why-why
you We ROBBED some innocent person.
You left your watch with me 10 ten
the time by before you left the no
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Il am going back to serve the rest
OF my term, and have discovered that
It was my wife who caused my arrest
and who Is sending me back to the
Island I have lived good many years
and have learned many things, but I
now am ready to admit that I do not
understand women.
I have searched for her the best part
Of four years with the intention OF
making her a good home and taking
care Of her, and now at the end OF il
I find that it is this woman whom
love and want TO help who is sending
me back to the Island. and will prob
ably make a fresh charge against me
at the expiration of my term.
NO, I can't understand the heart of
a woman
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When Trains Would Not Stop.

When Trains Would Not Stop.
M. F. De Mare suggests system
Of operating railroads, particularly
suitable for those. using electric pow
er, which will avoid the loss of time
due to stoppages to let of and take on
passengers. The train, which may be
drawn by any power, has attached, to
the rear end car equipped with
motors, enabling it to attain speed
somewhat above that of the train.
before approaching a station, the pas.
sensers and baggage intended for that
point are transferred to the rear car.
Inc latter is then detached from
the train and brought to a stop at the
station, the train proceeding at full
speed. Passengers who wish to take
tne Train to other points are placed on
a car similar to that detached from
the train. This stands on a side track
and on the approach of the train gets
under way. AS soon as the train has
passed the station, the car proceeds
out upon the track at full speed.
catches the train and is coupled to it.
transfers its passengers to the train.
and receives those for the next ston
when the process is repeated.-From
Electro, Brussels.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07
Production Of Aroon.

The Paris chemist, Henri Moissan,
aided by another chemist, has found a
new method for producing argon, the
component part of the atmospheric air,
the discovery of which by Lord Ray.
leigh and Professor Ramsay some
years ago created quite a sensation.
The gas argon is contained in very in
finitesimal quantities in the air, and
on account of the difficulty of obtain
ing it, it could never be thoroughly ex-
amined. Moissan obtains it from the
air by passing the same through a red
hot tube filed with spirals of copper.
In this manner the oxygen of the air
is taken up and the gas emanating
from the tube consists of nitrogen and
argon. The nitrogen is then taken up
for the most part by mixture of mag
nesium and lime, and the remainder
by calcium heated to a red heat. In
this manner it has been possible to
obtain a quart of argon in one day.
Thus a way has been found to examine
it chemically.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07
Tools for Orchard Cultivation.

O. M. Morris, in publication of thu
Oklahoma station, says: The ordinary
two horse plow is the best Implement
to use In early spring. This will sti,
the soil to a good depth and put It In
such condition that the rain will sinh
down and not run of the land. Il
also leaves the surface open and free
from trash and litter that would be
In the way Of the cultivator. The
plow can be run as close to the tree
as the team can be driven without
danger OF barking the tree or limbs
with the harness. II the plow passes
TOO close to the tree it should be
turned out of the ground or raised
so as to run very shallow. A small
plow six or eight inches wide is very
good to finish around the trees and
along the dead burrows, but it is not
necessary. Some form of a plow Is
necessary and the orchard cannot be
well cared for without it. The shall.
low summer cultivation can be done
with several different kinds of tools.
Inc small shovel cultivator is a very
good tool and can be used for q great
many purposes. The one horse five
shovel cultivator is one of tho best
TOOLS Tor small place. It can be ad.
Justed to do almost any kind of work,
and to work in narrow places. It de-
stroys the weeds, breaks up the sur.
lace soil and leaves it level. There
are several kinds of disk harrows and
cut-away harrows that do good work
and leave the soil in an almost ideal
condition. The disk harrow is one of
the best tools for summer cultivation
OF the orchard. It destroys the weeds
and leaves the soil level and well pul.
ver1zed, thus forming a good mulch.
The cutaway harrows are good for
surface cultivation, but do not as a
rule work well il there is much trash
or weeds and grass on the ground.
The common straight and slant
toothed harrow is of great value in
smoothing down the surface of the
soil after the plow and heavy cult
vators. It is also of value to break
the crust of the soil after a rain.
There are several kinds of spring
toothed harrows that do good work
and are valuable as surface cultiva-
tors. The roller and drag are of but
little value in orchard cultivation.
The roller can be used to advantage
sometimes on very loose, gravelly
soils.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07
Clean Milk Vessels.

The value of clean milk pals and
pans is recognized by all dairymen.
but not every farmer knows what is
meant by clean milk vessels. The
washing they receive on an ordinary
farm, in which one small lot of boiling
water serves for washing several milk
pals, does not clean them, but always
leaves large numbers OF bacteria.
especially in the cracks, ready to mix
with the next lot of milk drawn into
the pail. If possible they should be
steamed daily. When this is not DOS.
sible, they should be scrubbed with
boiling water and sal soda, rinsed in
boiling water and turned upside down
to dry. They should not be rinsed in
cold water and should never be wtped
with a rag after scalding. In hot
weather it may be necessary to take
them occasionally to creamery fol
steaming.-Prof. w. III. Conn.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07
A Disease of Carnations.

A new disease has developed in car
nations which affects the leaves and
stems. In it's earlier stages it re-
sembles the puncture disease, but the
small spots are usually surrounded by
a narrow, water-soaked ring, while
the center of the spot is usually slight
ly brown. The spots increase in size
more rapidly in soft-leaved varieties
and soon collapse and dry. leaving a
brown, sunken area. Badly diseased
leaves soon wither. Miscroscopical ex-
animation shows that the spots in all
stages are filed with bacteria, which,
in the early and middle stages of the
diseases, are usually in pure cultures.
When the disease has not progressed
far it may be checked by thoroughly
cleaning the plants of all diseased
leaves and stems and burning what is
removed; then Swinging the plants
W:tA solution of commercial formal.
dehyde, 1 part to 500 parts of water.
This should be done in the forenoon,
so that the plants may dry before
night. Syringe occasionally with water
under pressure to keep down the red
spider.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07
The Fat Dairy Cow.

The mich COW that is fat, when she
is giving milk, is either not being fed
right or she has not the proper char.
acteristics for first-class mich cow.
If she fattens on any kind of food,
then she is more of beef than dairy
animal. But it frequently happens
that excellent COWS fatten when fed
on foods of certain kind. It is not
necessary that such foods be espe.
cially rich in carbohydrates. Some
Qt them seem merely to stimulate the
fat forming proclivities. The Durham
COWS and there are good many ex.
cellent mixers among them, are per.
haps the ones that fatten most quick.
ly when in milk. The writer once had
one of this breed that proved a most
remarkable milk producer, both as to
quantity and quality of milk. She
was also a continuous mixer and
could never be dried up on common
feed. But once, in the midst of her
lactation period, she was given a
large amount OF pumpkins morning
and night. She began at once to lay
on fat at a most astonishing rate, and
to drop in the milk yield in the same
proportion as she laid on fat. It was
the only time in her career when she
showed any signs of drying up. The
pumpkins were discontinued and the
milk supply began at once to increase
again, and the fat on her sides to dis
appear. The remarkable thing about
it was that she was always highly
fed on middlings, starch-feed, corn
stalks and the like, but all of these
were changed into milk and not into
fat.
Therefore the individuality of the
COW must be taken into consideration
It is not always true, as has beer
claimed by some, that a COW with 6
disposition to fatten proves herself O,
no value for the dairy. We art
brought more and more to realize thu
fact that every cow must be Judged
as an individual rather than as one O.
a general class. There is therefore ,
perpetual demand for the use of mill
scales and milk testers.
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into the bottom. Inside of this bon
flts the square box (A.A) shown ii the
two illustrations. The inner box Il
made with slipping bottom entirely
covered with timed steel wire cloth,
16 meshes to the inch. The slope
makes It much more effective as q
stratner than II set fiat. Copper wire
or copper vessels Of any kind can.
not be used about this wash, as II
quickly destroys them. u ~ ..-
Next week we will discuss the an
plication Of the wash.-Farmers' Re
view.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07
Plants Poisonous to Stock,

The government of the United
States has done good thing in send
ing inspectors into the western coun
try to hunt for the plants that have
proved so poisonous to stock. There
is foolish idea existing among one
class Of our agriculturists ITO the eff
feet that animal instinct is so perfect
that the range animal can be depend.
ed upon to refuse the plant that would
be injurious. The belief is not found
ed on fact, for thousands Of domestic
animals every year perish by means
OF the poisonous plants they eat
This is especially the case when the
ranges get short, and in winter wheu
only the tops of certain poisonous
plants have appeared above the snow
thousands of sheep have died from 8
single flock.
On the eastern farms there is some
need of this work, but the demanl is
not so great as it is in the West. On
the farms that are fenced, and where
the raising of animals is carried or
under intensive conditions, SO much
feed is fed from the barn that in times
of scarcity the animals are not in
duced to eat great quantities of the
poisonous plants. In most cases thu
plants are only mildly poisonous and
eating them will not prove fatal to the
animal provided they do not form toe
great a proportion Of the food eaten
This is true of such plants as ''horse
TAIL" and is equally true Of the leaves
of the wild, cherry, which are some
times eaten by cows with fatal re-
suits.
It has been no light task for the
government to obtain reliable data,
and indeed this is only now in process
of being done. Although stockme1
had known for long time that Ger
tain plants were poisonous, yet moth.
ing had been done in a scientific way
to find just how poisonous the plants
were or to find antidotes for them. In
fact, in a good many cases the treat.
ments used were harmful rather than
curative, For instance, in certain
cases of poisoning it was said that
the animal must be made to exercise
vigorously. This proved to be the
opposite Of the truth. absolute rest
being needed to assist the curative
processes. It is evident that the sub.
iect is one requiring the best thought
|Sof our most competent rinartans.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07
A New Use for Cement.

Marbled slabs of colored cement, for
use as table tops, etc., are made by
pouring the tinted cement in proper
proportions on plates of highly pol
ished mirror glass, and then scrring
the mass until it begins to solidify.
When completely dried and hardened
it is removed from the glass plate.
The surface which has been in contact
with the glass is already finished with
a surface which looks as If it had
been polished, and this finish car be
improved upon by brushing the slab
with q diluted solution Of potassium
silicate. 5s=3
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1ARN FOR IL PussFosks
Stalls for Horses and Cattle, Feed
4! Rooms and Root Cellar. ;3:ssss

Stalls for Horses and Cattle, Feed
Rooms and Root Cellar. ..s5s
J. d. have a barn 80 by ~ feet.
with II It. drive floor In the center
I wish to put another now on the
west end, about 10 or Is It. wide, and
raise 1t up and put wall under the
whole. Kindly publish ground floor
plan for such barn to hold about II
head Of cattle and three horses; also
root cellar, with as many box stalls
as convenient.
The plan shown provides four box
stalls, eighteen cow stalls, three horse
stalls, harness room, and root house,
besides the feed rooms. II there are
too many cow stalls, the single and
double stalls on each row of cattle
can be made into two box stalls, leav-
ing a passage of three feet between
them to get into the COW stable. The
bent on the side of the drive way
comes directly over passage behind
the cattle and to avoid having the
posts in passage way they are put on
each side of the gutter behind cattle
with cap of IL by IL inch timber on
each and the sill rests on this cap
In my experience in building base
ment barns, root houses should be-
outside Of the basement, or be par
titioned off with a stone or concrete
wall. A root house built under tho
drive way makes a perfect cellar as
the roots are always fresh and firm
and do not wither. would advise
building the root house under the
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. Rabbits do not require much a

1. Rabbits do not require much at.
tention. They should have dry, COM
kept clean and well supplied with
straw, more especially in the winter
season. 1t is the nature of rabbits to
burrow, and they should be provided
with deep box in corner Of their
pen, filed with straw in winter, and
they should have an earth floor in
summer for burrowing in. 2. The
food should consist of hay, oats, bran
and vegetables such as turnips, cab.
bage, carrots, etc. Fresh vegetables
should be given at least twice daily
in order to supply moisture.