Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 29, 1897, Page 4

tai — Grand TReyics Meratds'Review Pulilghed Every Saturday. By E. C, KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Six Months ..... $1.00 | Three Months.......,.60¢ Katered in the postoffice at Grand Rapids Minnesota, as secoud-class matter PREDICTS A NEW PARTY ‘The best brains of the nation are just now thinking more seriously along economic lines than at any other time. What was largely pre- judice and theory last fall is giving way to practical thought, and con- ditions are forcing a close summing up of results of legislation and public policies. Among the talk of wars abroad, of starvation in other countries and of tariff tinkering at home we see an oc- casional outburst of plain words and prophecy from some man _ whose career gives weight to his thought} to his observations. | and prominence As an example note the following dis- patch in Saturday’s dailies: “Ex- Postmaster General JohnWana- maker, at a banquet of the Business Men’s league this evening, made a re- markable speech on national and state politics, After commenting on the failure of promised prosperity to appear in consequence of President McKinly’s election, Mr, Wanamaker | said that the low. state to which the political religion of the nation was brought by unscrupulous bosses must | eventually result in a new party.’” Who can imagine amore ardent supporter of Republican policies of a more generous contributer to Re- publican campaign funds than John Wannamaker? ‘Then think or the place and under what circumstances “Failure of | this speech was uttered. promised prosperity to appear in con-| of President McKunly’s state to which the; of the country was sequence “Low pohtical religion brought by uncrupulous Poe must eventually result in a new party.” What does this signify? Mr, Wana- maker’s charge cannot be taken home to the Democrats. The failure of promised prosperity is not.the result of Democratic success, that is certain. No bosses in the Democraic party are influencing: the political religion of the country just now. ‘Then he must mean that the new party is to sup- plant the one so victorious in last year’s campaign. ‘The basis of the busine the country has been blighted by a ruinous policy and the business are now observing the rum with desper: There are more John Wanamakers, but with less courage and force, who will appear as time goes apace, and they will all battle in the future for the principle that money and not “confidence” what the nation needs most. sof men ion. 1s} WHAT TOWNE IS DOING. The following report was made from Washington a few days since, relative | to the work that ex-Congressman | ‘Towne is doing for the cause of silver. His host of Jtasca county friends wyll| read of his labors with pleasure: Anjmmense amount of work for! the silver cause is being turned ts at the hands of National Chairman C. A. ‘Yowne, in the silyer party national headquarters. Mr. Towne js person- ally doing an immense amount of work, how much it woyld simply as-| tonish the public to learn. His meth- ods are exactly opposite of most cam- paign managers, the usual manner be- | ing to direct the work generally by} means of large clerical forces. Mr. | ‘Yowne leaves details to no one, so far as he is able to superintendent them; and the result is that he gets the stamp of his marked personality upon the people and press who are reached,and invariably each becomes imbued with the earnest determination and the faith of the tountain hand. When a mom- ent can be spared, Chairman Towne 1s} away to fill some personal engage- yent, out of the numberless applica- uons for his addresses. In the mean- | time, he is at work upon articles for publication which go to the most ef- fective ayenues for distribution, press and magazines, Since his several ad- dresses in New England, he has, on invitation, furnished one of the prin- cipal artycles for the new silver maga- zine which is to be out in a day or two, in New York, entitled “Money.” A significent feature of the spread -be a rich man. of free coinage cause, as indicated in Mr. Town?’s work, is the interest in New York city and other parts of the East. It is a hopeful sign. The proof of the article referred to for “Money,” has been seen by several of the silver senators, and they declare it is one of the best Mr. Towne has yet produced. A point especially emphasized -1s_ the ratio between gold and silver as es- tablished by Jaw.’ Mr. Towne is also to have an article in the June Forum, entitled “The Reform Club Feast of | Unreason,” dealing with the celebrat- ed $12-a-plate dinner at the Waldrof, and ex-President Cleveland’s star per- formance at the banquet of the 24th of April. Chairman Towne has been stirring up the republican silver men of Min- nesota by letters relative to the rep- resentation ‘at the June coference 10 Chicago. While there is but one for- mal delegate to represent the state, it is desired that others prominent in the work shall be there—the more the better. ‘The press correspondent has made particular ingury as to the bill intro- duced to repeal the monetary com- | mission law, the Lewis bill, and it can be stated that there is no danger whatever of anything coming of it, Mr. ‘Towne and all the rest are op- posed to any opposition to the com- mission and bid the members who are on their way to Paris as starting point, God speed, chiefly for the purpose of having it demonstrated so that the bhindest can see that this thing that even the republican party declares is a good thing, cannot be had in the way they propose to get it. EXPERTS AS EGG-EATERS. Shipwrecked Men Hungrily Ate a Barrel of Hen Fruit a Day. “Do you like eggs?” was ihe ques- tion that stirred up a “49-er” to make some talk in a Bangor store the other day, says the Lewiston Journal. He was an old man and he straightened up to something like the height of his prime and answered: “I had a sur- feit of them onee. “Twas many years | ago, when I was on the way home from California, We left the isthmus on a good brig bound for New York, | but ran into a coral reef in the Carib- | bean sea and were wrecked. It was a patch of sand just out of the water, but you ought to see the flocks of sea fowl that nestled on it! They had to move out of the way to give us room to stay there and that wag about ali they would do. Their nests were everywhere, and there were eggs in abundance. We ate about a barrel of them every day during the twelve days we were there. Some of us 30t off ip a boat and went to San Juan, in Nica- ragua, where he got a vessel to go after those we left on the reef. That vessel was commanded by William Lawrence of Bath, who was killed by | a man called Wilkinson while he was a policeman there. We tried to get to the reef, but bad weather stove us up so we had to set in for New Or- leans, where we found the rest of the men rescued by another vessel. But eggs: ” the cld man’s face took on a peculiar expression. HUNTING WITH A MIRROR. Effect of Reflected Light Upon Birds and Rabbits in the Woods. A taxidermist at Northwood, N. Y., has been making experiments as to the | effect of light reflected in a bird’s eyes. A glass seven or eight inches in diam- eter has been found mos} serviceable. | The antics o° blue jays are remarka- ble wher the light strikes them as they sit in the shadow of an evergreen tree. They jump to another branch and try to look into the light, but they have to turn away, as the light dazzles them. Then they fly around the reflection but after practice one is able to keep the light always gn them, and the birds not infrequently come within the reach of a man’s hand. A ruffed grouse gives a startled look when the light strikes it. Then up it jumps, and away it goes. Hawks, too, are usually startled or annoyed so that they fly off. Woodpeckers don’t seem | to mind it at all. Rabbits blink and stare at a glass for a while, then they go around a stump and sit up again, as if waiting for the light to play tag with them.—New York Sun. Choosing a Life Partner, The Washington Star tells the fol- lowing tale of a girl with an eye to the main chance: - “It was a difficult matter to make up my mind which to accept,” said the girl with a practical mind, “T understand that both are very bright.” “Yes. They’re inventors.” “There is. something noble in that profession. I cannot think without the profoundest admiration of these men who harness the giant forces of nature to do the bidding of the human will.” “Yes. That sentiment applies to William. He's at work on a fiying ma- chine and a new kind of electric en- gine. But one can’t buy moquette car- pets and dining-room chairs with fine theories, you know?” “Aren’t you going to marry Wil- liam?” “No. Iaccepted John. He’s going to He has an invention under way for fastening on suspender buttons so they can’t come off.” | auburn hair carefully arranged. | It was a white gown with lilac sprigs, ariem TWENTY YEARS. Mira Bascom Found Beaatitul He did not call on her that first even- ing, thcugh he walked past the gate four times, unaware of the fact that behind one of those slanting shutters a pale woman siood watching him pass and repass, says Lippincott’s. The nun in her self-elected cell had and made use of means of communication with the world, in the shape generally of Jimmy the choreboy. She knew whose was the tall figure on the side- walk. Sho stood at the window when she could no longer see him; she heard his slow footsteps go by for the last time and die away. Half an hour later she went upstairs to her bedroom. Be- tween its two windows hung a long, old-fashioned mirror, with carved can- delabra on either side. She lighted the three candles in each. The mirror showed a tall, slim figure,.a face as col- orless as an anemone, an abundance of Mira Bascom studied this reflection closely. Then she unlocked a black-walnut chest which stood in a corner and lifted out its contents till she came to a mass of pale muslin, which diffused an oder of lavender as she shook it out. She made with the full skirts and sleeves of a bygone fashion. She pur it on, fastened the belt of lilac ribbon, which still fitted exactly, and, standing again before the mirror, loosened slightly the bands of her beautiful wavy hair and pulled it into little curls about her face. It was a vision of youth which looked back at her from the glass. Not a thread of gray showed in the hair; the fine lines abqut the placid eyes were invisible. The skin had the dead whiteness of things kept from the sun. But as she gazed a del- | icate flush overspread her face, her | red-brown eyes lit up till their color | Weak-looking ‘Chink’ matched her hair; she smiled in startled triumph. She was still beau- tiful. Then a swift change came over her. She blew out all but one of the candles and, turning her back on the mirror, took off her gown with cold, shaking | dollar.’ fingers. MUSICIANS’ WHIMS. Most of Them Are Daft About Some Things, I am tickled to know that Wagner was an exact and expensive dresser, and that Beethoven was a sloven with an old coat and slippers trodden down at the heels, says the Contemporary j Review. It interests me to hear that | port jhe asked. One cannot easily cénvince of his er- ror @ pefson who finds gentle solace to his nerves from an after-dinner cigar; but the almost continual employment of tobacco in some form, and especially the inhalation of the fumes from a cigarette, which has its own distinct and pernicious effect, is strongly to be discouraged. The exampie of men who have been tobaceo-users for a lifetime with im- punity proves nothing save that there are many men with constitutions strong enough to withstand a test which is entirely unnecessary. Couldn't Stand It. A certain fat lady resolved to con- sult a physician about her corpulence. She had had no previous experience with “banting” of any sort. The doc- tor drew up a careful dietary for her. She must eat dry toast, plain boiled beef and a few other things of the same lean sort and in a month return and re- the result to the doctor. At the end of the time the lady came and was so stout that she could hardly get through the door. The doctor was aghast. “Did you eat what I told you?” “Religiously,” she answered, His brow wrinkled in perplexity. Sud- denly he had a flash of inspiration. “Did you eat anything else?” he asked. “Why, I ate my ordinary meals,” said the lady. The “Chink” Was Not Slow. From the New Orleans Times-Demo- erat: “You may talk to me about the stolid, stupid Chinee,” said an accident- insurance agent, “but I know better. The other day I insured Hop Lee’s life for $1,000. A few days afterward a called at my office and asked to see me. ‘Well?’ ‘Me wantee flive hundle dollar,’ said he. ‘What for?’ I demanded. ‘Hop Lee, responded my ealler, ‘He | send me.‘ Got thousand for dead. Halt dead, wantee half money—flive hundle Say, I didn’t do a thing to | that Chinam “ said I. Paganini always carried a shirt in his fiddle case because he sweated so pro- fusely over his solos that he had to change between his parts if he played twice. I even care to learn that Men- delssohn was a perfect child about pastry, which he could never resist and which he always ate (especially cherry pie) and which always disagreed with him, that Schumann injured his third finger by tying it back to his wrist with a string because he hoped to} make it more supple—it ended, how- ever, in his almost losing the use of it; that Bulow got up in the night to play over passages which he thought he was likely to play inaccurately at his prodigious recitals. Whea Thral- | berg was at the height of Nis fame he wouldn’t even carry an umbrella for fear of it cramping the muscles of his hand; Malibran loved noching so | much as romping with Mochetes’ chil- dren on the floor; Paganini was so stingy that he would stand up under shelter in the rain and keep a whole opera house full waiting sooner than call a cab. Prof. Ela told me ine found him one day crouching under the Arcade in Regent street aud that he gave this artless explanazion. ‘“‘Hack- ney coaches,” he said, “in Longon were so expensive!” and this when he had doubled the prices at the opern house where he played and was rolling in| money. Extra for Lytoy. Old Maid (to messenger)--Give him : the letter and if he asks you who sent it, just say “a beautiful young lady.” Messenger—I shall charge you 10/ cents more for that. First English Christmas Tree. Christmas trees were unknown in | England yntil the reign of Queen Vic- toria, After the present prince of Wales had become three or four years old Prince Albert ornamented a Christ- mas tree for the infant prince. The idea pleased the people and as Christ- mas trees were every year madé a feature of the court celebration the fashion soon spread among the Bng- lish.—Boston Globe. Like a Bird. Smith—Yeu told me your friend sang like a bird. voice. How can you say it is like a bird’s? 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