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There was no doubt at all that FIRE.
da Williams owed everything to Dick
Rogers. For seven years he had>stood
ing far more satisfactory one than
her real happy-go-lucky father had
ever done up to the time when he
had shuffled off his life as easily as
he had shuffled off most other obliga-
tlons, leaving his only child to the
care OF his chum in misfortune.
Dick at that time was twenty-three
years old and Freda was twelve; Dick
was poor as a church mouse, picking
up precarious living at space work
on a New York newspaper, and Freda
was absolutely penniless. It seemed
a case the only solution of which was
to put Freda in an orphan asylum or
let her go to work.
But Dick swore she should do neith-
er. He had been fond of her father,
chiefly because he had done so much
for and received so little from him,
and he made up his mind that Freda
should have her chance in the world.
1t was easy to decide what this
chance should be, as the child was a
born actress, mimic to her finger
tips and the possessor of many witch
ing ways which Dick was sure would
win her fame in due time if given
proper chance for their disnlay.
But first she must be educated.
Without this Dick felt sure she would
be handicapped, SO that even her ma
tive talent would not bring her to the
fore. So off to school she went, while
Dick turned himself into galley slave
to provide the wherewithal.
At the end of the five years-hard
years, when. Dick was seldom certain
OF his dinner; years when his terror
was that he might fall i'll and be un-
able to keep up the payments that
stood between Freda and utter want
ne struck. it rich.' First novel and
then play of his made a great hit,
bringing his copy into sudden demand.
Book after book and play after play,
written during past heart breaking
years only to be unanimously rejected
by short-sighted managers and pub
fishers, were dragged from the dust
heap, brushed up and sold at increas.
ingly profitable prices. In four years.
from poverty-stricken hack, Dick
had become famous author, comfort
ably fixed for life
Freda had reaped the benefit of this.
of course. After one summer spent in
California with western schoolmate
she had left school for good and was
spending year with careful chaper-
one in tour of. Europe, designed to
give final breadth to her education
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-03-03
Japanese photographers Make New Map

but they succeeded in making the i'm.
portant discovery that Sakhalin was
an island, separated. from the CONT.
nent by a narrow strip Of sea. Thence.
forth this water was known as MANI.
ya-no-uni' 1.-THE Sea of Mamiya).
=. "Foreign nations, however, had NO
: cognizance of Mamiya's discovery
and when Muravieff commenced his
celebrated exploits in the Amur in the
middle of the nineteenth century SAX.
halin was supposed to be part of the
mainland. Nevolskoy discovered the
error in 1848, and thenceforth the
strait was called the Strait of Tartary
on Russian maps. But, as in Mamiya's s
case, so also in Nevolskoy's, outsiders
remained ignorant until the extraor
dinary incident of the Elliott expedi
tion in 1885,
" "Sir Charles Elliott, with three
strong ships, posted himself in the
Gulf Of Tartary, where, as he. sup
posed, his squadron blockaded a Rus
sian squadron lying in De Castries bay
But within fortnight the ice broke
up in the Strait of Tartary, whose ex
istence Elliott did not suspect, and
the Russians steamed away north
passed through the strait and left Ell
llott blockading an empty bay"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-03-03
-China's Bows and Arrows.

Though an attempt was made two
years ago to abolish bows and arrows
as the national weapons of China the
work has only been accomplished
within the last few weeks. The i'm
perial archers have. existed up to the
time the royal edict put them out of
business about month ago The en-
peror's decree is as follows: "Our dy-
nasty was established by means of the
bow and arrow and the art is still
therefore kept up in the examination
OF officials and the drilling of troops.
Lately, however, military science has
improved and weapons are being mod.
ernized every day and we must imi-
tate the martial spirit of our ances~
tors by using our best endeavors to es
tabllsh strong government. Here
after the princes, dukes and ministers
OF the eight banners must all earnest
ly practice military art and attain the
utmost proficiency, which will leave
no time for the observance of mere
forms, and we order all officials in fu-
ture not to carry the bow and arrow
when they attend state ceremonies,
nor are imperial bodyguards or the
palace guards to use them, but the
best weapons must be provided for
them Let the board OF war draw up
the necessary regulations for the prop.
er testing OF military efficiency for the
soldiers and let the said board report
thereon
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-03-03

Feeding Grain to Cows on Pasture,
Even when grains are high in price,
it will pay to feed ground grain when
the cows are at pasture The amount,
however, should not be large. Espe-
clally in midsummer when the pas
lures are short, a very small ration of
grain fed will go long way. This ra-
ton should be fed in the morning be-
fore the cows are turned out. They
will then not work so hard to fill up
on the short pasture grass. The mat
ter of feeding grain to cows on pas
lures has been widely discussed, and
experiments have been made that have
proved conclusively that in the end
the practice is profitable. At the
actual time that the grain is being
fed the profit will not be obvious, but
the results reach into the fall and
winter and show themselves in the
greater ease with which the COWS are
kept in condition. 1t may safely be
said that every dollar thus spent for
feed will come back to the farmer
within II months
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-03-03
Time Seems to B4aSNear When
the Common ,sople" VIII
Have No. Shar l@in Worlds
Beautiful Siphta .AAE:fi

The public must hive read with
something of shocllHthe other day
that Mount Washin4 4ton, in New
Hampshire, has been s4dZto Boston
capitalist for over $5QNOOO, observes
Judge. This is one 4the choicest
bits Of natural scenery the country,
ranking next to-; Pike 'ssak in point
OF scenic celebrity: Ginning so close
after the taking over ofNiagara falls
by commercial company, the pur-
chase of this, central lagure of the
American Alps is welNcalculated to
excite public alarm. Hhese big out
door landmarks hitheHDsshave. been
regarded as a kind ofpntinentai as
set belonging to the Sople at large
and travellers felt at*ll6aIty to boast
of them, and did so opfK the pride
rs iswere,ss
Who has not stood beside Niagara and
swelled little at the thought that
he was part proprietor of it? So with
Pixies peak. Each one of us who, has
gone out to view this majestic spec
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news to tell you-you first of all-you
who have been so good to the penni-
less little orphan thrown on your
hands seven years ago. Dear Dick, |
am to be married. Dear, darling Dick,
will be married before you get this
letter. Dearest brother, l am to be
married tomorrow.
Forgive me, Dick, for not waiting
to hear from you, but there is no time
Tom-Tom Woodward, brother OF my
California friend Rita, you know
asked me last summer, and / refused
him. But he came over here and
asked me again, and-Dick, Dick, dear
Dick, just couldn't refuse Tom has
only two weeks more to stay in Eu.
rope before we must both go back to
California, and he wants so much to
spend it in Switzerland with me, so
that we may always have the memory
to look back on. So, dear Dick, dear
elder brother, we are to slip away to
the American church here and be mar
r1ed tomorrow, and go to Geneva for
week; then come home. If you write
at once, we will get your letter at the
Embassy in London.
"P. S.-Oh, yes, had almost forgot.
ten-my career! I regret it only be-
cause I'm sure you will. For myself
Tom will make up for everything ~
When Dick raised his eyes his face
was very white. Without~ pausing to
think he drew a sheet of paper before
him and wrote:
You letter lies before me. It is
exactly the sort of letter might have
expected from your fathers daughter
Without faith, without gratitude, with
out even common decency. he never
hesitated to sacrifice his best friends
to his selffshness. You have followed
worthily in his footsteps. For several
years I have educated you. clothed
you, fed you; many a day have gone
hungry that you might have money to
throw away with your wealthy school
companions; cold, wet. ragged, hun
cry, i'll, day after day. toiled that
you might not suffer; that you might
have your career. And this is my re-
ward. For the sake of your two
weeks with Tom you forget every.
thing-you can not; do: me even the
poor courtesy OF cabling your inten-
tions before executing them. :: hQpe
I shall never see your face again =
Dick stopped abruptly and stared
into vacancy for a monnent; then he
laid aside what he had. written and
began anew: ). X .<..: 4: !. I'LL !: 81 * /, =
Mrs. Thomas Howard: : 5; zds5.:Z3 ~ =.. ..3
"a Dear Madam our favor Wit thout
date. telling me of your marriage. has
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-03-03
Captain. Had Another Think COMING

do? Cooks were rare in those days
and she cooked we'll.
'Still, he would have got rid of her
if he could. Here is an instance of he1
staying qualities and of her impu.
dence:
'|'The captain, entertaining in his
dining room one night a half dozen
brother shippers, told them how in his
youth. on a wager, he had once drunk
a gallon of brandy at sitting without
any i'll effects.
AT the climax of his story the cook
entered the room with the hot water
and lemons. She looked at her master
scornfully and said:
It's lie. Ye never done it,
'Shiver my timbefs, if that ain'1
going too far the captain snorted
He rose from his chair. We must part
at last he said sternly to the cook.
but she pushed him back into his
seat again.
'EIoity-toity,' she said. Where
would you be better off than in your
own homer"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-03-03
HORSE SENSE.
How Jo Fixed the Pump and Charged
IS for It.

How 10 Fixed the Pump and Charged
IS for It.
The question of remuneration for
labor, always a mooted one, is sus.
ceptib1e Of being viewed from various
/ 'standpoints.
IN a small community in Texas,
where water is hard to find, Mr.. Hen
derson, the owner of a we'll, fitted out
with patent pump, was a person OF
consequence. 1t was, also, matter of
public concern when the pump got out
Of gear and refused to perform it's
proper functions"
All the men in the locality spent the
day in Henderson's back yard, con-
sultlng and ''tinkering," jointly and
severally, at; the pump; but all to no
avail
Finally along came a young fellow,
10 Brady by name, from a neighbor-
ing ranch. He looked the pump over,
raped it on the head with a hammer,
thought couple of minutes, and in
side of two minutes more had it in
working order again. Appreciation
was general.
Just name your price, Jo my boy
said the owner of the pump heartily.
~~Jos onsidered a. ylb hit th en- said
that he guessed five dollars would be
about right.
There was a change at this, and re-
marks of different nature from ap
probation were freely indulged in
Now, see here, Jo,' said the ag
grieved Henderson, II thought you
was a square kind of chap! Tha,
amt any white mans charge: Why
you don't do nothin' at albany one
| Of us could done what you done
| and you want more'n five minutes
! doin' it, neither. Fifty cents nd be q
big price for that work you done!''
10 considered again.
"All right" he said, "I'li make
| another charge. I'll send you my
! BILL he added, turning on his heel
| When the bill came it read thus:
For working ON one pump five
For horse-sense that no other
mothers son Of you could
scratch up Observation-Disclosures .$4.5(
. = = = - = . . ~
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been received. Permit me to extend
my congratulations. I regret that /.
shall not have the honor of meeting:

been received. Permit me to extend
my congratulations. I regret that |
shall not have the honor of meeting
your husband. on your return, as
am about leaving the city Indefinitely ~
Again Dick paused and threw down
his pen; then a softer expression
came over his face and he again es.
sayed:
:'Dear Freda-Your unexpected news
startled me. but, if the young man is
worthy, it's all right. / shall imme.
diately place ten thousand dollars to
your account as little wedding pres.
ent. A wife is never the worse off for
having a small income of her own.
'Your Own Brother"
For the third ii me Dick paused and
a malignant expression passed over
his face. He laid the three letters be-
fore him and read them over again
and again. At last with a sudden ges.
ture he tore up two of them, signed
his name to the one remaining, placed
it in an envelope and without pausine
to think, rushed out into the hall and
slipped it into the mail chute. AS it
vanished from his sight he went slow.
ly and despairingly back to his room.
Which letter did he post?
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-03-03
Independent Cook Had No Inton-
ton of Allowing Him to Get
Away-Was tho Real Boss of
the Ranch-

Florence Kelly, the Secretary of the
National Consumers League, is inter-
ested in the servant question. She
said the other day:
Public interest in this question i'm
proves the quality of our servants,
raises their wages, and makes mis-
tress and maid alike happier.
Servants keep growing better all
the time. What once happened in a
New Bedford whaling captains house
could not happen there today
This captain, an old man, had re-
tired from the sea and lived in a big
house, along with many nautical treas
ures-curious corals, strange shells,
stuffed fish from the tropics, whales
vertebrae and so on
His cook was a tyrannical old
woman. Indeed, she was such tyrant
that she spoiled all the good cap
tain's pleasufe But what was he to
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-03-03
Best to Make Homestead Deh&htful

degradation. Young people must have
fun and relaxation somewhere; if they
do not find it at their own hearth
stones it will be sought at other and
less profitable places. Therefore, let
the fire burn brightly at night and
make the homestead delightful with
all those little arts that parents so
perfectly understand. Don't repress
the buoyant spirits of your children;
half an hours merriment round the
lamp: and freside of home blots out
the, remembrance Of many care and
{ annoyance during the day.. and the
best safeguard they can take. with
them into the world. is the influence of
g. bright little domestic sanctum.-
Chicago Journal.> i
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then At this point Dick would
lose himself in a reverie in which he
meditated much on the question
whether 21 and 80 could really be con.
sidered disparity in years.
He was wondering this one October
afternoon when the postman brought
him letter with Paris postmark.
His heart leaped at the, sight. Prob
ably it would tell him on what steamer
Freda would return, for the summer
was over and the Americans abroad
were preening themselves for their
return to their native land.
He broke the seal and read: Dear
brother Dick, I've got some won nderful
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-03-03
Recent Chart Of the ater. About
Sakhalin Island art Of .Eartl,
Was Long Tholht a Penin-

Japan has already .Dean to make it's
changes on the map o1sthe world. A
new chart of the watss about SAX
halin island has just ken issued by
the Japanese hydroaa aphic bureau,
concerning which. a TQao newspaper
says: ION this map e Strait of
Tartary, which dividesfsakhalin from
the main land, is m4rked 'Mamiya
Kaikyo' (strait of ManIya) and the
Amur gulf, northward sthe strait, is
marked 'Mamiya K4kyo Hokubu'
(northern part of Mhmiya strait
This name, 'Mamiya,' 'EsIecalls re-
markable historical evSnt hitherto not
known outside of =.Snan. Mamiya
Rinzo was Japanese SSsubject, who
had associated himHlf with, re-
searches in sakhalin I. lhe Tokugawa
government sent him ilfs1SOS with an
other official, Matsuda anjuro, to in
vestigate the conditionAHin this north
ern quarter. The littleparty travelled
in a boat sixty feet longWith four feet
beam. They suffered many hardships,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-03-03
Young People Must Have Fun and
Relaxation. and Their Own
Fireside 10 the Safest Place to
Find It,

Don't be afraid of a little fun at
home. Don't shut your house lest the
sun should fade your carpets, and
your hearts, lest hearty laugh shake
down some Of the musty old cobwebs
there! If you want to ruin your sons,
let them think that all mirth and So
cial enjoyment must be left on the
threshold without: when :. they come
home at night: When once a house is
regarded as only a place to eat, drink
and sleep in, the work is begun that
ends in gambling-housess and reckless
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-03-03
Capitalists Io Monopolize the Earth

tacle was actuated by desire to take
a look at his own property and see
how it. was getting along. But if
these things are to go to the auction
block we shall lose interest in them
and spend our money to go and see
things that are still free. Next we
shall hear, that some fellow with a
million or so has scooped in the Mis-
slssippi river and then a party from
Chicago will go and buy the Alps and
Vesuvius. Let the custom get start
ed and there is no telling where it
will end. The Reorganization of the
universe is at hand, we fear. There
isn't going to be anything left that
the poor common herd can look at
with pride and say: Il am part owner
OF that" Some of these days, if this
thing goes on, we are going to wake
up and find signboards all over the
Atlantic ocean lettered thus:
:: THIS FINE LARGE BODY OF {:
ss' oHsssassas.
TO LET. ::
THE WHOLE, OR WILL DIVIDE ::
TO SUIT. !:
!: NO TRESPASSERS ALLOWED. ::
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-03-03

The world is such a CHEEKY place s%@5
II we but see it so; s='5 ,G,rs. ~ ~
There's beauty everywhere we step p,
To set the heart aelow. y: %1s %E::
3TheEair is full z.of thnfc Joy s :::'S*
. Tbe blue Sky throbs. nth 5:*; =: ~
And every leaf and flower and sbirtlf% ~ a
BY pure delight In life is& stirred ~ +;
Z: T. eostacy To- prove. : $S$S fsss Sf$s
The world IS such a sorry place SE*: Z " ~
+: f we but see 1T so;lStS f &}:S
Ehere' sadness in the skies "a bove ;59
And on the cart tll below
#1 The Mowers roOp and
TUNED sins minor. key. HID "a
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-03-03
Bacteria in Milk.

The number of bacteria that can be
packed into very small space is be-
yOnd the conception of the human
mind. This is because of the extreme
smallness of these growths A cubic
centimetre is about 19 of cubic inch.
The report has recently been made
upon the bacteria in milk in Chicago
during one period last year. The num-
ber OF bacteria per cubic centimetre
exceeded 100000 in April, 100000
in May, and 18.000,000 in June. The
great variability Of bacteria in milk
is shown by the fact that in the best
milk it was 10000, and in another
sample of milk, 74,000,O00 per cubic
centimetre. Only Ia per cent of the
total number of samples tested show
ed less than $4,000 bacteria per cubic
centimetre.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-03-03
Uses a Gold. Pen.

The pope does his. private writing
with gold pen, but his pontifcal sig.
nature is always given with e. white.
feathered quill, which is believed to
come from the wing: of a dove. Il. l., The
same, quill; sbeens in Susez|2f for many
years. = g. W \ -. + & = y: = !, - ~ IL:
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-03-03
Increase in Use Of Separators.

All middle-aged men can remember
the advent of the first cream separator.
1t was cumbersome machine several
times larger than the machine OF the
present day and slow running com
pared with the machines we now have.
Now the company that brought out
the first machine reports that there
are over 100000 Of it's machines in
use in the world. That the use is in
creasing is evidenced by .the:fact that
this one company sold last year 1O0,.
900 machines. There are other COM
panies also that have built up large
trades in. centrifugal separators. We
predict that the future will, show a
still greater increase in the use of
separators..
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-03-03
A precarious living at space work o
New York newspaper.

a NEW YorK newspaper.
before she took up the actual Study of
her profession in life.
Meanwhile the years had had their
influence on Dick no less than on the
girl. AS she had grown in grace,
Dick had found it increasingly hard
to maintain his brotherly> pose.
"Steady, old mani" he had said to
himself again and again. This won't
do. Freda is to be a great actress
and she will be one: there is no doubt
OF that-and you must not stand in
her way. She likes: you as an elder
brother. Let her continue to do so
until she has made her hit; then
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-03-03

Fall Work in the Vegetable Garden.
There is much work needed to be
aflan sslRzsth yeaetaA1 1esaasardsap ssinszthe
fall. When spring comes there is no
time to properly prepare land that has
to be used for the first garden crops
in the spring. The land must be prop
er1y prepared in the fall. must be
plowed and narrowed. and must re-
celye a heavy dressing of barnyard
manure. This is available for plant
food only after it has decayed, and
If it is put on in the spring, the early
plants do not get the benefit Of it,
except in very small degree, But
where it is plowed in the fall, the
process Of decay goes on while the
ground is still open, and nearly all
the plant food is in condition to be
assimilated as soon as the ground is
warm enough to work in the spring.
The greatest cause of failure in some
farmers gardens is this very ignor-
ance of the fall preparation The gar
deners near the great cities never for
get fall preparation of their land. In
no other way could they satisfy the
demands for early vegetables,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-03-03
"A Drying. Rack. 4.

+ II should think that, merry-go-rooun,d
the boys have built IN the back yard
would make your head a eel
doesn It 4 but day III
makes s.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-03-03

ss.s.z Ihsa Mix PowdeE
During the last few years we have
heard more discussion as to the posi-
bllity of making milk powder than
ever before. The milk powder aimed
at is one in which the proteids retain
their normal condition, and need only
water added to them to change back
into normal milk. This preservation
OF the proteids in their natural con-
dition is considered by scientists to
be the essential requisite of the milk
powder. There are powders on the
market, but they are merely the result
OF evaporating milk, and can no more
be changed: back into milk than cheese
can be so changed. There are many
efforts being made to induce farmers
to put their money into these projects,
but the men being solicited should re-
member that up to the present time
there have been no indications that
any discoveries have been made max.
ing such milk powder possible.