Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 25, 1912, Page 5

| | CoHASSET DEPARTMENT IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE COHASSET, MINNESOTA, DECEMBER 25, 1912 BOOST FOR COHASSET Cohasset Locals Ms. and Mrs. Frank Wood a spending Christmas. with relativ in Blackduck. Mrs. Oliver was called to Virginia Sunday afternoon by the very ser- ious illness of her daughter. Josephine Durand is spending the holidays with her parents. She has been teaching at Leopold this year. Misses Myrtle, Emma and Katta- lyne Hursh are spending Christ- mas holidays with their parents at Henning. The little child of Ed Kerr’s who has been very sick for some time is recovering and will soon be well again. Jessie Forsythe, who is teaching at Stingy Lake, northwest of Hib- bing, is spending the holidays with | her parents. The box supper given by the young people’s class and the lad- ies of the Christian church was a decidea success. They took in $60. Dr. and Mrs. Hursh are enjoying | a visit with Mrs. Hursh’s brother in Duluth where a family reunion is being held by Mrs. Hersh’s peo- ple. Harmon Tracy caught a large wolf last Saturday up in Bass Lake township. Mr. Tracy has been quite succ ul in getuing wolves; this season. Among the Grand Rapids visitors Monday were Charles ry, Henry Ranfranz, Harry Jone and Mrs. Dorholt and Mrs. Par! and her daughter. Burton Stockwell and others from the Vermilion country met Profes- sor Keenan of Deer River at this place Monday in the interest of aj} school for their community. ‘The exhibition work at the school | which was given this year in lieu of a program, was largely attend-! ed by parents and patrons of the school. Every one spoke in the highest praise of the work that is being done in the schools this year. Miss Jane Thompson, who has keen spending the past few weeks at Ft. Dodge, Iowa, studying mus- ic, is at home again for a visit| with her parents. Miss Thompson is popular in Cohasset and will be welcomed by a large number of friends and acquaintances. The woodenware factory is under} going extensive repair prepara- tory to reopening. The e boxes | ave being rebuilt and -the engines completely overhauled. Mr. Thomp- son hopes to get it in good run- ning order so that he can run the iat mill in connection when the; mil] is again started. | Christmas programs were held by the different Sunday schools and a large crowd was in attendance at each. The M. E. Sunday school rendered a pleasing Cantata at Vil- lage hall on Tuesday evening. The Sunday school of the Christian church celebrated with an old time program in which the boys and girls took part by recitations and songs. They, together with Old Sauta, gave an enjoyable evening to, a large crowd. | teen feet in height. BOUNDARY LINE MARKS. Those Between Hanover and Holland on the Rhine Are Unique. Many of the international boundary marks display a sentimental as well as a pract The famous “Pillar of Farewell,” which marks the line between Ku: and Siberia, has been celebrated in song and This boundary mark ands between Ekaterinburg, in Ru: , and Tiumen, in Siberia. It stands on the main road. along which thousands of exiles have passed. It is an obelisk of brick, six- On the west side it bears in Russian characters the word * rope,” and on the east side the word “Asia.” The boundary marks along our north- ern frontier, ating us from Can- ada, are of a most practical sort. For many hundreds of miles the St. Law- rence river and the great lakes form the natural boundaries. but there is a vast stretch of prairie land beyond with no natural demarcation. The boundary marks here are pillars of iron and wood placed at intervals of one mile. They have been alternately supplied by the two governments and may be seen from the Lake of the Woods to the Red river valley. Be- yond that the marks are mounds of | earth and cairns of stone. The strangest of European frontier lines is that marking the boundary be- tween Hanover and Holland, where it crosses the Rhine. A row of pontoons lies across the river, chained bow and stern. Inasmuch as the dividing line runs through from stem to stern. the eastern halves of the boats are painted in German colors, the western in Dutch. The effect is most striking. Austria has a frontier line of about 3,800 miles, of which 2.096 is land. Every mile of this must be guarded against the encroachments of Austria’s neighbors. yermany is in a similar situation, since her land frontiers. bordering upen Russia, Austria, Swit- zerland, France. Holland and Belgium > miles in extent. and by far not protected by rivers or any other natural boundaries. The German seacoast. how- ever, is only 744 miles in extent.—Har- per’s. DRESS OF MALTESE WOMEN. Silk Hooded Cloaks Hide Face and Form From the Curious. The dress of the Maltese is very sin- gular, and that of the women striking in the extreme. When abroad they are all arrayed in black. They put on over their other dress a robe or loose skirt of that color, bosom, and in place of bonnets their heads are covered with a black silk ' mantle which invests their shoulders and descends halfway behind. The part which covers the head is furnished with a piece of whalebone in- serted in the hem, which keeps it in po- sition and prevents the silk from drop- ping over the eyes. One hand, placed inside, is always necessary to hold to- gether the sides of the scarf in front, and the other hand is often hid under its folds, only a forefinger being suf- fered to appear through the opening left for the purpose. Of course, under such mufflers little can be seen of the beauties of form or feature if a Maltese nymph happens to possess them. The eyes and a moving, pall black figure are all that can be distinguished. But sometimes the fair one deigns to exhibit her face to a curious gazer in place of engrossing herself the privi- lege of seeing, and features good hu- mored, rather pleasing than handsome and irradiated by a pair of fine, spark- ing eyes, are displayed to the beholder. The complexion is a dark olive, partak- ing a little of a sort of mulatto tinge. The mantle is obviously borrowed, or rather it has descended from a distant age and people. It answers to the veil of eastern ladies. Such figures, thousands of whom are abroad on the Sabbath, give the streets a funeral look. It seems as if all Malta had gone into mourning.—Philadelphia Inquirer. SPECIAL SALE Beginntng Wednesday, November 23rd and lasting until the holidays, I will offer my stock of DRY GOODS MILLINERY FANCY Including Hats, Trimmings, greatly reduced prices. Mrs. W. W. Cohasset, GOODS Etc. at Fletcher Minnesota story. | brought high on the| News of Especial Interest to Minnesota Readers, PROPOSED BY PROGRESSIVES Number of Measures to Be Submitted at the Coming Session of the Legistature. The Progressive legislative commit- tee, at a meeting in St. Paul, decided to use the influence of the Progres- sive organization for the enactment of the following measures at the com- ing session of the legislature: Minimum wage law. Mothers’ pension law. Old age disability law. Woman suffrage. Presidential preference primaries. A law creating a legislative refer- ence bureau. The initiative, referendum and re call. L. Q. Mackintosh of Stillwater, chairman of the legislative committee, was authorized to appoint a commit- tee of three to draft bills proposing these laws. The committee will re- port on Dec. 27. Both the legislative and executive committees approved the tentative draft of the bill to give the third party legal standing by providing that any party which has polled five per cent of the total vote on state offices shall be legalized. This feature prob- ably will be included in the bill re- ported by the committee. NAMES UNIVERSITY REGENTS Two of the Retiring Members Reap- | pointed by the Governor. Governor Eberhart has announced the appointment of three members of the board of regents of the University of Minnesota. The two regents “hose terms expire in January, M. M. Will- jams and Dr. W. J. Mayo, are reap- pointed for six-year terms. To fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry B. Hovland of Duluth the gov- ernor names John G. Williams of the same city. Mr. Williams is a prom- iment -attorney and president of the state bar association. He also has been active in promoting the Jean Du ;Luth experiment farm near Duluth, {a university enterprise. He was | urged for appointment by those active in this matter, who also were friendly to C. | Craig was passed over because he is jalready a member of the state fair board. William H. Hoyt of Duluth, who like Mr. Hovland is a mining en- gineer, had been recommended by the general alumni association and a pre- mature report was circulated that he was to be. appointed. Mr. Williams’ term will expire in 1914. EXPLOSION COSTS ONE LIFE Concussion Felt for Wide Radius at St. Paul. One man was killed and the plant of the Prest-O-Lite company, which supplies automobile lighting, located in the Midway district at St. Paul, was almost totally wrecked by explo- sions, probably of leaking acetylene gas, which aroused half the city out of their slumbers and caused con- sternation in countless houses in a wide radius for fear the explosion had occurred in their immediate neighborhood. The property damage will be about $30,000. - Three explosions almost simultane- ously did the damage and were im- mediately followed by a furious fire of burning gas, which lasted nearly two hours and during which there were continuous minor explosions. The body of Henry Hohn, night watchman of the building, the father of a family of eight children, was found charred nearly beyond recogni- tion at the head of the stairs leading from the basement. CIGARS HOLD OFF WOLVES Man Jabs Lighted Ends at Pack Until Help Arrivee. With only four cigars as weapons John Bergman of Palmer held a wolf pack at bay until assistance came from the camp where he was em- ployed. Bergman was walking to the camp near Palmer in the dusk when he saw wolves across the road in front of him. Then the pack began to close in. He had no weapons, but he did have four cigars. Lighting all four cigars Bergman jabbed the lighted ends at the wolves, only stopping long enough to puff the cigars to keep them glowing. When he came within hailing distance of the he was exhausted. ‘Men rap P. Craig of Duluth, but Mr. ; ABOUT THE STATE|A DESERT ENIGMA ' j strange tragedies of exploration in lone Mystery of a Vanished Party of | Australian Explorers. LEFT NOT A TRACE BEHIND. The Leichhardt Expedition Disappear- ed as Though It Had Been Swallowed Up by the Earth, Which May Indeed Have Been Its Fearful Fate. There have been recorded many and distant lands, but no one event of the kind has ever so stirred men’s minds as did the total disappearance of the well found and splendidly equipped ex- pedition which Dr. Ludwig Leich- hardt, the Franklin of Australia, led into the central deserts of Australia in 1848, Leichhardt’s design was to march right across the continent from the east coast to the west, and as he had al- ready led a successful expedition near- ly 3,000 miles through a previously un- known part of Australia, it was gener- ally thought that he would be able to accomplish the task. Still, there were some who doubted and prophesied disaster, and more than one wealthy friend of the doctor's re- fused to subscribe toward the expedi- tion on the ground that they were not going to belp him to commit suicide. The members of the expedition num- bered six whites and two blacks, an unusually large number for an explor- ing expedition of this nature, and be- sides being amply provided with flour, biscuit, tea, sugar and so on, they drove along with them fifty bullocks and 270 goats. They also had spare horses and mules in abundance. At that time the most westerly sta- tion in southern Queeensland was oc- cupied by a squatter named McPher- son, who dwelt on Cogoon creek. From there Leichhardt wrote a brief letter as he was about to start into the unknown land beyond. % That was the last ever heard of him or of any of his companions, and this notwithstanding the fact that expedi- tion after expedition was afterward , ser’. vat ia search of them. H completely as though they had/ bee. swallowed up by the earth, they | vanished. | This is the most puzzling part of the} mystery—its completeness. Had they, been killed by the natives, as was at! first wrongly reported, some relics of the explorers would long since have been recovered from them. In some! shape the iron work of the implements ' and arms they had with them would have survived, | And what of the stock? Some of the | goats. at all events, must have been | left alive. one would ha i for these are notoriou: | SSS = > om BUY IHC Wagons for te Economy OU cannot farm without a wagon any more than you can keep house without astove. You work your wagon oftener and harder than anything else on the farm. Buy a wagon that lasts longer than the aver- age. It is an easy thing to do, even though all wagons which are painted alike may look alike. The difference in wagons is underneath the paint. 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Usually half that time suffices. ‘The explorers, we may be sure, would struggle on to the last, however, hus- banding their water to the uttermost drop. The animals would be the first to go, and the desperate expedient of drinking their blood would be resort- ed to. Hotter and hotter grows the air as the doomed men stagger further and further into the rainless desert. Some lose their reason; all lose hope. Then comes the end. They separate and struggle away in ones and twos, and fall and die. Day after day the terrible and pitiless sun looks down upon them lying: there and sees them dry and shrivel into mummies. And still no rain falls. But one day. it may be years after- ward, there arises a sandstorm of ex- ceptional violence. The wind blows with all the strength and fury of an arctic blizzard. but driving before it sand, not snow. When it ceases the desert is there as before; the same. yet different. Moun- tains of sand exist where before were valleys. 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