Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 4, 1897, Page 4

Published Every Saturday. By E, C. KILEY. Entered in the postefcc at Grand Rapids Minnesota. as sseoud-class matter. ——— Tr FREQUENTLY happens that very flattering prospect for good prices for wheat, at harvest time, are not realiz- ed later on. Just now, we have the satisfatory prices, with reasonable hopes for better. The London Times ofthe llth contains the following. which points pretty plainly to the hest market ‘in years for American wheat: “It is estamated by persons in a position to form an opinion that 12 per cent more wheat than is us- ually needed by Europe will be want- ed this year. Owning to the short Russian, French and Austro-Hungar- ian crops, the United States will be the only country able to meet this extra demand.” The Atlan’ ose menitle: already has the goid standa debt-") An the big debt was contracted ander the silver standard entirely.—Min- neapolis Journal, The Minneapolis Journal knows and so dose every man who has taken the trouble to investigate it that no coun- try on earth has ever. adopte1 the single gold standard, that did not havea big national debt. Itis the holders of goverment bonds, paid for, in every case, in depreciated money, who have had the gold standard es- tablished. In the United States, the result was to more than duble our national debt. The Mineapolis Jurn- al has a great many readers, it ought to be honest with them but it is not, Buffalo Journal, [Rep,] MAGNIFYING HIS IMPORTANCE. Editor R. © Mitchell has a very plain way of telling things about pub- lic men and measures. His estimate of Page Morris in the fellowing, taken from his’ Tribunal, is not far from correct: “That Page Morris is a ‘feather- weight’ ‘congressman when compared with his brainy predecessor, is con- ceded by every candid’ man that has ever taken the measure of the two men and whose opinion is entitled to any consideration; but as the gold- bug Republicans elected Page Morris and have him on their hands and as they feel that they have got to make the best of him, it is laughable to notice the ridiculous efforts that some of them are now making to have it appear that he is regarded down at’ Washington as being a ‘whale ofa fellow.’ “About the siltiest twaddle of this sort that we have seen of late has been the interview of Harry Jonhs, a young g. 0. p. politician from St.Paul. which appeared in the News Tribune yesterday morning. if correctly re- ported, this sapient youngster asks us to believe that he found, while in Washington a few months. ago, that our raven-locked congressman ‘has as much welght with the administra- tion as, and, perhaps more, than any other member from our state,’ which, if true, is rather rough on McCleary and Tawney and Fletcher and others who have been in congress for years. Our young friend Johns, in the same interview, got off this piece of ridicu- lous ‘rot:’ ‘Mr, Morris stands well with Czar Reed. The fact is that when the democrats were making their strong kick against adjournment ex- cept from day to day, Mr. Reed chose Mr. Morris as his defender, and this is considered the greatest compliment the czar has ever paid to a new mem- ber.” This will be news to Tom Reed as well as to the members of the house generally aud is quite enough to make a horse laugh. . “Tom Reed can take the measure of aman very accurately, and had he felt himself in need of a champion and defender on the floor of the house, he would not have chosen an un- known member, and one who was evidently an intellectual pigmy— comparatively speaking—at that, for such a purpose, He would have chosen some member of recognized standing and ability, someone who strikes right out from the shoulder and not one who in speaking simply shakes his beautiful raven locks and emits oratorical froth and foam. If Harry Johns will point us to the page in the congtessional record on which it appears that our little featherweight congressman ever dis- tinguished himself by the way in whie he mopped the fioor with the jeadipg democrats while he was de- fanding the high-handed rulings of Czar Reeq, we will give him one of the choicest chromos in our entire collection. “A whistle cannot be made out of a pig’s tail, and Harry Johns and all the rest of them might as well abaa- don the idea of trying to make an in- tellectual giant of Congressman Morris.” a publican Pary Announces His Committee. Hon. Charles A- Towne, chairman of the national committee of the Silver Republican party this week announced the executive committee, of the powered to appoint when he was named as chairman of the latter com- mittee. The committee is composed of Fred T. Dubois of Blackfoot, Idaho, chairman; J, J. Harper, of Washing- ton Courthouse, Ohio, who 1s a judge ofthe district court at that place; A. M. Stevenson, a prominent politician of Denver, Colo.; Ben .S. Dean, of Jamestown, N.Y.; Nathan Cole, Jr., of Los Angeles, Cal., president of the Los Angeles big Silver Republican club of 6000 members; James A. Tell- er, of Chicago, who 1s an attorney and a brother of Senator Teller, and Charles S. Hartman, of Bozeman. Mont, who isa representative in congress from Montana, and is too well known here to. require any in- troduction This committee will act under the direction of the national committee, of which Mr. Towne is chairman. Forest Fires on Public Domain. Acting Commissioner E. F. Best of the Interior department, has issued acircular addressed to registers and receivers and special agents of the general land office, in which attention is called to the law relating to the prevention of forest fires on public domain. The act relating to this important subject is as follows: Any person who shall wilfully or maliciously set no fire, or cause to be set on fire, any timber, under brush, or grass upou the public domaia, or shall carelessly or negligently leave or suffer fire to burn unattended near any timber -or other inflammable material, shall be deemed guilty ofa misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof in any distric court of the United States haying jurisdiciion of the same, shall be find in asum not more then five thousand dollars or be imprisoned for a term of not more than two.years, or both. That any person who shall build a camp fire, or or fires, in or near any forest, tim- ber, or other inflammable material upon the public domain, shall, be- fore. breaking or leaving said fire totally extingush the same. Any person. failing to do so shall be deem- ed guilty ofa misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof in any district court ef the United States having jurisdiction of the same, shall be fin- ed ina stm not more than one thou- sand dollars, cr be imprisoned fora term of not more than one year, or both, A Million Dollars Daily Destroyed. “Every - working day in the year Uncle Sam destroys a million dollars; deliberately tears up and grinds to pulp one million dollars’ worth of paper money—genuine bank notes and greenbacks,” writes Clifford Howard In the September Ladies Home Joural. “A million dollars in one, two, tive, ten, twenty, fifty, one-hund- red, and thousand-dollars notes are daily punched full of holes, cut into halves and thrown into a machine that rapidly reduces them to a mass of mushy substance. ‘Whenever a peace of paper money becomes soiled or torn it may be pre- sented to the U. S. Treasury and re- deemed. Sooner or later every note that circulates among the people become unfit for further service, for it is bound to becomes dirty or mutilated by constant handling, and the United States Government stands ready to give the holder of such a note a new note in exchange for it; or, in other words, the Government will re- deem it. “The majority of the clerks em- ployed in this important department of the Government are women, many of whom are the most expert money counters and counterfeit detectors in the world. In fact only experts can properly perform the work that is required; for not only must the sviled and mutilated money be accurately and rapidly counted, but all counter- feit’notes must be detected and thrown out. When we consider that some counterfeiters can so cleverly imi- tate genuine money that their spur- ious notes will circulate through the country: without detecion, and are ‘not discovered tntil they are finally turned into the Treasury, some idea of the proficiency of these experts can be gained, especially when we bear in mind that these notes are often so worn that the imprint on them can scarcely be deciphered. It not infre- quently happens that these bad notes wre detected simply by the feel of them, which in some cases, is really the only way of discovering the fraud; for while a counterfeiter may. oc- casioally steceed in so perfectly imi- tating the design of a note as to mis- lead even an expert, it is next to im- possiple for him to eounterfeit the paper used by the Goverment.” Leather and findings for sale at Kurtzman’s. Taps from 15 to 25 cents,at Rurtagpr's ¥. national committee, which he was em-- Shirt Waists. Some philosopher ‘recently remark- ed that the real emancipation of wo- man began with the entry of the shirt waist. , Which shook off the trammels of fashions. This may be true, but if you wish to see the shirt waist in all its glory you should visit some of the lovely spots along the Saint Paul & Duluth Railroad, or Duluth Short Line, as it popularly known. During the whole season the fine trains of this line has been beautified by love- lines: in shirt waists. This line runs fast, finely-equipped trains to and be- tween St. Paul, Mineapolis, Duluth; West Superior and other important Northwestern points, where close con- nections are made with trains and boats running in all ‘directions. Its schedules are convenient to the tour- ist and the buisness man, and its po- pularity increases S:nnually. Always take the Duluth Short Line and you will find the people taking it with you. For maps, etc., apply to ticket agents, or write to C. E. Stone, ‘General Passenger Agent, St. Paul Minn. 10—DETROIT AND RETURN—10 Leaye Duluth September 7, 6-30 p. m. ROUTE —Duluth, South Short & At lantic railway to St. Ignace, thence Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Compa- ny’s stearers (The Coast Line to Detroit. LIMIT —Tickets will be good to re- turn on steamer leaving De- troit September 20th, 11 p. m., or on any steamer before that date. ITINERARY—One night’s ride by rail, arrive St. Ignace 9:55 a. m. Wednesday ; transfer to Steamer City of Alpena at arriving at Detroit ‘Thurs- day morning. 'lwenty-four hours. sail along the west shore of Lake Huron on one of the finest steamers on fresh water. T. H. LARKE, Commercial Agent, 426 Spalding House Block, Duluth. Special Excursions---Low Rates for Homeseekers or business Men from St. Paul and Minneapolis via The North-Western Line—C., St. P. M. & O. Ry., on September 7 and 21: October and 19; to certain points in Alabama, Mississippi, ; Arizona, Missouri, Askansas, Nebraska, Colorado, North Carolina, Florida, New Mexico, Georgia, Oklahoma, Indian ‘Ty., South Carolina, Towa, South Dakota, Kansas, ‘Tennessee, ‘Texas, Louisiana, Utah, Minnesota, Wyoming. Tickets good to return on any Tues- day or Friday within twenty-one days from date of sale. For rate to any particular point or other information call at the follow- ing offices: 395 Robert St., Cor. 6th, St. Paul. 413 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, 405 W. Superior St. Opp. Spalding, Duluth, or address T. W. TEASDALE, Gen. Pass. Agent, St. Paul. Every New idea That’s a good idea, isembodied in the construction of the Burlington’s new “St. Paul and Minneapolis-Chicago and St. Louis Limited.” Electric light, steam heat, wide vestibules, compartment sleeping cars, buffet library ‘cars—every thing that every other train has, and some things that no other train has. Newest and most costly of the earth’s great trains. No extra fares. Only Three Trains on Earth _ Worthy of comparison with the Burlington’s “Minneapolis and St. Paul-Chicago Limited.’”? One in Eu- rope; two east of Chicago—none west. So beautiful, so luxurious, so costly a train has never before been at the disposal of the traveling public of the Northwest. Electric lighted. Steam heated. Wide vestibuled compartment sleep- ers, diner, buffet library car. No ex- tra fares. Palaces On Whi The Burlington’s new Minneapolis and St. Paul-Chicago and St. Louis train consists of: A buffet library car. A combination sleeping car. A Standard sleeping car. A compartment sleeping car. A dining car. A reclining chair car. A day coach (high back seats.) The most costly, beautiful, luxrui ous six cars on earth. Steam heated. Electric lighted. Wide vestibuled. No extra fares. - Leaves Minneapolis 720 p. m., St. Paul, 8:05 p. m. daily. Tickets at 306 Nicollet Ave., Min- neapolis 400 Robert St. (Hotel Ryan,) St. Paul. Kurtzman’s Locals. Go to Kurtzman’s for pacs. Mc- Ginty cruising shoes, extension edges, only $3.50. My pacs have no equal either in price or quality. Made right in Grand Rapids, of the best material, by experienced workmen in that line. Come and examine before buying elsewhere.—K urtzman. Come and see my McGinty brogan shoes selling now for $2.00 at Kurtz- mad’s. -Ajl hand sewed, $4.80—EXeursion Rates—$4.80 Via St. Paul & Duluth R. R. Ex- cursion tickets to St. Paul and Min- neapolis on sale September 4th to 11th inclusive, at the rate of $4.80 for the round trip. Includes ticket of ad- mission to fair grounds. Tickets good.| returning September 13th. Purchare them via St. Paul & Duluth R. R., the shortest and quickest, and the only line running three daily trains, leaving Duluth Union Depot 9a. m.; limited, 1:55 p. m., and 11:15 p. m. Frocure tickets from -your home home agent or at the Union Depot or at the City Ticket Office, 332 West Superior St., Providence. building, Duluth. .¢. F. B. ROSS, Agt. Leen ne UEIEEEEIEEEEEEEieeniemenene TORONTO AND RETURN. Low Fare Excursions vi Railway. All rail via S. Ste Marie» and North Bay .. $20.00 Via S. Ste Marie, C. P. steamers and Owen Sound............++ 23.50 Via St. Ignace and M.C., R. R.;23.90 Via St. Ignace, Detroit & Cleve- land 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. Tt ak T. H. LaRKE, Com’! Agent, 426 Spalding House Block, Duluth Minn. Rainy Lake Gold Fields via Port Ar- thur and Rat Portage. The route to Rainy Lake and Seine River is now open via Port Arthur and Rat Portage. Steamers leave Duluth four times a week. Rate from Duluth to Rainy. Lake City, Seine City and Mine Centre,$11.00.. 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