Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 6, 1897, Page 4

a leading Republican papers of Min- Grand Rapids Myeraids'Review nesota, these not hesitating to declare Published Every Saturday.) By E. C, KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVAN Six Months .....$1.00 [ Three Mouths... uc Eptered in the postofice at Grand Rapids Minnesota. as second-class matter. —————— THE UNSEATING OF DAY. —— The Marquette, (Mich..) Daily Mining Journal has the following edi- torial comment on the action of the senaet in unseating Frank A. Day: State Auditor Dunn recently start- led the people of the state by placing before them statistics showing how large a proportion of its area is owned by the railroads. Since then an event has taken place which goes to show that the railroads own the legis- lature, mm addition to their landed possessions in the state. ‘Two years ago when Knute Nelson, the then govenor, was chosen United States senator to succeed Washburn, David Clough, the heutenant-governor elected on the same ticket with bim, became governor of the state, and State Senator Frank A. Day, president of the senate, succeded Clough as licutenant-governor, by which office | he became permanent presiding officer The constitution of the state makes it obligatory on ot the state senate, the president pro tem. of the state ie to discharge the dyties devolv- | ingon the lieutenant-goevnor in the event of such a contingency airsing as that created by the resignation of Nel- | seat in the Unjted States senate the elevation of | Clough to the executive office as_ his | succesor. Day disinclined to take on himself the duties of the office made vacant by Clough’s eleva- tion to the govenorship if it would deprive him of his seat and vote asa state senators being four years, two years longer than would be his tenure ofthe office of lieutanant-govenor, but the senate removed his objection | by conceding him the right to vote and act as a member the state senate at the same time that he was filling the office to which Clough was elected, and which the latter was compelled to vacate by the retirement of Nelson son to take his and was from the govenorship. Subsequently what was known as the Anderson law, providing for the tax- ation of railroad lands, was passed by the legislature, the bill passing the senate by barely the necessary vote, Day yoting affirmatively, In the el- ection last fall H. H. Duan was a cardidate for Day’s seat, taking the ground that Day bad vacated it by king and filling the office of lieuten- ant- goyenor as Clough’s successor, | nd when the present legislature con- vened he brought a contest for the seat. ‘The contest has just resulted in the unseating of Day, his seat having been given to Dunn by a yote of 39 23—the senate going squarely ck cn its previous interpretation of ¢ law in order to oust Day. Now it appears that the railroads of ibe state have been behind the move- ment to have Day unseated, their ; purpose being to have the law taxing their lands, which would have failed »f passage byt for the yote cast in its vor by Day, declared unconstitu- | nalon the groundjthat as Day, who was acting as fieutenant-gorvenor at the time, he had no might to vote as a member of the body over whose deliberations he presided in that official capacity. Way bolted the Republican party last fall and allied himself with the silver forces,and the railroads shrewdly used the party feeling against him thus engendred to procure his eject- ment from his‘seat. It follows that the deep-laid scheme of the railroads to attack the validity ofa just law was helped to success by the Re- publicans of the state senate, who thought more of punishing what they chose to regard as recreancy to party than they did of keeping on the statute books a salutary legal enact- ment under which the railroads of the state have been compelled to pay taxes on land secured by them from twenty-five to thirty years ago under land grants made to promote the building railroads to in that.state,which lands they held without paying - taxes on them until the Anderson law be- came operative, The unseating of Day 1s denounced asap outrage by many of the that it was.procuted by the .railroads as the prehminary step toward having the supreme court pronounce the law taxing their lands unconstitutional, thereby wiping out a iaw that the peo- ple of the state had for years been trying to get enacted, and which was finally passed with great dfficulty against the opposition the roads were able to muster for its defeat. To such “base uses” do_ political organizations lend themselves when unduly swayed by partisian bias and corruptly influenced by wealthy cor- porations, Another Air Ship. Another man claims to have in- vented the ouly perfect air sbip; but itisa very cold day that dves not produce a new airship, and each. in the eyes of its inventor, is the perfect ove. But, gowever that may be, the perfection of travel is reached ou the Saint Paul & Duluth Railroad, which speeds its luxurious, modern trains to and between St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, West Superior, ‘Laylor,s Falis, Stillwater and other important points, Where close connections are made with trains running in’ all di- rections. Aiways take the Duluth Short Line, as it is popularly termed, and go with the crowd, for that is the people’s route. ‘Ticket agents will always cheerfully provide in- quirers with maps, circulars, folders and general informarion, or they may be had by writing direct to W. A. Russell, Genuerat Passenger Agent, Si, Paul, Minn. Daughters of Our Presidents. In an eedigly interesting article in the February Ladies’ Home Jour- hal it is recalied that there are eigat surviving daughters of Presidents of the United States in addition to the three of President and “Mrs. Cleve- land. Mrs. Letitia Tyler Semple is the eldest of the group and Mrs. Philip Pendleton Dandridge is the next. Tne former is the daughter of President Tyler, and is living in the Home, Washington, D. C. ge is the daughter of 1yior, dnd presided at mosh of the White House fancuons during her father’s briet o-cupancy— a little over a year; she lives in| Win- ster, Virginia. The only surviy- ing daughter of President Johuson, M Martha Johuson Patterson, lives in the old Joinsoa homestead at Greenville, Tennessee. Mrs Eilen W. Grant Satoris. the ouly daugtter of President Graut, is living in this country—since the death of her hus- Washington, D. C.. The ouly daughter of President Ha Miss Fanny Hayes, passes much of the winter in t summer at Fremout, Ohio. 3 Stanley-Brown, the rartield ington during the winter and at the old family homestead in Ohio in the summer. ‘he only daughter of President Arthur, Miss Eilen Hern- dou Auther Jives ry Albany, New York, with an aunt, and spends much time in travel. M Mary Harr McKee, the only hter of Presi? dent Harrison, i at Sarato; New York, and the Cleveland child- ren, of cou are at home ia the White Hou 4 Women Will Get Ideas Here. Every women has natural curiosity to seé how other woman furnish their homes. ‘To satisfy this The Ladies’ Home Journal! will publish during the year iuterior pbotogra- phic views of a hundred of the most} artistic, cheerfull homes in America. 'Chese will show in detail the construction, and furnishing of parlors, drawing- rooms, halls, recption, music, sitting, dining, bec and bath rooms, kitcekens, porches, piazzas, etc. his “unique series will be full of g od ideas for every housekeeper or home-maker. It will present views of the interior of houses of moderate cost, which are fitted and furnished with con- Spicuous good taste, aun at con. para- tively small expeuse. and comfortable His Specialty, “Who is that man who calls on you so.frequently?” asked the impertinent | friend, “He's an inventor” “Indeed! What has he invented?” “Oh, ever'so many things.” “Any of them practical?’ “Yes,” was the answer, with some hesitation, “he has a good deal of suc- cess in inventing reasons why I should lend him anything from 50 cents to $9."—Washington Star. Too Much of a Good Thing. “What a wide-awake young fellow Barter js,” said Alice. “Altogether too wide-awake,” re- sponded Edith. “The last evening he | called at our house he stayed till 1, and then papa had to set the burglar alarm going.”—Detroit Free Press. Sometimes the Case, Dukane—I don’t know ‘how you came to lose money in that scheme. You told me it was a rare investment. Gaswell—The investment may have been a rare one, but it was well done before I got throvgh with it.—Pitts- | burg Chronicle-Telegraph. Stood Him off. Dudely—I’m afraid, Cholley, my boy, that Miss Mittique does not look with favor upon me suit. Cholley—What wakes you think so, deah boy? Dudely—Every: time I get to the point of awsking ber to be my wife she begins to knit—Omaha World- Herald. ie What\He Wanted, “You don’t seem to have the sort of folding bed I want,” said ‘the custom- er, after looking through the furniture | man’s stock. “What sort of a folding bed are you Jooking for?” asked the clerk “T want one I can use as a bicycle in *the daytime,”--Harper’s Bazar, t : ittle Mollie” | of the Gartleld family, lives in Wash- | | { | their consumate da | bank when the natives opened GIRAFFES ALMOST EXTINCT, Only Two in Captivity in America + and but One in England, There is only one giraffe in England, two in America, and on the Continent of Europe the dearth is as remark- able. In the wild beast market there are none to be had, and collectors are compelled to send agents into the in- terior of South Africa to secure them, The giraffe is fast disappearing be- fore the encroachments of man, and long before the great central plateau. of Africa, which is its habitat, has been opened up to civilization it will, like the great auk, have been com- pletely wiped out. Formerly giraffes were exported from North Africa by way of the Red Sea, but since the introduction of fire- arms, and their general use by the Be- douins and Soudanese in hunting, these timid animals have been driven far to the south of the Soudan. So the only gateway that is practicable to bring them out of Africa now lies through Cape Town, and for the last half doz- en years even that presents almost in- superable difficulties on account of the constant wars between the natives and the. Boers and English. At the beginning of the present cen- tury giraffes ranged as far south as the banks of the Orange river, but they are not to be met now below the North Kalahari country. ‘There has never been a very large number of giraffes in American collec- tions, though in 1883 one great show went long on giraffes, and exhibited a herd of twenty-one, the largest num- ber probably that bas ever been seen together, since in the wild state they do not herd in large numbers, and are never found in groups of more than | four or five. The giraffe is not a hardy animal in captivity. It does net thrive on dry food, which do almost as well on hay as on grass. In the wild state the giraffe feeds almost entirely on the leaves and twigs of a species of acacia which the Boers call kameel-doorn, or camel thorn, the giraffe itself being known to them as kameel, or camel. food imparts to the flesh a pungent aromatic flavor which wakes giraffe steaks a delicacy highly esteemed by African hunters. There is ne animal which gives its keeper more trouble in a menagerie, not eyen the treacherous elephant. While the giraffe is gentle in disposi tion, and not given to attack, even in the wild state, it is stupid and obsti- pate, and cannot be taught to mind. A full-grown one cannot be taken alive, for when defense is no longer possible it will kill itself. Self-destruc- tion is not difficult in its case, either, for the long neck is easily broken. SAME OLD FATALISTS. Of This Class Were Some of the Bravest Soldiers. A well known soldi riter describes in an inte ing book some instances. of the escapes of futalists. “What will be will be. If I shall be shot, I shail be shot,” is the theory they believe in, and on more than one occasion, by ing and coolness, they have escaped ith their lives when their comrades have fallen on all sides. One of the most interesting escapes of this de: ption occurred in the Indian mutiny, when the Sepoy rebels were aulting the Bank of Delhi. Three, men were seated on the steps of the a heavy fire from the houses opposite. ing voice called to the men on the steps to come at once under shelter. The fatalist waved his hand in repl, At the same moment the two men s ting on either side of him were riddied | with bullets, one receiving seven in his ; body, while he himself untouched. On another occasion a live shell drop- ped into a siege battery and buried it- self in the ground. Instantly every man fell on his face except the fatalist. “Lie down, you fool!” they called out to him. - Quietly taking a cigar from his mouth, he answered: “I am not ‘going to put myself out for—”’ At that mo- titting | ment the shell exploded, carrying away a piece from his trousers. He calmly pointed to his legs to finish his sent- ence, Another instance of fatalism men-, | tioned was that of the man who quie ly stood in the middle of the street to light his pipe when it was being swept from end to end by a hail of bullets. “Haven't I told you,”* he explained, “that if I am to be shot, I shall be shot, whether I am under cover or not?’—New York Mercury. Moving Objects by Telegraph. The striking and puzzling problem of sending light viorations over a wire has been uttacked by many clever sci- entists without success, but a German invertor now ciaims that he has re- moved the principal obstacles to its practical working. This operation Image of | must not be confuunded with that of | telautography, in which pictures, pho- tographs, handwriting, etc., are trans- mitted by electro-chemical or other means. The problem which Dr. Ernst Huber says he has solved is: Is it pessible to transmit over one wire the images of objects in motion, or even at rest, from a transmitting station to a receiving station, a which receiving station the exact reproduction of the said objects, in motion or at rest, may be seen by an observer? Is it rossibie to so transmit these cbjects that any changes in their position with be sim- ultaneously transmitted and seen at the receiving end? Dr. Huber replies to these questions in the affirmative, and in the system which he has made public these results are claimed to be reached by supplementing many of the features of previous experimenta- tion in the vibrations of 2 Crookes tube ated synchronously by the ing apparatus. and an image of the same size as the original pro- jection appears on a fluorescing screen on which the observer gazes through a magnifying lens. It is said that | in this way landscapes, horse races | and the like may be seen at distances limited only by the laws of nature. Has One Good Point. “TI dunno ez the prodigal son was so very bad after all,” said Mrs. Corntas- sel. ¢ . ‘He wa’n’t no ‘good to his family,” her husband rejoined. “That's a fact. But when he got home’ he didn’t hey no more ter say, Ef he’d been like most o’ the men folks nowadays, the fust thing he’d of done : would of been to find fault with the way the fatted calf was cooked.”— Washington Star, \) se like most ruminant animals, | The | A warn- | - Ment of taxes The Palace, Leland Avenue. CH oiCe-— Ss aa Cigars. Wines, we Liquors STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS.| HENRY LOGAN, Proprietor, GRAND RF S, 1 ee eae ee eae ae ae aaa ea a GEO. F. KREMER, Contractor and Bui'dar And dealer in Brick, Lime, Milwaukee and Portland Cement, Adamant,Land Plaster, Ete. Office with Kremer & King, Grard Repids. 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