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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-14

Then sire,' the other went on. I
would ask humbly that some ruined
village be assigned to me, that I may
rebuild and embellish it, according to
architectures best tenets.'
Very good, said the potentate
graciously, and he consulted with his
officers, as to what ruined village in
his great domain should be allotted to
the suppliant.
'But 10, it appeared that in the
whole kingdom not ruined village
existed. Every city, town and ham.
let bustled with trade, smiled with
prosperity.
1--WE have no ruined villages, y
Hassim,' said the potentate to the de-
posed viZier.
'And thereupon the latter said i'm.
p1essively:
"'Can' my successor manage better,
sire, than this?'
''And he Withdrew leaving his lord
lost in thought. The next morning
he was summoned to the palace and
reappointed to his old post
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-14
Rerseyere to the End

PROF. John H. Finley, at dinner at
Sandwich, N. H., said, in praise Of
perseverance,:
1T is they who persevere eternally,
who keep on fighting even after every
thing is lost, that get on in life. -
"A Persian potentate had for grand
yizier a young man who had been in
the beginning only a poor woodcut-
ter's son. This grand vizier worked
well. Under him the potentate's do
main fourished. But, for some strange
reason, the ruler one day took offense
at him, deposed him and appointed
his successor.
On the day of his disposition. strip
ped of all his honors, the former
grand vizier called upon the ruler.
"'t'Sire,' he said calmly, since | no
longer bask in your favor, since my
public career is a closed book now, I
beseech that you will permit mo to
devote the rest Of my life to architec-
tGral studies.'
1T see no harm in that said the
potentate, after moments whisper
ed conference with his new vizier
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Rs>ychologyn~off- ID

Regarding the actions of mobs and
crowds, a writer on psychology says:
"A crowd is not all aggregation. 1t is
an individual mind, impulsive and er-
ratio, with it's moral or ethical level
generally much below that of minds
that have lost their individuality in
it. The personality of the men in
mob is lost, for it is recognized that
back of the avowed causes of human
actions are unconscious motives or
forces that defy investigation, and
that these. are the mainsprings Of
crowd activity. These motives or
forces are the common characteristics
of the race, and in these points peo-
pic are more alike than in the ac-
quired characteristics that come with
education.
These forces are primitive. SO that
crowds are generally incapable of ris-
ing above primitive actions. And it is
this that explains in part how other
wise respectable people will assist at
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-14
Gentle Hint from Pulpit

asleep, his wife dOzed and nodded be-
side him, and all over tho house repu-
table people, usually most attentive,
slumbered profoundly, lulled by the
heat, the minister's voice and the
buZzing flies.
THE poor man plodded on through
his sermon. 1t discouraged HINT
took his spirits away, to see so many
sleepers. And now, to make matters
worse, a group of children in the gal
lery began to talk and laugh.
THE distracted minister looked up
at the babbling children and then
down at the slumbering congrega-
ton.
"I must ask for silence up there
in the gallery he said. Don't you
know, children, that if you make SO
much noise you'll be apt to wake your
parents -
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-14
P a sin6 Of the Pie

it was a golden. yellow plea pie that
was renownC,.
For crispness and for flavor through the
entire country round:
So thick with luscious filling and the top
piled up so high
With waves of creamy egg frOth-that
was Mothers lemon pie.
I remember when in boyhood she would
serve Il piece to me
That reused my gustatory sense to
speechless ecstasy;
And all these years of absence I have
often yearned to fly
Back there to the old homestead for
piece of mothers pie.
My wife has sought to gain that height
of culinary art
That mother rea ched in lemon pie. but
they lie far apart
The pie that mother used to make and
nv wife's pie, that truth
Compelled me to observe was not the
4 pie I knew in youth.
Through cook books without number
we have searched in vain to find 9.
"A recipe for lemon pie--tho good old
] mother kind,
But while they bud with promise and
/. Il awake the kind1ing. eye III, g
To n lively expectation, they don't taste
4 y like Mothers Pie, 4 II f7gS* s5
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Golden had done the thing in his
usual masterful way. He had invad-
ed the little group in the corner, TAX
laughing apology to the others, he had
led her away. AS the orchestra on
the lm-embowered platform
launched into Strauss waltz, Cob
den led the way to a corner OF the
veranda. Before them the trim lawn
OF the Suburban club lay smooth and
level in the faint moonlight.
Golden studied the moonlit vista
for several moments in contemplative
silence. He drew cigarette from his
case, but suddenly threw it unlighted
over the rail- He laughed nervously.
The girl laid her hand lightly on his
arm.
Bob she said, you've seemed
rather queer tonight. What's the mat
ter?"
"Rattled,' he replied laconical1y.
NONSENSE! she laughed. That's
not in your line"
Not generally, III admit" he said.
''To-night, however, it's Il fact =I'n,
about to do something I've never done
before-something of vital Importance
to me. It's got on my nerves.
1T must be something awful she
said lightly.
Horrible" he acquiesced. I'm
about to propose"
He leaned toward her in his chair.
ITO you," he supplemented.
The girl gasped and stared at him
in speechless amaxement.
II wanted to do it nicely--to say a
lot of pretty things, but honestly am
ratified. Evelyn, for heavens sake
say you'll marry mel" he blurted out
She drew away from him. Her eyes
opened wide.
Bob" she said in a queer little
voice. Then she sprang from the
chair.
20, no, no, no." she CRIED
Golden looked at her helplessly He
groped blindly for words to express
himself. The expression came finally
in the shape of an inarticulate groan.
Il knew it," he said with pathetic
conviction. Pm not half worthy of
you. l had no business to suppose
you cared; still, was idiot enough
to hope you might"
The girl was standing by the rail,
her head turned from him.
1T isn't that. do care" she said.
He rose from his chair anG stood
beside her.
"Then-then Evelyn you will--'
NO." she said.
Golden squared his shoulders.
Why not?" he said with quiet
force.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-14
ASPARAGUS LONG A FAvoRiTE.
Records Date Back Almost to Begin
ming Of Authentic History.


OF all food plants there is none
which has been so long known or been
possessed Of so distinguished a line
age as the asparagus. Its records
reach back almost to the beginning
OF authentic history, and it is men'
toned by the comic poet Cratinus,
who died about 425 B. G. The Ro-
mans held the vegetable in high es-
TEEN. The elder Cato wrote q work
which is still extant, de re Rustica, y
and it treats at length of the virtues
and proper cultivation of asparagus.
Piiny, in his natural history, written
about 60 A. D., has much to say about
it. He feelingly observes: "Of all
the products of your garden your chief
care should be asparagus" and he de-
votes several chapters to it's many
good qualities and the best methods
OF raising it. He asserts that the soil
about Ravenna was 50 favorable to
it's production that three heads grown
in that district had been known to
weigh Roman pound. This pound
seems to have been about equal to
eleven ounces in our day, so it would
apparently have taken four of the
stalks to have reached pound of our
weight
The asparagus being essentially a
southern plant, it is possible that the
stock growing in Italy was of more
vigorous growth than that Of our
northern cline. It is found all around
the shores of the Mediterranean and
branches off into four or five distinct
species besides the one ordinarily
used for edible purposes.
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The Pines and the Sea.

] love that spot on the northern shore
Where whispering pines creep down
10 rim old oceans hoary brow
With fragrant emerald crown
sometimes he roars tempestuously
Swift running, that boisterous sea.
Reaching hoary arms with world-old cum
For the frightened pines that shrink
away
From his Clasp all tremblingly.
Or, mild as a cooling dove. he woos,
With low and langrous waves,
Across the beach of tinted sand
TO the seaWeeds' sounding caves:
In Qlllv'rlng heart of summer eve
When his heart beats restlessly,
Creeping nOiselessly, never at peace.
He Graves kiss from the drOoping pines
That list to his minstrelsy.
Then the moon rides out on the blue
above,
Breasting the cloud-billows free,
Watching the coquetry of the pines
With the ever-urgent sea:
Shedding a benison of light,
AS she muses. the WHILE merrily
CHANGING down with silvery smile
On the bridal night of the stately pines
And the all-conquering sea.
All! spicy pines and wide, deep sea.
The JOY of your love distils for me
The fragrance of shores unknown
And the pine-clad heights of poesV
Boston TRANSCRIPT.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-14
iNDlGo's UPS AND DOWNS.
Threatened by Chemical Counterfeit,
It Now Is in New Demand.


More than twenty years ago, and
after an extended series of expert
ments, it was announced that chem
lists had discovered how to make arti-
ficial indigo, and it was soon ascer-
tanned that the new product was iden-
tlcal in it's properties with the old.
A very few years elapsed before the
new indigo was made in Germany on
commercial scale; and, as it could
be sold at cheaper rate than that de-
rived from cultivation, the planters
were threatened with ruin.
=, But "a. 2 strange stlSn thing has zhappened.
1t has been recently found that when
the two kinds of indigo, the natural
and the artificial, are blended in equal
proportions, a dye is obtained which is
not only more durable but is brighter
in hue then either by itself.
This discovery has naturally result
ed in an increased demand for the old
fashioned indigo, and fresh impetus
has been given to an industry which
was much in need of support.-Cham.
ber's Journal.
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Slumbering congregations" said
Bishop Daniel A. Goodsell of Chatta-
rooga, have distressed many q min
lister, but doubt if any ministers was
ever so terribly distressed as COL
ored brother that l heard about in
Watauga.
This brother, a native OF Watauga,
is an jtinerant preacher, travelling be-
tween Strawberry Plains. Nola Chucky
and Paint Rock.
His Nola Chucky congregations, as
rule, are large and attentive, but
one hot Sunday, strive as he would,
the poor fellow could not seem to hold
their interest,"
, The sun streamed into the hot lit
the auditorium. A host of flies made
loud. buzzing sound. The leading
colored citizen of Nola Chucky sat fast
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-14
More than Gascon's Match

ct is rumOred that Cornelius Wander
biN, on account of his friendship with
tEe kaiser, will soon be appointed to
an important diplomatic post in Ger
many.
stls there any truth in this story?"
a young man said to Mr.. Vanderbilt
the other day.
5sAbout as much TRUTH" the other
answered, ''as in the Gascon's story
ofHhis eyesight.'
#What story is that?" said the
yqnng man.
saOh, that is a story that they tell
in5s Paris as good. example of Gas
cenade"
Then Mr.. Vanderbilt went on:
ia Gascon sat before cafe in the
enyirons of Paris. On a little white
table that had been spread for him
inthe open air there was a delicious
onaelet and bottle of red wine. He
was breakfasting, his appetite was
great, and while he ate he boasted--
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-14
MAY ATTAIN ANY ALTITUDE.
Mountain Climbers Afforded Sure
Preventive Of Difficult Breathing. ..

Mountain Climbers Afforded Sure
Preventive OF Difficult Breathing.
The difficulties of respiration at
high attitudes have attended many
mountain climbers and explorers, and
the theory advanced. in explanation
has been that this trouble was caused
Ey the reduced tension of the oxygen
in the atmosphere.
Professor Mosso, an Italian scien
tist, has recently disproved this the
ory by showing that it the pressure
OF the mixture Of oxygen and nitrogen
making up ordinary air be reduced
to one-third Of an atmosphere, and
then the proportion of oxygen be in
creased so that its partial pressure is
the same as normal, the mixture is
breathed with Inconvenience, accom-
panied by an abnormal respiration
and pulse.
BY taking supplies of pure oxygen
and mixture of gases to the summit of
Monte Rosa and analyzingy the blood
1T was shown, however, that diminu-
tiOn in the amount of carbon dioxide
in the air due to the low pressure was
doubtless responsible for much of the
trouble in respiration. Proof of this
was afforded by breathing a mixture
of 80 per cent of oxygen and 20 per
cent of carbon dioxide on top of
Monte Rosa, with a feeling of pleas
ure and ease, while the effect of the
same mixture near the sea level in
Turin was to. produce giddiness and
vomiting.
If this discovery is substantiated by
further experiments it seems that by
the carrying of cylinders containing
this mixture of gases the highest
mountain peaks can be scaled, while
the mere provision of oxygen is Of
doubtful utility.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-14
,Aristocrats Travel incoonito

It is said that in the past twelve
months numerous European men of
title have visited this country under
assumed names, and the fact is ex-
planned in this way: When they come
here the practice has been to asso-
ciate them with matrimonial ven
ture. This is distasteful to those who
are innocent of any intent to pick up
an American heiress and fatal to those
who really have such plans. Once put
the tag Fortune Hunter" on bum
baron or a spawned duke and his
plans are ruined. For these reasons
many of the members of the European
aristocracy come over incognito.
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81 ask you because I love you, as |
always have loved YOU"
The girl laughed gently.
Bobby, dear, you can't fool women
in some things" she said. You have
never really cared If you did, why
weren't you ever jealous of me? Why
did you let all my little affairs of the
heart go on with never murmuc from
you? Men are not silent when they
really care. Neither do they watch
another mans suit with equanimity.
It's because I'm growing old and be-
cause am no longer sought after that
you ask me now-you dear, brave,
generous boy"
Evelyn" he said, "are you crazy?"
She shook her head.
mo. Very, very sane.' she said.
Look here" said he. Il staid away
and gave those other chaps the field
because l never supposed I nattered
a pennywOrth to you. staid away be-
cause, above all else, wanted you to
be happy.
She smiled knowingly.
':Oh, you delightful old sham," she
said.
Its not sham, Evelyn Golden
said. And there are lots of other
things that haven't been shams.
either. It wasn't sham when l used
to walk the streets half the night,
eating out my heart with jealousy
never felt the right to express. It
wasn't a sham when l packed off to
the woods that time when your en-
gagement to Dean was announced. Ev,
used to envy every squirrel shot. "
did you really care SO much?" she
said. She was scanning his face eag-
erly.
II wish / might make you under
stand how l have cared" he said SIM
ply.
"Bob," she said slowly. II broke my
engagement with Dean when you
came back from the woods that time
because I knew then could never be
happy with anyone but you. But l
never dreamed you really cared"
Il wanted you to be happy" he
said. II didn't want to pain you by
letting you know l had grown to care"
1T was like you''-her hands on his
shoulders-"to be generous-far too
generous"
Golden laughed gaily.
'sRest assured never shall be
again." said he.
II think l shall like, you better If
you're more selfish" she confided.-
Thomas G. Fessenden in Boston
Globe.
| About the only right the taxpayer
has is the right to pay the freight.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-14
To Fight Cooling Moth.

George Compere, employed Jointly
by the state of California and West
Australia, has discovered in South
America parasite which destroys
the codling moth. Apple orchards
that are habitat of the parasite bring
95 per cent of their fruit to maturity
Hitherto the product of the worlds
apple and pear orchards has not been
more than 80 to IS per cent of the
promise at setting. San Francisco
expects to receive from West Aus
tralia the first Of the parasites very
soon, and they will be cultivated
under the most favorable conditions,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-14
One-DweIIing Parishes.

The parish of Montensthorp, three
miles from Oakham, contains a single
house, with four inhabitants. The
house is part of hall nearly all
fallen into decay. Occasionally the
church service is read there. Ian
court, three miles from Chepstow, is
another one-dwelling parish, with
four inhabitants. It has ruin of
a church, where services are held at
long intervals. --,< >47>- -.#t
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-14
Studying Philippine Problem.

Alleyne. Neland, the British traveller
and author, has arrived in Boston,. He
is the British authority on tropical
colonization and has been studying the:
prospects Of the United States ,for im-=
proving the Philippines as the British
have done ii: India. I. e 81 8.5 $si &
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-14

And you shan't marry me out OF
pity" she declared.
Pity" he said in amaZement.
Yes, that's Just what you are do
ing" she said. 20, read you like a
book, sir. You have always been so
good and thoughtful and tender-heart-
ed. And now that l have passed
through innumerable seasons and am
growing somewhat passe, you come
forward and offer yourself in sacri-
ffce.''
u do nothing of the Sort" said he.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-14
Pin Prick Cause Of a Victory.

Pin Prick Cause Of a Victory.
Nelson gained his great victory Of
the Nile through pin prick. 1t
came about in this way.
Sir John Acton, then commander-in-
Naples, happened to be in his wife's
dressing room at the moment she was
preparing for dinner.
Lady Acton's French maid was alsar
in the room, and was so startled at re-
ceiving letter from her brother, a
sailor in the French navy, whom she
believed to be dead, that she ran a
pin into her mistress flesh.
Apologizing for her carelessness,
prise. With carefully suppressed Gag
erness, Sir John offered to read the
letter while the maid continued her
duties. The maid gladly consented.
Having read the letter the comman.
der-in-chief left the house in search of
Lord Nelson, who had in vain been
seeking the French fleet. He found
him and impaired to him the contents
Of the letter.
1t gave all the information the ad.
miral had so long endeavored to OBJ.
tain.
Setting sail Immediately, Nelson
came up with the French, and the vic.
tory of the Nile was the result
Stray Stories.
Tropical Fruit Imports.
In reviewing the tropical fruit trade
for the last year, it is seen that New
Orleans still holds the record for be-
ing the largest receiving point OF
tropical fruits, and on account of it's
geographical position and it's close
proximity to Central and South Ameri.
ca, no other port will ever equal. it.
'fhe total importations of bananas
and cocoanuts into United States
ports during the fiscal year from July
I, 1908, to June 80, 1904, aggregate
27,0O0,000 bananas and 100000 0
cocoanuts, of which New Orleans re-
celved 100000 lunches OF bananas.
Mobile 100000, Baltimore 5000 900,
Philadelphia 100000, New York T..
100000, Boston 100000. In addition
" Luc lcCclpIE VI DduduStS dnU cocoa
nuts sundry shipments of Central
American oranges and pineapples. and
Cuba pines have been literally i'm
ported.-New Orleans Tifnes-Demo
crat.
The Sunburned Kid.
Recollect him, do you mister,
When the fellers used to swim,
The plump boy whose back 'ud blister
When the suns rays got at him?
Member how some feller bolder
Than the rest 'ud softly slip
Up behind an slap his shoulder,
AS he fixed to take a dip?
Recollect the way he hollered
At the smartin' of his back,
An the threatenin' that follered
Fer the boy who gave the whack?
Member then, when all was quiet
In the water while he'd play,
How some other boy 'ud try It,
An then dive to get away?
Member when you all were dressin'
How that boy 'ud watch each one?
Recollect, you kept him guessin',
Slappin' at him just fer fun?
Now an. then his first 'ud get you,
But you laughed, of course you did
Those were happy times, you bet you,
LESS you We're the sunburned kid.
-Bide Dudley.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-01-14
"Oh, no, no, mol" she cried.

OH1 no. no, not! she cried.
''Because-O, Bobby, because you
are Mistaken she said, "and it isn't
fair to you."
why not?" he persisted in the
same tone.
''Well, for one thing, I'm old. you
foolish boy" % .. -
I'm not exactly nesting myself"
iDaid he. -' -. ~ Il
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About the only right the taxpayer
has is the right to pay the freight.
Evening journal., 1905-11-20

they soon learned by experience what
superb accommodations the Reading
System arranged Tor It's patrons.
This year two notable improvements
were made to the New York service
dining cars and the new Twenty third
street ferry.
Dining cars are now run on two ap-
propriate trains each way morning.
noon and night a capita liable dhote
dinner being served ON evening cars az
rate Of 81 per capita and Ia carte
breakfast and lunch morning and noon
June 25 the new ferry house at the
foot of West Twenty third street. New
York, was opened, giving special ac-
lcommodation for uptown visitors.
Twenty-third street being a great
shopping centre and close TO most OF
the hotels and theatres. At the ferry
electric cabs can be secured az moder-
ate rates. or passengers can take the
cars Of the Metropolitan street Rail-
way. under cover. connecting to all
parts Of New York. In addition to this.
the street railway on October 23 COM
menced running through cars between
the ferry and Grand Central station
every four minutes from 7.3o a. m. to
p. IN.