Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 26, 1897, Page 4

Co Grand Rapids HeraiaeMReview Published Every Saturday. By E. C. KILEY. ADVANCE awe $1.00 | Three Months........50¢ TWO DPOLLARS A YEAR IN Six Months Entered in the postomce at Grand Rapids Minnesota, as secoud-class matter. —— WHAT DOES THE JUBILEE MEAN? While the Anglo-maniaes are sing- ing the praises of Victoria and print- ing columns of slush concerning her alleged multiplicity of virtues; her greatness as a sovereign,and virtually attributing the achievements in hu- Man progres: that have taken place during the present century to the fact that she has occupied the British throne, it is refreshing to read an editorial like the following, taken from the Minneapolis Times “Ts there not a lurking danger that the jubilee business will be overdone in England? It is right and proper that the personal virtues of the -aged queen should have recognition, though they are not so heaven-piercing as to demand the holy screech that has been made over them. The queen has been no more devoted to the formalities of state, for example,than the Emperor Joseph of Austria nor than was Alexander II. of Russia. She has been a figure-head while they were the actual rulers of the people. She has sat on a cushioned throne and dispensed social forms, made and unmade marriages among her imme- diate family and kin. Her record in the latter respect has been most ruth- less, tyrannical and cruel, and while nothing will ever be said of it in his- tory, Victoria has hroken many hearts with her bulldozing methods of chmaking. ‘lhe Times remem- reading an apparently authentic- ated article detailing many of her acts of oppression toward young peo- | plein the matter of settling them- selves for life, and the catalogue of arbitra and in many cases disaster-! ous, decisions made by her without appeal showed that in a different set | of circumstances the devout queen of | Great Britian would have made an} impressive monarch of such a land as} Siam or Madagascar. Victoria is an old lady now who is and has been a figure-head ia the administration of the government for a longer period | than anybody else who ever sat upon | athrone. To compare her with Eliz-! abeth, who ruled, is absurd. She has had no rea) power, but it is claimed} that by reason of her grand character | she has had a marvelous influence upon the administration. To such an extent bas this fatous beliet been carried by writers and speakers that it culminated last Sunday ina hymn tossed from the lips of Englishmen toward the thrown of grace in these g flies wild unt wrongs pelling; » the world a better worid Yor mau’s brief early dwelling.” ‘The hymn, which was written, of course, by a Lord Bishop, since no lesser functionary could get into such politico-theological debate with the Almighty, probably gives the tune of the whole jublee business. England is gratifying her admiration for her- self with the aged queen as a rallying point. The nation does not believe that Victoria has actually ruled; if it did it would find it hard to reconcile her “mother grace” with the devilish wars England bas waged against well nigh defenseless people since she came to the throne. Queen Victoria did not originate the idea of the op- jum war, nor the Boer war, nor the bombardment of Alexandria. These were all commercial wars of the most depraved sort; assaults upon nations that had not given up their tariff or territorial rights in compliance with the English demands. Norcanit be said that Victoria is personally the author of the system whereby Ireland has been periodically coerced and all the time robbed by England. This has been the resultant of race haterd and that chivalrous instinct active in the English mind which prescribes a punching as the proper treatinent for undersized persons who presume to have rights in contravention of En- glish rights. It is well enough for Victoria to have a jubilee, but it would be well for foreigners to not go into wild hysterics over the figure- head in the procession. We of Amer- ica should at least understand that fngland is singing her own praises behind the queen. Our approval of her personal conduct will be con- strued oyer the water into a worship of England. Of course, we have our worshippers of England over here, but they are the most un-American portion of our population. ~ The na- tion at large can at least remember that Queen Victoria typifies heredi- tary monarchy,to which we are as a na- tion opposed,and also English self ag- grandizement against which we have set our faces asa nation, at least in the western hemisphere. FRANK G. CARPENTER, the veteran correspondent, recently chatted with Secretary Gage in Washington, and among other questions asked him: “Do you realy think, Mr, Secretary, that a man can make a million dol- lars honestly?’ “Of course he can,” replied the secretary; and then he went on to show that the growth of big fortunes benefits the 1aasses as well as the few who directly own them. “How about the prosperity which the United States was to have ; under this administration—where is it?’ To this query Mr. Gags replied: “T don’t think it is very far off. The seeds of it have been sown. They have already sprouted, and under the sun of settled business relations and a proper tariff they will multiply many fold. [ luok for a rapid im- provement in the times just as soon as the tarriff bill is passed.”” The Re- publican orators during the campaign premised the people good times right away in the event of McKinley’s elec- tion. They said that all that was necessary was contidence and pros- perity would spring up mushroom feshion. Bob. Ingersoll, in his ad- dress to the Editorial Association at the West Hotel in this. city, spoke liks this: ‘My friends, let me say that if the Republican party went into power tomorrow, we would have good times on Monday.” Bob made his speech on Friday; but though the Republicans are in power three months one cannot see any visibie signs of prosperity with the aid of the most powerful glass in an obsery- atory.—Irish Standard. THE EARLIER BENIN, Had a Progressive Monarch in the Olden Times. Benin, of which we have heard a good deal cur the last few months, was at one time ihe center of a con- siderable empire, as African empires g0, says the London Saturday Review. The name will remind students of ear- ly voyages to India, and especially of Vasco de Gama's, the 400th anniversary of which wi be celebrated this’ year, that Portuguese curiosity with regard to India in those far-off days was whet- ted by the reports which either a king of Benin or his envoys carried to Lis- Lon of I’resier John and the Nestorian Christians who held sway on the other side of the Indiar ocean. Benin was then associated, ore or less intimate- ly, with Ab through which the knowled, eached the king of Genin. King Don Joan of Portugal sent forth cwo envoys via Egypt to dis- cover the mysterious land whence Ven- ice and other cities had drawn untold hes. Hle also dispatched Bartholo- meu Diaz on discovery down the African coust, with the result that the cape was accidentally rounded and the way cpened up for the great voyage of co de Gama in 1497. Por- tugal for years previous to the repre- sentations made by the king of Benin dreanied of a direct sea route to India, and it is curious io think that four cen- turies ago a predecesscr of the barba- rian who now rv in Benin was in- strumental in inciting her navigators to new efforts which eventually brought east and west into closer touch, Graphophoue Against Matrimony. A confirmed old bachelor declares that the graphophone was the only thing needed to make the state of single blessedness far preferable to the cares and doubtful joys of matrimony. ‘I admit,” he says, “that on a stormy night, when one does not feel like go- ing to the club or some place of amuse- ment or when one is under the weather and is confined to one’s own room, it is apt to be decidedly dull; ‘one tires of books and longs for companionship. That is Lo say, I used to feel in this way at times, before I bought the best graphopboue that could be had for the money. Now I have only to set it go- ing and I am amused all the evening. I have the most charming and soothing selections played to me on the piano, snatches from the opera and old bal- lads sung to me in the tenderest and sweetest of voices and a repertory that is inexhaustible, for I can always hava new music when I am tired of the old. If I have a cold I can put my ieet in hot water and take a hot punch and be entertained as well as if I had a wife-— and all without the worries of a ticu hold or any danger of the sweet voice becoming fretful or complaining. be- | sides,” continued the crusty old mis- ogynist, “I can always shut it up when I want to. I wonder how many hus- bands could do that to their woman- kind!”—New York Tribune. Coffins from Their Favorite Tree. ~James Swan and wife, an aged and wealthy couple living on a farm in Ing- ham county, Mich., fifty years ago planted in their dooryard a cherry tree, of which they became very proud because it grew so straight and to such a great size. After talking it over for several years the pair concluded to be buried in coffins made from their fay- orite tree, so severa! days ago the tree was felled and a mammoth log taken to Mason, from which the burial cas- kets will be made. Philosophy. Wallace—Why is it you always bet on the wrong horse? Hargreaves—It is so much easier to do.—Cincinnati En- quirer. Very Desirable. Algernon Verisoft—I feel as though my presence is not desired. Miss Play- theboys—Oh, no; on the coz. ..y, your presents are very acceptable-——New York Tribune. { THE CEDARS OF LEBANON. Several Groups of the Famous Trees Are Still Standing. In April St. Nicholas there is an ar- ticle entitled, “Silk and Cedars,” by Harry Fenn, the artist, describing a visit to the mountains of Lebanon. Mr. Fenn says: Every boy and girl of the Christian world has heard and read, over. and over again, of the “Cedars of Leban- on;” but very few have any idea of the locality and surroundings of the famous grove. It is a popular error, by the way, to suppose that there are no other cedars remaining besides this groupe at the head of the “Wady” (val- ley or canon) Kadisha. There are, to my knowledge, ten other groves, some numbering thousands of trees. This particular group that we are about to visit is called by the Arabs by a name which means, “Cedars of the Lord.” They number about four hun- dred trees, among them a circle of gigantic fellows that are called by the natives “The Twelve Apostles,” upon the strength of an old tradition that Jesus and his disciples having come to this spot and left their staves stand- ing in the ground, these staves sprout- ed cedar-trees. There is every reuson to suppose that in the time of King Solomon these scattered groves were part of an enor- mous unbroken forest, extending the entire length of the Lebanon range of mountains, about one hundred miles, rnnning nearly parallel with the Medi- terranean shore from a little below Beirut. The summits of the range are from fifteen to twenty miles from the coast. The Lebanon—that is the “White™— does not derive its name from glitter- ing snow-peaks, but from the white limestome cliffs of its summits. The first historical mention of the trees is in the bible (2 Sam, v.11): “And Hiram, King of Tyre, sent messengers to Da- vid, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David an house.” From that day to this the people have been almost as reckless aud waste- ful of these noble giants of the moun- tains as our own people are of these cedars’ first cousins, the redwood trees of the California coast-range. As we approach the grove, which stands upon the top of a small hill, the foliage is al- most black against the snow-covered crags of Dahrel-Kadib which rears its highest peak over the ten thousand feet above the sea. There is a Maronite chapel in th_ grove, its patriarch claiming the sol« right to the sacred trees; and, luckily the superstition with which the tree have been surrounded has been the salvation. All the cedars of Lebano~ would have been demolished for re«'- wood years ago were not the people threatened with dire calamity should thev teke a single stick. Sultan’s Mental Condition. A curious story, illustrative of the sultan’s mental condition, is exciting notice, according to the Lundon ‘Tele- graph. I: is vouched for Ly the nar- rator, who had it from an embassy with which he is on intimate terms. Two days before the Bariam festival the aide-de-camp on duty went to Abdul Hamid’s room for orders and found him walking up and down with wild gesticulations and incoherent murmurs. As soon as the sultan caught sight of the officer he exclaimed: “Son of a dog, what are you doing here? Do you not see tuat I am conversing with my father?’ The aide-de camp, ia great alarm, was about to withdraw, when Abdul Hamid stopped him, say- ing: ‘Prostrate yourself before my father and then execute his com- mands.” Down dropped the trembling officer on his knees, awaiting ihe de- velopment of events with intease in- terest. A quarter of an hour later bis horrible suspense came to an end, for the commander of the faithful, bring- ing his promenade to an abrupt close, threw himself on a divan and, looking around ihe chamber, relieved the mind of che awide-de-camp by inquiring what he was doing and why he had come, He had completely forgotten the previous SCEuE. Karty lo Slunicipal Affairs. The Citizens’ Union of New York aims to constitute in municipal affairs a party for the abolition of power. A civic servant cannot serve two masiers. If he owes office to a party machine, that is the muster he will serve, whose punishment he will dread, whuse re- wards he will try to deserve. The city vill regard as an orange to be zed for his master or for him- Just as long as there is party coutrol, and partisans are human, this will inevitably be. When the citizens can be taught to see that municipal af- fairs have nothing to do with national politics then they will cast out nation- al politics from municipal affairs. They will realize that the city is a great stock company in which they are all shareholders. They will demand that their business, like the business of a bank, be run by the most honest and competent men, whether Republican or Democrat. They will fiercely resent any attewpt to prostitute civic affairs to political ends.— ‘The Illustraved Americai. Why She Left. Mrs. Timmins---I hear your cook bas lett you. Whi was the trouble: Mrs Rockwell—Our kitchen is so snval! that she had to put her bicycle in the cellar and she thought the dampness wasn’t good for it.—Uieveland Plain Dealer. Probably. “T’ve noticed an Indian hanging around the entrance for seyeral days,” said the theatrical manager. “Do you know who he is?” “I strongly suspect that he is a scalper,” remarked the tick~ et agent.—Philadelphia American, NOTICE! United States Land Office, Duluth, Minn., June 2, 1897. Notice is hereby given that the of; ficial plats of survey of Township 152. Nerth of Range 26 West of 5th P. M.; ‘Tuesday, July 20, 1897, at 9 o’clock a. m. Corrected plats of Township 157 North of Range 27 West of 5th P. M., Township 158 North of Range 27 West of 5th P. M., and Township 158 Nerth of Range 26 West of 5th P. M., on Wednesday, July 21, 1897, at 9 o’clock a. m., and that vn and after said days we will receive applications for the entry of said lands in said Townships, A. J. TAYLOR, Register. ¥F. L. RYAN, Receiver. LOST. Heavy gold ring, with garnet set- ting, Masonic device aud the figures “32” in black enamel on_ outside, owner’s name and date “Nov. 18, 1892” engraved on outside. Leave at Herald-Review office and receive a suitable reward. For Sale. Eight lots in block 24, Third Divi- sion of Grand Rapids, for sale at a bargain, or will exchange for Farm Stock ot any kind. These lots adjoin model farm and are clear of incumberances. For par- ticulars address. J. A. BLACKWOOD, Duluth, Minn. or Herald-Review, Grand Rapids. ST. 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