Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 15, 1897, Page 4

Brand TRepics Weraia Review Published Every Saturday. 1 | "By B.C, KILBY. fWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN. ADVANCE six Months $1.00 {| Three-Months.....,..0€ \ Entered in,the postomee at Grand Rapids Minnesota.as second-class matter, POPULISTS ON THE TARIFF, WHEN the Dingley tariff was put to its final vote in the house a few days ago the populists and’ free silver re- publican congressmen refused — to vote. ‘lhe populist senators will take tlie same position. Their reasons are set forth in a strong. and clear-cut statement which was issued by a unanimous vote of a joint, caucus of the populist members of the, house and senate, in which they said: “The tariff has~ been: ‘the. battledoor ‘and shuttlecock of politics for more than one hundred years, and its final set- tlement. is more distant than when the controversy began,” “During this period the country:has experienced at different times both prosperity and hard times, not only under a high tariff, but™also under a low tarHf; but it’ ha: ways eXx- perienced hard times when there 1 cogtraction of the money vol- um matter whether the tariff was high or low.’ They recognize the fuct that all tariff legislation has unjust discriminations, and works hardships to many industries and unreasonably fosters othe! To refrain from voting on the final pass- age ofthe Dingly bill is therefore their sLrongest protest against a fur- the! agitation by tariff tinkering and a side-tracking of the real issue upon which the country was engaged in the last campaign. Ww many CLOSER TO THE PEOPLE. UNDER the above caption the St. Paul Globe, of a late date, has the following to say of that aristocratic | | Vivid is my recollection of this talk before | body, known as ‘The American Heuse of Lords:” “It has been too evident thav the United States senate long ago ‘ceased to be body representative of the peo It has also lost: the consery- autism that once characterized it, and has become the most reckless advo- cate of cranky schemes, as well as the most shameless defender of public and private jobbery. The house, the body which tke people have been} taught for generations to regard as 100 mueb swayed by the. passions of the moment, too radical in its views and intemperate in its actions, is to- day the only really popular and safe branch of the legislature.. The senate isa mere make-weight, or worse. The difference between the two is seen in tbeir attitude toward the amendment of the sundry civil bill, which orders the revocation of Presi- dent Cleveland's proclamation with- drawing forest reserve from settle- ment. No sense of shame, no appre- ciation of the magnitude of the in- terest. involved, no knowledge that the motives which be immediately understood, prevented vhe senate from coming to the rescue | of the lumber syndicates and land- grabbers and directing the revocation | of this order. When the bill came back tothe heuse this amendment was non-concurred in bya vote of three toone. There is danger, of course,that the speculators who trade upon thei vility to control legisla- tion will get in their work when the two houses come into conference. ‘The value of these forest reserves to the whole country is so great that nothing should be neglected which will serve to retain them, and to de- feat the schemes of some adventurers who have drawn a number of West- ern senators to their support. ‘This is only one of numerous instances in which the house has to do battle foy the people as against the private pri- vilege and the greed of monopoly that are so tirmly entrenched in the sen- ate. Let the battle be fought to the finish.” SILVER IN 1900. Thomas G. Shearman predicts the defeat of the republican party in 1900. though he frankly admits there is small credit in predicting’ that now. The grounds upon which he places his prediction is the impossibility of moderation oh the part of: the protec- tionists. Mr. Shearman is an ardent free trader und he rejoices over. the Dingley bill, as a “monstrous scheme of public plunder for private benefit,” us it will the sooner open the eyes of the people and aid in the ultimate victory of free trade. of this reaction on the currency ques- tion he says: “T regret to say that all present, ap- pearances indicate that in 1900 the country willbe swept over the silver precipice. The silver men have com- plete control over the democratic or- yanizatiou,and they will,with justice, fee] so certain of regeen tig the votes of one million gold democrats, in the reaction against the Dingley tariff, that the prospect of any terms of re- - concilation being offered> on the* sil- ver question is very duabtfal. More- over, by adherence to. the free silver = | Banks mus’ inspired it must} As to the effect, ne, they will have thirty-five elect- oral votes guaranteed to them..from The mining states, thee kind of tariff, or no tariff at all, which. they would lose-on any other issue. Noth- ing will induce them to risk the loss ofthese states, rl such united action on the part of New York, New Jersey and Connécticut as would con- vince:them,-that the votes of these states-could certainly’ be had for the democratic:party without silver, abd could not probably:be'had otherwise. But the ue ne is. that: by 1900 New York and ‘New: Jersey: will be ready.to vete: any: democratic : ticket in preference:to any -republican.”’ It must be understood that Mr.Shear- man is an out-and-out: gold standard man, with no sympathy whatever for silver, and hence. is not.disposed to exaggerate what the effects-of the re- action of a high tariff in “favor or the silver cause will be. He” says ‘the country, ‘from present appearances, “willbe swept over the silver preci- pice.” This is the opinion of a great many. thoughtful persons’ besides Mr. Shearman—persons who,like him,look upon such a result as little less than an approaching’ national calamity. ‘There Wwill-be no tariff bill passed be- fore the latter part of August; there will not bea single pledge of the re- publican party in the last campaign carried out this year; there will be no increased revenue from the Dingley tariff on imports fora year to come: there will be no attempt at currency legislation at all, and altogether the situation an‘ the prospect are looked upon by many leading republicans with most gloomy apprehensions.— Minneapolis ‘Times. Thoughts on Prosperity. Ihave racked my brain’ and wondered o'er this riddle I have pondered, Grieving sorely that my party.has} not done as it foreswore, Grieving that a promise given can so easily be riven When so earne: H rights we | “Confidence must in days of vore. Only this and nothing more. we've fstriven, for’ the ked before. But with faith again ihspired, as Republic- ans de: 5 With McKinley in the foremost ranks Mark Hanna has the floor. In their power they aptly hold us. to their will they firmly mould us, But the change of which they told us_ makes our aching hearts more sore, Makes ou ungry stomachs lighter, then were before. and nothing more. the | Hunger the | election, Of “Sound Money” an@ “Protection,” and | the blessings they procure, ' Night and morn I meditated, with my neigh- i bors I debated. ig f | Confidence they udvocated was the thing we | needed sore. : | If McKinley was elected.as by magic 'twould | store, | Work and peace and hope once more. | hing, bitter Through the landT hear a c wailing. teeth are gnash: And my sympatheti rit fli to deplore, But it pauses sore discusted ‘twas some pal trr plank had busted, «, Only fools their money trusted, and my pity 1 forebo: . their sorrow il and firms must go under that ha prospered heretofore. Only this will help the poor. Let the wheat price keep decreasing, and the interest due increasing, And the hapless laborer in’ vain for work m plore. They will make some reparation, during this administration, | And our place in God's creation will be where it was before. Iron heel upon our bosom, and our head up- on the floor. WiUlLit rest there evermore? How they crush the man who labors, they forget that they are neighbors. “And they crucify maukind upon a cross of burnished ore, Thorny crowns on labor pressing,” mind and soul alike di ng, In their eagerness scarce guessing, that such wound must Jeave a sore. Leave a deep and bitter anguish, leave a never-healing sore. That will last for evermore. —J. A. Sinkler. TOBACCO. Tobacco is classified in medical books among the depresso-motors, a term used | to describe certain drugs which by re- ducing the activity of.the nervous sys- tem tend to lower the general tone of the body. Its peculiar properties are due entirely to the well-known sub- a degree varying according to the form in wlich the plant is used. Nicctine, when pure, is a colorless, transparent liquid of a strong, tobacco- like odor and persistent burning taste. It is freely soluble in water, and rapid- ly disappears on exposure to the air. powerful that the small dose of one thirty-second of a grain caused an in- tense burning of the throat, gullet and stomach, which was followed by giddi- ness, rausea, extreme muscular weak- ness, laborious respiration, and with icy extrumities, partial loss of con- | sciousness, a rapid, feeble pulse, and | other indications of impending col- | lapse. In large amounts nicotine acts with lightning-like rapidity. In a case of suicide, in which the amount, taken could not be ascertained, the» man dropped instantly to the floor, gave a long-crawn sigh and was dead in three | minutes. When nicotine is added to freshly !drawa blood the blood takes on a pe- | culiar, dark hue, and upon examina- tion with a miscroscope the minute | vital particles in. the blood are found | to be rapidly breaking up and dying It is doubtful just. how nearly this represents the inward condition of to- bacco-users, since during life the poi- son which gains entrance to the body is constantly being eliminated by the various organs in the performance of their offices. It is certain,’ however, that abuse of tobacco will eventually lead to deterioration of the blood. And it is upon this influence of nicotine upon, the circulation; as well as upon itg effect upon the nervous system, that the advocates of total abstinance from the use of tobacco correctly base their arguments. hold the sceptet as it aid | Hivellest of the party. There was no | peculiarities which he possesses that ‘HAS NO FEAR OF SNAKES. Maryland Man Who Allows the “Most " Polsonous Reptiles to Bite Him. 2 The only man. in. the world who does not fear'a snake bite, and upon whom the venom of serpents apparen:- ly has no effect, is William F. Witmer, whose home is in Wolfsville, Md., says. the New York Herald. His perform- ances with copperheads, rattlers and vipers are a constant source of won-: der and amazement to all who know him, and even to his lifelong friends there is a large element -ofmystery about the man and his strange power over snakes. He takes great pride in this respect, and when among stran- gers it is a favorite form of amusement with him to.hunt up some ugly look- ing speciment of the serpent family —the more deadly the better it fits his purpose—and to let the reptile sink its venomous fangs in his bare arm or hand. Recently, while on a visit in the mountains .of western Pennsylva- nia, a half-dozen spotted vipers were found in a bunch under a stone. Roll- ing up the sleeve of his coat until his arm was bare to the elbow, \Witmer proceeded with his other hand to take the largest and ugliest-looking viper by the tail and, shaking him apart from the rest of the snakes, swung him about until he was thoroughly enraged. He then allowed the viper to sink its teeth in his arm. Then one by one the other vipers were picked up and al- lowed to seize the arm, until there was a full half-dozen of the spotted writhing things hanging from Wit- mer’s flesh and writhing themselves about the arm in a very frenzy of rage. When the spectators were sufficiently | horrified the man took off the snakes one by one by the tail and, shaking them loose from his arm. killed them by snapping them like the lash of a whip. For the rest of the day no one would have been surprised to see the man drop dead any moment, but, on the contrary, he seemed among the swelling of the arm nor any numbness | of the flesh, the only trace of the ex- hibition being a number of tiny red spots:on the arm, which looked as. if a needle had punctured the flesh. Those were the marks of the snakes’ fangs. | Witmer himself says of the strange | it is something inherited from his an- cestors, one in each generation back as far as he knows having had this same immunity from the poison of | explain it,’’ said he; | although I have been bitten hundreds | of times I never felt the slightest ill | effects from any of them. | bitten me I have no difficulty in tam- | ing it. | what we have never seen nor heard of | The story is told by a German paper, | ly familiar with it. stance, nicotine, which is present in | This active principle of tobacco. is so | venomous reptiles. “I do not try to “all I know is that I have no fear of snake bites; and | It is only. a ; pastime for me to hunt and catch the | most deadly serpents, and a peculiar feature of it is that once a snake has | In fact, at home I have a num- | ber of pet rattlers and copperhead: | which know me and will come when call them, just like a dog. I seem:to have the same. power over animals, and have yet to meet the first wild | animal I cannot tame.” es | | Imperial Ornithology. \ It is natural enough to think that | has no existence; but there are occa- sions when this pleasing. personal ignorance runs against a hard fact. to illustrate the manner in which | princes used to be educated in the good old times, that a Russian grand duke once came to Berlin to pay a visit to | the Prussjan court. It was early in the present century. In. Russia the imperial two-headed eagle is seen everywhere—not in the woods or in the air, buton decorations | of all sorts—stamped, painted, em- broidered and sculptured. Every Rus- sian—even a grand duke—is thorough- While the above-mentioned young duke was at the Prussian court, a hunt was given in his honor, and by the assistance of the gamekeepers he was enabled to shoot a certain large bird. “What kind of a bird is that?” the grand duke asked of another hunter. “It is an eagle, your highness,” the hunter answered; whereupon the Rus- sian prince turned on him with a look of indignation and said: “An eagle! Extremely Literal. It is related of a certain very mat- ter-of-fact man that he was-waked one night by a burglar at the foot of his bed, who pointed a revolver at his head. “If you move,” said the burglar; “you are a dead man!” “I beg your pardon,” answered the other; “if I move, it will be good proof that I am alive. You should be more careful as to the meaning of your words.” not tell what the burglar did then. Properly he should have fainted, and remained in the faint until the police came and took him away. One of the Two. It was in front of a theater that a number of people observed a showily dressed man. “I tell you,” remarked one of the group, “a man is lucky to have a big fur-trimmed overcoat this kind of weather.” + “Perhaps,” was the rejoinder, in a tone of chronic discontent; “he's eith- er lucky or else he’s an actor.”—Wash- ington Star. For Herself Alone. She—Do you love me for myself alone, dearest? He—Of course I do. You don’t suppose I want your mother How can it be, when it has only one head!” { The fault of this story is that it does | “A GREAT SCHEME. ‘Why. One: Chappic Will Not Have to Work: r Fifth,avenue one after- They met on gays the New York Journal, and, after shaking hands a la’stiff arm, the one withthe monocle in his eye exclaimed: “Oh, say, chappie, did you know that I had given up my position with Black & Co.” | “Weally, deah boy?” asked the other in amazement. “Yaas, weally,” continued the first speaker. “You know Black would nevah take off his hat to me and has always tweated me with moah or less diswespect and I couldn’t stand it any longer. Howevah, I didn’t leave until a big stwoke of luck befell me.” “Wich old uncle die and leave you his money?” “No, indeed, old chap.” “Engaged to an heiress, pwehaps?” “Wish I was.” “Then you have a new position al- Weady to step into?” “Gwacious, no, foah I’m not going to work again. Don’t have to, and I’ tell you why. You know Algy Faunt- leroy, don’t you?” “Yaas.” “Well, I was telling him about my twubbles some time ago and the bwainy fellah got up a scheme foah me in-case I was thrown on my own we- sources. Oh he’s the bwainest old chap I evah met.” “But tell me the scheme, deah boy?” “Oh, yes, let me tell you the bwainy scheme he thought of. He got me to | wite ]im about a dozen weal saucy lettahs and now he’s going to sue me foah damages.” “Ab, but where do you come in?” “Why, that’s the bwainy part of it, you know. When he gets the heavy damages he's going to divide them with me, you see, and we can live comfort- ably on them foah years. Isn’t that bwainy, by Gawge—isn't it, though” The « DOMESTIC” Is absolutely the best Sewing Machine made. Leads in latest and best improvements, SIMPLEw PRACTICAL DURABLE For over 30 years has been endorsed | by the public as the most satisfactory of all sewing machines. We want your trade and can save you money. Write for free catalogue and prices. 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