The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-04-08
"a LITTLE n q sENsE D.
Ii Ii; Nov, and Their. IS Relished
sby the Best of Men, s5S MI 5S s2
Oh, thesise 81 the sishs that fond lover signs
When some airt casts him Of for q better.
Can never size up with the size Of the siehs
70 y the poor lnckless cnss who may get her. 2


A bunch Of county officials we're en-
gagged the other day ia mutual exchange
Of experiences, when one Of them took
occasion to pay his compliments to the
fellow. usually q wealthy corporation
representative, who drops into town,
maybe on 8 Saturday night stage, and,
hunting up the desired official, ge1s him
to the court house on Sunday to do
stunts Vt helpfulness for him. All day
long he seasons the air with the perfume
of fragrant Havanas, oblivious to your
humble servants liberal patronage of
his package of La Turk. offering barely
a "thank you" for the days toll.
do as l did," said another Of the
bunch. Zone. OF those fellows was at my
office not long ago and. I worked with
him all forenoon looking up some mat
ters. He kept the air blue with cigar
smoke, but I guess he thought l didn't
Know what cigar was. Returning
after dinner and lighting q fresh cigar
lie suggested that we had better get
busy You can get busy said, but
L have to go down town and get some
tobacco He tumbled, of course, and
ever since then I never need tobacco
when work with him."
Ex-Congressman Eddy, editor of the
Sank Center Herald, is the perpetrator
Of this one:
Now, in order to endorse Roose-
velt in his anti-race suicide idea
they have started an Insurance com,
pany that pays fixed sum on the
birth of each baby. We would like
| to1know what good that will do us
old fellows that have stopped kid
ding?
A certain Grand Marais young lady il
is in quandary as to the meaning of a
series of unsigned post cards being sent
her from Two Harbors. The cards are
attractiyely gotten up, being in printed
form on nice leather material. The first
card read:
"Why the X X don't you write?'
In the part indicated by the stars ie
a picture of the man with cloven hoofE
and long tail and>>a pitchfork in hi
hands. The next card she received
which was adorned with the same pic
ture, read:
ave are raising the Ct in Twt
Harbors."
t IT we we're risking solution of tn,
riddle we would say that it is tie worl
of some Two Harbors enthusiast WHIT
wants Grand Marais people to under
stand that this is not the only place
where they can "raise the DEVIL"
A little tot of the village very limo
Gently perpetrated an April fool joke o,
the family. The family COW was no
we'll and saltz had been prescribed. Pa
pa brought home pound of the remed,
aud laid it on the kitchen table, wh,l
he prepared to administer it 10 tn
patient. While he was out of the kltch
en- for moment, Miss Busybody cam
in and spying the package, examined j,
Thinking it was sugar she emptied i
into the sugar box on Top of 50 pound
of sugar. 'Nough said.
"a
! The Duluth Herald repeats a stor,
| told by Hibbing gentlemen, illustrat
ing the pecullar,ties of the advertiser,
seen in English journals. In England
be says, the business dealing in secon,
uaud clothing is of more importanc
than it Is in this country. There thi
class of goods is known as "left-off
clothes. Ia bis old home paper he sa,
an ad. recently that read as follows:
"Mr. and Mrs. John Mills (such
! and such a street) have left off cloth
ing of every description and invite
yOur special insnecti0n"