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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-02-10
PROPER CARE OF HEADGEAR.
How Hats May Be Worn Long anc
ALWAYS look Well.

How Hats May Be Worn Long and
Always Look Well.
No article of dress becomes shabby
so quickly, for want Of a little care,
as hat; light, air and dust all tend
to turn 1t brown, if it is exposed to
their influences; it ought therefore
to be kept in a hat box whenever it
is not in use. On ordinary occasions
soft brush should be used.
When the hat is wet it should never
be wiped with pocket handkerchief
(unless clean one is specially used
for that purpose), but the superfluous
moisture should be taken off with a
dry soft cloth.
If it has received only partial
sprinkling, and rough notified ap.
pearance is left, dip hat brush
lightly in cold water and pass it gen.
tly round in the same direction as the
nap.
When all parts are uniformly damp,
take hard brush, and with that bring
the nap to it's former state Of even
ness; then lay the hat on it's side on
clean cloth for the night to dry.
After it has been brushed with the
ordinary hat brush next morning, it
will look little the worse for the wet
ting it has undergone. The better the
quality of the hat, the more times may
this be repeated without injuring it.
Bulges or indentations may be re-
moved by warming the hat (by steam
is preferably and taking them out
with a hot iron. Any attempts to re-
store the shape by other means will
probably result in cracking the hat.
Gloss may be removed, when after
some wear the nap becomes dull and
gray looking, by brushing with hot
brush, or, better, by gently pressing
three times round in the direction of
f1atiron, ordinarily heated, two or
the nap.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-02-10
plague. And he died, died Of the fever
in its worst form. ,,r1:. ' tt:s d IN

plague. And he died, died 81 the fever
In its worst form. -: 5: . .=:=ss ,%S d : &
Dr.. Maguire's friend, the physician
who was interested in the mosquito
theory, rubbed his: hands :complacent-
~. This proves the experiments abb
solutely in my opinion" he said. The
man had positively no symptoms of
the disease. Its development and his
subsequent death VI ere due to the bite
of the mosquito" DR.. Mcguire smiled
strangely. What. would you say" he
said slowly, IF told you that: the
man was not bitten by q mosquito?
At the last moment, when he turned
his head aside as l held the insect
above his arm, thrust the point o.
pin into the flesh instead of allow
ing the mosquito to bite him. The
man died of fright, pure and simple.
Or else he took the fever from infec-
tica. The woman had the plague,
you know, when the man fled from
her."
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-02-10
.WHIMs oF.WoRLD's*dREAT ONES
Men Of Genius Who Have Been Noted
for Their sEccentricity. ~ & s.##=zss

Men Of Genius Who Have Been Noted
for Their@Eccentricity. zz= =
The men of genius whose works are.
among the worlds most precious pps-
sessions have ever been, the most
eccentric of the most normal OF man
kind, says w. H. Cotton. All readers
Of "Romola' will remember Pieri di
Cosimo, that misanthropic painter
who lived completely isolated from
his fellows in his queer, squalid stu
do, with it's garden Of weeds and how-
ers growing rankly as they wllied'
because he preferred: them so; his
only companions toads, rabbits, spl-
ders and even more loathsome crea-
lures; his diet consisting wholly OF
eggs, hard-boiled, by the dozen ana
eaten when required, no matter what
condition. Goya, the Spanish Rem
brandt, was the widest and most lras-
chile of men. When he was painting
the portrait of the Duke of Wellington
he kept the hero of Waterloo in a
rigid attitude for hours, at the least
movement threatening him with
dagger, and when the duke complain
ed of WEAKNESS the painter seized
plaster, cast and hurled it at his head.
Michael Angeles method of working
was one of his greatest eccentricitles.
Often he would get up in the middle
of the night to hack and heW his
marble by the light OF a single candle
fastened to the visor of his cap, and
then, worn by his great labors, he
would throw himself down to sleep
again without removing his clothing
or his shoes-sometimes keeping the
latter on so long that when they were
removed the flesh came off with the
stockings. It is generally credited
that at one time year passed in
which he never once removed his
shoes.-Leslie's Weekly.
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bent form and his gray hair, he re-
turns to his old ways broken man.
Started with $500
McNally began his career with $500,
which he had managed to save out of
a small salary, and in ten years had
won such success that he was acknow-
lodged king" Of the business. He
kept many Offices and employed many
men.
He spent his money lavishly, had
splendid mansion in the aristrocratic
part of Boston, supported a string of
fine horses and had magnificent
country estate in Bridgeport, Conn
No banking magnate ever spent
money more freely.
$4,000 for JeweIry
For the notorious Nellie Maroux,
who deserted him when he was sent
to prison in '96, he spent $4,000 in
jewelry alone in one year. He has
the bills for this now and exhibits
them as evidence of his past grand
eur.
Mentally himself says that his pres
emit position is only temporary. He
claims to have $4,000 " tied up in
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of that back. But, after all, there
was a big lump of cash in the safety
deposit box, and that was what was
depending on when got out of prison.
Threw Away Key.
But when I was arrested I was
afraid they would try to confiscate this
cash, SO threw away the key to the
box. And then I put in my three years
in Joliet.
s'And then I had been a heavy drink
er and I had used opium. These
things were suddenly stopped short in
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Must Wait Ten Years.
Gould Most Catch the Train.

Gould Most Catch the Train.
There is man in Enfield, Ct, who
drives a carriage to and from the sta
tior for the accommodation 60 of the
public. He is exceedingly slow, nearly
always being little behind time.
One day he was engaged to carry a
lady to train which it was very i'm
portant she should catch. She watched
and waited, with hat and coat on. I'm.
TIL 1t was nearly train time. At last
Mr.. G. drove up, hurrying not an atom.
The@ladys ~husband" flew to the door
and impatiently shouted: whats
the use of coming now? It's nearly
train time
j.. WALL" drawled the immovable
hackman, III your wife has her things
all on, and is ready to start, / reckon
l, can git her most there" - :z.:. :.
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my bread until the time comes when I
can lay my hands on my $4,000.
1T is queer story about that mon
ey. suppose you are wondering why,
if I have it in cash in safety deposit
vault, can't go right down there and
get it. I wish could. You wouldn't
he able to see me for dust if that was
possible.
Placed it in Vault
"But it is this way: I was caught in
Chicago in 1900 charged with using the
mails for fraudulent purposes. They
had me right. l had been sending
green goods circulars through the
mails. l was sentenced to three years.
Now before this time had placed the
money in a safety deposit vault in
New York.
AT first there had been $780, in
the box, but l invested about half of it
in farms and other things, and while
I was in prison the property was taken
form me in lot of different ways
attachments for small debts and that
sort of thing. I have some hope,
but not a great deal, of getting some
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a safety deposit vault which he cannot
get at for two years.
Doesn't Mind Work
I'm a waiter, and expect to be a
waiter for two years yet" said Nc
Nally, land I'm used to the work and
don't mind it any more. I don't think
at all of the times when I used to sit
at tables and order champagne and
wear fine clothes and roll around in
carriages. rye got little home up in
Yonkers, and my two children are
there, and all I want to do is to earn
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Children Taught to Swim.

At this period of the year, when so
many drowning accidents occur, the
annual report of the London (Eng.)
Schools Swimming Association DOS
sesses special interest. The organiza-
ton, which is supported by voluntary
subscriptions, Is the largest, swim
ming association in the world; having
affiliated to it nearly 1000 schools.
The branches are spread all over Lon
don, and every year about 5000 GER
tificates are issued to boys who can
swim 100 yards, and to girls who can
swim fifty yards. No fewer, than co.
900 children are taken to the baths
every week and instructed in swim:
ming. Life-saving is also taught. The
Roll Of Honor contains the. names Of
forty-fve boys and girls who have at
TEN pied to save life from drowning.
All these young people have been re-
:warded by the Royal Humane Society.
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ease and when the woman had shown
symptoms of the plague he fed, leav-
ing her to die alone. She paused,
apparently unable to go on. Ellis
NAME" DR.. Mcguire urged, tell me
his name" He shook the dying 'wo.
man roughly, all else forgotten in the
eagerness that was upon him. She
reused sufficiently to whisper the
name. And the doctor knew that his
revenge was near. Somewhere, in the
vicinity of the town, with the quar-
antine lines drawn tightly about him,
caught like rat in trap, was a man
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-02-10
A 0iaunoRia.

y tn callow youth thinks to poke
fun at: the young woman who has
Just obtained her degree Of M. D. no
s. s. Aw, Miss Heller he says, 81 Won,
*td 81 q; you,can te1lsmeS anything about;
my case. ~" @:. =4 1: 81 b %:1.. -
Possibly :. d VIZ 1 & s s:;S.
. 9 y =. tsnoabled with shooting pains
all the time LII, 4 Il: q <. +. .51.:
here &. are they ooting :.
szsi'I hroug my head
5:' 81 Y ,vorr;J, IL ID were You.
they'll not hit anvil linz s
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Had Faith In It.

Admiral William G. Buehler, at a
dinner at Hot Springs, Va, said of a
Philadelphia editor:
HE Is good man, an enthusiast.
His paper prospers because he be.
ieves in it. because he has faith In
it.
'And what faith in it he has: He
reminds me of the Yankee with the
accurate watch.
This Yankee, an elderly man, had
watch that for thirty or forty years
had never once gone wrong. Hence he
boosted about it at all times.
with guest from Boston he rose
one August morning to see the sun
rise, and as they waited for it's rising
the Yankee kept consulting first his
watch, which was in his right hand,
and then a farmers almanac, giving
the suns schedule, which was in his
left.
There was long wait in the pale,
vague dawn. Then, tapping his watch
with his forefinger, the Yankee said:
eff the sun amt over that hill in a.
minute and half he'll be late -
Buffalo Inquirer.
Will RxtUrn for Cincinnati Festival.
Sir Edward Elgar, the composer,
who sailed recently. for Europe, viii
return to this country next spring to
serve as one OF the conductors Of the
Cincinnati Hay biennial festival This
is the result of series Of negotiations
conducted by the Cincinnati Musical
Festival association. An important
clause in the agreement provides that
the well-known English composer is
not to appear as conductor elsewhere
during this visit , :::<:s '>.'* <z: TIL: y
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The doctor found In an upper room a
woman dying of the plague. Before
the end came that night she was able
to tell the doctor something that he
had long wanted to know. Little by
little she whispered her story. She
had left the North with a man who
had done much evil for her sake. He
had betrayed a trust reposed in him.
He was a thief and a fugitive from
justice. They had lived there very
quietly to avoid discovery, so quietly
and so alone that they had not known
Of the coming Of the fever until the
quarantine lines had been drawn
around them. The man wss q craven
coward, shuddering In fear of the x1s5
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uninue Scarec,ro,x. !

:. Passengers from, the White Noun
tainss are .remarking on the ingenuity
displayed by "a New Hampshire far
s1ner'S who hast a :earnfeld near the
tracks up in tl middle IS the state.
Instead Of an Upright scarecrow, this
man has placed His On It's, lsaees, In. q
position which indicate that the
!. man is busy wedding cor u The
deception ii saia Y h. the most per
feet vet conceive H. Boston rams
Script
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j. g. s#;.;:.995&. E Might Time. :.-&:eE>
4; The Wearied sun burns low j -. =, 5"
i And n the dying glow IA
The ashes OF the day =
? 5;S?3r Are gray. ats. w. j. 4 ~ ~ ~ ~
Reholding fading skies. T.: !. H., : III
\. The flowers close: their eyes ~
s And sink, by dusk caresseA. q, ~
d. To rest. IL 81 !: y. Ill
Y The slender moon and new IS S5tsis { :: .
Filings down on fields OF dew Is
The family silver light t..s.ss.. -
OF night. 800 8SS..,:. e
( The stars look down on me :. =: u
And In each star ! see zs4 81 -.
Tour eyes With 5loyelixht shine 5
4: In mine a [ ~ j ri:
4 The silent shadows creep !. ss:s 81 5s5 81
Deersv an1u4rd OF my eleep S1s
Il: vithadreams. the. long nl1h thfoug1}
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copyright, 1905, by Daily Story Pub. Co..


The bank had failed and all that
DR.. Mcguire had in the world was
swept away in the failure literally
all, for with the savings of his young
manhood went the hope of making a
home for the girl he loved. If it had
been an honest failure, money panic
or anything save defaulting cash
Ter, it seemed to the doctor that he
could better have borne it. But to
feel that his work and his economy
had gone for naught, that the say
ings of the hard years of his profess
sion and the hope that had lightened
the work were gone, while another
man had gotten away in peace to live
with the woman for whose pleasure
this theft had been done, was mad
dening. The papers made the sensa-
ton of day of the departure of the
cashier and the woman who went with
him. Then the depositors who had
lost went back to their work forgotten
but not forgetting.
DR.. Mcguire gave up his practice in
his home town in Missouri where
there were memories to haunt him
and where the accumulation of riches
was slow, and went down to an un-
healthy little spot in Louisiana where
disease was always present and where
medicine was profitable profession.
He prospered and again he began to
hope that some day the home and the
girl would be his.
One day-it was in July and the
mercury registered a temperature sell
dom reached back in Missouri-the
papers began to be full of rumors OF
the yellow fever. The plague was
stealthily creeping across the South.
The next day the rumors had become
facts and from city plague-ridden
the ignorant masses were beginning
to flee. On the third day two refugees
came into the town where DR.. Ma
guire had taken up his abode. They
were italian laborers, and one man
was sick when they reached the place.
Before night the town had established
quarantine station and the two Ital-
ians were held there. The one wase
in the clutches of the fever, and the
other so badly frightened that he
easily fell victim to the disease. The
first man died and the second follow
ed his example, but not before the
town, in spite of all precautions, had
become another of those pest centers
whence the line of the plague swept
steadily onward, like the creeping evil
of prairie fire through dry grass.
Thenceforth there was work for the
Doctors hands. Early and late through
the fever-fretted town he went to
his errands of mercy. He had given
but little study to the fever, but now,
with ample opportunity for study az
forded him he was too busy bringing
healing or closing the eyes of the
dead to give time to experimenting
with the bites of mosquitoes, or the
danger of Infection through contact
with the disease.
One evening the doctor went in an
swer to summons to a house with
out the town. The place was a lonely
one, five miles from the city, just
within the Gordon that the quarantine
had drawn about the town. Evident
~ the house was the home Of people
OF wealth. It was a handsome struc-
ture. but it was seemingly deserted.
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]
what you deserve"
who fed from town in Missouri with
the savings of his neighbors and his
friends. DR.. Mcguire was almost hap
py as he rode back to town.
Skirting the streets of the plague
ridden town man crept, hiding in
dark corners, crawling along the
ground, terrified at the death that
threatened old and young, nor spared
for prayers and promises the man who
feared to die. DR.. Mcguire, riding in
late that night, almost OVERRIDE the
crouching figure. And when he had
stopped from his saddle to set the
groveling wretch upon his feet he
knew who it was that crawled in the
dark. His revenge was at hand. The
defaulter, too, recognized the doctor.
And In DR.. Maguire's eyes he read that
the time OF reckoning was at hand.
He fell on his face nt the doctors
feet, all manhood fallen from him,
leaving him only a groveling, fright
ened, abject thing that crawled in
the dust. Mercy" he begged, his face
hidden.
Mercy" the doctor repeated. Ibid
you think OF mercy when you robbed
men and women of their all, when
you stole the widows mite and left
orphaned children to go hungry? Did
you think of mercy when you blasted
mans hopes and left him hard and
merciless and with the passion of re-
yenge eating at his heart? Mercy for
such as you? Never! And the wo-
man for whom you sinned-you could
not even keep faith with her. You
deserted her when she was dying and
left her to meet the end alone. Mer-
cy? l am going to kill you like the
dog that You are. It's what l have
been wanting to do these many
months"
The man at his feet licked the dust
and tore his hair with impotent fin.
gers. my life," he begged again
Spare my life. Only let me live. I'll
give the money back to you
DR.. Mcguire smiled diabolical
smile. $50 be it, he said. "You
shall have your life since you are so
fearful OF death. I will give you
chance. You shall try your luck with
fate. They say that the MOSQUITOES
bite breeds the fever. For me, do
not know. But you shall take the
chance. Well let the mosquito bite
you, and if you live we'll and good.
But If you die, shall have given you
what you deserve"
: He drew the covering fugitive
roughly to, his feet and with his
horses bride thrown across his arm
led his captive down the street to the
Office of a fellow physician who had
been experimenting with the mosquito
theory. The fugitive saw the doctor
place one of the mosquitoes near and
| nearer his arm. He turned his head
away, shiver1ng. There was the sharp
sting Of the Insects bite, and the fu-
gitive slipped to the floor Ia faint.
The doctor kept his enemy with him
in the days that followed, watch.
ing the mans every movement. In
due time the fever developed. Or.
Mcguire seemed surprised that it
should be So The patient was hys-
terical with fright, III. He; had worked
himself into ! d en1y rs tear and q
had mad himself ans easy prey Is the
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-02-10
why Bishop Brooks Caught No Fish

why Bishop Brooks Caught No Fish.
/. sigourney Butler, the noted Boston
lawyer and society man, who died a
few years ago.. told the following story
ct q dinner party: r. H 10. Il. 2
=. IS r met a friend the. other day who
had been on q fishing trip With T. sBish-
op Brooks. 4 asked himfif the bishop
caught any fish, and he. said No \ he
sWears too much. n " s.. I'LL. s s:s s.
Il S: i. why, said Bishop Brooks ney 81
!9wears. a$5 2ss Ii.E. 81 # .3%
z OH yes heS does, 4 said my friend =
* caught : large ash, and sud .'B 9ish--
that good fish, md *
$<atd Yes.
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Advantage Of Knowing Greek.

Advantage OF knowing creek.
According to western college boy
who is on his vacation, the college
youth of this country have put heavy
demands upon the simple tattooer. No
longer will hearts. and serpents and
laurel wreaths do to decorate the arms
of the learned young. The western
college boys say they must have the
names of their college fraternities in
Greek letters done into the skin OF
their arms. It is a fortunate thing
that some use has been found for
Greek. So long as the alleged fad en-
.dures, some one will have to=study his
Homer in order to do tattooing il the
true: classic spirit:-New York Trib-
une. ? .,>s :v -;
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Mentally is now back to his old job,
the one at which he earned an honest
living twenty-five years ago, before
he discovered how easy it was to ex-
change sawdust with credulous coun-
trymen for their real gold.
No longer young, his great fortune
gone, the mark of the prison in his
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.Ru1y1ors and Roonet1,:

II just heard Of q fellow; who .took.a
room up at that big hotel said tie
first summer man. and when he GOT y
chance stole :. lot#of money from the
other inmates g z :|s.3 81 }: Ii
s=5 6 ?' said .anoth thor case
=of L bad .ronyae aiming currency. g s55zE
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THREWHAWAY HALF MILLION DOLLARS: ==*..
&#$ NOW WORKS in CHEAP RESTAURANT
strange Career James McNay Once
"Green Goods

James Mentally, the green goods
king" once worth 100000, is earning
his living acting as a waiter in cheap
Coney Island, N. Y. restaurant.
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jail. My mind was affected. Half the
time I went around in daze. My
memory became almost entirely a
blank, SO much so that the very things
l wanted to remember most 1 could
not remember at all.
''These things are the number of
my box in the safety deposit vault, the.
password and the fictitious name that
I had given when I rented the box.
have never been able to recall these
things.
Must Wait Ten Years.
'The lawyers told me that I would
have to wait seven years-from the
time of the rental Of the box. The
seven years will be in 1907. The law,
I suppose, takes this course, because
if in seven years no other claimant to
the property comes forward, that con-
stitutes in a way proof that my claim
to the ownership of the money is all
right.
when I get this money I will take
it and buy a quiet farm somewhere
and live there with my family, and I
hope folks will forget all about me-"