Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 15, 1913, Page 5

CoHASSET IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE COHASSET, MINNESOTA, JANUARY 15, 1913 OOP errrcrecsrerresersesserrtreserr eset : Cohasset Locals Mrs. F. W. Stockwell is on sick lisk this week. the Lane entertained friends afternoon. Mrs. Saturday Mrs. D. A. the sick week. was on past O’Brien jays i her parents r Sunday. Fletcher has been ist the past week. Ed Curtiss, a Vermillion farm- er was in the village Tuesday. u’Brien & Jutras are busy these days putting up their ice for the summer use. M. O’Brien has been laid up for a few days, but is able to be about his w onee more. The M. E. ladies met at the home of Mrs. S. Gombs last Thurs- day afternoon and had a pleasant time. A. Maser of Duluth, ar- yesterday with a lady to look after household affairs for H. H. Carrier. Dr. Hursh attended the district meeting of the Itasca County Sun- day School association as Warba Sat urday afternoon. Anumber of inquiries concerning Cohasset has been turned over ot the Commercial club by the Itasca Development association. The ladies of the Christian church met with Mrs. Hollingrank on last Thursday afternoon. They report- ed the best time of the season. The Philathia bible class met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Coen last Thursday evening, and a very pleasant evening was spent. J. E. Patterson has taken a large contract for getting out hoops with a Chicago firm, which he ex- pects will last for some time. Rev. LaRoe and wife of the M. E. church, arrived Sunday. They have shipped their household goods to Cohasset and expect to live up- stairs over the millineery store. Among the visitors from Cohasset; to the opment association at Deer River were Dr. .M. M. Hursh and Rev. C E. Burgess. They reported a good meeting. Ps Mr. Cushman sustained a painful injury last week letting a heavy stick -of timber fall on his left wrist. His wrist was badly sprain- ed and one of the bones slightly fractured: Miss Stenberg entertained the; young people of her Suriday school class last Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Stack- house. A ‘dainty lunch was serv- ed and a very enjoyable evening reported. Mrs. Oliver returned to Cohasset from Virginia Tuesday to make preparations to leave Cohasset per- manently,, owing to the ill health of her daughter, who lives at Vir- Northern Minnesota Devel-| ; —not forgetting the hermetically sealed | quired for colors which resembled their | six pieces of black and white check | made in Peebles.”—Argonaut. ginia and with whom Mrs. Oliver expects to make her home. We negletced to mention in last week's paper about the M. E. choir being entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown out on Bass Lake last Friday evening. They enjoyed the sleigh ride, also a very pleasant evening and dainty luncheon and found Mr. and Mrs. Brown to be royal entertainers. The board of education received shipment of domestic science tables and manual training benches for the Cohasset schools the last of the week. The work of the Cohas- set schoo] has been advancing stead-} ily ce the new building has been completed, so that it will be equip- ped for all modern school work in a short time. The Cohasset sciool consolidated Holmberg is now 2a school and will receive state aid under that act of the legislature the coming year. JOYS OF A RUSSIAN HOTEL. Nice Lofty Rooms With Sealed Win- dows and Smoke Laden Air. Writing of the great Russian city ot Odessa in Harper’s, Sydney Adamson tells of the somewhat primitive ar rangements of even the modern hotels “For our ignorance of Russian we hac the privilege of paying over twice the legal fare for our drive to the hote} The porters obligingly arranged the matter and quite cheerfully kept the difference. How like the rest of the world! We felt at home at once. The large, lofty bedchambers and corridors of the hotels make it just possible t live in rooms that have double win- dows sealed with putty, which are never opened from the beginning of the winter till the spring thaw is in the air. “As there are no open fires the only ventilation is from the slightly better air of the corridors. A framed notice ov the wall informs the visitor of all the privileges he is graciously permitted to pay extra for, among them the joy of being clean at the rate of 10 kopecks for a jug of hot. water or 50 kopecks for a bath. .But the greatest mystery of all was a samevar at 25 kopecks. In time it was discovered that your true Russian, having a taste for much tea or-other warm refreshment, rings for a lighted samovar and prepares his own beverage if he is not fortunate enough to possess a wife to do it for him. “With the lady managing a fiery, fuming samovar and her Jord smoking innumerable cigarettes, with perhaps a visitor to help, one can easily imagine windows—the atmosphere in which} some worthy Russians go to bed.” River Bed Patterns. Ideas for the colors in the best Scotch tweeds are found in the bed of the! river Garry, in the Pass of Killiecran- | kie, said Thomas Welsh in a paper read before the textile congress at/ Hawick, Scotland, recently. Granite. porphyry and jasper are found there in rich reds, grays and greens, beautifully mottled and mixed in finely contrasted colors. ‘‘Heather mixtures.” he said. “were asked for by sportsmen, who in- shooting grounds. The first order of tweeds sent to London in bulk was Curious Result of a Tax. A curious thing happened when the English auctioneers were taxed. At first £5 a year, the duty was raised to £10 by Peel. but he relieved them of the necessity of taking out a license for beer, spirits, etc., when they sold these articles at auction. The conse- quence was that everywhere the auc- tioneers carried on the sale of beer and spirits for thmselves until the abuse was stopped in 1864. ~ | SPECIAL SALE! Beginntng Wednesday, November 23rd and lasting until the holidays, I will offer my stock of DRY GOODS MILLINERY FANCY GOODS Including Hats, Trimmings, Etc. at greatly reduced prices. EE. anne - JOLTED HER DIGNITY. — The Matron, the Mules and a Sbse- tacular Procession. They tell a story in army circles)in Washington, wherein a young matron of much dignity and a string of army mules were the principal actors. It appears that this young woman bas quite a regal air, a circumstance that added much to the humor of the situ- ation in which she found herself. Also, it should be added, it is ber custom to investigate pretty thoroughly any new phase of life with which she comes in eontact. Accordingly, on the occasion of her visit to an army post in the west, she had everything about the post carefully explained to her. One day, when her host and hostess were out of the house, this young wo- man thought it well to go to the cor- ral to inspect the army mules. She went among the animals, carefully ex- amining each one. She happened to wear a costume of very light color that quickly attracted the attention of the animals, which were accustomed, like all army pack mules, to be led by the whitest anima} among them. They slowly wobbled their ears as they noticed the unfurled white parasol of their visitor. The young woman finished her in- spection and took her departure. As she left the corral, she heard steps be- hind her. Glancing back, she saw a mule following her, while all the rest of the animals were falling into line behind their leader. She was not afraid. Indeed, she dee- ed fear quite beneath her dignity. But she was startled, to say the least, and quickened her pace. The mule in- mediately in her rear increased his pace, too, and marched steadily along with his nose just touching the back of the white parasol. Then it was that the occupants of the long row of officers’ quarters were astonished to witness the spectacle of an extremely dignified woman coming up the avenue, at a gait that might be termed a compromise between her dig- nity and a desire to run, with a string of army mules behind ner, the head of each just touching the tail of the one in front of him. The young woman's steps are said to have exceeded the prescribed army stride by about two feet. Her dignity was decidedly “not on straight.” There were about twan- ty-five mules in the procession.— Youth’s Companion.; ¢ ¢ jul rf JUSTICE AND JOLLITY. They Mixed Punishment and Merri- ment In the Good Old Days. The milkman who waters his ik and the grocer who adulterates his butter are not, after all, the products of our modern civilization. men, it appears, have an ancestry of a respectable antiquity. Witness an edict which an antiquary has discover- ed in the archives of Puy-de-Dome: “Whosoever shall have sold watered | milk, in his mouth shall be set a tube. and into the side tube shall be poured the watered milk till the doctor or bar* ber there present shall assert that the culprit cannot swallow more without being put in danger of his days. Who- soever shall have sold butter contain- ing turnips, stones or any other for- eign substance shall be seized and at- tached in a very curious manner. to our pillory of Pontet. “Then the said butter shall be placed on his. head till the sun shall have melted it completely, and in the mean- time the children apd meaner folk of the villages shall insult him with such outrageous epithets as shall please them, subject to the respect of God and his majesty. “Whosoever shall have sold evil or rotten eggs shall be seized by the body and exposed in our'pillory of Pontet. The said eggs shall be given to the children of the villages, who shall by way of joyful diversion throw them in the face of the culprit, so that all may be full of merriment and laugh- ter.” Justice had a humorous way with it in those good old days.—Paris Cor. London Telegraph. A Kindness to the Fish. Ethel, who was ten years old, was studying her geographical reader and learned that fish are placed in brine before they are dried and prepared for sale. After explaining that brine is very strong salt water the teacher asked why the fish were placed im it. Ethel’s face was illumined with sud- den understanding, and she promptly replied: “Because they are used to salt wa- ter.”—Youth’s Companion. Economizing. “I think I saw your little boy chew- ing tobacco as I came in the gate.” “Yes; that was Johnny.” “Mercy! Do you permit him to chew?” “Well, you see, that was an almost new plug of tobacco his father left when he died, an’ it seemed a sin to waste it.”—Houston Post. A Nice Lovable Girl. Jack—The college girl I am engaged elers on the Steppes. EXCITING BATTLE AT NIGHT. Perilous Plight of a Sleigh Party That Was Surrounded and Set Upon by a Pack of the Ferocious and Famished Animais—A Timely Rescue. There are still wolves on the steppes of Russia and pretty ferocious ones at that, as appears from this story sent to a Swedish paper by one of its corre- spondents, who was traveling a win- ter or two ago through the wastes of ania. It was a bright, frosty winter day. The snow was excellent, and the mail sleigh glided forward at great speed. A troika with three Poles in it follow- ed behind. Toward sunset we emerg- ed from the dark pine woods upon the of us as far as the eye could reach. Soon the stars made their appear- ance, and the moon rose. It was bit- terly cold, and the snow crackled be- neath the runners, The horses’ breath rose in the air like thick smoke. The songs and shouts of the Poles died away, and profound silence reigned. Suddenly one of the horses whinnied. then another. and a third shied vio- lently, uttering that terrible cry of which the horse is capable only when in extreme fear. I could see by the light of the moon the shadow of an animal about the size of a dog flitting over the frozen surface of a marsh pool which lay some twenty paces from us on one side of the road. No animal can travel more silently than a wolf when in search of prey. and none can attack so suddenly and unexpectedly. I was slowly raising my gun when a second wolf rose im- mediately in front of the horses with crest erect and green, phosphorescent eyes. At the same time points of ght appeared all over the mere, and the howling of the: beasts rang out. A shot was fired. Revolver in hand. Lescek, one of the Poles, stood on the driving seat of the troika. Then from barrels of my gun, and a savage how! announced that they had taken effect. Two of the most daring of our assail- ants lay rolling in the snow. ‘The three Poles kept firing furiously, although the attack of the wolves was directed more against our sleigh, prob- ably because it was drawn by double the number of horses. Our driver had | These | no other weapon than his loaded whip, | but with it he dealt tremendous blows. The horses struggled madly and tried with all their strength to break the harness. At each shot from my gun the wolves scattered, only to collect again immediately and renew their at- tack on the horses. Suddenly there arose a wild yell behind us. The three Poles were rolling in the snow by the side of their overturned sleigh. Lescek’s badly driven horses had torn themselves loose from the troika in‘ their terror, and were career- ing wildly over the snow covered steppe, pursued by some of the wolves. They were soon pulled down, and in the stillness of the night their death screams were terrible. The Poles wal- Jowed about in the snow shouting. weeping and lamenting by turns. Their situation was, indeed, suffi- ciently serious, for only Lescek had had enough presence of mind to hide himself beneath the sleigh, and the mail driver and I, surrounded by wolves, could give them no help. IL looked upon them as doomed and felt ! sure that we should quickly share their fate. Suddenly our pursuers disappeared, and although bleeding badly, the horses became calmer. The gleaming eyes of the wolves were seen only here and there out on the steppe. A shot rang out, then a volley, succeeded by yells of pain. A dozen dead wolves lay on the ground, and two huge beasts actually expired beneath the hoofs of the horses as our rescuers came up In their tinkling sleighs. It was a landed proprietor with his servants whose solitary farm lay only a couple of versts away. None of us was dangerously wounded. The wolves had treated the Poles worst. for their clothes were nearly torn from their bodies. They were bitten, too, but not seriously. The following morning our host, Herr Stanski, came across the skeletons of the three troika horses scarcely half a verst from the scene of our strug- gle. The poor creatures were still bound together with the harness. What our own fate would have been were it not for our timely rescue, is not hard to imagine. The thought of it makes me shudder to this day, Followed Mamma’s Advice. “Did he kiss you when you accepted him? “No; I wouldn’t permit him.” WOLVES IN RUSSIA} Daring Brutes That Attack Trav- . what was formerly known as Lithu- |i steppe, which stretched: away in front }|* the. mail_sleigh. I discharged _ both |, BUY IHC Wagons for True apt 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 todo, even thoughall wagons which are painted alike may look alike. The difference in wagons is underneath the paint. 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New Bettendorf and Steel pay gpa steel gears. pres intense uae cokes town sells suited Ask im for oat St. Cloud Minn, 1HC Service Burean ie purpose of this Bi crmation ebtataable oprtan ater en Geet neeiis aie Bass BROOK HoTEL Cohasset, Minnesota A Mopern HOTEL in EVERY RESPECT John Nelson Proprietor Grand Rapids Village Lots $5 DOWN ‘AND $5 PER MONTH We have choice residence lots all over town and we are selling them on such easy terms that anybody can buy. $5 down and $5 per month is certainly easy. Come in and talk the matter over. We also have some choice business icts on our lists. They are for sale on easy terms. REISHUS-REMER LAND COMPANY Mrs. MW. W. Fletcher Minnesota “Why not?” “Well, mamma told me that we ought to act differently toward each other after the engagement.”—St. Louis Post- Dispatch. « to picked me up on grammar before a week had passed over our heads. Tom —You got off light and easy. The col- lege girl I knew corrected my English while I was proposing to her.—Boston Transerint | ae Cohasset,