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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30
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An Enulishman,s Invention.

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What can make a building look
more unsightly than a lot of faded,
Torn and ragged awnings, Tapping In
the wind and adjusted at every angle
from vertical to horizontal? Those
half or wholly raised form pockets
tor the Judgment of snow or rain,
with which to deluge some unsuspect-
ing passerby the next time the shade
is lowered, and even when folded as
closely as possible against the win
dow frame they present a rumpled
and unpleasing appearance. OF course.
whlle the awnings are new, they add
much to the appearance of the build
ing during the few hours they are in
actual use, but they cannot be main
tanned in That position, as the occu-
pants of the rooms cannot do without
the tight the shades prevent from en-
tering. 1t has taken an English in
ventOr to supply an Improvement over
the old form Of awning, as shown in
the Illustration. Instead of attaching
the upper edge of the awning to the
window casing by tacks or otherwise,
this awning is mounted on spring
roller, which lies back of the face
board of the frame in a horizontal
recess or pocket formed for the pur-
pose. It will be noticed that the face
board of the pocket is secured to the
outer end of the awning and to the
swinging rods which maintain the
awning at an angle with the window
frame. When the awning is in use
as protection from the suns rays,
the face board is lowered with it, and
the canvas unrolls from the roller in
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

dining room, third is devoted to rec
reation, and the rest are dormitories.
The furnishings are not only scien-
tific but dainty as well, white being
the prevailing color. Over the can
vas tops. and sides is stretched wat
erproof khaki. Instead of glass win
dows there are wire screenings, let
ting in plenty of air and at the same
time keeping out all insect life. The
doors are of glass. Over the platform
canvas and khaki are stretched, so
that the little patients may have their
outings even on rainy days. The very
delicate will be carried or wheeled
about.
All sorts of ingenious things have
been done in the way of ventilation,
SO that as one sits in a tent he feels
as if he were in the open air, though
there is 10 draught and no shock
from sun or wind. In front of the
nest Of tents and nearer the roadway
are others devoted to medicinal work
The association has felt the need
of such sanitarium for some time,
as it's staff has been unable to treat
in their other homes the many chill
dren suffering from the disease Tu-
berculOsis has been one of the great
est hindrances to the labors of the
summer colony. It is the terror of
the tenements-a monster the doctors
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30
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PLAN FOR WOODEN BARN.

Now, Driveway and Cow Stalls All on
{: ~" The Same Floor. ,@-.@ ~.
w. H. B.-Please publish particu.a
lars of, barn 4Ox60 feet, with COW
stalls on the same floor as the NOW
and driveway. I have plenty of tam
arack, elm and pines and shall build
entirely Of wood.
The plan shown provides an 1S-foot
NOW, driveway of IL feet and two
bents of Is feet each, in all 60 feet.
The 15foot bent comes directly over
the passage behind the cattle. In
order 70 avoid placing posts in its
passage way, they are placed on the
side of each gutter opposite each
other, and a 12x12 in timber, spans
from one to the other and the sill
rests on it. The dimensions of the
stable and stalls are given in the
plan. The 18-foot NOW can be con-
verted into a horse stable and gran
airy, If desired.
II you have plenty OF timber on
your farm, why not frame your posts
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

A tent hospital for tuberculous chill
dren has been opened at Sea Breeze,
Coney Island, New York. 1t is under
the management Of the Association
for Improving the Condition of the
Aoor, being a part of their summer
colony of homes. Tt is the first hos
pftal in America to he maintained in
winter as well as in summer for the
exclusive purpose of seaside treat
ment of the non-pulmonary forms OF
the disease, such as scrOfula and tu-
berculosis OF the bones, joints and
lymph 1obes.
It has been shown in France, Eng
land and other countries that this Pc
culiar form of tuberculosis can be
cured by sea air. In France, where
there are the most successful tent
hospitals, girls and boys suffering
from tuberculosis are kept as near
the water as possible, some living on
ships anchored out at sea, while in
other cases ambulances are employed
to carry the children to the ocean
edge every day.
The tent hospital, though the idea
OF scientific men, is partially the out
growth of the intuition of nurses. A
large number of tuberculous children
have been coming to the Sea Breeze
colony every year, and the effect of
the salt air upon them so impressed
the attendants that they recommend
ed an ocean hospital, to be kept open
the year around. Some $4,000 was
appropriated in February and the
work started. Other help has been
given, and the sanitarium is now CON-
pleted. The institution is not an ex-
act copy Of any European beach hos
pital, but represents the best ideas
of all sanitariums of it's type
The camps are as picturesque as
they are useful. Built on a gigantic
octagonal plan, the ocean home seems
a veritable nest Of tents. Each Sep
arate one rises from a point of the
central platform, and is devoted to
special purpose. The platform is
generous and comfortable, and encir-
Giles an open space of sand. The
whole is just above high water mark.
One tent is the Office, another the
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30
The Power of Science.

In the Popular Science Monthly
President Jordan of Stanford univer-
sity says: In mechanics we know
that the force of moving body is not
measured by the substance. It's mo-
mentum or effective power is found
in it's weight multiplied by it's speed.
This illustration has been used in
praise of American science. The
power of science lies not in individual
erudition. It lies in it's striking power.
American science is dynamic; it is al
ways under way. In every branch Of
science the best American workers
have been those most strenuous in
their personal efforts, most eager to
make their own work useful to the
world at large. In almost every
branch of unitarian science America
already stands in the lead. This fact
England has already recognized with
dignified dismay. We hear much of it.
now; we shall hear more of it still
later, for quite as remarkable as the
growth of American science is the ad-
vance Of American schools. Whenever
visit department of applied science in
America l see that it has doubled it's
power, it's staff and it's equipments
since the time of my last visit. My
visits are not very frequent, perhaps
once in five or ten years, let us say,
but what will be the end of it? To
double once in fifty years is a rare
thing in the universities of the old
world, but even that in few centuries
would accomplish wonders"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30
The Liuht Over There

Forevermore when Sorrow came thornv
crowned an gray
When the black storms hid the haavonc
an the light along the way,
We hear him singing-s1nging in valleys
of despair:
1.-THE. bells-the bells are ringine-the
light is over there!'' ~''e
The deep voiced Dark walled round NC
and not star injured:
Like a LOST soul sent from heaven back
But still that singing-singIne sweet &C
Love thrilled prayer
'The, beils-the bells are ringing-the
light is over there!''
And the weary world low list'ning took
heart and courage strong,
And best him for that ray Of light tina,
gl1mmered in his song
And an echo to his singing came from
1.-THE bells-the bells are ringing-ths
light is over there!'
Frank l.. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitu-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30
Preserving Ancient Costume

The ancient Roman amphitheater of
Aries recently witnessed a strange
festival, quite Provencal and half Pa.
gan. Mistral, the poet OF the Pro-
vence, lamenting the gradual disap-
pearance of the picturesque feminine
costume of the region before irresist-
ible paris fashions,' has succeeded
in organizing a provincial movement
for its preservation. This was pub.
l1cly launched at "maidens' festi.
VAL" in which Mistral himself, as
Emperor of Provence" publicly EN-.
braced every Provencal maid who
having completed eighteen years, had
first signed a wow" never to discard
the traditional dress of her ancestors
Tor new-fangled notions from the cap.
ita1.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30
Is Deserving Of Monument.

1t is proposed to erect a monument
at Washington to the memory of the
late Major Walter Reed, U. S. a.,
whose labors demonstrated that yellow
fever is transmitted by mosquitoes
and who died in Cuba of the disease
while conducting his investigation. It
is said that Major Reeds discovery
made it possible to stamp out the
disease in Havana.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

and workers are always at war with.
DR.. Herman Biggs Of the health de-
partment estimates that some 5000
or 1000 children under fifteen years
of age suffer from it.
I'm our work at the seaside home,"
said William H. Allen, general agent
of the association, 1--WE are confront
ed with it on every side. Last sea-
son we fought it in many ways. We
raised $1,000 to relieve families where
there were bad cases. An item was to
present beds so that members of the
household suffering from it would not
we to slecp with well ones. Quar-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

tive action of a large mass of matter
contracting by its own gravitation,
have led Prof. Bigelow to the hypo-
thesis that the single fiery envelope
conceals two disks" series of OBJ.
servations extending over many
years on the period of solar rotation at
various points in the surface shows
that the same meridian of the sun
is seen twice in a single rotation of
the entire mass, first as the Eastern
limb, and second, thirteen days later.
as the Western limb" Therefore the
sun has a dumb-bell figure of rota-
ton.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30
At Play.

try to cure the little patients who
have been carried through the winter
by our workers. We will then take
in convalescents from other sources
who would in the general run of
things have to go back to sweltering
tenements and perhaps undo all the
good they had received at the SAM
tariums.
t'The tent hospital is the climax of
our fresh air work for tenement chill
dren. In the tents they will practical
1y be living outdoors. There is very
little hope of recovery for a tubercu-
lous child who is obliged to sleep in
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

Sometimes this is difficult, families
are so large. Our experience proves
that there is no danger Of race sui
eide among these people. Families
graw larger instead of smaller, if we
are to believe figures. Six children
is the usual number, eight no novelty,
and ten general"
Teaching the children how to play
is one of the pleasant tasks of the
kindergartners. + Many tenement
child knows nothing Of amusement.
Sand games are perhaps liked best,
and the youngsters are very original.
,subways, elevated roads, stores fire
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30
Bridae Over the Zarhesi.

A huge one-span arched steel bridge
which is to carry the Cape to Cairo
railroad across the waters of the Fam
besi river, just below the Victoria
falls, will shortly be swung into posi-
ton. This bridge will be the highest
in the world, with main span of 500
feet. The materials used in the con-
struction Of Z the bridge are to- be
transported from one bank to the
other across the gorge By an electric
s!bleWay. ~! s BY ". sss:; s*.'} @ :: s
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30
Hospital For the Treatment
J of Pulmonary Diseases Es-
tablist,ed on the Sea- Shore
Has Been of lncalculable
Benefit in Short Time.

tiers we're changed from darkened
places to those where there was
plenty of sun. We furnished wooden
clothing and nourishing food and in
creased the heating arrangements In
one branch Of the work we added a
corps of disinfectors to our staff.
These trained visitors went directly
to the homes of diseased children,
cleaned every room, disinfected all
furniture and clothing, and gave lit
tie talks to members of the family
on how to prevent the spread of the
disease.
"Our tent hospital will first of all
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

Not unnaturally there was a tremen-
dous crowd in Paris to watch the pas
sage through the streets of l78 kegs
of gold coin, valued at $9,000,000, a
part payment for the Panama canal.
Fortunately for everybody, none of
the kegs burst. 49,. ~ T. r.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

France knows that some of her mil
itary secrets have been sold, but she
does not know who sold them. We
hope she will get the right man this
time and treat him as she treated the
wrong one before.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

There's something significant in the
keeping a pile of old love letters they
have generally been written by some
one she didn't marry.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30
Oats as a Cover Crop.


S. W. ST. wish to SOW oats in my
orchard following a hoed crop. Would
such crop be injurious to young
trees?
I do not think that the oat plant
makes an ideal orchard cover crop.
Nevertheless, it is very much better
than no cover crop. The fact that
you are to grow a hoed crop in your
orchard during the fore part of the
season increases the possibility of in.
jury from the using Of cats in the lat
ter part. If you can get a good catch
of crimson clover and can SOW this be-
tween the rows Of your hoed crop,
should use it in preference to oats.
If this is not feasible, then sow oats
and peas, but would take care 10 use
fertilizer with the spring crop.
While it is true that the oat crop will
not be harvested yet the cereals draw
so heavily on the moisture of the soil
that, should the season be dry, it
might prove a dangerous competitor
for the young fruit trees. This is
system of double cropping and should
be conducted with caution.-J. G.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30
Alfalfa With Timothy,


r. AIN seeding down a piece Of
land for hay how would it answer to
add a little alfalfa to the timothy and
red clover mixture?
Alfalfa is not we'll suited to con.
ditions and treatment suitable fol
timothy and red clover. By the time
alfalfa is ready to cut for hay, timothy
and red clover are not sufficiently ad.
vanced for a full yield, and if the al
falfa is allowed to stand until the
other crops are ready for cutting the
alfalfa stalks will have become tough
woody and indigestible and will have
lost many of their leaves which are
the best part of the fodder Again, al
falfa should be cut three or TOUR times
in a year, while timothy and red
clover will produce only two crops a:
most. Some farmers mix in a little
alfalfa seed with permanent pasture
mixtures, but for hay this plant doet
not go we'll with red clover and TIM
othy.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30
Turning Turtle.

The old salts are laughing at Sena.
tor Hale's remark about battleships
turning over like turtle. What he
meant to say was turning turtle-a
very different thing from turning over
like a. turtle, inasmuch as turtles do
not turn over. When a vessel turns
turtle it turns over and resembles q
turtle right side up. II. =:#. /. En-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30
Ground Floor Plan of Barn.

"a or 26 feet long and make base
ment of eight feet under the barn?
This will give you a more handy
barn, with more room. All the extra
cost would be the extra length Of
posts, weather boards, girts and floor,
and the same roof answers for both.
To have the stables warm, there
wall one foot above ground .,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

There are only one war and six
revolutions in progress in South Ameri-
ca. This condition Of South American
peace is becoming frightfully monoto-
nous
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

As the summer approaches scien-
lists will, of course, offer the custom
ary reminders that kissing and ice
water are dangerous. It is safe to
say that ice water will nevertheless
receive appreciative attention as
usual
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

According to her memoirs, Sara
Bernhard was, from her earliest
youth, inclined to be giddy. She says
that when mere tot she fell into the
fire and twas rescued, smoking."
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

The Baltimore Sun wants to know
if 1.-The Russian type has changed"
Some Of those Russian names have
certainly played havoc with the types
In this country.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30
Rolls Into the Window Casing.

the pocket; but upon returning the
awning to it's pocket, the facing fol-
lows and, closes the opening in such
a manner as to completely hide the
shade from view. The improved ap-
pearance of building thus equipped
is at once obvious.
The inventor is Stephen Prebble of
Brixton, England.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

A Chicago packing firm has been
pronounced not guilty of killing man
who ate a mince pie. Everybody must
distinctly understand that he eats
mince pie at his own risk.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

BY a curious blunder some Stats
tician has listed William Waldorf AS
tor among the wealthiest ten "Ameri-
cam milliOnaires.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

It has not been decided yet whether
the New Jersey girl who killed her
self because she didn't have a big
wedding shall have big funeral.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

It appears that Lillian Russell has
for some time past been drawing ST.
200 per- No wonder that the airy,
fairy Lillian finds it so easy to get
married.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

Less tn an half Of the Russian popu~
lation can read and write. But think
of the technical difficulties to he over
come in learning Russian.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

The Panama hat rim is not quite so
rakish and flabbergasted this season.
This will help to relieve the outlook
considerably.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30
Status Of the Sun.

'The sun should be regarded as an
incipient binary STAR" says Prof.
Bigelow in the Weather Review. Re-
cent scientific work in investigating
the circulation of the solar atmos-
phere in accordance with the laws
governing the connective and radia,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

A Chicago man, who has been ar
rested for bigamy, claims that it was
all a mistake. A similar opinion has
sometimes been expressed of the
common, single barreled kind of mar
riage.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

The Tibetans will be operated upon
SO neatly and skillfully for the re-
moval of their administrative entity
that they will not miss it until they
try to walk alone.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

General Ma is reported to be in
narrow straits. He'll fool around un-
til he breaks a corset string ii he
doesn't watch out.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

No less than six New York theaters
have had to close. It's something new
for some 'theaters to be long on
"clothes."
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

A recent novel is supplied with q
|%key." If it's like some OF them, it
should be kept under lock and key.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30
Plant Lice on Oxalis,

Plant Lice on Oxalis.
W. ]. Ban oxalis is infested with
small, green insects; please tell me
what; to do for it.
Your oxalis is infested with aphis
or plant lice. These may be DESTROYED.
by sprinkling the plant with tobacco
dust or by fumigating the rlant with
tobacco smoke. If the insects are not
very numerous you may wash them
of, use soap suds first and then wash
with clear water. Oxalis grows very
rapidly and It might be well for You
to cut OF all infested leaves ard
stems, allowing the plant to make .
new. clean growth s=5 t s 3 j i'd. . So.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

One trouble about dealing with
snobs is that the worst specimens Of
the tribe are usually the least con-
scious of their snobbery.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

When a woman asks man how
much he loves her, she isn't asking
for information. And she expects him
to answer in superlatives.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

A Chinese reformer has just been
sentenced for life. Over here we
would have just let him run for office
and been done with it.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

AS President Thomas says, ''anthra-
cite is luxury" 1t will come in gilt
wrappers SOON.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

A lady writes to ask what she should
wear at the fair. Well, for one thing,
she should wear a bouffant pocletbook
with a long, green lining.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

The Japs are said to be using ''hu-
name" bullets. This is one of the few
humors of "civilized warfare.''
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

1.-The report lacks confirmation" is
now at the front with regret to re-
port" and heavy firing was heard
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

It wouldn't be surprising to see Col.
Younghusband sending back pretty
soOn tor reinfOrcements.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

The new green apple shade for
summer gowns must be in the way of
q delicate tribute to the small boy.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

potatoes?
There are two more or less stand:
ard remedies for the prevention of po-
tato scab: ID Soak uncut seed pota-
toes in a solution of one ounce of cor.
rosive sublimate in eight gallons OF
water; (2) soak cut or uncut seed po-
tatoes in a solution of one pound of
formalin in fifteen gallons of water.
These solutions are about equally eff.
fective, and ones choice will depend
upon the ease with which they can
be procured. Formalin has the ad-
vantage of not being violent poison
like the corrosive sublimate.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30

y What's all this talk about ''the SUI
perfuous woman! There's NO such
thing.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-07-30
Potato Scab.

A. S.-What will prevent scab Or
potatoes?