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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-07-29

under the water, fearful of disturbing
game Then he comes near the shady
side of the fly, gapes and sucks him in
just like a wolf snatching a sheep
from the fold or an eagle goose from
the yard. This done. he disappears be-
meath the ripple. The fishermen I'M
derstand these manoeuvres, but they
do not make any use of these flies for
a bait for the fish; for if the human
hand lays hold of them they lose their
natural color, their wings fray and
they become UNBEATABLE to the fish.
So for this reason they make no use
of them, disliking them because their
nature forbids their capture. So with
angling craft they outwit the fish,
devising a sort of lure against them
They lap lock Of reddish wool round
the hook, and to the wool two cock s
feathers which grow under the wat
ties, and are brought to the proper
color with wax. The rod is from six
to ten feet long. and the horse hair
line has the same length. They lower
the lure. The fish is attracted by the
color. excited, draws close; and
judging from it's beautiful appear
ance that it will obtain a marvellous
banquet, forthwith opens its mouth,
but is caught by the hook, and bitter.
indeed, is the feast it has, inasmuch
as it is captured"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-07-29

Alas. next day, the gentleman, j
To the Office not came he, ~
But in his place a vision appeared ~
A blooming buxOm she;
With hair of lovely purple tint
And soulful, grass green eyes,
And as she reached her hand for me.
She lurched in wild surprise.
And to her face the expression came
OF a man who says, who the -
Has left this wheezy skeleton.
In place of my new umbrella"
But being a lady, she only sighed,
A painful, pale blue sigh.
And bright pink tears suffuSed her cheek,
From out her grass-Sreen eye.
And she bit her trembling lilac lips,
With her teeth pearly blue.
And with wrathful sweep of her si1ken
hose.
She vanished from my view;
But my twisted ribs were Wrung with
shame,
The sharpest I'd ever known
And I turned my face to the wall and
curdling, ox-blood groan. !
Alas. my fate! Would I were once II
Beneath the daisied sod,
While DER my final trusting place,
The howerets wild might nod.
That far from haunts of scofhng man,
In the mud of Natures breast,
I could stretch my weary ribs at last.
Janet Hay. \
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-07-29

home he studied English under Fumio
Murata, who studied in London. In
his eighteenth year he left home for
Tokyo on foot. At that time Japan
had no railroad and no steamers ran
regularly. From Hiroshima, his ma.
tive province, to Tokyo, is some 500
miles in Japanese measurement.
When he reached the capital he went
through the examination and was sue
cessfully admitted to the Imperial uni
versity. From scantiness of money
he was often compelled to go without
food. He borrowed text books from
a fellow student and copied them. It
is said that he could not raise money
even for his hair cutting or bath.
After graduation he found work in a
printing office. His first wages were
small, but, like many successful Amer
leans, he always had an ideal in
mind and toward this ideal he con-
stantly worked. He is given great
credit for the victories over Russia.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-07-29
ANTIDOTE FOR SNAKE BITE
Fluid That Is Used by Mexicans and Sup
posed to Be Secret Remedy of the Moki Indians

Supt. B. F. Daniel of the Territori-
al prison, who has been in the city
for the last three days, says the Ar
iona Republican. told while here of
a certain cure for the bite of the rat
tlesnake
He had heard of it while he had
been engaged in mining in Mexico,
and since he became superintendent
of the prison he has seen two or three
Mexican convicts who had been cured
and who had the scars to show that
they had been bitten. On the hand
of one of them was the trace of GEN.
tipede, whose poison also yields to
the remedy. It's existence. however,
is not widely known. even in Mexico,
and is supposed to be entirely I'M
known out Of that country.
There is in every rattlesnake a
small sac> about the size of Mexican
bean, attached to the intestines. This
is filled with a brownish or black
fluid and that fluid is the cure for the
bite If it is applied Immediately the
patient will not even suffer any swell
ing and will entirely avoid pain.
Many Mexicans carry the fluid with
them at all times when they are in
the mountains or on the desert. These
Mexicans kill all the rattlers they can
find, and most of them store the fluid
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-07-29
TALE OF THE OLD UmBRELL
Being the Truthful Narrative of an Out
cast from ALI That Is Bright in Life

I'm a rickety, jickety old umbrell,
OF troubles I've seen few
Since Noah used me about the ark
When I was fresh and new.
My frame is weary, my ribs are sore,
My rigging is all askew,
But though my moral tone is Jared,
This tale that I tell is true.
I drifted one day to an Office room.
From a rubbish heap below.
And the man who brought me- left me
With other umbrellas in a row.
From that time forth / laid around,
The butt of kicks and jeers,
For the rest in the row were shown re-
spect,
While had naught but sneers.
Until one day a gentleman
Unto that Office came,
And hung on hook a dainty umbreu
Of slender, graceful frame.
AS he hung it there. I heard him say,
Now stay there on your life,
For there'n be the very deuce to pay,
F don't get you back to my wife,
But that elegant gent a forgettery had,
OF a patent, duplex brand,
And when he forth from that Office hied,
There was no umbreI in his hand.
But late that day robber came
Whose face was fierce and red,
And he swiped the lady's umbrell
And hung me up Instead
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bers. These were honey-combed in
certain parts in peculiar way The
continual sea-wash of century SEEM
ed to have made its inroads at the
softest places, and they gave every
appearance in form of partially burn
ed 'stumps. The wood seemed almost
as hard as iron. Much of it was in
closed in a fossil crust, and only by
repeated efforts I succeeded in break
ing off a small piece. The many
winds from the desert and the shift
ing shoals of sand had filed in and
around the frigate and her keel must
have lain buried nearly two fathoms
deeper than the present sea-bottom
The freshening breeze made further
investigation impossible, so after TAX
ing bearings and leaving the spot
buoyed, we returned to the shore,
landing amid an awaiting, curious
crowd of Turks, Arabs and blacks.
six days later, through the court
esq and interest of the officers of the
Greek warships Crete and Paralos, a
ships cutter and machine boat with
divers were placed at my disposal"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-07-29

Spade Has Played Great Part in Both Japa-
nese and Russian Armies During the War


American military attaches with the
Japanese and Russian armies are
much impressed BY the Importance
which intrenching tools have had in
the far-eastern war. In a; recent re-
port to the war department Capt. p.
G. March writes: ION Oct. Is, 1904,
during the battle of the Shabo, wit
messed a practical exhibition of the
Japanese use of the intrenching tools
carried by the men. The 10th regi-
ment of the 10th division, fourth Japa-
nese army, took a position along the
crest of hill near the River Sha,
which marked the farthest point of
the Japanese advance at that il
and on the front of the fourth ar1
The Russians were visible in force
imme diately in front of us and an at
tack was expected. The companies
detailed to construct the trenches
came up without arms and squatted
+ on their launches under cover on the
reverse slope of the hill. Noncommis-
stoned officers stepped forward from
the companies and threw themselves
on their faces on the crest of the hill.
They then worked themselves forward
by their hands and feet until they
arrived at point where they could
| see all the ground in the Immediate
front-no dead space-and put a peg
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-07-29
HIS SCHEME FOR REVENGE
Former Gold Brick Specialist Went Back
to Old Practices Just to Get Even

We meet our acquaintance, the re-
formed green goods man and gold
brick operator. He has a package I'M
der his arm.
whats that?" We ask. "Soap?'
mo. It's a gold brick. I'm going
to sell it to fellow up here in the
country little way"
Noting our look of shocked sur
prise, he hastens to say:
Now, wait second. Don't con-
denim me until you have the evidence.
I've been regenerated and reformed
man all right nough for a good, long
time, and I was sincere in my refor-
nation. But last month I went out
into the country to live-leased a lit
tie bit Of ground with a house and
some farm buildings on it, just for a
summer home for me and the wife
and kiddies. Had to have a horse,
and some chickens, of course, and a
COW, and some vegetables and fruit
occasionally. Well, I go to Mr. Reu-
ben and Mr.. Farmer and Mr.. Corn
tossel and all the rest, of the come.
ons I used to meet in my line OF
business and they sell me the horsey
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-07-29
FRANKNESS NOT ALWAYS WISE
Why One Woman Has Determined Henceforth
Not to Commit Herself When Advice Is Asked

When the wise woman is asked by
the friend of her heart, "How do you
think this gown f1ts?" she edges away
from the precipice which yawns at her
feet and takes refuge in platitudes.
Its beautiful gown" she says, and
then, with animation, aren't we hav-
ing lots OF strawberries this year, and
the fruit people say the crop of
peaches will be abnormally large"
says the Baltimore News.
The wise woman has learned how to
answer such questions by sad. sad ex-
perience. There was a time when she
would have replied, after much
thought: why, the seam which
should go down the middle of your
back is little awry, and one armhole
is larger than the other"
She remembers the time when she
was innocent and thoughtless, and she
did this for the benefit of her dearest
friend, who had implored her to be
perfectly frank.
She remembers that the friend gave
her one look of scorn and swept from
the room, remarking frigidly as she
did so: There certainly must be
something the matter with your eyes,
tor this gown was made by the smart
est cutouirere in the city. and think
it is quite the prettiest and best-fitting
l have seen this season.
This page, knowing these things
came the other day upon a friend in
her boudoir wearing new and tip.
tilted hat and an absorbed and anx
iOus expression.
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CHANGE IN CHINESE LAWS.
Barbarous Modes Of Punishment Long in Use in
the Celestial Empire Have Lately Been Abolished

be termed compound decapitation, or
posture Of the same, must hereafter
read chao chueh or strangulation on
sentence. This is supposed to be
far more honorable death than decapi-
tatlon and was formerly reserved for
princes and other great men. Strangu-
latlon, however, has its own subtle
distinctions, and the penalty of ,chao
chueh will be hereafter modified to
chiao CHEN hou, or awaiting in prison
under sentence of strangulation. This
difference is the difference between
certain death and having chance of
reprieve.
Among other complications of Chi
nese law and its execution is unique
and rather racy method of dealing
with prisoners by lottery. Once a
year the vermilion pencil of imperial
authority is waved over a chart on
which the names of convicted GRIM
inals are written, and those which it
includes in a haphazard sweep are
executed forthwith The rest are
either reprieved altogether or their
executions are postponed for another
year.
Another important reform is the
abolition of the CONDEMNED" brand
| on the faces Of prisoners. Hitherto
| all who have been sentenced to ban
| ishment for robbery and other seri'
GUS crimes have been tattoed on the
face, in order to mark them as Grim
! inals for life
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in the ground at that point The pegs
thus established were Joined by mark,
ing a line on the ground with the
point of pick: b.. e.
"Then the men came forward, work
ing parties alternating with pick and
intrenching spade, the files taking in
tervals from each other by extending
hands at full length, each man cover
ing that much of the line of the
trench. While one relief was work
ing the other men of the company re-
manned below the rest, sQuatting on
their launches, and after the first
batch had worked about five minutes
relieved them The soil had not been
under cultivation and apparently was
virgin and hard. The trench was fin
ished in twenty minutes"
To Capt. March's testimony of the
value of intrenching tools Capt. Carl
Reichmann, military attache with the
Russian army, gives his unqualified
support, saying: Il certainly was pow
erfully impressed by the mobility of
the Japanese and by the Russian
heaviness and l realized the terrible
power given an army by mobility. So
far as I am concerned I shall certainly
leave nothing undone to promote mo-
bility in our infantry and the adoption
of a spade that is spade"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-07-29

sent me to a hardware store on a per-
sonal errand.
MY system consisted in associat-
ing the man in my mind with some
simple article connected with his
trade and prehxing or sufhxing let
ter or more as necessary. For in
stance, Sanders the grocer would be
associated in my mind with sand, and
would of course remember to add
the three letters needed to form his
name
We'll. framed up plan, on this
system to remember the hardware
mans name. and in two weeks I came
back again. My system was working
beautifully I walked in as brisk as
you please and hailed my friend.
How are you, Mr.. Snails?' I said.
Something in the mans face made
me fear that there had been slip
somewhere. Are you not Mr. Snails?'
I asked.
"'Young man. he said, you are
too blamed fresh. My name is
Stacks"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-07-29

Come in, come I'M" said the friend
when she observed the woman's page
looking at her; you are the very per-
son I most wanted to see. Give me
your red-hot ideas about this hat. I
have had it sent up on approval, and
so don't have to take it, and I'm not
quite satisfied with it myself. Tell me
what you think
The woman's page imagines she is
wise in her generation, and she hedg-
ed gracefully. What lovely roses"
she said enthusiastically, "and how
artistically they are placed
Nonsense! What do you think OF
the hat persisted her friend; "tell
me the real truth, for I must decide
to-day, and I really believe could get
something prettier, don't you?"
Thus conjured, the page dropped her
wonted caution. IF you really want
to know what I think, l will tell you
that, in my opinion, the hat is too
large for you; smaller one would be
more becoming"
well, this one suits me- replied
the friend, tersely. And to maid pass.
ing the door: MARY Anne, telephone
Nine. Browne and tell her will take
the hat she sent up"
The vocabulary of the woman's
page was not large enough to meet
| the occasion, but she mathematical
herself nv everything she knew and
made a new and unbreakable resolve
never to speak her mind again about
! the possessions of a friend.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-07-29
GREAT SCHEME THAT FAILED
Uncle Joe's Brilliant Idea to Escape Conscrip-
ton Fooled by Stupidity of Medical Agents

"Speaking of conscripts," said the
sailor, as he laid down book on Rus
STA, "did I ever tell you about my
Uncle Joe?
well, Uncle Joe, in the time. of the
Civil War, had friend named Hiram
Haines Hiram was conscripted. but,
when he came to take the medical ex-
animation. he didn't pass. The doc
tors said he was no good for a SOL
der. They said he wasn't strong
enough to fight.
Hiram told Uncle Joe about this.
and Uncle Joe said, after thinking a
little while:
"sLook a-here. Hi, I'm conscripted,
too, and my examination is set for next
Thursday What'st the matter with
you taking it in my name? I'd pass
sure, if I took it myself, for I'm as
strong as an OK. But if you took it
for me, fakin, you know, why I'd get
off
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-07-29
RUSSIAN CAPITAL is GAY
Present Conflict, With National Prestige
Stake. Has Very Little Depressing Effect

War or no war, the aristocratic Rus
sian pursues his pleasures with an
abandonment that speaks of unlimit-
ed resources or unlimited reckless
ness The pleasures of the table are
protracted to an inordinate degree. A
lunch, in which the courses are plen-
tifully watered with champagne, will
spread itself through the afternoon.
You may barely escape at o'clock,
though you began to eat at 1. The
host never sits down, plying his
guests with succession of good
things, liquid and solid. Even the
afternoon tea in middle-class circles
is very formidable undertaking. It
includes dishes Of various sorts. in
which meat will certainly figure, and
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-07-29

WI Ting-fang. long Chinese minis
ter in Washington, has succeeded in
inducing the imperial government at
Pekin to abolish some of it's cruel pun
ishments. An imperial edict of April
"a gives WI and Shen Chiapen credit
for suggesting the changes and then
proceeds: AT the beginning of the
dynasty when our sovereignty extend
ed within the great wall, the most
severe punishment was beheading. In
the year of Hsin Jul, however, when
we revised the laws. we permitted the
introduction of those punishments
which had been prevalent in the Ming
dynasty, hence ling chi (cutting to
pieces) was allowed for certain
crimes. 1t has always been distaste-
full to us to resort to these punish
ments, and it does not fulfill our i'm
perlal idea of showing mercy to the
people. Now that we are once more
revising the laws, therefore, we hereby
order. that for all variations of the
crime of taking life, beheading shall
be the extreme penalty in future
ling chi, exposure of the detached
head and mutiliation of the corpse
must be abolished forever"
AS consequence of this abolition
all the other punishments are moved
| down a grade in severity. The laws
where the words ling chi occur, fol-
instance, will have chan chueh, OF
simple decapitation, substituted The
penalty of chan hsiao, or what might
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-07-29
TO THE UNASSUmING DAISY
Repair My Heart with Gladness and a
Share of Thy Meek Acknowledgement

With little here to do or see
OF things that in the great world be,
Daisy! again I talk to thee.
For thou art worthy,
Thou unassuming commonplace
OF nature, with that homely face.
And yet with something of a grace,
Which love makes for thee!
Oft on the dappled turf at ease
I sit and play with SMILES.
Loose types of things through all de-
greeS,
Thoughts of thy raising:
And many a fond and idle name
I give to thee for praise or blame,
AS is the humor of the game,
While I am gazing
A nun demure Of lowly port,
Or sprightly maiden of loves court,
In thy simplicity the sport
OF all temptations;
A queen in crown of rubies drest,
A starveling in scanty vest,
Are all, al seems to suit thee best.
Thy appellations.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-07-29

":But the risk says Hiram. Think
of the risk, Joe. Oh, by Jimmy, no, l
couldn't do it,
'''There amt no risk says Uncle
Joe. In these confused times, with
the army doctors examinin' thousands
of conscripts day, there amt no risk
whatever. Come on. Hiram. Oblige
me. I'll give you 5000 if you do
Such lump of money as that
brought Hiram to terms. He said he'd
take the examination in Uncle Joe's
name. and sure enough, he done it,
first gettin' his pay in advance. He
wasn't detected, either. But, by lingo,
this time the doctors passed him.
This time they declared him sound in
wind and limb, and the makin's of a
fust-rate soldier.
THAT is why Uncle Joe has been
so down on war all his life He lost,
YOU see, 5000, and had to fight four
years"
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Carnegie's Many Honors.

Andrew Carnegie is a citizen of
more towns than anyone else. He has
received the freedom Of almost every
city in England and Scotland for
which he has contributed a free IL
brary or other institution. He will
soon require museum to acocmmo-
date the caskets containing parchment
rolls of his citizenship. During the
last few weeks he has been exception
ally busy. In one week he received
the freedom of nkeston, to which he
presented library, and the freedom
of Eastbourne, and was admitted as
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-07-29

Russian tea, served in a glass with
lemon, is but the pale comparison to
sparkling champagne. The appear
ance Of the streets tells of wealth,
too. No finer equipages exist any
where than those which, horsed with
coal-black steeds. dash at full speed,
in lofty disregard for the mere foot
passenger, down the central strip of
wood pavement in the principal pros
pects,' as the wider streets are de-
nominated. Holding the reins in his
two hands, with arms outstretched,
the driver, medieval in dress, has
the summary methods of a Roman
charioteer Indeed, there is something
Of imperial Rome in this second cap
ital of the cZar-Correspondence from
the Pail Mall Gazette.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-07-29

A little cyclops with one eye
Staring to threaten and defy.
That thought comes -1ext-and instantly
The freak is over
The shape will vanish-and behold
A silver shield with boss Of gold,
That spreads itself, some fairy bold
In fight to cover!
I see thee glittering from affair."
And then thou art a pretty star;
Not quite so fair as many are
In heaven above thee!
Yet like star, with glittering crest,
Self-poised in air thou seem'st to rests
May peace come never to his nest,
Who shall reprove thee!
Bright flower! for by that name at last,
When all my reveries are past,
l call thee. and to that cleave fast,
Sweet silent creature!
That breakfast with me in sun and ali.
Do thou, as thou art wont, repair
My heart with gladness, and share
OF thy meek nature! ,>%@-: .
William Wordsworth.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-07-29
Lord WoIseIev's DAUGHTER,

Miss Frances Wolseley, the daughter
of Lord Wolseley, spends most Of her
time at Farmhouse, Glynde, England
She is one of the keenest women gar
deners and thoroughly understands the
scientific side of the subject. She has
founded a school for gardening at
Glynde and personally superintends
the teaching. Miss Wolseley is hctress
by Special remainder to her fathers
viscounty - ..<.-.
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of Makers of Playing Cards, of Lon
don, receiving another casket from
that company