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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-21

Should geniuses marry? For sure!
Especially warblers who sing ;
In metrical measures-get onto the pleas
y OF something like this in the spring.;
.'Adelbert Montressor McSwat, s,..>
The stair carpets out on the grass;
o! why do you falter? For what - Z,
{ Did I marry a poet, alas?' -
(Adelbert Montressor, poor bard! II.
He raises the dust In the yard. - =.
AS he swipes the ingram TO- the musical
strain, ~ ~ r =: ,>-.e 4
*"B'gee! but this grilling is hard.D s.
Should geniuses marry? You bet!
5H Especially sculptures who "skulp -"
For, what can be better than martial fet-
l. TO smash all his dreams into pulp?
!" Augustus De .Lancy soapine. E<5% y
Please give that Apollo the go; Sz=s
53I think you are aWfully mean tJ tz..J
. The stovepipe has tumbled, you know =
Augustus de Lancy. poor wight!
He pounds the stovepipe With delight, b,
s2Ass he lilts g soft lay in cadence. SO gay
|. "GreAt Scott 81 but these joints 81 are
tight Ut; Eiss &
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-21

When the time came for adieus, her
majesty mingled with her guests, the
emperor following closely; and as
Mrs. Conger got beyond me stepped
aside for royalty. Imagine my aston
ishment when the empress dowager
turned, took me by both, hands,
stroked my arm and inquired how
liked China and how long l would re-
main, concluding by asking me to
come and see her again when l re-
turned to visit Mrs. Conger! did
not lose my equanimity, but studied
this most remarkable woman at clos
est range.
Could she of dignified mien, Deep
set unfincning eyes, rare smile and
melodious voice be the most despotic
female sovereign in the history of the
world? Has she two distinctly oppo-
site natures? Is this the secret of her
marvellous power? Born in obscurity,
the daughter of a minor officer, q
favorite concubine Of the harem,
young and inexperienced, she reached
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-21

correspondent Of the Straits
Budget Of the Straits Settlement
says. @. .5%4 + 5,a 4s5 ,s., 57s3=S5 IS j
fs9 While other nations build monu:
m',ents lm',ent to the memory Of men who
have done great and noble deeds, the
55DIyaks heap up pile Of the branches
ct trees in memory Of the man who
has uttered a great lie, SO that future
generations may know Of his wicked.
ness and take warning from it. ~.
1.-THE E3s5 persons deceived start the
Itugong bula by .heaping up a large
number of branches in some eonspicu.
Tous spot by the side of the main road.
Every passerby contributes to it and
lat the same time curses the man in
memory of whom it is. r
III. THE Dyaks consider the adding to
any tugong bula they may pass a
sacred duty, the omission of which
will meet with Supernatural punish
I,ment, and so, however pressed fol
thine .Dyak may be, he stops tc
throw on the pile some branches OF
stwigs. .,.'...<
5N "This custom dates from very an
3cient times. It is: interesting to no
[stice that though the ethics of the
9EDyaks, even at the present day, dc
tnot agree in many points with the
moral code Of other and more ad
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-21
Monument to 4 Lie

vanced races still from the earliest
ages the Dyaks seem to have agreed
in considering lie. most disgrace
full crime, and a har man who de-
serves the curses not only of his own
generation, but also Of people yet un-
born. 555#> >.<ss:>.z l. + , .z g.@-
"a few small branches, few dry
twigs and leaves-that is what the
tugong bula is at first. But day by
day it increases in size. Every passer-
by adds something to it, and in few
wears time it becomes large and
imposing, monument raised to the
memory of: one who was a liar.
1T has often been remarked by
Dyaks that any other punishment
would, if man had his choice, be
much preferred to having a tugong
bula put up in his memory. Other pun
ishments are soon forgotten, but a
tugong remains as a testimony to a
mans untruthfulness for succeeding
generations to witness, and is q
standing disgrace to his children q
children. f.. :.
believing, as the Dyaks do, in the
efficacy of curses-a curse among
them being a Unable offense-it is
easy to understand how Dyak would
dread the accumulation of curses
which would necessarily accompany
['he formation of tugong bula." {
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-21

with a kind of white porcelain, though
in some houses they are papered like
the rest of the wall, so that the pres
ence of the stove is known II summer
only by two or three apertures like
port holes, which have been made for
the purpose of admitting the hot air%
Sometimes, especially in country
houses, the stove, or peitchka as it is
called, is not only wall, but wall
which, towards the bottom, projects so
as to form a kind of dresser or sofa,
and which the lazier of the inmates
use not infreQuently in the latter
.s :ss.
"When stove is being heated the
portfolios are kept carefully shut, to
prevent the egress of carbonic-acid
gas. But after the wood has become
thoroughly charred and every vestige
of fame has disappeared the chimney
is closed on a level with the garret
floor, the covers are removed from
the apertures in the side of the stove
and the hot air is allowed to penetrate
freely into the room; which, if enough
wood has been put into the peitchka.
and the lid of the chimney closes her
metically, will, by this one fire, be
kept warm for twelve or fourteen
hours"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-21
Began to walk home from meetino
with qirI.


with a girl.
down the corn rows, and a fierce
yearning was upon him for what Law
far beyond the rim of Lookout. The
world-old power Of oceans had called
to him out of the mist in the valley
and-"he would tell them in the
morning that he was going away"
But he did not go away. For Joe,
the father, saw that one mornings
sunrise, and he saw no more. He
was found lying in the woods with
his gun beside him and whether he
had shot himself accidentally. or
whether some one else had done the
shooting, no one knew. But, at any
rate, he was dead, and to Joe the
son, Rose Lea looked for the max.
ing OF the scanty crop in summer, and
the hauling Of the crossties and staye
bolts which bought the family's coffee
and brogans in winter.
At the end of the third summer he
began to walk home from meeting
with girl who had fresh face, with
wlnd-bloWn hair around it, and a slim
waist. He was only twenty then, and
he had never thought of girls until
ne saw this one; and suddenly, as he
looked at her, something of the same
feeling came upon him which he had
had when he saw the sea of mist
stretching between the mountains.
And, as Annie was more obtainable
than the sea, his desire for her be-
came reality, and so, for many years.
the end of Joe's looking across the
valley also.
But when he was an old man hia
dreams came back to him. Annie and
Rose. Lea were both sleeping beside
his father, and his brothers and sis.
ters were dead and scattered. His
own children were scattered, too, some
of them sleeping along with Annie.
and only one widowed daughter, whose
f1fteen-year-old son followed a sturdy
mule between the corn rows, lived
with him at the old place on the bluff.
He spent most of his mornings out on
the porch at the east OF the house
where. Rose Lea used to watch the
sunrise, his pipe in his mouth and his
old gaze going out across the valley.
He did not often venture near the
bluffs edge, for his steps were totter-
ing and he was afraid, but there were
times when there were many things
which he remembered; yet he never
thought of blaming Rose Lea nor An
ME for the unfulflment OF his dreams,
and as they were sleeping toward tho
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-21
Great Woman Rules China
the pinnacle of authority by incredible
ability, shrewdness and daring.

the pinnacle of authority by incredible
ability, shrewdness and daring.
Through all the intrigue of the Chi
nese court since she first usurped the
throne she has borne a charmed life,
and her enemies have arisen only to
disappear with terrible swiftness,
while her autocracy remains unchal-
lenged. With relentless will she has
stripped the emperor of the last vest
ige of the legitimate authority, which,
4or brief period, he had exercised
under the wise guidance of Kang Yu
Wei, absolutely controlling his every
word and act, as well as the earthly
destiny of 400,000,000 of subjects.
And this most fascinating hostess,
urging us to "stay longer and "come
again. annihilating. conventionality
and precedent, was Tsi An the Great,
woman ruler in this land of Confu-
cius, where to be a woman, according
to the philosophy of the Great Sage,
is to be despised among men!-The
Century.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-21
GeniuSeS in the Home


Should geniuses marry? Why cert!
Especially fellows who paint;
For what could be nicer, more fitting.
I, :. Than this? Do you follow my plant?
o;lIa The water pipes 6ursted once more;
The baby's adoat on the fleor.'', ~
e. Ultramarine plugs the hole
With his finger while fretting his soul;
Alack! the waves creep and he's soak
AS he squats there alone in the coal.)
Should geniuses. marry? They must! .
IS Especially musical ones; IT t. =
The violin player. the plano slayer,
Ole Bmley Corneto Won Squeak.
The butcher, the baker are here; sE% +,
wish you, would go down and speak, &
And tell them we've gone for year,
(Olle Bultey Corneto ne dumps 81
Out his notes but, alas. II they're II not
s air, go - s,
/ And . s L into the next county 5umps
i Horace Seymour. IS eller IN New York
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-21
Some Facts About Glass.

The Oldest specimens of glass are
traced back from 1900 to 1890 years
before Christ These are. of Egyptian
origin. TRANSPARENT glass is believed
to have been first used about $50
years before the Christian era. The
Phoenicians were supposed by the
aneients to have been responsible for
the invention, and the story will be
recalled of the Phoenician merchants
who, resting their cooking pots on
blocks of natron, or subcarbonate of
soda, found that the union, under
heat, of the alkali and the sand on
the shore produced glass.
There is little doubt, however, that
the art of glass making originated
with. the Egyptians. 1t was intro
.duced into Rome in the time of Cicero.
and reached remarkable, degree OF
perfection among the Romans, who
produced some of the most admirable
specimens of glass ever manufac-
sturk an instance is the famous Port,
land vase in the British museums.
Glass was not used for windows until
about A. D. 3Q0.-Harper's Weekly.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-21
Love Immortal.

Churches, nay, I count you vain
Lifting high gloomy spire.
Like some frozen form Of pain
Aching up to meet desire?
Standing from Gods poor apart
Granite walls and granite heart!
sects:. We. have your day, and die,
Eddies in the stream Of truth
The great current, sweeping by.
Leaves. you swirled in shapes uncouth:
Born to writhe and CLINT, and WOO
Broken mirrors of the Blue.
Creeds! O captured heavenly bird:
Fluttering heart and folded wing!
Shall We see those pinions stirred?
Wa Gan your caged Creation sing?
What was bred TO soar the skies?
Rites and pomp, what part have We
In the service of the heart?
Rituals are but mummery.
Fa1th.s white flame is snuffed by art
candies be but wick and wax
Aims have grown the temple-tax
Yet IT., the East is red with dawn,
And upon that splendor drawn
, Gentle eyes and arms outspread-
See that figure stretched above!-
AS God lives! its name is Love!
Love that lights the fireless brands.
R1eeGn eGG shat aro GarGS tSa for World and wren.
Crowned with thorns that conquer
Only Loves great eyes inspire
Church' Sect creed to glow with fire.
Then our lips shall have no sncer
:: For the spire, the mosque, the ark,
Broksn 4 symbols shall be- dear
grown 1I the hneGSsn sans tae Of t1afb aab
Frederic Lawrence Knowles.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-21
GRAND nNNEsoIA, SATURDAY., JANUARY 1905 .
sunset he usually moved his chGir Y
the west porch in the afternoon. +
) R,,t Soc rho ero1., eti1l o1x3n,. ,na o+f1

sunset he usually moved his chGir u.
the west porch in the afternoon. / 2
But as he grew still older, and still
older, his memory OF them faded, ant:
the thoughts OF his youth took more
and more the place OF it. And, get.
ting up one night by an old mans
whim to sit on the porch instead. Of
sleeping, he saw again his boyhood's
vision of the sea! He was an old
man, old, old: but he would yet do
what his youth had but dreamed Of:
he would ride on the tossing deep,
that wide, wonderful sea-, which had
called to him when a boy! 4 =, :, :
: But, there was no time to- lose;
; When it came again he must be
ready. And he must be secret and
silent. -, - -
In an DID,, unused wagon shop he
found all that was necessary for the
carrying out of his great plan A few
boards, some nails and a couple OF
cross-pieces to hold all together; that
would answer surely for him, light
old eian. All, yes, and an oar to
steer. He must have the oar: And
when all was ready; every night he
kept watch for 1T" to come again. .
He had pot long to wait, else he
might at last have missed his oppor-
tunity, for he was growing very
feeble, and his daughter, herself an
ole woman, had laid. new black sum
bonnet aside against the day of faith
et's burying."
1t had been a wet August, and the
face of Lookout had been for two
weeks yelled with curtain of rain,
but at dark one night the sky sudden
ly cleared, the heavy mist which had
covered the mountain dropped lown
into the valley, and the moon rose full
and beautiful upon old Joe's sea!
And Joe,. who had been watching,
saw it, and light leaped into his
eyes.
1t was not heavy, the boat which he
had made, yet to launch it was no
easy task for the feeble old man, drag
ging and carrying it from it's hiding
place, tugging with all his little
strength to lift it that it might make
no sound, lest some one should wake
and hear. Hurrying, too, lest lit
should be. gone! And the oar-he
must not forget the oar.
The mist had risen to the very edge
of the bluff when the old man stood
at last beside his boat, thinking how
best to put it forth upon that wonder
full sea whose dampness he could feel
rising about him, and for which he
had for SO many years longed. I So
man years! sssa-aY et@ hesss had d@sneve1
blamed them-not Rose Lea nor An
ME. Perhaps-a faint memory stirred
him-perhaps he might find Annie.
and her checks would be red and
the wind blowing her hair!
A stunted pine grew at the bluff
edge. Close to this he placed his boat,
and, standing upon it, he took his oar,
braced it firmly against the foot of
the tree, and pushed off.
There was a startled cry, and the
soul Of old Joe went drifting out up
on that sea which is both wide and
wonderful!
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-21
WROTE HIS TITLE CLEAR.
Humorous Indian Tells Good Story on
IA IN, $5S;$z{ 55 His Superior. i II xaS5

' II Il 5Ss
E Gen. Pratt has quite fund of in
teresting experiences from his twenty.
Ave years service as Superint
Of the Carlisle Indian school. @
+ One of the earlier students was Sam
Six Killer, who took up the printers.
art at the school and became not only
quite proficient, but d universal ia
yorite in the office and school be-
cause of his ready wit. One time it
became necessary. for the Superintend-
ent, then Capt. Pratt. to discipline
Sam for some prank, and he was
taken out. Of the Office for several
days. When he entered the office on
his return to. duty Sam received quite
an ovation from his brother typos. and
said: g
Fellows, come here: 1 want to tell
YOU a dream / had last night" When,
all the boys had gathered around.
Sam said: ra'.s~<z:
""I dreamed last night that the world
had come TO an end and everybody
ran out of their houses and. was look
ing up. I asked what for, and they
said the names of all who were to
be. saved would be found written in
the sky. So l looked and looked
| every place, but could not find Sam
Six Killer anywhere; but there was
r.. H. Pratt written clear across the
sky in the Captains own handwrit-
ing"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-21

There are stretches along what is
known on the map as Raccoon, or
Sand mountain, where the bluff OF
solid rock extends down, straight and
sheer, to the level of the valley. From
the edge of these bluffs one looks
across a space of some ten or twenty
miles to the side Of Lookout. paral-
lei plateau which extends southwark
for many miles from Point Lookout,
the site of the famous battle above
the clouds" There is that in this
view which, at certain seasons of the
year, and under certain atmospheric
conditions, approaches the grandeur OF
more pretentious scenery.
do not know that Rose Lea White,
who came to one of these bluffs the
bride of slouching- gated young
mountaineer, ever looked upon it as
being especially scenic, but she spent
good deal of time, when her husband
was in the field, the first spring and
summer of her marriage, sitting un-
der the projecting limb of a big flow
ering ash, which grew in fissure of
the rock, and looking with unchanging
face across the 4*valleya-4ss One: - may
never know what she thought
At any rate, when a while after
ward her baby, little Joe, began to
look about upon the world he had
come to, his eyes had a wondering,
yearning look in them, and his first
voyage of discovery, when he could
creep, was to the edge of the bluff,
which was only few yards from the
east door where Rose Lea always
looked for the sunrise. And to that
spot he persisted in creeping, until
Joe, the father, one day fenced in the
dooryard with pickets, which was a
wise precaution, and added much to
the safety Of the other children who
followed little Joe in rapid succession,
as children are accustomed to do up
on the top of Raccoon or Sand noun
tain. And so for Rose Lea was an
end of sitting under the Towering ash
and looking across the valley.
But not for Joe, who grew big
enough to let himself out Of the gate
after a while. He was a quiet boy,
not given greatly to enjoying the
sports of his brothers and sisters, and
working at his little daily tasks in an
absent, dreamy way, which tried the
patience Of Rose. Lea, though, like
most mothers, her heart held its own
special tenderness for her first-born.
When he was old enough to "tote a
hoe'' his father found that frequent
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-21

had been raining, warm, slow, fog "
rain, but at sundown it had suddenly
cleared, and the mist which had hung
all day over the mountain dropped
down into the valley. And as Joe
went to the edge of the bluff, he saw
it lying there in the moonlight, dense
and deeply moving, like great body
OF water. To his startled gaze it
seemed to rise and billow up to his
very feet, and he stretched forth his
arms with sudden longing!
THE seal" he cried, wildly. The
sea! the seal" and then stood silent,
gazing. For Joe had found at last
what he had SO long sought for up and
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-21
Get the Habit

Get the Habit.
1T is easy to be cheerful when you turn
your mind that way
!" Get the habit;
1t is easy, when you try it, to find hope
- full things to say
Get the ;habit:.
1t is. easy to see promise in the work
you have to do ". -
If you turn from them that grumble
and would hear you grumble, too:
1t is easy to have courage if you let it
- come to you +,
Get the habit ~. -,., -
It is easy to have patience if you only
= 4 care to try - =. =, y
Get the habit; - !. r,l.-,4@ -
1t is easy to be civil to whoever passes
E""sa.&st r e., Get the habft; - ], =
It is easy TO: speak kindly Of the absent.
:f II to refrain - .5,...; r. - l.; II =
From such speech as may be harmful
WI or may give another pain; " =" !:
You may even learn to glory in the
&4 joys your neighbors gain" : 5rGsSSH
4,E e Get the habit. ~ H.. ,1@SE.4
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-21
ruthful.

The Superintendent Of a city sun.
day school was making an appeal for
a collection for a Shut-in- Society, and
said: -. +, r y, sS%s ii :. tssgs.E
:. Can. any boy or girl tell me OF a
shut-in-person mentioned ii the Bible? !?
All, 1 see several hands raised That
is good. This little boy right In front
OF me- may tell me. Speak up good
and loud, that all will hear you,
Johnnie L s5.s5 a.
a$ Jonah! {" shrieked Johnnie;
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-21
After the Rain.

Birds. leaves, and flowers grow \
With life anew,
Nature basks smilingly
Meath skies of blue:
Brightness reigns all around.
Sadness with joy is crowned.
Freshness and light abound.
After the rain. .,
-:
After life's rain,
Which filled the heart with care.
! Sadness and gloom ~ ~
Lifes flowers will spring again.
Brighter to bloom: ..'.
For heavens own sunlight fair.
Hearts softened by earth's care
Shall peace, attain, ~
"A. E., in Unitarian Herald
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-21
e may r. never know what she

applications of the "hick'ry'' seemed
necessary to- keep him going.
For several summers he Travelled up
and down the long corn rows, and
how far else he went no one knew.
He always sat for his noontime rest
out on the edge of the bluff, some.
times whiting stick, but more often
idle, with his arms around his knees,
as Rose Lea used to sit a long time
before. Sometimes, too, when he
could keep awake after his days
work, he watched the full moon come
up over Lookout, and one night he re-
eatyed q surprise and revelation. It
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-21
Knew How It Was Himself.

They had just been married. and
were on their way, to Niagara Falls
to spend the. honeymoon. The bride
was Indifferent as to who saw her
with her head resting on his shoul-
der. The bridegroom was also per-
fectly satisfied openly to squeeze her
hand or encircle her waist when the
inclination seized him. A little old
man sat in front of them, and he
looked around and smiled at the hap
py couple SO often that. the young
husband finally said:
We've only just been married, sir. -
so l thought" chuckled the old
man.
And we can't help being a little
spoony, you know"
mo; of course not
1T probably all seems very silly to
an old fellow like you, thought"
Does it? does it," "chuckled the old
man. We'll, can tell you it does not.
then. I've been there three times al
ready, and now I'm on my way West
to get No. 4. Follow me up and
you'll get few pointers''
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-21
Why Children Like Fairy Tales.

Probably the chief reason why
children are SO fond of fairy tales is
because of the seeming reality such
stories have for them. The enchant-
ed palaces, the wonderful transforma-
tons, the mysterious people and ami
mails that talk, is for the imaginative
child much nearer the real. than it
is to the fantastic. OF course he ad-
mires heroism, and in these tales
such heroic deeds can be done, and
to him they do not appear as strange
as we may think they do. In fact,
the fanciful child takes the same in
terest in the fairy tale that the adult
does in the book Of 1iction~ where i'm
probable but perhaps not impossible
things happen.