Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 14, 1897, Page 4

Published Every Saturday. By E. C. KILEY. seth TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Six Months......$1.00 | Three Montiis........0¢ Entered in the. postoficc at Grand Rapids Minnesota. as secotd-class matter. eS Ir behooves us to think of the county fair. ‘TuereE is a move at Virginiain fa- vor of county division. A FEW days have passed and never n word about the prize fighters. BEpr’s Budget says: Don’t squeal. You're not the only shoat on the hog train. Every little burg in the state has a candidate for some old office on the state ticket. And the battle is still afar off. Oxp Subscriber asks if the mosqui- toes are the forests’ prime evil. He’s no more. Dropatear on his grave ere you pass. Nicota TEsLA, the peer of the Wizard of Menlo Park, has at last achieved success with his wireless telegraphy. Thisinventor is one of the greatest geniuses of a wonderful age. Urpin the Klondyke country each resident has an aurora borealis plant in his backyard with which he amuses. the children when they tire of play- ing with gold nuggets. Great place, Klondyke. In a recent “‘speech” delivered on the trip to the Gettysburg tield, Gov- ernor Clough said in the course of his remarks,“to protect the fair fame of my state and my own good name.” In the governor's case, ‘“‘what a price must greatness pay to guard a simple name.” THE assassin has added another cruel death to his horrible list. Pre- mier Canovas of Spain is the latest victim, and the whole country mourns his death. When the period of grief has passed, the Spainards should turn for a time and Jook at themselves as a nation of <¢ s. Surely they have earned this title by. their inhu- man, barbarous warfare against the Cuban patriots. But Cuba Libre shall live. THE papers of the state have been patting themselves.on the back and exhibiting the pritters and editors as highly:moral freaks because there were hot enough-of the, fraternity in the state’s prison to publish the Pri- son Mirror and that the paper had suspended publication. Unfortunate- ly the newspapers are mistaken. The ‘‘we’s” and “prints” are still repre- sented behind the prison walls and the Mirror is “cirkerlatin’.” Most of the big Republican organs are putting in their time trying to suggest to the directors of Brown-un- iversity some good reasons they should have giyen for asking President An- drews’ resignation. The Minneapolis Tribune Offers a bunch of sample ex- cuses, any one of which it thinks would have znswered the same pur- pose. Wheneven the Tribune con- demns the action of the board there is something very rotten in Denmark. Mark Hayna, known as the great- est manipulator of the barrel that ever entered the political arena, was in Duluth this week, "Tis said he has been assigned the duty of ‘‘sha- dowing”’ Charles A. Towne, who, he fears, is alarmingly strong and _ still growing stronger. Were he present jt the ovations tendered Mr. Towne upon his return from Washington, Mark’s friends might truly exclaim when, downcast, he returns to report the situation, ‘‘What’s the matter with Hanna?” And a still, small voice will answer, ‘‘He’s sick.” AUSTRIA has determined to make war upon trusts, but she has adopted a method which popular governments are precluded from taking. Instead of suppressing them the government will try toconvert them into hand- maids of industry. The new law does not forbid the formation of these combinations, but they may not be created without the consent of the government and they are to be under the close supervision of the minister of finance, Twelve commissioners will adyiss and assist the minister in the control of the trusts. It will be a most interesting and unique exper- iment. Ib looks better than it will appear in actygl practice. There are superficial writers who commend the Austrian example to the United States, but they forget that there are constitutional harriers which cannot be ‘surmoynted. The nearest ap- proach possible jn this country is the plan embodied in the pooling bills, which gives the commerce commis- sion power to declare certain agree- ments oppressive and yoid.—Minne- ppolis Times. x “THE MAN IN THE SADDLE.” The Superior Leader is filled with admiration for John D. Rockefeller because of his great achievements as a financier. Enumetating these, it remarks that his control of the oil business has come to be a minor part of the sway lie exercises in American industries. Hegothis start in oil, but is now a potent influence in the iron trade, is a heavy owner of lake vessels, and is reaching for, and has practically secured, a dominating in- terest in the sugar trust, now holding 200,000 of the 375,000 shares which re- present the capitalization and hold- ings of the trust. He has crowded the Havemeyers out of their own combination and will soon direct its policy and control its operations. Aseach of his financial victories makes the next easier of achievement, there is a possibility that Rockefeller will own a controlling interest in everything worth owning in this country before he is summoned to the golden shore. Suppose he should take it into his'|” head to obtain a dominating influence in the government of the republic, what is to hinder hiin from getting it? He may be the ‘“‘man in the saddle” whom many believe is to some day ride into iuiperial power over the ruins of a wrecked republic. Let us all hope and pray that his abition may satiate itself with lesser tri- umpbs. We can spare him our purs- es, for they have been “running light” latterly, but it will be a bitter day for us when he turns a designing eye on our liberties, for it is not at all certain that he couldn’t buy them away from us if he so desired.—Mar- quette Mining Journal. County Exhibits at the State Fair. Ose of the best methods ever de- vised for advertising thé advantages of different localities of the state is the offer by the state fair manage- ment of premiums for county ex- hibits. This premium list has grown from $300 to $1,200, the amount off- ered this year. Any county which wishes toshow its advantages will eiter this competition, for in no other way can the superiority of a lo- cality be so practically demonstrated. It is an illustration of the trite say- ing, ‘“he proof of the pudding is eat- ing it.” The resident of a locality can write until his arm aches, or dis- claim until he is hoarse, of tbe ad- vantages of his locality, without pro- ducing one tithe of the effect which will follow a display of what his reg- ion has actually produced. Seeing is believing. Every county which wants to invite business and guod people to come to them will have an exhibit at the state fair. A letter to E. W. Randall, secretary, at Hamline, will give you all the information how to proceed. White Pine Advancing. Action has been taken, either in- dividually or jointly in several leading white pine markets within the last few days, looking towards a stiffening of prices, which as are too well known, are abnormally low, and have heen so for several years. In Minne- apolis,a number of manufacturers and wholesalers are getting out new price lists advancing all sizes and lengths of piece stuff fifty cents, and in fact nearly all the items on thelist are advanced that amount, while none have been lowered. Some Minneapo- lis wholesalers will not get out new lists as they look for another advance in a week or two of fifty cents, and they do not wish to be compelled to go to the trouble and expense of print- ing and mailing two lists. They will sellon the advanced list, however, and this is not the only market that is doing so. During the past spring, Wisconsin valley lumbermen have been cutting into the territory west of the Missi sippi river more than usual, especial- ly on piece stuff, which they have been delivering at a price that could easily compete with Mississippi river markets. During the past week the Wisconsin valley shippers have stiff- ened piece stuff by fifty cents a thous- and and are ready to make another move a little laterin the fall when the occasion warrants. Our advices from the head of the lakes are to the effect that prices are stiffening quite perceptibly at Duluth. Of course the tariff on lumber has in- directly brought this about, as it has restricted importations of cheap, common lumber from Canadian to eastern wholesale markets, and is forcing eastern buyers to look to the lake mills for supplies. The Duluth market is in a yery healthy condition. Stocks of common lumber are sold right up to the saws and upper grades are in good demand for eastern ship- ment. Southern pine lumber is alsostiffen- ing, and the mills are well supplied with orders. The big cotton and grain cropin the south and south- west will without doubt make such a demand for cars in that territory that there will be a scarcity of southern lumber in the northern competing territory this fall. This will give white pine more of a fighting chance in common consuming territory, In Chicago, the cargo market is advanc- ing, and the tendency is towards fur-| ther uplifting of prices as the fall ap- proaches. In fact all signs point to higher prices for the coming fall trade in northern pine.—Mississippi Valley Lumberman. Majors and Minors in Duluth. Again there is sorrow on the banks of Gitcbee Gumme, and saline weep- ings in the Zenith City of the Unsalt- ed sea. The voices of her young wo- men are lifted up in lamentations, yea her busbands are weeping for their espoused and refuse to be com- forted because they are not. They are gone, they have flitted away, they areno more. And with them they bave taken their alimony, and their matrimony, and their parsimony, and their bank accounts. And the in- jured innocents in chorus cry aloud, Alacka day! Ilacka dime! Whoop la! Where was I at! O, mingled grief and gladness, relief so full of sadness, no sucker in her shadness, I must a courting go. The nimbus-crowned head of navi- gation, lifted in stately grandeur, seems ever mindful of her shame in the bursting of so many nuptial knots. Even the foghorn toots its Te Deum of commerce in mournful accents, and the harbor flashlight, too modest to turn its X-rays upon the town, throws all its glory as a sort of wave offering on the sea. Why this bittercup? Some who have smothered the flames on hymen’s al- tar and hastened from sacrament to sacrilege, are as children, but many are fullof years and other things. Some are leaders and some belong to the rank and file. Some are majors and some are minors. Many are folks of note, while a few of the rest pay cash. But the ties,some of months and others of many years, have been broken. Where not many moons ago there was joy and orange blossoms there is now oftimes a jig and a co- dicil, And the cause is legion. One reason is that the whole city is so in- clined. The streets lie slanting and slidewise and the Masonic lodge is about to be disbande as there is no place where its members can meet upon the level and part upon the square. Ifone takesa step he feels above his wife, and he can’t make tracks without making trouble. And if they come uncoupled in that side hill city there is no telling where the trailer will go before she stops. Then there has been here and there a taint of codfish aristocracy which at best is a scaly thing that all balls up at last. Often, too, the maid of means weds the thing of things, and the beau of promise is soon transformed as by some magic power iuto a walking stick with a puppy’s face on it, so that to yield to its yearning is like being taken into the confidence of a hitching post or asking an Indian ci- gar sign foralight. It may be well enough fora girl to fallin love, but she ought not to fall so far, else we shall have the second fall of man and a world all stuffed with woe. Sadness broods over us as we tender a helpful hand to the Rebecca degree of the order of Domestic Demurrers, and hope there are happier days ahead. O Duluth, thou twinless city! Why are thy daughters filled with sorrow, and thy young wives gone by the grass route to widowhood? Is it that they make hay while the sun shines and give some sniveling, spav- ined dude a sinecure? O tempora! O mores! O majors and minors of Du- luth! And the orange blossoms wither while you wait.—Bede’s Bud- get. Prolific Hawthorne. Julian Hawthorne is said to have three novels in process of manufac- ture and the skeletons of two more put together, showing that he lacks neither industry nor inspiration. It is a wonder that he has never visited the Northwest for material for some of his books. Along the line of the St. Paul & Duluth Railroad he would tind rugged character affording a rich mine, and scenery such as would warm the cockles of his heart. The many features along the Duluth Short Line, as it is generally termed, have tended to make ita very popular one with all classes of the traveling pub- lic passing to and between St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, West Superior and other points, which are reached by fast, modern trains, and where close connections are made with boats and trains going in all directidns. Always take the Duluth Short. Line and go with the people. Ticket agents are always. glad to furnish maps, circulars and general informa- tion, or they may be had by writing toC. E. Stone, General Passenger Agent, St. Paul, Minn. $25. Round Trip $25. Via D. S. S. & A. and_ Canadian Pacific railways, leaving Dnluth 6:30 p.m., July 21. Annual Pilgrimage to St. Anne de Beaupre. Round trip fare from: Du- luth $25.00. Tickets good to stop over at any pointin Canada. Return limit, August 3lst. Tourist sleeping cars will be run through from Duluth. sy oe SOE RS 0s ; ‘or further particulars apply to. T. H. LARKE.t. Commercial Agen 426 Spalding House Blk. Duluth, Minn. “TORONTO AND RETURN. Low Fate Excursions via D. S. S. & A. Railway. All rail via S. Ste Marie and oa 1 ga Rae peep eats ts $20.00 ViaS. Ste Marie, C. P. steamers and Owen Sound.............- 23.50 Via St. Ignace and M. C. R. R. 23. Via St. Ignace, Detroit & Cleve- Jand steamers and Detroit.... 22.10 On sale July 12 10 14 inclusive. Re- turn limit July 26, with extension un- til August 15 by depositing ticket with agent of terminal line at Toron- to before July 25. T. H. 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