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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25

est figures for the English we're 1884
in 1882. Ir 1854 215,009 Germans
came and in 1882 25O,63O. From 1866
to 1873 the German immigration aver
aged 100000 year. Last year it was
only 40,086. It's decline in the last
ten years has been marked. The in
coming italians last year reached
their highest figures, being 230,622.
They passed the 100000 mark. in
1900 and what numbers they may
attain can only be guessed at, for
the tide is running high and chiefly
from southern Italy and the islands.
Last year the Russian immigration
amounted to 136,O93, while from
Austria-Hungary there came 206,O11.
The immigration from the Scandina-
Wan peninsula and the northern parts
of Europe, which we have always con-
sidefed the most desirable, has SO
fallen off as to cease to be much of
factor in the comparisons
oils News. 49,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25

For many, many days together
The wind blew steady from the east;
For many days hot grew the weather,
About the time Of our Lady's feast
For many days we rode together,
Yet met we neither friend nor foe;
Hotter and clearer grew the weather,
Steadily did the east wind blow.
We saw the trees IN the hot, bright
weather,
Clear~cut, with shadows very black,
AS freely we rode on together
With helms unlaced and brides slack
And often as we rode together,
We, looking down the green banked
stream,
Saw flowers in the sunny weather.
And saw the bubble making Dream
And in the night lay down together
or watched sdo ne ed night-long. in the dewy
~ The. while the moon, did watch the wood.
Our spears stood bright and thick to-
Straight out the banners strear,ed be-
AS we galloped on in the sunny Gather.
With faces turned toward the wind
Down sank our three-score spears to-
gether,
AS thick we saw the >pagans ride:
His eager face in the clear fresh weather
Shone out that last time by my side.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25
Hard Task for Russia

provisions not heretofore made in any
country. Russian freight cars, like
those of other continental countries,
are all labeled with the number of
men and horses which may be put in
them in military service-usually 40
men or 10 horses. But what is pos
sible for a journey of 200 or 800 miles
in weather not much below freezing
may be quite impossible for one last
ing two weeks or more, with the ther-
mometer 40 or so degrees below zero.
The men must eat and sleep en- route.
To provide for. this, the cars used
for carrying soldiers we're lined with
felt or felt paper; little glass windows
we're set in the sides, and an iron
stove set up in each. The benches
were made so that they could be
transformed into hunks at night. At
every alternate station hot water was
provided for making tea. In nearly
every train one car was fitted as a
kitchen and supplied the men with hot
rations Of meat and porridge. Shov-
else we're carried, so that in case of a
snow blockade the men could dig the
train out. A surgeon and hospital
steward accompanied each train. At
several stations on the line camps
were established where the men rest
ed day, with facilities for washing,
etc., while the cars were inspected and
cleansed.-Railroad Gazette.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25

over the particular words he wished
the bird to initiate, until at last he
would be-. rewarded with Go to the
devil" or some such expression,
which apparently would cause him
much joy
AFTER Polly had been with us about
two months she seemed to have for
gotten all her early pious training.
She became thoroughly disreputable
in her language. Her choice of ex-
pressiOns when she was aroused fairly
distanced the proverbial trooper.
When the young woman returned
from her southern trip the first thing
she thought of was her beloved Polly,
and her coachman was directed to
drive to my quarters for the bird.
The coachman, after thanking me in
his employers name for the good
care I had taken of the parrot, took
Polly away, much to the regret of my
friends in college. Barely an hour had
elapsed, however, before he returned
to my rooms. The parrot cage hung
on his arm.
"The missus says you may keep
the bird. SIR he said"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25

which they are kept. They are as
clean as the day they we're completed,
some three or four years ago, notwith.
standing that they have been con.
stantly the home of half hundred or
more beagles of all ages. They are
under the superintendent of Joseph
Lewis, who has been among dogs all
his life.
Well heated with stoves and other
appliances, the dogs lack no comfort,
there being separate puppy quarters,
a hospital arranged in the most ap
proved way, while the medicine de.
partment would not disgrace the es:
tablishment of leading veterinary
surgeon. Even the dirt of the kennel
is destroyed by patent furnace.
All beagles of an age are exercised
and hunted every week day throughout
the season. With keen noses and
beautiful voices they make the
swamps about resound with their mu.
Sic
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25
Singing as a Profession

After years of hard, uphill struggle
and study a singer may be recognized
as successful. What is her reward? =?
The season is short, a few weeks of
fall festivities, week or two of Christ
mas concerts, and few weeks of spring
festivals, with sprinkling of indi-
vidual concerts between times, make
up the list of her opportunities, says a
prominent publication. When she OBJ
tains an engagement there is much
more preparation necessary than
rubbing up her knowledge of the work
to be given, and singing the rehearsal
often public--with the local chorus
the day or the afternoon before the
performance. She must watch for
draughts; a cold would disable her
completely. She must be constantly
careful of the atmosphere she
breathes.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25

She receives in compensation two,
three or four hundred dollars, from
which must be deducted many ex-
penses. There are probably not
dozen American concert and oratorio
singers who clear $4,000 a year from
singing, including $1,000 or $1,000
they receive from churches or syna~
gogues. A nd the study and work
they did at the start was only a be-
ginning of study and work they must
do all their lives. OF the rest, a few
make considerable amount of money
by being invited to wealthy private
houses, singing for people there and
receiving checks the next day for
their kindness. The vast majority
of the remainder exist on $25 and $50
concert work, or take to teaching, or
drift into comic opera, or in the end
weary of it all and do something else.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25

The Russians in carrying on war on
he Pacific coast, more than 1000
miles from their supplies Of men and
materials, all of which must be for
warded over one single-track railroad,
have a problem unique in the history
ct war, and their success or failure in
it deserves, and doubtless will receive,
the attention of all students in the art
Of war Before the completion of the
Siberian railroad, in the face of an
enemy as powerful as Japan is now,
for the moment superior at sea, it
could have made practically no de-
tense. Even if sufficient army could
have been placed in Manchuria, it
could not have been supplied.
Some two years ago, before war was
seriously thought of, it was determ.
ined to replace the 51-pound rails with
f5-pound rails west of Lake Baika1,
and otherwise to strengthen the road
the wide intervals between stations
which limited the number of trains
could be remedied by the laying OF
sidlngs and passing tracks within a
few weeks, if material is accessible
though not easily in a Siberian win.
ter; and the Russians have the con.
struction forces available which have
just built the great railroad. The
transportation of troops over SO long
a line in Siberian weather requires
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25
Knew Game of Politics

Clinton Scollard, the poet, narrated
the. other day an incident that does
not speak very we'll for modern poll
tics:
= IA friend of mine,'' said Mr.. Scol-
lard, "is the principal of city school.
He gathered the school children be-
fore him in the assembly room one
day last month, and he told them that
he wanted them to vote on a national
flower.
France has a nationah fower,' he
said. 1T is the lily. England's ma
tional flower is the rose, Japan's is the
chrysanthemum; but we've of this
great big land of America-have no
national flower at ALL, Little slips of
paper are to be handed about now, and
each of you is to vote for the flower
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25
Dogs Rich Mans Hobby

Very many wealthy men of the
United States go in great deal for
the pleasures that their hounds and
logs afford them, but perhaps no ken
nels are kept in better order than
those owned and built by William G.
Rockefeller, of Greenwich, Conn. On
lovely slope overlooking the sound
are located these excellent quarters
for the Rock Ridge beagles, for that's S
the breed that the secretary of the
Standard Oil Company admires, while
there are some American fox hounds
also in the kennels:
The Rock Ridge pack is made up of
English and American bred beagles,
large sums having been paid to Eng
(ish owners of hunting packs, notably
Mr.. T. Johnson, of Whitchurch, Shrop-
shire, a famous owner of 14-inch Stud
Book beagles.
What strikes the visitor most at
Rockefeller farm while going over the
kennels is the splendid condition in
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25
Made Change in Tune

This talk that has been going on
in the house about lynchings," said
Co.. Bill Sterrett, who drifted into
Washington from Texas, reminds me
of thing that happened down in my
state few years ago. Jim Hodges, a
local orator, was just coming into his
house when his boy rushed out and
yelled: Pop, they're goin' to lynch
a nigger over by the clearing!'
Jim jumped on his horse and rode
like mad for the scene: of trouble.
They had> the niger on a platform
and were just getting ready for the
final act when Jim burst into the
clearing and checked his foam-fecked
horse. 'Stop!' he yelled, with an i'm
perious wave of his hand.
"Everything came to a dead stop
and Jim, springing upon the platform
began a speech that promised to
break all oratorical records
MY friends, he cried, think what
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25

ly occupies a chair and eats off a
plate beside you at the table, so that
it is considered churlish if you do not
also stop and tell the dog "bon jour-
dozen times day, pausing to take
the paw which he is prettily taught to
extend to you.
When the washerwoman brings
home your linen there are at least
five minutes spent in tremendously
greeting and parting from her. In the
operation of receiving and paying for
linen you exchange "mercis" and par.
dons" not fewer than ten times Any
other serving person or tradesman
who comes to do business with you
throughout the day you similarly re.
ceive with "Bon jour, monsieur" and
eau revoir," and you thank him and
beg his pardon as often as you can
possibly get the words into the length
of his story.-Harper's Bazar.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25

you are about to do. To take the law
into your own hands will stain the
fair name of this country with an i'm
perishable bot. To the remotest limit
of time, so lCng as the memory of men
remains, the deed you are about to do
will cause your names to be remem-
bered by posterity with shuddering
shame
There was a restless movement
in the crowd at this point and some
body grOwled: Shoot the son of a
gun Half a dozen revolvers> were
covering Jim in half a second, but, lie
stopped the coming tragedy by yell
ing: But as was saying
THE revolvers were half lowered
and Jim went on: But, as was say
ing, my fellow citizens, if this deed
must be done, if it seems wise and
necessary, as no doubt it is, implore
you to proceed with it in an orderly
and decorous manner!' '"-Philadelphia
Ledger
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25
French a Polite: People

During the past summer, which
spent exclusively among French peo-
pie in hotel at Saint Germain, esti-
mated that I lost quite twenty-four
hours out of each week saying Good
morning. and Good evening" to the
men, women, little children and dogs
about me. If you encounter the same
person twenty-five times in the same
day you must each time smile raptur-
ously, pause, at least shake hands, if
you do not kiss, tremendously in
quire how he or she is "going' and
tremendously bid him or her "au re-
voir' at parting.
Not only every man and woman ex-
poets this, but all the little children
toddle up to you, shake hands, and ex-
act the same amount of ceremony
Then every well regulated French
family has a dog who more than like
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25
How Light Should Fall

1t is almost universally believed
that the best form of reading lamp is
one which, by means Of an effective
shade, concentrates the greater por-
tion of the light upon the reading mat
ter. Furthermore, the lamp is usually
one of the ''drop-light" sort, which
brings the flame near and below the
readers eyes. The result sought after
is, that much light be precipitated on
the page, and on the page only, while
the surrounding parts of the room
be weakly illuminated, even to
gloominess.
If this condition be obtained an
ideal state of affairs is presumed to
exist, and, at first, it looks very plaus-
ible, indeed, that it is usually accept
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25

ed as a positive fact not to be gain
said. But it must be refuted. The
custom, though Of long standing, and
of almost unquestioned correctness, is
a bad one, and doubly harmful be.
cause OF the strong hold it has upon
the public mind.
The best method of lighting artifi-
ficially when the source of light is a
bright one, is to place the light con.
siderably above the head, holding tie
reading matter in such a position as
to be illuminated as much by the re-
fected light from the surrounding
surfaces as from the direct rays from
the flame, thus creating an effect
more nearly resembling "daylight''
conditions.-Jewelers' Weekly Circu-
lar.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25
United States Navy.

Measured by fighting strength, in
stead Of BY tonnage, the American
navy is now really more formidable
than that OF Germany:.or France, and
therefore, ranks next to that Of Eng
land
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25

you think best suited for Americas
national emblem
The youngsters began to think
earnestly, and the paper slips were.
distributed. Back near the door, how
ever, little Italian boy was all this
time making a good deal of disturb
ance. He seemed to be arguing heat
edly with the boys around him-seem-
ed to be dissuading them from some
course or other.
my friend noticed the noise. He
called before him one of the Italian
boys neighbors, and he asked what
the trouble back there was.
Why was the answer, 'Pietro
doesn't want any of us to vote vet.
and he says he isn't going to vote yet
himself. He says people never vote
til they find out how much they are
10 be paid. : ~,
~~~~@@@~~@@~~~~
bank, ''there, is money in it for you.
Think of that Il ri: ri ! &
I have thought Of that. replied the
clerk. But what is a little money
compared to a good name ~ q. =ss@ Is
But you know it. is -- --'' ,{.. {s 49,
{ No more, = interrupted the clerk.
Once and for all let me tell you that
will not accept the position Of cashier
Of your ban IL s5ss S.'i, t1sss B
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25
Come to Free America

A recent consular report gives in
teresting immigration figures. From
1918 to 1903-eighty-6ve y>ars-the
number of immigrants was 21,265. .723,
Or the equivalent of one-fourth of the
total population today. Of all this
number the United Kingdom, which
includes the heavy Irish inflow contri-
5uted 81 per cent; Germany contri-
outed "a per cent; Austria-Hungary,
italy, Russia and Poland furnished 21
per cent. But these last named coun-
tries in 1903 furnished 68 per cent of
The immigration. Europe has sent us
% per cent of our immigration, the
western hemisphere AZ per cent and
China and all other Asiatic countries,
oceanica and Africa, 23s per cent.
The heaviest immigration of Irish in
one year was in 1853, when, 162, ,649
zane. The next largest from Ireland
Vas in 1888, when 1858 came. Last
7ear only 35,300 Irish came.s The high
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25
No Doubt He Would.

No Doubt He Would.
The German professor at Smith col
lege tried in vain to explain a diff
cult construction to one of the girls of
his class. Finally he decided to de-
vote no more of the recitation hour
to this one point, but, wishing to clear
it up for the young woman later, he
said: >,s@#, ~ 49,. +":
We'll let this 90 now, Miss M,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25

and would like toH6old you for or few
minutes after class"
Then he blushed to his temples at
the torrent of giggles which the girls
were unable to restrain.-New York
Times. :
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25
Poor hut Honest.

/: .. roor t 7onest'
"Sir, ! am an honest man.. said the
bank clerk. It am poor, I know, but
| have a good name, and that alone Is
an inheritance of which my children
may well be proud. am not an old
mani know. but ! am too old to live
down any reflections upon my good
name. =,
@s But, !, said the president 0f the
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25

Be thou what thou singly art, and
personate only thyself.- Sir Thomas
Browne. @s.l5s ss &; :s.55. .zz: .z5s2
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25

German immigration Increases.
Statistics for the last year. show
hat 36,310 native Germans left their
country to live abroad. The vast ma:
ority came to this country This is
I. consid derable increase over 4 1902 and
1901.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-20
Telegraph Anticipated

THE subloined extract has been It seems. i-.-.
| esting anticipation OF one of the most bear...i
of modern Inventions and may be found 1T ...<
entitled Travels During the Years f7S7-t-s. 70
the Kingdom of France" by Arthur Young
In electricity, NJ. LOmOnd has made reUa-. h.
discovery: YOU write two three words q
he takes it with him into a room. and turns a
inCloSed in cylindrical case. at the top OF wi
an eectrometer, a small, fine, pith ball w1rc
with a similar cylinder and eleCtrOmetcr IN distant
apartment and his wife by rcrnarking the corrc7r
ing motions of the ball writes down the words a-y
Indicate. from which 1t appears that he has formed
an alphabet of motions As the length OF the ..lr-
makes no difference in the effect. correspond -.c
might he carried any distance within and without
beSeged town for instance. or. for purpose more
worthy and more harmless between two lovers pro-
hibted or prevented from any better connectiou.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-20

credit would allow when | suggested that he put
the brakes. reminded that Caesar owed million,
before he twenty-one Another. whose Joy D.
was make in restaurants and get hiu-
thrown out-he thought it all that gallant a-I
especially to fight later with the pOice-detcu..
himself by quoting Alcibiades. Athenian to,--.
who with a gang his heels hOuriShed the IN
Eastman of his day
In conclusion it might be said that colleges are t.
important now than they when law and med a.-
and religion locked themselves in Latin and ts-
and Hebrew and Norman French in order 20 b.
elusive and impressive to- vulgar minds Also
cation generally less than folk suppose. II ...
to only ones dexterity not to ones strength Many
have been great without it Diogenes cOuldn' -..
and vet the wise cynic will trundle his tub 20 The
gasp of time Many who had 1t a world ia...-
ing-stock lanes l. had been educated 20 a feat
edge For all that-and this Is saying the utr-r-.
no greater fool crowned
The collegiate view of this question viii he dtc,7
subsequent of The sunday Magazine by DR. "a. q
Finley President College of the City New
former President of Knox College
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-20

descending patronage. without crust cup of
wine faten it. of the ineffable of Strawberry
Hill Gray had other gded schoofellows. and after
exhaustivcly playing the sycophant he given
a proessorshp at Cambridge worth four hundred
FUNDS year and in paying for it made to
disgrace both his manhood and his muse in full
some ode to Grafton-that vile against whom
Francis his niuS letters aimed his terCeSt shafts
Matt Prior the Pot-boy goes to school with Mon
taguc who later Halifax gives England post-oficeS
Italian opera the Georges and bonded debt So
far Pot-boy Prior the only thing the noble
Montague does for him is steal his poem 80 The City
Mouse and the Country Mouse, and as Mouse
Montague" pose thereafter its author.
Addison and Steele sChoolmates and became
literary partners in their spectators and "TatterS.
And yet neither of any advantage To the other,
more than Swift Pope Congrcve or Van
brugh or Arbuthnut others of their circle
When Addison had trouble with his wife Steele
with the bailiffs the other sympathized- But so did
those who had been their mates in school
There's nothing in the claim of unusual good to
come from school acquaintance. II ones who urge
il mean that a poor boy may find a fond, rich patron
among what rich boys he meets in college. then they
are mere snobs. and mere mistaken SnobS at that
Something for nothing is a traffic seldom seen and
the rich furnish the spectacle of it less frequently
than do the poor And that this is makes
partly the of the rich mans riches and the
poor mans poverty.
Still if it was So and the rich would patronize
the poor at a loss those i'll snObbish interest would
soon discover the faaCy of their argument. If the
poor be fool the rich will never patronilc
him. yideliCet give him something for nothing II the
poor has brains, he need not degrade himself
To add to what is rehearsed in the foregoing. col
cge youths encourage themselves fancy. excuses
and bankruptcies and all manner of witnesses by
remembering those ancient worthless tnwOrthlcS
of whose escapades they have read. One college
graduate. running into debt far and as fast his
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-03-12
Thousands Have Kidney Trouble
and Don't Know It.


Fill bottle or common glass with your
water and let 1t stand twenty four hours: a
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Proper Treatment of Pneu-
mOnia.

Pneumonia is too dangerous disease
for anyone to attempt to doctor himself.
although he may have the proper
remedies at hand. A physician should
always be called. II should be borne
in mind, however. that pneumonia al
ways results from a cold or from an
attack of the grip. and by the proper
treatment of these diseases a threatened
attack of pneumonia may be warded off
There is no question whatever about
this. as during the thirty years and
more that Chamberlain Cough Remedy
has been used. we have yet to learn of a
single case of cold or attack of the
grip having resulted in pneumonia
when this remedy was used. II is also
used by physicians in the treatment of
pneumonia with the best results. DR..
w. J. Smith. of Sanders. Ala, who is
also druggist. says of it: II have been
selling Cham berlain's Cough Remedy
and prescribing it in my practice for the
past six years. | use il in cases of
pneumonia and have always gotten the
best results" For sale by p d. Cot
tiDgham & Co.