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The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
Another Field for Philanthropy.


There are so many things suggested
for the multimillionaires to do that it
is not strange they halt and hesitate.
But nowhere among all the objects in
the, vast range of American giving,
from marble medical colleges to Or
chestral music, is the great cause of
the American theater to be found 1t
must be pretty low down to have
earned so singular an isolation. In all
the giving has anybody been known
to set aside anything for raising the
common level Of American cultivation
through the drama? And is not this
specially puzzling,. considering how
immensely fond of the theater the
American people are and how much
money they spend in going to the
play? Perhaps Mr.. Carnegie would
say that people must learn to read
before they can get the highest good
out of the drama, which embraces lit
erature and the fine arts; while, of
course, so moral millionaire as Mr..
Rockefeller, who has probably never
entered a theater, would not wish to
promote or even countenance anything
so manifestly tending to immortality
Boston Transcript.
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
THE ADS THE BEST READING.


japanese Admiration for Information
y. hey Conveyed.
Commodore Edward Dunham Ro.
bic, who sailed on Perry's flagship in
tho historic American expedi tion to
Japan f1fty-tWo years ago, talked in
New York the other day about the
Japanese. 4s*. s$5ss II 5E;l }5 n
2's..tWhat 81. impressed me. most at that
time, !" he said, was their Incredible
bravery. There we were, a strong
feet, with modern equipm ent and
when we approached. their po1 t they
sent their greatest battleship junl
to turn us back. They deffed us
om pointed to the line we must not
cross. = = f zt,5 81 5. #
AS remarkable as their sbravery
was the brilliance Of their minds
minds at once powerful and naive: 4
great samurai got hold Of an American
newspaper, and had it all translated
to fEhim, every word, from cover tt
coNer. At the end he said to Perry:
| III have read this newspaper witt
delight, especially the advertising sec
ton. Within that singularly narrow
space the author has contrived to col
lect the most valuable information
the bargains offered by the various
merchants, the humble marriages
which have taken place, the houses
for sale or to be let, many investments
and business opportunities, and
above all, the most valuable ani
precious medicines
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
Genius Has Project by Which He
Hopes to Run Wife's Sewing
Machine While He Enjoys tho
Smoke of Good Ciaar.

[ have acquaintance of a genius who
is making a delicate apparatus for en-
ploying to practical purposes his heart
beats. Believing that the human
heart is the most powerful mechanism
God ever created, he wants to use it
10 run his wife's sewing machine, in
addition to maintaining his circulation.
The normal heart beat is 72 to the
minute in the healthy adult. This man,
by smoking a strong cigar, can in
crease his pulsation to 140 a minute
without injury or any arrangement of
health, and will use his electric ap-
raratus, which is quite sensitive, to
operate small motor.
THE hydraulic ram was constructed
on the principle of the heart action, -
he says; therefore why not use my
extra excitement for the benefit Of the
home circle? My wife objects to ci-
gars, but if I can run her sewing ma
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
Learned Human Nature in "Tombs

One man, Smith, I saw the evening
before he was executed. It was a
sultry day and the sun was beating
down hotly on the men who were
building the gallows. We had straw.
berries and ice cream at dinner and
I thought Of Smith =:
II think Smith would like some OF
these said.
My mother said: Every well,'' and
I carried a bowl of the cream and
strawberries to him.
sat beside him at the edge of his
cot in the cell and watched him
When he had finished 1 took the bow
and said, ''Good night, Smith, and
he said, Good night, Blanchie.''
never saw Smith again.
There are pretty stories of my re
citing childish poems to the prisoners
They are not true. Sometimes my
proud governor asked me to recite
for his friends who came to the
Tombs and was glad to try my latest
elocution stunt on them.
AS a beginner I had no hard times
never was with a company that was
stranded, never was without money
I always spent more than I earned
but my mother, who travelled with
me, had an inexhaustible pocketbook
and I an immense "draw" on it.
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
Blanche Walsh as Child Lived
in the Gloomy Old Pile So
Well Known ~ New York's
Prison.

When l was between thirteen and
fifteen years old my father was war
den Of the Tombs and we lived in the
Warden's suite in the gray old pile,
writes Blanche Walsh in the Tlseater.
Again saw life in the raw-human
nature unclad. The prisoners inter-
ested me and they were all friendly
to the warden's little girl. I remem-
ber seeing sthen a woman of the type
OF Maslova: in Resurrection" She
was suffering from what they call in
the Tombs and I believe outside,
DTS (delirium tremens). I watch
ed her while she was talking with
the prison doctor and at the time did
not know there was anything the
matter with her, for she answered all
his questions calmly. \ Every little
while. however, she would pluck at
her tongue with her fingers and say
that there was a piece of wire in her
mouth and that she could not get it
out. Her efforts to reach it were pitt
ful. When she left the room the doc
tor told me she had delirium tremens.
recalled her when I studied Mas
Iowa. She was a part of that COM
pcsite study.
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
Worlds Homage Paid Juliet's Grave

A girl from journeyings across the sea,
And told me of one little grave that
Fame
Had made her own. in 1ar-off Italy:
One sacred spot in that old-storied city,
Verona. where in pensive, wondering pity,
Thousands stif come to mourn, each
year the same.
1.-The gardener" she said, "who keeps the
And lives near by it, every evening
brings
Away. with tottering limbs and work.
flushed face,
Great basket loads Of flowers and little
things
That maiden, traveller, poet, sage and
lover
Have carried there from all the wide
world over
And deluged Juliet's grave with Offer
ings!''
How the world loves this lovely Memory!
Yet none knows whether she lies bur-
led here
Or. even if she ever lived TO be
The spring of Shakespeare's sweetest,
saddest tear!
Only a myth-a fable-but the magic
OF his pen made the myth so true, SO
That not a tomb on earth is half to
dear!
Cleveland Leader.
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
JUST WANTEDTO KNOW.
Visitors Object Lesson in Loss o1
I II" Weight Attained.

:Vls\torS OpJect Lesson IN Loss OF
s=+ Weight Attained.
: Prof. D. P. Cropp, Of the University
of Colorado, has invented a machine
that increases the height from one to
five inches and the chest girth from
one to four inches.
1T is amazing" said Prof. Cropp the
other day, what an interest people
take in any change in their physique
the gain of an inch around the chest
or forearm, the loss of an inch in the
neck or stomach.
< Il know fat woman who spent
July at the seashore, taking an ocean
bath and hot bath daily, so as to
red qce her weight. i
"The day she was to leave for home,
she entered butcher shop and told
the old man to cut her off twenty
pounds of pork. J b.
aHe cut and weigheds this great
lch IMfkn Of meat and then said :e&sz-s-s>e
'''Where, madam, shall I send it?'
But the woman, as she feasted her
eyes on the pork, replied:
''Oh, don't send it anywhere. I
don't want to buy it. You see, have
lost twenty pounds since I have been
down here, and I just wanted to see
how much it was.
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
The Light of Other DAYS.

Oft in the Silly night,
Ere slumber's chain has bound me.
Fond Memory brings the light
OF other days around me:
The smiles, the tears,
OF boyhood's years,
The words Of love then spoken;,
The eyes that shone,
Now dimmed and gone, =
The cheerful hearts now broken!
Thus in the Silly night.
. Ere slumber's chain has bound me-.
Sad memory brings the light.
OF other days around me.
When remember all = Ill.,
The friends SO linked together
I've seen around me fall,
: Like leaves in wintry weather,
:. feel like one T.. -':
: Who treads alone "-1. 4, -
= Some banquet hall deserted, t =
-1A Whose lights are fled, }:>
j. Whose garlands dead, :..s. 4 ~
And all but he departed! y >a~.g
Thus in the Silly night, IT, <.s;E l.. .~~-
Ere slumber's chain has bound me-
Sad Memory brings the light -
q Of other days around me. -
r. =, Thomas Moore.
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
/ AMBITION AS a TONIC.
y q Well, @ Occasionally, to Depar,
$:S KY # from the Beaten Track.

u Is Well, Occasionally, to Depar,
from the Beaten Track.
The world is full Of ..beaten-tr
people who exist exactly after the.
fashion Of millions Of men and women
who have preceded them. New IDEAS.
new methods, new und ndertakings are
alien to them, and to move them out
sof the beaten track would require lit
tie less than q moral or material cy-
clone. Their gait is plodding, and
their motto, Let well enough alone"
{ These people have their uses nc
B doubt In the general scheme of things
mundane. They are important factors
in making life a severe discipline.
They hold in check the enthusiastic,
progressive and original people who
would otherwise run this poor Ole
world too swiftly. = .ll =. -.
Granted their usefulness, it might
be possible, and would surely be a6-
vantageous, for a smaller number Of
beaten-track people to serve the pur-
poses for which they exist; and some
power evoked to transform the ma
lorlty OF them into progressive and
enthusiastic citizens of the world.
Their numbers have far outgrown
the needs, while the ranks of the adj
vance guard of humanity have grown
thin. ~..~
Our attitude toward the sluggish
and satisfied people ought to be one
of pity rather than scorn, perhaps, for
they are generally the product of un-
, toward circumstances. Physical or,
mental Or. moral incapacity is ,respon-
sible for their apathy, and has left
them only energy or will sufficient for
the beaten track. They at least are
far above the degenerate and crini-
nal classes in humanity's scale, for
these are too feeble in intellect and
will to keep even in the beaten track.
not to mention the power to blaze a
higher and finer way through the
world.
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
His Fears.


If I should grow so very rich
That some sharp miss, with caustic pen
Would give her skirt sassy hitch
And write me up I'd trembe when
She'd prove beyond a doubt it's true
I fell from off a steamers plank
And i ate cloves in order to
Make all the girls believe 1 drank,
Supposing I Should wake and find
Myself millionaire. and she
Should get a notion in her mind
To take an awful crack at me-
Supposing she would say that I
Invested in gold mining stock!
I'd journey to the future via
The Sd street or the Woodward dock.
Supposing when I wealthy grow
She would investigate my past,
And heartlessly proceed to throw
The hooks in me from first to last
Supposing that ] couldn't hide
My secret and the world she'd tell
That I stood in crowd and tried
TO sing Down in a Diving Belly
Oh. not for me the wreath of fame!
I crave no riches-not bit,
Though poverty has lo!s of shame
There is cover over it. -:
"Tis not set forth in magazines. :.
Ye gods. what if some healtlesS thing
Would write that in my loves first dream
, My wife taught me embroidering!
Detroit Tribune.
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
|SAV n BID. BY Z OK
WARNING g STOPPED ENGINEER
~ ST IN I'M 81
Bad !Baad Accident fverted by Railroad
8 Y! n ans knowledge sof the Morse
Characters and the Fact That the
s Night Was a Warm One.

The other eve1lin' ''' said the en-
5gineer, in. the New Y ork Sun, 6 was
called to make a particularly fast run. IA
We%Weren't to run on any schedule,
cause when you're goin' to make a
fast run a schedule is just about as
much use as a water tax in Hoboken.
'Ihey ran us extra--extra fast. ~ :
1E Eeavin' the yards l moved careful,
but after we got clear5I Just let her
out. zS3.x:.sSsz5ss:>. g. :> .-s....s>s.
i: When 1.sfrst began to carve out
my railroad career I intended to be a
telegraph operator, and a .smattering
OF the Morse characters still cling to
me, so I can read words of four let
ters or under if they come slow over
a wire. e,!
fright aroun' the end of Mlller's
Ten Degree curve there's a facin' sid
in which is protected by semaphore
signal at. the beginning of curve: The
semaphore showed a white light when
we whizzed by it, lettin' me know
everything was all right down at the
switch.
Just as we were takin' the curve
[ thought I heard the faint tickin'
of telegraph instrument. At first I
thought it was Imagination, but listen
in more intently l found that I was
not mistaken. Some one with "a not
too steady hand was tryin' to make
Morse characters.
II could get the first two letters all
right They were ST. After that it
was jumble. Finally the word came
to me like a flash, complete. 1t was
STOP After l made out what the
word was it was repeated again and
again. Finally that stop business
grated so on my nerves that l just
shut off, and as we came out on the
straight track at the end of the curve
we had slowed down to about ffteeE
miles an hour.
"Just as I got the sight again we
came on the switch, N there was the
switch ball showin' red Well, sand
ed her, m we camexto a stop right at
the point of the sidins.z IF we'd : 8
come aroun' there at full speed we'd
a been into the string of cars on that
switch before you could have winked
II started up once more feelin' about
as limp as. man with a wooden leg,
n we'd no more'n got shakin' 'em up
when the tickin' started again. The
sound seemed to come from inside the
cab, so I looked there. What do you
suppose it was? When we started ou;
it was so warm that l took off my
jumper n hung it up on a peg in the
cab. It swung loose n when we gos
goin' fast on the turns one of the
metal buttons would tap against the
window pane. Mebbe imagined that
stop business, but anyway it saved
my life.
"The company investigated thu
white light in the semaphore n found
that the heat had expanded a wire
just enough to make the mistake k
the signal"
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
"Qnly a Myth-a Fable-but the
Magic of His Pen Made the Myth
90 True. so Tragic. that Not a
Tomb on Earth Is Halfso Dear

The Hebrew story says thar no one
knows
The place of Moses the lawgivers
tomb:
Who searches for it? Or what pilgrim
goes
With revcrent feet DER Nebo's desert
gloom
TO find the aerie Of that vanished eagle?
Who piles upon the faithless Pharaoh's
regal
Last resting place his gifts of bud and
bloom:
Where Caesar sleeps, the rank grass
grows at will,
Where Homer dreams, there is not even
mound
Cato is buried on a lonely hill
Where never mOurner comes the whole
year round.
The bats fit round the ruined tomb of
And many a. poet, prophet, priest and
Sleeps in unvisited, unhalloWed ground.
So was it ever. But last week there came
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
Possible EXPLANATION.

.'Why, John," exclaimed Mrs. New
kid as she came into the room, "what
in the world makes the baby cry so!"
81 don't know, my DEAR" answered
Newkid as he handed the infant over
to it's mother, 'but l imagine he is
thinking of what the governor OF
North Carolina once said to the gov.
ernor of South Carolina"
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
Simply Good-Natured. :

,s: Simply Good-Natured. 81
u: .'Why is the audience cheering ?'
The manager has just announced
that owing to the fact that shelmissed
the train Miss Shrek, the new so
>prano, will not appear. .ss.
But why should they cheer q
The manager uses such q delight
fully indistinct foreign accent that no
body und derstoo what he was saying, /,
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
William Charles Baldwin in 1860
Cut His Initials Under Those
of the Great Explorer. David

William Charles Baldwin, who Wis
tied the Victoria falls in the Zambesi
river, Africa, in 1860, wrote: Il had
the honor yesterday of cutting my
initials on a tree on the island above
the falls. just beloW DR.. Livingstone's,
as being the second European who
had reached the falls, and the first
from the east coast. Charles Living
stone says they far exceed Niagara in
every respect, and the doctor tells
me that it is the only place, from tls
west coast to the east, where he had
the vanity to cut his initials. Mast
pootana, the captain (under Sekeletu)
of the Makololo nation, was exceeding
ly savage that I had seen, the falls
without and assistance from him or
his people, and sent several messen-
gers to say that must pay him hand
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
Per Instructions.

The mother had just finished the
Sabbath afternoon Bible story. 1t was
about Noah and the ark
Wishing to impress the story upon
the children she began to. ask ques-
tions.
What was it God told Noah when
the water covered the earth?'' was the
first. L.
"Go obber de BRIDGE" was the
prompt answer from Clarice, aged 4.
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14

"Bai James, dear boy! you must
have been wild when you found the
other johnny cuddling your missis."
'Mai dear chap, l was furious! Il
took his umbrellah and I smashed it
in two, and said, Theah, I hope it
re ins. Judy =. ~ ! H. 49, n n
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
Scientific tfearinq 81 Children. q I.

.5 5 Scientific searing Of Children.
:Z Luther Burbank the noted Galifor.
MIA horticul turist, says his one great
ambition is to apply to the rearing Of
children the scientific principles
through which hes has wrought such
wonders with plants. He believes
man could become ply ysically spiritu.
ally and morally perfect, If bjugated
to the same care and training that he
tBurbarli ggiving to plants
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
Free Advice.

Free Advice.
Doctor, want a little advice" said
the notorious dead beat.''
whats the matter with your"
asked the physician, curtly. for he
scented no fee
II have insomnia dreadfully. What
shall dO?"
sleep it off,
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
Doinqs in Pleasant Lane.

Jack Johnson's yallow dog chewed
up one of Gabe Tyler's boys white
capes the other day, and now the dog
has a canvas back.
The cottages are all filled and the
summer season is at it's height. zach
morning games are engaged in, such
as duck-on-davy, prisoners base, ring
around-rosy, hop scotch and poker,
with an occasional game of penockle.
The afternoons are spent in discuss
ing each others clothes, talking about
the neighEors and sleeping, and at
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
"The Good Old DAYS. "

The North American doesn't taks
much stock in the "good old days"
idea. 1t believes that, on the whole,
the ''good old days" were no better
than the bad young ones. In a good
many aspects they were very mucE
worse.
But occasionally the past forces con
cession of it's superiority.
An instance in point is to be foune
in a case recorded in the North Amer,
lean of Aug. 1, 1905. According to
English advices then published, three
ing fictitious votes for Sir Francis
Burdett at the, late Middlesex cleo.
tion."
The members of this interesting trio
majesty's gaol of Newgate," at the ex
piration of which time they were ban
ished from Great Britain for seven
years. =, -. <+t
+ On June 81, 1905, three men. Were
convicted of polling fictitious votes"
at late Philadelphia election. They
were sentenced, two Of them to five
months in jail. and to pay a fine OF
$500, the other to four months I'M Jail
and to pay fine of $3.50. - =. .
Whatever may be the, comparative
merits Of the places and times in other
respects, it must. be !, admitted that
there was a clearer conception Of the
%enormity Of the crime against the bal
lot in London in 1906 than there ap.
pears to be in Philadelphia in 1905.
To that extent sigh for the good
old days" is justified. .s.. #ss s.: Il ,$s.
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14

JUST betore Methuselah u1euI Ne
broke into laughter. - =
What is it?" they asked. u. : !. 49, = .
Il was just thinking" he explained.
"of my dear departed Gladys. She
married me when 1 was SO, thinking
that I couldn't possibly live only q
few years more and she would get my
property" E=3< : p
Bidding them make the funeral no.
tice read, "No flowers he turned
over and passed away.-Detroit Trib.
une. -
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14

night. the games are started over
again The summer season is a great
thing for Pleasant Lane. -
Thompson, the florist of Westhamp-
ton, is thinking of moving here to
start a flower garden. We hope he
will, for we are all fond of the beau
tiful Fl ' s.t. 4. / - MI. d
Gabe Tyler left this week for some
where in the country. He loves to
wander among the daisies and dells in
the wildwood. Mr.. Boyle is going to
whitewash the new window blinds
during his, absence. .- Richmond (Va.l
journal. 5zz st. ss
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
Second European to Visit Zambesi

somely. I went to see him and made
him small present, but he was quite
on the high horse, and said that now !
had come across he would take care
l did not go back again; I must stay
there until I had paid him for the
water I drank and washed in, the
wood that I burned, the grass that my
horses ate.
1T was a great offense that l had
taken a plunge into the river on COM
ing out of one of his punts; if I had
been drowned or devoured by croco-
ollie or sea cow, Sekeletu would have
blamed him, and had lost my footing
and fallen down the falls my nation
would have said the, Makololos had
killed me; and, altogether, had given
him great uneasiness.
"As he put the matter in this light,
I paid him about six pounds of beads
and was released. These beads were
sent by Masipootana to Sekeletu, who
afterward returned them to me-"
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
Where He Got Them.

Jones sat working at his desk when
a Hebrew flower peddler stuck his
head in at the door and asked if he
was going to- the big Yale-Harvari1
football game on the morrow at New
Haven, if SO, he would guarantee for
81 bunch of twice as many violets
as any one else. -
r The offer, was taken, the violets
delivered and worn to the game by a
young lady who. not only used them
that day but the following Sunday.
"A few days later the Hebrew again
called, and Jones said those violets:
gave excellent satisfaction, but if you
have no objections i would like to-
know how. you were able to sell So
many violets for SO little money on al
day when they command a high price.
His reply was, z get 'em of.
corp:,es.' = z5 >@. ..1. zz s..
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-14
Johnny Knew.

m -. ~ 80 J0nnnys Knew. z .sEEEZs a.
Z a class Of boys were given a lesson
in geography each having a book con
tanning description of the earth be-
fore him. II al S,@ ss55ss; e
Suddenly the teacher called on one
sof the young gsters who, evidentIy, had
been paying little attention to what
was heing said to answer the follow
Ing question:
ohnny where is E,,rope ~ sage
68, Wass the boy 's.reply.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-11-18
THE SHAKESPEARE WATER CURE
PRESENTED TO A LARGE CROWD
AT ST. MARY's HALL LAST
NIGHT.

One of the most successful amateur
plays ever seen in the city was given
last night at st. Mary's hall when the
Ignation Dramatic club presented
S~hakespeare's Water Cure, a combina-
ton burlesque and drama in three
acts. While it was called an amateur
play, the affair might well have done
credit to professionals. The secret of
its success was good material, inter
est taken in the play by the players,
and the coaching by Prof. j. H. Crum,
under whose able direction the play
was given. The hall was crowded al
most to its fullest capacity and for a
time 1t looked as if the standing room
only" sign would have to be pinned at
the entrance.
The play was full of comical situa-
tons and thrilling dramatic scenes.
The actors were all fine and took their
parts like stage veterans and il would
not be good policy on the part of the
Citizen to mention any Individual play.
ers, but they a rest assured that
their efforts were appreciated by the
audience.
The Lyric quartette, which has just
been organized, made its first appear
ance last night between acts and was
quite a treat to the audience. Great
credit belongs TO Prof. Crum who has
as yet to make one of the plays he
undertakes other than a success, ant
also to Mr.. ]. ID. McCusker, who as
manager of the play had a good deal
I Of responsibility, but brought It to a
successful ending.