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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-04-09
A Novel Museum.

In some European cities, notably
Amsterdam and Charlottenburg. a
suburb Of Berlin. there are museums
for prevention of accidents to work
men and for advancing the cause of
hygiene in industrial centers.
So useful and beneficial to the work
ing classes have these museums
proved to be that the idea is to be
initiated in Paris by an annex to the
Conseryatoire des Arts ct Meters.
Nothing Of gruesome nature is to be
exhibited, but illustrations and mod
els of life-saving apparatus, under all
conditions, will be shown.
Models Of various kinds of ma
chinery known to be perilous to work.
men will be seen in full working order,
together with the means of protecting
oneself from dangerous contact with
moving wheels, cogs, flies, knives and
belts
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-04-09

Turkey has set for itself a sissy
phean task-to remain in Europe as
al independent power. To-day insur-
cection springs up on every hand. Bull
saria is itching tor war Macedonia is
already inflamed with rebellion. Ser
via and Montenegro only await the
word to join in. The much-massacred
Armenians are thristing for "a chance
to avenge the thousands of their kin
dred who have already been butch
cred
Greece, Roumania, would doubtless
Join in-both have old scores to settle.
With Russia and Austria at once mix
cd up in the fray. Italy, France and
Germany might see their way clear to
take hand, and even far away Eng
land, once friendly to the Turk, might
join issue.
Turkey occupies peculiar place in
Europe. 1t is really more Oriental
than Occidental. Yet it holds many
OF the keys to all Europe. Russia finds
itself blocked for free passage to the
Mediterranean. Austrias frontiers are
much harassed. The little European
kingdoms resent the Sultan's domi-
reaItRg uu-aSfs~r "a -~ c:>----=--
To the average European the Bal
kan question is the gravest of all those
political problems which are con-
tinually besetting Europe and it's
closely gathered monarchies. The
expulsion OF the Turk has been in
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-04-09
SULTAN AND HIS PLAYERS.

Actors Have Military Organization and
Are Subject to Immediate Call.
The sultan of Turkey has MS own
way OF taking his theatrical pleasures.
An account OF the performances given
before him was recently made public
by one who was long attached to the
palace staff, and it reads like ~Ae 'ex-
aggerations of a comic opera librettist.
The power that controls all these
performances is Arturo Stravolo,
known simply as Arturo, who came
from Naples some years ago and set.
tied with his father, mother, sisters
and brothers and sisters-in-law. in Con
stantinople. He was formerly dia-
lect comedian in Naples.
He is prime favorite with the sui
tan. The other actors are called to
the palace to perform MOI oftener than
once a month. Arturo acts at least
weekly. !, j., >..r. T.. ays-s;.s -. 5.
. AS the sultan is very fond Of variety
and will rarely consent to witness the
same performance twice, it, is nee;es' nee;ess
.sary to provide constant chang 60
do this one Of 5te straYolos IS always
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-04-09
READY WIT WON VICTORY.

How Ambassador Leishman Got Out Of
Tight Place.
J. G. A. .Leisnman, the American
ambassador to Turkey, is now mil
lfonaire, but in childhood he was an
inmate of an orphan asylum in Pitts
burg
1t was Mr.. Leichman's ready wit and
pluck, joined to industry, that caused
him to rise in life. There is story of
his youth that exemplifies his power of
making the best of an awkward situa-
ton.
He was driving along narrow coun-
try road. Suddenly he saw another
team approaching from the opposite
direction. For MIR. Leishman to turn
out would have meant the sinking of
his carriage to the hubs in the mud of
a ditch, but the other team could have
turned out without inconvenience:
The driver of the other rig, however,
showed no desire to turn out. He was
a fat man, and he and Mr.. Leishman
Of their horses touched. Each, it was
plain, was determined not to turn out.
They stopped. face to face, and for e
while glared at each other in silence.
Finally the fat man lighted a cigar,
crossed his legs, and began to puff
comfortably away. Mr.. Leishman took
out pipe and smoked in turn.
Then the fat man took a newspaper
from under the seat and began to read.
Evidently Mr. Leishman reasoned, this
was to be a contest of patient waiting
>and at patient waiting he was not
good) or else it was to be contest
that would be decided by a coup OF
some sort. To accomplish coup he
| made up his mind to break the silence
and between puffs he said:
When you're through with that pa
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-04-09

A baby serves a manifold purpose
in the world. He makes men and
women more unselfish and furnishes
the amount of trouble necessary to
Keep them comfortably busy He sane
-iitea ~home and gives the. doctor an
excuse to look wise A we1lordered
well-born baby with a red face and
bald head is a. delight, particularly
when he belongs to friend, and
doesn't spend nights in your neigh
borhood
Every baby is the prettiest baby in
the world, and it can be proven by
his mother A baby that won't eat
carpet tacks, brass-headed nails and
young kittens is a mistake. Babies
are bosses and boodlers. They con-
troll the first ward, along with the
twelfth, rule outrageously over the
counties and take everything that
comes their way without asking any
Que~tions. All babies are supposed,
quite properly, to come from heaven,
but what the angels, cherubim, sera-
phim and the rest of the celestial
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-04-09
Spanked the Young Bride.

Has father the right to spank his
married daughter, even though she is
but Is and he does not know that she
is married? and would the fact of his
knowing it make any difference in his
right to inf1ict corporal punishment?
These are the questions at present
interesting the people of Nicholson in
Wyoming county, Pa, and the court
has been called upon to decide them.
Briefly, the facts are these:
Margaret Matilda Smith, aged Is,
and Albert Ellis Cisco ran away from
Nicholson on Sept. IA, went to Wash
ington, N. j.; and there were mar
ried by a justice of the peace. They
returned home that evening"
A few days. later the girls father
learned that she had gone away with
out her mothers consent. He did not
know that she had been married. He
was angry, and he did as he had done
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-04-09
9be Git ot Cab ) |''j|'.

The corporation lawyer and the
conspicuous financier were waiting for
the board Of directors to assemble.
From the Broadway pavement far be-
low the Office. window floated frag-
ments of the monologue of toy ia
kir."
The lawyer said to his friend:
That reminds me of the days in
my teens, when got a job driving
the wagon Of a medicine fakir in a
circuit of the small towns of Ohio.
The doctor had a wonderful har-
angue, and listened to it several
times a day for three months, until
1t became riveted: in my memory to
this day. His finest effort went like
this:
In the year OF our Lord one ,thous~
and eight hundred and fifty.four, an
English nobleman and member of par.
'lamept, Sir Richard Seymour Planta.
genet, was travelling In India, casting
his lordly eye over the vast domains
OF his sovereign queen. While hunt.
ing the mighty three-tusked elephant
OF the Ramapootra river, in company
with The Rajah OF Calcutta, he was
bitten by cobra de capello, the dead,
hest serpent known to man, ladies
and gentlemen, whose bite is fatal in
the space of one-half hour by the
clock.
Sir Richard wrote his will on the
leaf of the papyrus plant and said
farewell to his weeping friends, when
a native staggered up, torn and bleed.
ing from the thorns of the jungle,
bringing bundle of leaves of the
ori-bori plant, whose secret had been
cont1ded to him by the Grand Llama
of Thibet.
He bound the leaves on the
wounded ankle of Sir Richard, ladies
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-04-09

and gents, and In Que hour the snobler
man was again in full pursuit OF the
savage, three-tusked elephant of the
Ganges. The secret of the ori-bori
plant was brought to England in this
way, and eminent physicians found
that rs wonderful healing powers
were able to kill any poison whatso-
ever in the blood
If you have coughs, colds, con-
sumption. rheumatism, neuralgia or
boils, the marvellous Ori-Bori Tonic
will attack the seats of disease with
out mercy 1t is the cheapest and
most wonderful medicine known to
man. A teaspoonful in a pint of boil
ing water and wireglass after every
meal. All, what is this? Here is this
bright:eyed young man, who says he
was SO lame three weeks ago that he
could not work, the sole support of
his aged mother He happened to
buy one bottle of the Ori-Bori Tonic
and comes to buy another bottle for
his mother, who is in bed with pleu.
risy: He is the picture Of health and
it touches my heart to see such filial
devotion. Thanks, young man, only
SO cents, the half of one dollar. Here
is your change. Remember this is
your last chance to buy health and
happiness for yourself and family
when the crowd was wrung dry
said the corporation lawyer, as two
directors entered the room, the doc
tor used to turn to me and soften his
trumpet tones to remark: Well, Will.
lam, w@ must get back to the tent
and mix some syrup and water for
an early start tomorrow. And we're
pretty near out of coloring extract.
And cont you forget to remind me
to order another gross of bottles. -
New York Times
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-04-09

in the days when she was younger
He turned her over his knee and
spanked her soundly.
Now this is sufficiently humiliating
to single girl: and what must it be
to wife? The bride of a few days
ran weeping to her husband for con.
ISOLATION.
He was properly and sufficiently an
CRY, and swore out warrant charging
the father with assault and battery
upon his wife. Then for the first time
became known to the parents the fact
that the two were married.
Two sides have been formed in the
village. The young people say that
the spanking was an outrage and
that no father has the right to inflict
such punishment upon a girl. Old
married people, on the other hand, say
that the young man should have been
spanked as we'll as the girl.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-04-09

mind to them ever since 1856. when
the Ottoman forces first crossed the
Dardanelles from Asia Minor.
At that time Europe was easy for a
sollnlfled enemy. 1t was split up into
many turbulent and contentious
states. Servia was conquered in 1889
In another year Bulgaria was added to
the Turkish dominions, and in 1896
Greece was overrun and nut to the
sword. Only a remnant Of the onca
great Byzantine empire remained
This held out for more than half a
century against the Ottoman horde
hut in 1853 Constantinople capitulat-
ed, and with it fell the last OF the
great empire which had lasted nearly
1,OJU years.
Solyman H., the Magnificent and
the Law-Giver," greatly extended the
rule of Islam during his splendid
reign. He AIDED Hungary to his en-
pre- and drove the knights of Sir
John from the island of Rhodes. It.
looked as if the Turk would finally
have all Europe at his feet.
In 1929 the Ottoman army laid siege
10 Vienna. This failed. But all the
while the Turks were extending their
domain. Solyman died in 1856. after
a reign OF forty-six years. The year
1852 marked the Turks high tide in
Enrope. Then came the beginning of
the end, which is not even yet.
A great army set out from Turkey
to subdue all Austria. 1t laid siege
to Vienna again in 1853. The cam
paign resulted in dire disaster. This
victory of the cross over the crescent
began the steady decline which is still
going on to-day, and now there are
those who predict that the century
will see the end of Ottoman rule in
Europe.
One by one the kingdoms wrested
their freedom from the grasping Turk.
Austria threw off the yoke Hun
gary came next. Russia took a slice
Of territory away. Greece gained in
dependence. Servia became SELF
governing. Other subservient prov
;nces gained autonomy. $sNow comes
The. final, struggle :ef all-rebellion
within Turkey itself. 49,. !" u !. /,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-04-09

for service, with no losses from death
or disease In reality the number
recruited each year. according to the
official reports, is not more than from
AA -nAn- 4e.AE ,Ann Ai>< -~>+l,<,--
W1ted $4,000 being exempted or found
unfit for military service.
The greatest number of troops for
European service would comprise 141
NiZam battalions, 9S,7O0 men; GO
Nizam cavalry squadrons. 5000 men:
165 field batteries. $50 guns. 1872 Redif
infantry battalions, 144,4O0 men; 4S
Redif cavalry squadrons. 2,400 men,
and $40 Haveh battalions, 100000
rifles, making in all 472.40O men as
the utmost fighting strength of the
Turkish army in Europe at present.
The Turkish army at the figure of
100000 men, regulars and irregulars,
comprising the greatest number avail
able for a European war. would de-
mand, for transport and all other de-
partmental services, from about 9O,-
900 to 100000 pack animals. necessi-
tating about 100000 men. drivers,
guards, etc.
The practical fighting strength Of
the army would therefore fall to the
figure of 100000 men, including the
garrison at Constantinople.
This estimate of 10000 to 100000
pack animals is below the regulation
figure, as, in case Of war, twenty-seven
infantry divisions are computed for
European service each division to
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-04-09
VICTIM OF LOVES WILES.
Elderly suitor Badly Treated by His
lnamorata.


Recently an elderly oil merchant,
who has for many years lived in Smyr-
ma, fell in love with beautiful young
girl of the same city and asked her
to marry him. She refused at first
but finally said that she Werld he
come his wife it before the ceremony
was performed he would present her
with the handsome house which he
owned in the center of the city. He
promised to do so. and stTaightway
the necessary deed was drawn up,
signed and handed to the covetons
damsel, the understanding being that
the marriage was to take place ON the
following morning.
That night the young lady slept in
the newly acquired house, and at the
hour appointed for the ceremony the
elderly suitor presented himself at the
door in his new wedding garments. In
stead, however, of receiving him as
a sweetheart should. the young lady
no sooner set eyes on him than She
rushed to the door and gave him,
with the aid CT a stalwart youth. with
whom she appeared to be son very
friendly terms, a drubbing. which was
SO severe that he was hardly able to
crawl away from the spot. %-. ~ ~:.l
After he mad disappeared the. faith:
less sweetheart and her companion.
!. .barricaded themselves in the house,
and though since then the disappoint-
& ed old merchant has formally demand
ed that his property be returned to-
him, no attention has been paid to-
him S . "
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-04-09
THE BOY IN CHURCH
THREE TYPICAL YOUNGsTERc
- y At THEIR "DEvoTIoNs." =
Incident Which Sedate Man Declares
Would Have Surprised King Solo
mon-"Nothing Doing" When the
Collection Plate Was Passed.

Solomon was a wise guy in his
day. said a churchgoer who occasion,
ally forgets himself in his talk and
runs in a word or expression faEoil-
lar to the street, "but he didn't know
it all about children. That break OF
his about training up a child in the
way he should 60 is an example OF his
lack of knowledge on the subject.
II wish Solomon had been in the.
gallery of a Fifth avenue church last
Sunday, so that he could have seen
the capers of three youngsters who
had been sent to church by their peo-.
pie. don't know where their people
were, but they had trained their boys:
to go to church, and each one had
some cents to put on the plate.
When l saw the three boys come
in and fill up a short pew became in
terested in them. I knew from OF
servation, to say nothing about my
recollections of my own youth, that
something would be doing in that
short pew before recessional.
lone of them had a paper covered
book. He fished it out of his hip
pocket. Then he put a wad of gum
where it made his cheeks look as il
he had swollen tooth, and getting
the gum under way he began on the
page that had dog ear such as only
boy knows how to make.
Il think he would have confined
:,
other boys had been more attentive
to the way in which their parents
thought they had been trained BIZ;
the other two began matching the
pennies which had been given them
for the offertory.
when one of them went broke in
the game he touched the boy with the
book and the gum for his pennies. He
put up several and lost.
"The winner at the end of the Few
was evidently a game sport. When
he had the other boys broke he sng
gested knives, and soon had two. =.
- "F,inr1 1s,:= 5, tA., hsy wit dogea reg
literature put up his book and lost
The winner wigwagged to- the loser
to put up his gum, Tut the loser drew
the line at that, and worked his jaws.
more vigorously than ever.
when the sermon was over and
the man who looks after the coiIec-'
tion in the, gallery passed the plate
to the short pew, the boy who had AZ
the capital was asleep; to be accNr,'
ate, he had his eyes closed. The ocy
who sat next kicked him on the shin
but the blow had no visible effect. }
never realized the force of the exprc:~
sion nothin' doin' as I did when saw
the face of the boy who was playing
possum when the plate was put oe-
fore him.
When the service was over and
the three boys left the church the tw,:
who had gone broke backed the win.
ner up against the side Of the churcb
and made him divvy. l walked away
wondering what those boys would s2y
when they went home.
Il had Intended to reprimand them
when they reached the street, but a
dim recollection broke upon me. II
was the similitude of dream of 9th
er days. And when I reached my
home and was asked the subject ci
the sermon I simply lied out Of it,
New York Sun.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-04-09
Turkeys s Failing

Turkey is gradually disappearing
IF the map of Europe. Inch by inch,
oot by foot, mile by mile, province by
province, the once proud empire of
he Ottomans is shrinking into itself.
Well may the trembling man of the
fildiz Kiosk fear for his throne. The
lay may come when he and the proud
Europe will finally crumble to dust.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-04-09

The Redif partly with Mauser and
Martini-Henry. The Ilaveh nearly en-
tirely with Martini Henry, some of
which were used in the war of 1873.
The artillery material are Krupp's S
German pattern. In regard to ammuni-
ton, there are supposed to be, all
counted, about 500 rounds per rifle
and 400 shots per gun.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-04-09

per Id like to look at it, if you don't
mind"
This remark caused the fat man to
laugh. He apologized to the other for
his churlishness, drew his carriage out
so that Mr.. Leishmans could pass.
and tho two parted good friends.-Bos-
ton Post
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-04-09
Thrifty Monarch.

The royal family of Sweden is a
thrifty one! It has a civil list of nearly
half million dollars from Norway and
Sweden, and in addition the king has
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-04-09

little more than $4,000 year from the
fund voted to King Carl XIV. and his
successors. At the same time his
majesty has palaces both in the city.
and country, in Sweden and Norway,
and and he e owns 'aIrs stock in many undertake,
ings.. 5.@ s=.. H 3s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-12
MRS. DIGGS HERE.
Attends Meeting of WOman's
Press Association.
Reception for Kansas RefOrmer
and Mrs. Morgan.
BOTH ARE BACK HOME.
Have Spent Considerable Time
in Europe.
BOTH ARE BACK HOME.
Annual Banquet of the AssOcia
tiOn Tonight.

About twenty-five visiting members
of the Kansas Woman's Press club are
in town for the fourteenth annual
meeting of the organization which is
being held at the Throop hotel to-
day. and between fifty and sixty
will have places at the banquet to-
night, which is the big event of the
meeting Mrs. w. A. Morgan, of Cot
tonwood Falls, president of the Press
club: Mrs. James NJ. Lewis, of Kins-
lev. president of the Kansas Social
Science federation and associate ed
itor of her husbands paper, the Kins-
lev Graphic; Mrs. Annie L. Diggs, who
arrived from years trip abroad only
last night; Mrs. Emma E. Forter, of
Marysville, and Mrs. NJ. H. Bishop,
editor of the Abilene Democrat. are
among the well known Kansas women
who are attending the meeting.
Mrs. Morgan and Mrs. D1ggS have
both been abroad since the last meet
ing of the Press club. Mrs Morgan
spent five months of last summer in
the British isles, Germany, Switzer-
land France and Austria with Mr..
Morgan They returned in November,
and this is her first visit to Topeka in
a year and affords many of her
friends among the newspaper women
of Kansas their first opportunity to
ing's business meeting of the Press
club resolved itself largely into an
informal reception for Mrs. DiggS q nd
Mrs Morgan, who are charter mem
bets of the club and always among
the faithful. Mrs. Diggs is looking
well after her year abroad, but is
glad to be back in Kansas and take
up her old interests here. Two of the
most important of these are the Pop
ulist party and the Press club, both
of which are holding meetings in To-
peka today, and to attend which
Mrs. Diggs timed her arrival home
Although a woman refOrmer is pop
ularly supposed to be above such
frivolities, Mrs. Diggs is always pref
lilly, becomingly and appropriately
gOwned. Today she is wearing a
simple blue wolfe over taffeta, made
in the prevailing fashion of full skirts,
trimmed with bands of taffeta and
faggoting.
The election of officers of the Press
club will be held late this afternoon,
following the programme which is
now being given. Mrs. Morgan, who
is just finishing her second term as
president of the organization, is be-
ing urged to accept another. Mrs.
Morgan saws three times is out -
for at least another year. Another of
the present officers sure of reelection
is Mrs. NJ. L. Rupe. of the Clyde
Herald, who has been the treasurer
of the club for years.
Mrs. John O. Royce, of the Phil
lipsburg Dispatch, who is the secre-
tary of the club is absent from the
annual meeting for the first time in
years. Her son broke his arm yes