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Connecticut western news., 1907-01-24
John Stuart Mill.

The genius of this great Engllshman was such that before he was twenty he was recognized as the champion and future leader of a powerful school of philosophy and politics. John Stu art Mill is said to have studied Greek at the age of three and at fourteen had begun logic and political economy. The writings and doctrines of this master mind were and are still read and preached not only in this country but throughout the world. John Stuart Mill stands out prominently among nineteenth century thinkers.-London Motl
Connecticut western news., 1907-01-24
Reflections of a Bachelor.

It's never too late to kiss pretty girl good night once again.
 A woman always like to see her hus- bands name in the paper, unless it's a divorce.
 It seems awful extravagant to a wo- man for her husband to stick to smok- ing swear-of when he gets box of cigars for a Christmas present. New York Press.
Connecticut western news., 1907-01-24

In addition to furnishing an insight ly spectacle along the highway, 1t is we'll to remember that If weeds are allowed to stand they will be catch for the snow and are likely to make bad roads. This Is one instance in which beauty and utility seem to go hand In hand.
Connecticut western news., 1907-01-24
Sharon Church Directory

First Congregational Church, Rev Allyn K. Foster, Pastor. Sunday ser: vices: Morning, 10.30; Sunday School immediately following preaching service Christian Endeavor, 6.45 p. .m.; evening 7.3O; prayer and conference meeting Thursday evening at 7:30
 Christ Church-Rev. J. B. Mics, Ph D., Rector. Sunday Services, 10.30, a m., Service with sermon; 500, p. m. Evening Prayer. Holy Communion or first Sunday of the month and Holy Days at 1O:3O, a. m. Sunday School after morning service. All cordially eloome
 Methodist Episcopal Church-Rev. B Seeholzer, Pastor. Morning service 1O.3O; Sunday school, immediately fol lowing; Epworth League, 6.45 p. m.
Connecticut western news., 1907-01-24

If the farm raises but an average of thirty bushels of corn per acre and has nothing but scrub cattle and horses, a bright boy cannot be blamed much If be runs away. .....
Connecticut western news., 1907-01-24

There Is no time In the season when cattle will eat cornstalks cleaner than during October. when the starch in them has been turned to sugar. Tn the case of sweet corn particularly they will eat every whit.
Connecticut western news., 1907-01-24
wrong.

'"There Is a word of one syllable in the English language that Is always spelled wrong. even by the most edu- cated people,
 "What Is that?"
 '"The word wrong"
Connecticut western news., 1907-01-24

7.23 8. m. and 6.42 p. m.
 How many had sleigh ride Friday?
 Mrs. Florian Petey is on the sick list. E. F. Gillette was in New York Tues day.
 May Kenney is home for weeks va cation. Mrs. Hance spent Sunday in New York.
 Darwin Morse was in Potsdam N. Y. last week.
 Willard Baker was in New York on Monday.
 Miss Mamie Hazard is visiting in Waterbury.
 We hear rumors of roller skating rink in town.
 Charles Prindle commenced cutting oe Tuesday.
 Mrs. Bertha Warehouse is spending g short time in Boston.
 Don't fail to see ''Mr. Bob." Remem Der the date Feb. 9th. Robert Randall is in New York and Bridgeport this week. Mrs. Francis St. John Pitcher is visit ing friends in New York.
 Rev. w. E Page has been visiting schools in town this week.
 
 Robert Harris and E. H. Middlebrool are in Hartford this week.
 Roy Williams of Pawling, New York is guest at Robert Harris.
 Albert Scott is going to move into his house in the lower part of the valley.
 Mrs. E. F. Gillette and Harriet Egg leston are visiting Jane Walton in Ga naan. Mrs. Fitch Landon is very ill at tho home of her daughter, Mrs. F. w Dakin. Miss Nettie Schermerhorn of Dove Plains is visiting her sister Mrs. Free Bristol.
 George Bierce is filling his ice house and helping others to fill theirs in that vicinity. H. B. Dakin and H. M. Hoag took 1T the Automobile Show in New Yorl last week
 The new teacher for the fourth room Miss Laura James, is expected som, time this week.
 The Sharon hockey team was defeated by the Hotchkiss School team last Wed nesday, Score 10. ] Miss Mamie Hazard is spending few weeks ill Waterbury with her sister Mrs. Hilon Sperring. The young people of the town gav' Miss Mamie Loucks surprise party Wednesday Evening. Mrs. W. w. Peck, Harriet Peck, Alb bic levitt and Henry Hoag were visitor to New York last week. Miss Daisy Landon spent the latte, part of last week with Mrs. Archibald | White of New York City. | Martha and Julia Smith of Wes Cornwall are visiting their grandparent MT. and Mrs. J. B. Smith. Peter Scott of Amenia Union, brothe, of Albert Scott died very suddenly at th home of his brother Monday evening.
 Rev. T. B. Smith attended the goldel wedding anniversary of MT. and Mrs James Carroll in Torrington last week
 George Hawley, who has spent par of the winter at Baldwin Reeds re turned to his home in Massachusett i Rev. MT. Stryker of Mill River Mass achusetts, preached in the Congrega tional Church Sunday morning ant evening. The friends of Emma Hazard now il Waterbury will be grieved to hear sh has been very sick with the measles bu is better at the present writing. School Notes
 Remember the entertainment for tn benefit of the School Improvement So ciaty on Feb. 8. | The primary room was closed Monda, of this week, to permit the teacher, Mis- Nellie Kelsey, to attend the funeral o a relative.
 Mrs. w. H. Hutchinson and childrel of Ithaca, N. Y. and Mrs. George Par sons and daughter of White Plains, N. Y are visited at Mrs. E. B. St. Johns
 Reflections of Bachelor. It's never too late to kiss a pretty gil
Connecticut western news., 1907-01-24
Obviously.

"Let me see," unused the sporting editor. What is an incubator"
 "An incubator" replied the agricnl tural editor, lis an egg plant"
Connecticut western news., 1907-01-24

Discouragement is but dlsenchanted egotism-Mazzini.
Connecticut western news., 1907-01-24
Harlem RnilrOnd.

Harlem RailrOnd. Trains arrive at Sharon Station, north bound at 9.25 a. m., LAO a. m., 2.5O p. m., 5.54 p. m., TAT p. m.; southbound at
 7.23 a. m., 9.09 a. m., 1.39 p. m., 4.08 p. m., 6. IA p. m. Sundays, northbound, at 1928 and 8.22 p. m.; southbound at 7.23 8. m. and 6.42 p. m.
Connecticut western news., 1907-01-24
4 SHARON *

evening service, 7.S0; prayer meeting, Thursday evening at 7.30.
 St. Bernard's Church h-Rev. Father Smith, Pastor. Morning service, 11.15; once each month at g a. m.
 Second Congregational Church (Ells- worth) = Rev. w. B. Page, Pastor. morning service. II; Sunday school, 1215; Christian Endeavor takes place of evening service at 7.30; prayer meet ing, Thursday at 2.30 p. m.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-31

a positive heavyweight. A grouchy,
ill-natured man may be laughed at and
huhored. But "a grouchy, ill-natured
woman is no joke.
Good nature depends, of course,
largely on being we'll dressed. Dress
acts as wonderful peacemaker upon
the spirits of any woman. Dress a
woman up and she will be sweet temp
cred all the day.
''In the summer time the business
woman gets nervous. Everything looks
fresh and summery except her own
face, which has a jaded, suffering, hot
look. This is because she does not
know how to keep herself looking
pretty.
"A pretty skin is a summer essen
tial. Don't wear a veil or your eyes
will grow dull and your face yellow.
Let what air there is play upon your
face.
''The secret of the pretty skin in the
summer time is the hot bath. Take a
good hot bath in the morning, exer-
else after it, cool gradually and then
have a rundown. Put on fresh cloth.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-31

bridge then contemplated to connect
the metropolis with Brooklyn. Enor.
nous difficulties were involved in the
project, and even to-day, after the
passing of two decades. the Brooklyn
bridge is still admitted by engineers
to be a marvel, besides being Gno Of
the most graceful structures of the
kind in existence
Roebl1ng was personally superin-
tending the construction of the first
span when, in an accident caused by
the carelessness of some workmen, he
was fatally injured and never saw the
completion of the dream of his ambi-
ton. His son, Washington A. Roeb-
ling, carried the bridge to a finish.
Trenton depends largely on the big
Roebling plant, and the memory of the
founder is much revered. The price
Of the statue, which is by William
Couper of New York, was raised by
popular subscription; $4,000 is the
sum.
Canton, Ohio, the home of Mckinley,
is soon to have a statue to the mar
tyred president.
While this activity in memorials
goes on none can say in the United
states that republics are ungrateful.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-31
Preacher Becomes Personal.

The Rev Nathaniel Howe of Hop
klnton, who died in 1887, aged 72, was
Federalst in politics, and his polit-
1cal sermons stirred the wrath of his
hearers, who were mostly Democrats.
In the midst of one of these sermons
the leader of the opposite party felt
aggrieyed,# and called out: "
Why don't you call names, Mr..
Howe :: n ~, + i = =:
z. do e tnrot,SSwish to be interrupted, 2,
5s'l said the parson,= solemnly, and went
on :.= B: % .@.s s> . y 5zS
IN little while the voice came more
zangrilys than before 'eWh don t*:you
call names. Mr.. Howe ?'' 's
here sis no need of II lille con
/ science doing Its work go vel was
the Qulet ponse boston Herald
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-31

Summer is trying upon the busi-
ness woman said trim-looking girl
in brown, but it is the time when she
makes her money.
Few persons like to work in the
summertime, and, if woman can keep
her head and her temper she is pretty
sure to come out with a snug little for
tune in the fall.
"A great deal depends upon her
looks. She is judged by her appear
ance, the same as man. And the
woman who is going to get rich in the
summertime must frequent the beauty
parlors and work hard to keep up her
beauty
1T isn't beauty of face that the
business woman needs. 1t is beauty of
grooming She can get along with
passable face if only she will cultivate
the art of being we'll groomed. That
is my experience.
Few women understand even the
rudiments of good grooming. But a
man seems to know them by instinct.
A man realizes that to be we'll dressed
rangements to that effect. In the sum-
mer mans clothing is simple and
washable, and he can put on nearly
everything fresh every day.
The successful business woman
the one who is going to get rich this
summer when other folks are playing
makes a study of the same thing.
She learns how to select trim-looking
waists that can be laundered without
costing too much in the process and
she is absolutely mistress of her own
wardrobe. She understands it's colors
and what can be done with them.
Il am business woman going sue
cessward and I am frequently compli-
nented upon my appearance. Yet none
OF my clothes cost much. But have
plently OF everything and I know how
10 he we'll groomed.
How do you manage to look so
rice?' woman asked me the other
day. I thought it over and I came to
the conclusion that it was all matter
of grooming. For the first thing-to
go into particulars-I wear clean fresh
underwear. A Woman's underwear
isn't supposed to show, yet it really
does show wonderfully. I put on ev
erything fresh right from the skin out
every day, and it is astonishing what
4 difference it makes in ones appear
ance.
Wear Clean, Nice Boots.
4 make speciality Of good boots.
There is, story told of a wall street
man. who. at the critical point in his
career, went out to get a shoe shine.
When he returned to face the directors
of a trust company those we'll polished
boots spoke for him; He looks. the
part said one. And the man was en-
gagged to a responsible position of
diplomacy which had hitherto been
held by an older man.
Il always think of that story when
look at my shabby boots. And I can
say that spend at least part of the
night in getting them ready for the
next day. I have all kinds of brown
and tan and russet polishes and own
little bottle shop in enamels and var
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-31
$1,OO0,OOO HINTS FOR
THE BUSINESS GIRL
Hov She May Win Fame and Fortune by Working in
the Summer 71,1e When the Rest of the
World Is Playing.

nishes. I also have bronzes and a lit
tie bottle of gold paint, which last is
kept for very festive occasions, not
strictly business. But the point is that
I always wear very nice boots. I don't
care how many pairs I have upon the
shelf. They will always come in good.
"Getting rich in the summer time
depends largely upon woman's brain
power. Few women believe that
brains count in the race for riches
But actually they go a very long way.
Scientists tell us that the brain needs
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-31
AMERICANS ARE
=. NOT UNCRATEFUI
Memorials in Bronze and Stone Being Erected All
Ouer Country in Honor of Nations Great Men.

but will not be unveiled till Sept. II.
Appropriately enough it is to stand at
Jamestown island, where now a fair is
celebrating the three hundredth ami
versary of the arrival of Smith and his
men.
President Roosevelt will officiate at
this unveiling.
Philadelphia is now proudly pointing
out new monument to one of the
early naval heroes, John Barry, who is
generally recognized as the father of
the American navy. It is placed in
Independence hall, which by his deeds
on the sea, the gallant fighter helped
to support as cradle of liberty.
The statue, which is of bronze,
stands on massive granite pedestal.
1t was designed by Samuel Murray.
The figure shows Barry in naval cos
tune, his arm outstretched to give an
order
A peculiar pathos attaches to the
statue of John A. Roebling soon to be
erected in Trenton, N: J. Roebling
was one of the first engineers to dem.
onstrate in large bridges the practica
bllity of the suspension principle. Be
fore his time engineers had refused to
admit that big rivers could safely be
spanned in this way.
Roebling first built bridge at Gin
cinnati, and the complete success OF
this encouraged New York authorities
to make a similar experiment for The
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-31
BURNING UP COAL PRODUCT.
Total Supply May Be Exhausted With.
in the Next Century.

in the Next Century.
Edward W. Parker, the governments
coal expert, has shown that if the coal
areas of the United States were sim
ply spread out in layer six and one
half feet thick, which he considers a
fair average. we should obtain 1000
tons of coal per acre after leaving
enough coal underground to support
the roof.
Our 100000 square miles of coal ter
rltory at this rate would give us
supply Of 100000, 100000 tons in all.
We used up S93,000,000 tons of coal in
1905 and 425,000,0O0 last year. In all
we have used so far 6,cDO,0 100000 tons
that is, we have worked out little
less than 100000 acres of coal up to
the end of 1906.
or course, at the rate of production
during the last year or two, our coal
supply would last (as nearly as can
be estimatedD between 1000 and 5000
years. But we produced as much coal
in the last ten years as in all of the
previous years since the United States
has been a nation. The entire coal
product has doubled every ten years.
If that rate of increase were to con-
tinue the total supply would be ex-
hausted in the next century. Even at
the present rate Of production the an
thracite areas of Pennsylvania will be
exhausted in the next Seevnfy-fiva nr
100 years. --.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-31

It can no longer be said that Ameri-
cans are ungrateful, and fail to yield
proper tributes of admiration to their
great men. A veritable mania for
memorials in bronze and stone seems
to have taken possession Of the nation,
and in every part of the country shafts
are being unveiled in honor of those
who have wrought for the country's
good, q
Soldiers, naval celebrities, inventors,
statesmen, the list Of those who are
engaging the labor of sculptors, en-
braces every class. Within only few
weeks President Mckinley, Jefferson
Davis, two Confederate generals, Cor
don and Stuart, Revolutionary hero,
Barry; Gen Lawton, who lost his life
in the Philippines, and John A. Roeb-
ling, who built the Brooklyn bridge,
have had or will have monuments
erected to carry Their fame down to
future generations
The John B. Gordon Statue is located
at Atlanta Ga, and was unveiled by the
daughters of the famous leader of the
Georgia forces in the Civil war, Mrs.
Burton Smith and Mrs. Orton Bishop
Brown. The statue cost $4,000, and
in large part the money was collected
by popular subscription, though the
legislature of Georgia. made a liberal
donation.
The Jefferson Davis statue is appro-
Tr~iQ AT to1y er1, nj ot iahr
Va, which in the days when it was the
capital of the Confederacy, knew Davis
in the most trying period of his career.
Here Davis is still loved and venera-
ted, and monument to his-youngest
son, little "Joe' Davis, was erected by
the school children of the city.
The statue of Jefferson Davis is by
Valentine, and shows the tall figure of
the Confederate president, standing
with one arm outstretched, the other
resting on the open book of history.
The first American to fall in the
Spanish-American. war :. was. Ensign
Bagley, executive officer of the torpedo
boat Winslow. His home city, Raleigh,
N. c., has just assured the perpetua-
ton of his valor by the erection of a
beautiful monument.
Just as Bagley was the first promi-
nent victim Of the brief conflict with
the Spaniards, so Gen. Lawton, who
was killed in the war with the Fill
pinos which grew out of the trouble
with Spain, was the last distinguished
victim of the period Of conflict
Indianapolis delegated to itself the
honor of properly paying tribute to
the memory of this grim old hero of
three wars, who fell as the victim of
Filipino sharpshooter at time when
(the war ended) it was thought that
the last tribute Of blood had been paid.
President Roosevelt, always a great
admirer of Gen. Lawton, gladly accept
ed the honor of being present at the
unveiling of the statue last Decoration
day, and, delivered powerful address,
The bronze statue of Capt. John
Smith, the first Englishman to set foot
on the soil of the South, is completed,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-31
Outrage Due to Superstition.

One. of the cemeteries near Naples
has been the scene Of a crime that
shows curious recrudescence of
medieval superstition. A little girl
was buried there in July, 1905, and IL
months later it was arranged to trans.
fer the remains to niche in the little
mortuary chapel. At the exhumation
suspicion was aroused by the extraor-
dinary fight weight of the coffin,
which, on being opened, was found
to contain only the child's skull
wrapped in straw. Profs. Antonelli
and Ffmiani, who examined the head,
declared that it had been ruthlessly
torn from the trunk soon after death.
The police Investigations have, re-
suited In the discovery that the girls
body was disinterTed and the bones
pulver1zed to serve for. the rites of
necromancy. and v1tchcraft which are
stu 10 much. % .vogue. among super.
.stitious peasantIyyo of that tzrexi
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-31
RARE OLD VOLUME
UNIQUE COPY OF THE KORAN!
OWNED IN KANSAS CITY.
All Hand Work and Must Represent!
Labor Of Many Years-Proof
That Moro Art Was Once
of High Grade.

A rare old book is owned by Fred
erick G. Butler of 1924 Harrison
street, says the Kansas City Star.
He found it in a deserted bamboo
house in Sulu island while he was,
with the Fourteenth United States
cavalry in the Philippines in 1903.
1t had been owned by Moro Moham-
medan priest.
The book is copy of the Koran
and is made wholly by hand. Even
the paper is hand made. The bind
ing is of thick, stiff caribou hide. Each
folio is sewed with cord made from
help fbers and is of an even size,
showing cleverness and skill in spin
ming. In one place there is a little
piece Of smooth bamboo twisted in
the cord to bring it tight when slack
ened from use. AS for age, that can
not be denied by anyone on seeing
the pages. The leaves at the begin
ming and end are frayed and worn and
the paper throughout is yellow with
age.
The most wonderful thing about the
book is that every character, it being
written in Arabic, was made with a
stub pen or fiat reed. Each page is
covered on both sides with closely
written characters that appear to be
printed when viewed from a little dis
tance. Around the writing is a mar
gin of an inch or so and in this mar
gin are single characters, display let
ters or characters, and sprays of tiny
HoWers done in color. Dispersed
through the writing at irregular inter-
vals are little circles drawn with a
compass, the center picture of the
needle being plain in a majority of
the circles. The circles are filled with
different colors and are appropriately
punctuation marks.
Two pages in particular always ex-
cite wonder and admiration. They
alone, of all others, show the height
that Moro art had reached at the time
The book kwas made. These pages were
executed with a pen or reed as the
Fothers were, except that the writer
brought brush and gold leaf into
play. The marginal design departs
radically from the rest of the book
and the writer made design distinct
ly oriental. 1t looks like the border
Of Bokara or Damascus rug. It is
almost impossible to describe the
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-31

rest. And particularly that it needs
sleep. And the woman who contem-
plates working hard all summer would
do we'll to get her quota of sleep.
"Fresh air does worlds for the busi-
ness woman. It makes her pretty and
acts as tonic upon her spirits.
Good nature is the great trump card
in the business life of a woman. It
probably weighs equally we'll in the
life of man. But with a woman it is
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-31
, Dogs and Musical Tones.

The capacity of dogs to distinguish
musical tones. has 4een made to the
subject of elaborate experiments by
DR.. Otto Kalischer of Berlin, and the.
results have just been published III:
the edings Of the Berlin Academy.
of Sciences. Or. Kalisch er trained his
ssddogsssto pick up and 35eat mprsels zot
meat set before them only when q
certain note Wasa SOM al
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-31
The Hand Illumined Koran.

HS luUI1iuCO NOTd5s
many little painstaking curves and
curlycues that he put in these two
pages, the color of which is still
bright and clear Notwithstanding the
age of it.
When the book was found it was
taken to Hadji Buto, prime minister
Of the sultan of Sulu, and he said
of it:
"This book is a Koran, written by
a Moro in Arabic many years ago.
There are nowadays no people in this
island can write such book. myself
can write it; it would take me about
three months. I know the Koran by
heart and could write out of my mem
ory, although it is Arabic. It must
have taken that writer more than
year to fnishethe work. We Moros
don't have a Koran in the Moro Ian
guage. We read it in Arabic and the
priests, or hadjis, tell us what it
means in our language"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-31

ing, take a chop and something green,
and half cup of coffee, and you will
feel cool all day. That is the advice
given by physician to a millionaire
manipulation; and what is good for the
man is good for the woman.'