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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16
Story of Medford Warrior.

Capt. James C. D. Clark of the
Lawrence Light Guards of Medford
Mass, was a speaker at a recent
camp fire of civil and Spanish wal
veterans, and related the following
story:
A Medford" man, quaint character
of Irish birth. returned from the civil
war with an undisputed record OF
hard and meritorious service in the
army.
The younger generation. hearing of
his bravery, tried unsuccessfnlly to get
his own version Of his part in the
bloody struggle.
One day, finding himself besieged
by number of persistent questioners,
the modest warrior consented to
speak.
WED get up in the mornin' at
5 O'clock" he began. IAN have break
fast. Begin fghtin' at 6, knock off at
12. Begin shootin' agin at I, knock off
at an ate supper, an turn in to
sleep. Every day the same old thing
that's ALL
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16
FARM-BRED MEN CALLED FOR.
Country Boys to Be the Future Kings
of Commerce.

Country Boys to Be the Future Kings
of Commerce.
The time is fast approaching when
the intelligent, industrious and ener-
settle farmboy will occupy a more
prominent place in the affairs Of the
state and nation than he has occupied
in the past. The rapid pace which
has to be taken by people engaged in
the professions and in mercantile pur-
suits in order to successfully meet
the competition on every hand is not
conducive to the mental endowment
of the descendants, and the farmboy
OF rugged constitution and industrious
habits will be in greater demand to
take their places than has ever been
known. Much as has been written in
regard to the prominent part that
such breeding and early training in
the country have contributed to the
successful management of great en-
terprises and the successful prosecu-
ton of professional matters, much
more will be said in the same direc-
ton in the future. -Manchester, n.
H., Mirror.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16

him that he certainly had a coal mine
Oh his land. But what kind of coal
it is Mr.. Flagg doesn't know, or rather
has forgotten.
Il don't remember what they called
IT," said he, but it, is very soft, and
i turns just like finder Many time
the children go out there and dig
rieces out and burn it. So far I have
only done a little toward developing
II, because, although the experts have
said it was coal, I really don't take
much stock in the idea that I have g
coal mine.
"HoWever, when I heard what those
men said | decided to spend $500 in
vestigating OF course, $500 don't go
TAR in mining. but that $500 I put in
came so near knocking to pieces my
house, that cost about $4,000 for me
to put up. that I have never spent any
more on it. But | reckon I shall try
it again.
And so it is possible Mr. Flagg may
have to add a fifth stone. This will
contain a lump of coal-Boston Her.
a l1
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16
THOUGHTS 'oN=His PROFESSION.
Doctor Forgot for the Moment He
- Was Not Operatinu.

AONSOI TOs9Ot tOl Tic moment TIC
= Was Not Operating.
Senator Beverage desired to illus
trate forcibly the force of habit.
I'm Sullivan, where I spent my boy
hood" he said, there was a physi-
clan whom everybody liked: a hard.
working, modest, absent-minded man.
This physician was the guest Of
honor one Thanksgiving at the house
OF a leading citizen and when the gay
assemblage entered the dining room
the leading citizen said to him:
Now, doctor. On account OF your
surgical skill, I'll ask you to carve.
That bird is twenty-four FOUNDER
and he is as young and tender as a
spring pullet. None but you could
do him JUSTICE
The physician, his mind on other
things, smiled absently, took the head
Oh the table, raised the knife and
made a deep incision in the breast OF
the turkey.
"Then he froWned, rummaged in
his pocket and brought out some alb
sorbent Gotten. roll of bandages and
d paper of pins. With these he pro-
Ceeded to dress and bind up the
wound he had made.
THE guests were stricken dumb.
They looked on in utter amazement.
The doctor inserted the last pin and
patted the neat dressing he had made
Then he looked up and smiled.
"'And now he said, 'let us hope
that in week, with rest and care
our patient will be on his feet
again.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16
NEAT AND EFFECTIVE REeUkE.
Showing How Unnecessary It is To
Give the lie Direct.

Showing How Unnecessary 1t Is To
Give the lie Direct.
Senator Foraker was contradicting
d certain statement.
Though this is a firm Ncontradic-
,tion,2 he said, II want it to be pleas
ant and polite one. 1t is not neces-
sary, whe men tell falsehoods, to call
them liars and club them over the
head. Their error can be. pointed out
in neater and more graceful ways.
For instance:
In small town in Indiana group
OF drummers were assembled. They
sat in the reading-room of the coun-
try hotel. On the fllmsy hotel paper
they had finished writing to their
firms with the lumpy ink and the
rusted pens which the hotel manage
ment provided, and now, with news
paper reading and desultory talk, they
whiled away the tedious evening.
"A young drummer in red tie took
the cigarette from his mouth and
said:
We'll, my days sales here reached
$4,000. Not bad for small town,
eh?'
AN elderly drummer looked up
from his newspaper and said quietly:
Not bad at ALL 1t is wonderful
what one can sometimes do in these
little places. On my last trip here
my commissions came to just what
you say your sales did
The young man Redeemed.
"*This isn't lying competition he
said gruffly
"'Oh, excuse me- said the other
I thought it was -
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16
Billiards Ruin Maoris.

"The Maori children are often kept
Up all night billiard marking, and are
therefore utterly unfit to come tC
school or to work when they dc
come"
This remarkable statement is made
by Mr.. W. Bird. inspector Of native
schools in NeV Zealand in his an
1ual report, which throws light on the
extraordinary gambling propensities
OF the natives.
Billiard tables, Mr.. Bird declares
are to be seen in the gum fields. in
the native settlements, and even on
the roadside.
In one place, Mr.. Bird declares
several natives, after losing all their
possessions, gambled away thei1
crops, and when winter came were
unable to supply either food or cloth.
ing to their children.-London Daily
Express.
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cut single flaw. 1t was hard to find
{. block weighing ten tons, which is
what that middle one weighs, with
| out flaw OF some sort.
Then they kicked at the motto
Mine was this: This shows how I
made my money. Here 1 rest They
didn't think that sounded right. l
don't knoW-guess it wasn't fancy
enough. I like to say what l mean
straight, and say it quick. But let
EN- change it. The two things mean
the same I guess.
Then lot OF people objected to
having the monument there anyway.
But | amt ashamed of it. and | ain
| ashamed Of how l made my money.
The more they talk the more adver-
Using | get, anyway.
"Why, there have been people here
from out West who have come and
taken pictures of it, and then they
have come down to see me, and then
generally they have bought some
cider.
81 make about 5000 barrels of cider
year, and sell it all over the country.
Somebody buys barrel, and they tell
their friends about it, and that is
the way it goes.
And have sold thousands of cords
! Of wood, too. That's why | have a
wood pile on one of the small stones.
Sometimes in the winter have as
many as fifty men. .chopping for me.
OF COURSE the wood isn't all cord wood ;
some of it goes in for lumber With
this lumber I have built houses. when
didn't want to sell it, and that's kept
the cost OF building down for me:
For tell you lumber is a great item
! when it comes 10 building house,
and I've got twenty~one houses to-day
that I own and every one Of them is
full Of good paying tenants"
Mr.. Flagg's home, where he lives
| with wife and seven children, is on
! the road between Worcester and the
town Of Boylston. about two and one
half miles from the latter. Mr.. Flagg
built it himself. 1t stands on the site
which has been used for houses for
four genera tions Of Flagss In the
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16
Snuffbox in Her StockinQ.

It was a sunny day and several pas
sengers on the ferry boat were sitting
On the outside benches. One middle
aged. quietly dressed and obviously
emily she reached down, pulled up her
skirts and drew small box from out
Of her stocking. She opened the box
and took therefrom pinch of snuff
This done, she replaced the box in
her stocking and fastened her garter.
The pungent odor of snuff pervaded
the air, but the woman appeared un-
concerned to the point of defiance.
"Well!' exclaimed one man to him
self or anybody who CHANGED to hear
him. Il wouldn't have believed it if
! hadn't seen it.''-New York Press.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16

rear Of the house are large barns, and
directly across the street another barn
in which is the cider mill
The trolley cars which run from
Worcester to Fitchburg pass directly
by the door, and from them one can
look into the crib Of the cider mill
into which apples are dumped.
Just back of the house runs a ledge
Of rock, and in this ledge there is COAL
One day, while playing about the
Woodshed, boy, Levi Lincoln, found
a big chunk of something that he
thought was a stone. But it glistened
and sparkled so that he recognized it
wasn't any ordinary stone, and car
RED it. to his father Mr.. Flagg, in
turn, became interested, and showed
it to some of the engineers and other
men whom he always has working for
him. One of the engineers, after pick
ing at it for "a few moments, said: :
why, that's coal.
Mr.. Flagg went to Clark university
and submitted the chunk to some of
the mineralogy experts there, and
they, after a thorough analysis, con-
firmed the statement of the engineer
that it was coal.
The ledge in which this find was
made runs directly behind the house,
not twenty feet from the back door.
In fact. part of it is under the
woodshed From the house it extends
some 800 feet. cropping out above the
ground here and there, until it ap.
parently ends in the barnyard. 9
No sooner had the experts of Clark
university declared that the specimen
Mr. Flagg had shown them was coal
that some of them went out to see, the
ledge, and, after making observations
and drilling here and there,@they told
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16
Copyright. 1905. by Daily Story Pub co.,

Il don't believe your father will
ever consent. dear" George had said,
very sravely. his very shoulders bow
ed under the weight of his grief He
was fully 10, and this was the first
time he had ever been really in love.
OF course there had been fancles,
back there in the days Of his youth.
But he was 10 now. and he knew his
own mind. He knew that Sidney
Lee was the one woman in all the
world who had been foreordained to
become Mrs. George Armitage. Guess
man of 10 knows affinities when he
meets them-and when the girl
throws her arms about his neck and
cries because her father won't let her
be his-that is, The mans who knows
at1inities when he sees them.
But maybe he will consent if you
work hard and We wait a few years,
George" Sid ventured, hopefully.
Wait" echoed George, drearily
Il have not time to wait. I love YOU
too much 10 wait. can't wait. Life is
100 short. Think what few years
meant
There was no question that few
years would shorten Georges span ter
riblv. Then he spoke like the true
knight.
If your father won't give his con-
sent, Sid" he said firmly, "let's get
married without it. What right have
parents to wreck the happiness OF
their chidren's lives?"
You mean to run away-tO elOpe?
ga sped Sidney. in an awful voice,
Why, father would never forgive US
in the world. Besides, DEAR" she said,
practically, do you make enough for
us to live on? won't it be better to
wait for raise in your salary? If
we elope, father would discharge you,
you know
Il did not think you we're mercen-
airy. Sid the young man replied sew
erely. Il really did not
He said it SO tragically that Sidney
was miserable again
Il did not mean to be mercenavy.
George, DEAR" she said tearfully. But
You know we must live
wen, lOOklnS al Tue illdtlt IRON
the most practical side' said George,
as it that was making great con-
cession to the sensible, II get $14 a
week now. | can get job any time
al Morrow's. The cid man has asked
me to work for him and you know
about Nell"
Yes. l know that Nell would give
her neck to have you work for her
father" said Sidney. little spitefully
aud all jealously II know that she
comes into your place Just on pur-
pose to see you. Papa has told me
all about it,
"Thcres nothing between us at all,
dear. George iiastened to say, for
he Saw he was on dangerous ground.
Your father has often joked me about
It TOO and just led him on for that
keeps him from suspecting that it is
you | love. Besides, ne concluded,
with an injured air. Il guess Nell can
come to see me if Jim can hang
around you
:Oh, he is just a friend,' answered
Sidney airily. Il don't care rap
about him, though T believe that papa
would like me TO marry him. He says
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16
Two Famous Russian Writer'S.

A significant parallel may be drawn
between the work of two peasant
writer's recently brought into promi-
rence-Maxim Gorky and Peter Ros-
egger. Both are children of ignorant
parents, to whom education was a
self-accomplished task and literary
genius an inherent quality rather
than a developed faculty. Gorky was
child Of the slums, Rosegger son
Of the soil. Gorky revels in pictures
of slum. life and human viciousness.
Rosegger's inspiration leads him
along heights OF ideality:. and religious
mysticism. ii.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16
Obscurity.


'Tis good to be obscure. No brazen band
Doth blare its harmOnies SO ill-advised,
No hypocrite mercer shakes your hand
And ia WINS in hope of being advertised.
No suave Polonius fondleS every Whim
And quits you when your sway is at an
end;
No courier a. your elpoW sn3us ana ttim
full friend.
No throng awaits all thoughtlessly to
cheer;
Az thoughtlessly one day perchance
twill chide,
No vain ambition tempts your course too
The treacherous shadows and the. rocks
of pride.
'Tis sweet, no doubt, to hear the world
lings call.
Although they may forget you in year
And cen revile: It's pretty good withai
TO live and love and toll and be OBJ
Scure.
washington Star.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16

WY WI ~" W. o'~''9 "'At'V0s -
man. We'll, why don't you get
along without it?'
George gasped. -:':Get along with;
out it, That was the scheme that
was ever uppermost in his thought,
but Sidney would not listen to it.:
; The mere fact that the old man had
the honor to be his employer had
made the mistake Of silpposing that
the daughter of his ancient business
rival was the girl in the case was a
mere incident. A daring thought
struck him.
IF, I only dared, sir he said, with
hypocritical reluctance. II am afraid
you would not forgive me-
why, what have 1 to forgiven
asked the old man in surprise. Il
should like to get ahead of the old
curmudgeon. I'll help you all I can,
young man. BY Jove! If you run
away with the girl you love, I'll give
you two weeks pay and raise your
salary So week when you get back!
Brace up, young man. By lingo!
was young myself once. Faint heart
never won fair lady I keep pretty
close crack of my own girl. and it is old
MorroW's business to take care OF
his. Anybody who gets the best Of
me under my very eyes will know it,
The old man chuckled at the
thought Of assisting in scheme that
; would make old Morrow furious. He
was almost as much interested in the
! affair as though it were he himself
who was going to elope.
"Darling,'' said George, enthusiastic
cally, your father is going to help us.
He says that l may elope WITH the
! girl l love if l want to and he will
raise my salary in the bargain. Only
you must not breathe a word of it,
1t will all come right in the end
; Isn't it just splendid"
Many and mysterious were the con-
ferences held between the two con-
spirators and finally it was all ar
ranged that Miss Sidney was to take
the carriage and drive George to
Morrow's and take Nell for drive
!! Then they would go to HigginsviIle
and get married by the parson at that
place. returning the same day.
Nell came into the store for some
hooks and eyes on the day agreed
upon and that young lady was greatly
astonished when the old man slyly
pinched her ear. The clerks wonder
ed why the "old man. chuckled so
much that day and they wondered
still more when, at closing time,
| George got. into the Lee carriage and
drove off with Sidney. Her father
stood in the door waving his hand and
chuckling.
The first he knew OF the true state
| of affairs was when Bud Tucker
brought him a message about 8 o'clock
that night It was sent from Higgins
vile and read as follows:
Dear father-in-law: Sidney for
got to drive over to Morrow's. We
will drive over tomorrow! George
What he said belongs to another
chapter, to be devoted to the elias
ITCHY and expressiveness OF the Eng
fish language. This is only a one
chapter story.
But he fofgave them in the long
! run - 49,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16
The Cottage Door.
The starry silence falls

Along my sylvan way;
A spirit walks the earth
We never meet by day;
And listening to the voice
OF years that are no more,
My feet-O, knowst thou why?-
Have wandered to thy door.
The quiet taper burns.
And makes thy easement bright,
And soft thy shadow falls
Between me and the light;
I gaze as ON a shrine
My heart would bend before;
My couch had seen no rest:
Had I not seen thy door!
The Night, as if to breathe,
Her starry curtain parts;
The very air seems faint
With breath of lovers hearts;
Some spirit robes the earth
In light that heaven wore;
Or is that light thine own?
And is that heaven thy door?
Charles Swain.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16
American Hiqh in Sultan's Servic

American High in Sultan's Service.
Capt. Buchanan, formerly connected
with the Cramp Shipbuilding Com
pany in Philadelphia, took the cruiser
Medjidia to Constantinople after she
had been built by the company nam:
ed. Then he entered@Sthe service OF
the sultan and is noWzznaVal adviser,
with the rank Of admiral, and has
actual command Of Turkeys fleet.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16

jolly old chap. Has Nellie given you
the shake?'
George grinned lugubriously.
Il am sure, sir he said, longing to
kick the old man under the desk that
it is tough to have girl love you and
to have your Happiness wrecked by a
hard-hearted old fellow that has for
gotten he was ever young himself"
George took a savage delight in
knocking the efigy of Sidneys father
about the Office in this vicarious man
ner.
SO the old man won't give his
consent, hey?' replied the old gentle
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16
Miserable Luck.
II was awfully exasperated yeste

II was awfully exasperated yester-
day." said Mrs.. Flippendyke.
What happened?"
Why, you see, I had been owing
Mrs Dullson call for months and
months. Well, along in the afternoon
| saw her starting away, all dressed
up, and I thought to. myself, Here's
my chance So I hurried across the
street to leave my card, and-and-''
did you find when you got there
that you didn't have any?'
'|No, it wasn't that Just after I
had pushed the bell button she came
home, and, of course, there was moth
ing for me to do but go in
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16
Worse Than an Epidemic?

Dr. Heber Jones, to whom the citi-
zens of Memphis recently presented
a purse of $4,000 for his care of the
quarantine this year, has weathered
five, epidemics in the city and yet it
is recorded that he was greatly en-
:barrassed' when the leading woman
who presented: the" check kissed him
full upon the lips. :: : :. - > -
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16

love you too much to wait"
that would unite our warning CONNER
cial houses and make allies out of
competitors, or something Of the sort. %
II thought he had grudge against
old Morrow" grinned George, but Sid
wasn't in any mood to joke. A wo-
man has no sense of humor anyhow,
they say.
The upshot of it was that Sid re-
fused to get married without her faith
er's consent and George looked so
down in the dumps for two or three
days that the old man noticed it.
whats the matter, George,?y he
asked cheerily, giving the bookkeep.
er friendly nudge, for he was a
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16
Acknowledged Expert on Diamonds,

Acknowledged Expert on Diamonds.
The credit of being the greatest dia-
mohd expert in America is generally
awarded to Gen. Mindil, who for ten
years has had charge of the jewel.
room in. the appraisers Office, New
York. The importer who can BAN
boozle Gen. Mindil as to the values of
a precious stone has not yet come to
the front.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16
Sections Little Mistake.

Rev. F. w. Gunsaulus met the other
day two children in blue sailor suits
out walking with their mother.
Mr.. Gunsaulus praised the pretty
blue suits, the trim sailor hats and
the handsome REFERS. Then he smil-
ed and said:
In a certain church one Sunday
morning three children sat in the
front row of the gathering with sailor
hats on their heads.
THE sexton before the service COM
menced tiptoed down the aisle and
whispered loudly and Indignantly:
Take them hats off, boys
"The children took no notice and
very angrily the sexton repeated:
loft with them hats. do you hear?'
Still they did not comply So the
Old man came and leaned over them,
glowering in their faces.
why he began, but in a shrill
little pipe of terror one of the children
interrupted him.
"tPlease, sir we are girls, she
said. ''-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-16
Knew the Price.

They had all been to church, and
the young minister was coming home
to dine with them. While at dinner
they were discussing the new stained
glass window a member had given.
1T is a most beautiful piece CT
workmanship" said one, land must
have cost a great deal of money"
do you have any idea how much?"
II really do not replied the minis
ter, ''but far into the hundreds.
should imagine.
''No it didn't, either" said little
Harold. II know how much it was
1t cost fourteen dollars and ten cents"
why, Harold, how do you know
anything about it?'
because, mamma. it said at the
lotion of the window, Job 14.10.' y
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-01-31
LAND NOTICE.

To Whom It May Conoern:
Department Of the interior. United
States Land once. Carson City. Nevada.
Nov. q. 1905.
Notice is hereby given tiati tne
Pacific Railway Company has nled In
this once q List Of land situated in the
townships below. and has applied for q
patent for said lands: that The list il
open to the public for inspection and a
o thereof by descriptive subdivisions
has been posted in q convenient place in
this once. for the inspection Of Ell per-
SOM interested and the public generally.
Within h d sixty days followins
the date Of this notice. protests or con-
tests against the claim of the company
to any tract or subdivisioR Of any sec
ton or part Of section described In the
list, on the ground that b same II more
valuable for mineral han for agricultural
purposes. win be received and noted for
report to the GENERAL Land once at
Washington. d. c.
Thu following n the list:
g. d. y Of N. w. 4 and lot : Of II. w.
4 section 70. T. = N. r. = q. All of
sections /. s. z. Is. II. 10. n. n. .. q. -.
a. - n IS. 8. y and N. w. 4 rec. II.
8. u &C. II. T. q N, r. . r. N. q. 4.