Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 13, 1897, Page 4

TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN LOZ ZZ ZIT) Ly Ly Y prise the natives. own figure, call and see me. first-class overcoat for sale at $2.00. you would think I didn’t mean what I say. Shoes, Hats and Caps, Gloves, Mittens, — Trunks aud Valisés. POOPTPTOO ITO Dll SAM ORECKOVSKY, = CLOTHING and Gent’s Furnishings. A COMPLETE LINE OF WOODSMEN’S SUPPLIES Such as Mackinaws, Rubbers, Mittens, Socks, Etc., at the Very Lowest Prices._ Overcoat Specials: I have 35 Men’s Overcoats carried over from a former stock that I will sell at prices that will sur- If you want an overcoat at your If I should advertise a Call and see. SAM ORECKOVSKY, | Leland Ave., Opposite Hotel Pokegama, Before Buying Elsewhere. ZL Come in and Get My Prices Grand Rapids, Mnn. ZT TTT WL Le ko Ln Md dkde dd dled ddd ddd de de de tihubddeallbelles Grand fRepits eraaciReview Published Every Saturday. By E. C, KILEY. ADVANCE $1.00 | Three Month: ++ 50€ Six Months. Entered in the postomce at Grand Rapids Minnesota, as secoud-class matter. i Gold And Silver Currency. Estimates made by the gold clique as to the amount of money per capita in circulation are deceiving and, doubtless, intend to deceive. These advocates of gold monumet- allism claim that there is plenty of money rnd that the people of the United States have $24 per capita. But in this estimate is included all the money locked up as a treasury reserve, over $100,600,000, and 25 per cent of the national bank circulation, which the law requires to be kept in the vault Thus about two hundred million dollars s useless as a eirculating medium fit were entirely -wiped out of existencé. In reality, there is not more than $16 per capita in cir- culation, France has twice this amount, Germany 50 per cent more than the United States, and Eng- land, with its small population, fully as much. How is ths contract- ion of the circulating medium to be reredied? Simply by the unlimited coinage of silver at the ratioof 16 to 1. Then there will be no “elastic” curreny issued by the banks and se- cured by their office furviture, as is suggested by the “sound money’? _re- formers, but a currency of gold and silver, the best and safest money in the world. Logie of the Gold Clique. Republicans rejoice over the dis- covery of gold in Klondike, and talk about the vast. benefit the increases in the currency of from ten to fifteen million dollars a year will produce. ‘These astute logicians fail to recog- nize the fact that in making these statements they admit in full the contentions of bimetallists. If, iu a small degree, prosperity is brought abought by this ins‘gnificant increase in the supply of muney, would not the benefits be proportionately en- larged by the restoration of some five billion dollars’ worth of silver to its just estate as stanard money? Again, the republicans have gone wild over the temporary restoration of wheat to the price of a dollara bushel—a restoratiun brought about by special and sporadic causes which have already, in a certain degree, ceased to operate, if dollar wheat, for afew months of the year 1897, is such a good ting, why would it not be astill better than to have dollar wheat every year? Bimetallists argue the uecessity of enlarging the supply of primary mon- ey the Gold monometallists admit the wisdom of this claim when they rejoice over the Klondike discoviries. Bimetallists claim that there can be no general prosperity on a falling market, and urge areform that will bring about a rise in the price of ag- ricultural products. The gold clique’ has accepted the truth of this propos- ition in its exploitations of dollar wheat. Truly, the logic of a gold monometallists is fearfully and won- derfully made. Not Good Business. For a “business” administration the results for the fiscal year are not what would naturally be expected. The deficit to date amounts to $29,- 939,594,385. li these were not facts concerning the conduct of affairs un- der republican rule, what a shout of indignant protest would go up from the subsidized press. But as McKin- ly happens to be president, and as the beneficent Dingley bill happens to-be in force, the administration organs are as silent as the grave, and satisfy themselves by saying that more time must be given before any criticisms will be in order, A tariff that started out, with the avowed purpose of producing suffi- cient revenue to carry the expenses of the government and which has suc- ceeded in creating a deficit of nearly $30,000,000 cannot be regarded as a good “business” scheme. Under the circumstances, would it not be a good idea for the administration to consider the idea of reducing expenses? If the Dingley. tariff 1s such a failure as a revenue getter, what does the adminis- tration propose to do? Republican senators placed them- selves on record in their speeches in favor of the Dingly bill to the effect that any tariff measure which failed to secure sufficient revenue and maile it necessary to borrow money with which to meet expenses would be fatal to the party passing such a law. The deficit is here, and the only reason why the administration. 1s not forced to make a bond issue*is tnat former President Cleveland borrowed $262,- 000,000, on the balance of which the government is now running. : Party to Municipal 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 masters. If he owes office to a party machine, that is the master he will serve, whose punishment he will dread, whose re- wards he will try to deserve. The city he will regard as.an orange to be. squeezed for his master or for him- ses. 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 cempetent men, whether Republican or Democrat. They will fiercely resent any attempt to prostitute civic affairs to political ends.— The INustrated American. Herald-Review $2.00. A MISSED KISS, | TS» Reason Why Two Ambassadors Lost | Their Piaces. | Two ambassadors have lost their | places through their failure to take | advantage afforded them to kiss the | bend of the czarina, says the Seattle | Pest-Intelligencer. Count Montebello, the French ambassador, lost his place. It is not made khown whether he only obeyed orders or not, but he had to suffer the penalty. It was very unfor- tunate for him that when the French people through their government had undertaken to show their friendship for Russia by a most lavish display of ostentatious ceremony and the ex- penditure of many millions of dollars, the entire effect should be lost by the failure of the chief functionary to press his lips to the imperial hand. The other ambassador who lost his po- sition is Prince Radalin, the represent- ative at the Russian court of the Ger- man empire. No reason is given for his omission to observe a customary act of homage. He had not the excuse of being the minister from a republic. He represented a court where such ceremonies are strictly observed and an imperial master who is as strict in requiring observance of court etiquette as the Russian enfperor. These pun-* ishments should be a warning to all men never to lose a favorable oppor- tunity to kiss a lady’s hand. Many a man has lived to regret that he has Not seized a suitable occasion to snatch a kiss; there seems to be more danger in being too remiss than in being too bold. Where the danger lies and how great it will be either in abstaining or acting is a matter for individual judg- ment. But it is sometimes worth risk- ing, it would seem. Unchristian Names. It is curios how inconsistent are the prejudices of people in regard’ to the use of heathen names, Mr. .Payn, in his “Gleams of Memory,” tells an amus- ing story of the late Dean Burgon, who objecied to the name of the goddess of beauty, but found no fault with that of the gcd of the woods. An infant was brought to the church for christ- ening, and the name proposed for it was “Vanus.” “Vanus?” repeated the dean. “I suppose you mean Venus. Do you imagine I am going to call a Christian child by that name, and least of all a male child!” The father of the infant urgei that he only wished to name it after his grandfather. ‘Your grandfather!” cried the dean. “I don’t believe it. Where is your grandfather?” He was prodced; a poor old soul of 80 or so, bent double, and certainly not looking in the least like the goddess in question. “Do you mean to tell me, sir, that any clergyman ever christened you ‘vanus,’ as you call it?” “Well, no, sir; I was christened Syl- vapus, but they always calls me ‘Van- us.” Coachmen and the Church. The private secretary. of the late Archbishop:Benson, Mr. Mandeville B. Phillips, recalls, in the January Sun- day Magazine, a couple of good ‘stories which the primate used to tell.- One day a clergyman who called at the pal- ace asked Archbishop Tait’s coachman! whether he had still as much to do as ever. The answer was sublime. “There’s always a goodish bit doing, sir, but it’s been a trifle easier since we, tcok young Mr. Parry into the bus- iness.” The Right Rev. Edward Parry had recently, been appointed Bishop Guffyo~an of Dover. Another of the ATCNDISNUp’s stULsce, awe ve a VWare- man, will be new to many. A genile- man living in the neighborhood of Ad- | dington, finding that the stablemen were not in the habit of attending chu. , spoke to his coachman about it. hey ought to go,” he said. “That's just what I say myself.” was the rejoinder: “I say to them: look at me—I go, and whai harm does it do me?” Willing to Pay. Among the pretuest of literary anec- doies is that related by William Gr.imia, one of the pair of famous story-te:lers. One day a little girl rang the bell, and greeted the author with the words: “Are you Mr. Grimm who writes the pretty tales?” f “Yes,” was the answer. “I and my wether.” “And the story about that clever lit- tie tailor who married the prince. % “Yes, certainly.” “We'l,” said the child, gravely pra- Gacing the book, “it says here that ev- ery one who doesn't believe the story tavst pry a thaler. Now, I don’t betieve that a prineess ever married a tuiler. I haven’t so much as a thaler, but here is a groschen, and please say I hope tu pay the rest by degrees.” Just then Jacob Grimm appeared, and the two brothers had an interesting interview with the little maid, but they could not persuade ber to take away the grox- chen, which she laid upon the table. The Fear of High Places. President G. Stanley Hall of Clark Untversity has lately been studying the origin of various forms of fear and ter- ror, and he suggests that the common fear of high places, which many ani- mals cxhibit, and which is very acute with some human beings, may be “a vestigial trance, like the gill slits under the skin of our necks, antedating limbs and inherited from our swimming an- cestors.” In reply to this Professor Wesley Mills of McGill University says that while the youngest mammals and birds exhibit peculiar manifestations when placed near the edge of an ele- vated surface, yet a turtle will walk off any elevated support again and again, and a frog “will jump almost anjs- where.” These exceptions, he thinks, present a difficulty to the acceptance of President Hall’s theory. The Heat of Flowers. A Dutch naturalist in Java has made some remarkable observations on the increase of temperature which occurs in certain plants at the time of flower- ing. In one case the temperature in the flower was 21 degrees Fahrenheit above the temperature of the surround- ing air. All the plants in which this phenomenon has been observed are en- tomophilous; that is, those in which fertilization is effected by the aid of in- sects, and it has been suggested that ! the rise of temperature may serve to | attract insects to the flowers. Sure to Be. “I see that they caught the fellow who broke out of jail last week,” said the boarder who was looking over his paper. “Of course,” said the Cheerful! Idiot. “A fellow who breaks out is sure to. be spotted,” —Indianapolis Jour- pore ; 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 about all the time, do you?—Judy. (pee i a) i Seis eee ae <n 73 seer Fe sm Hy i) , Homesteaders Can save time and expense by proving up before E. C. Kiley, Judge of Probate, Grand Rapids. 2 Filings Upon Land rata also be made before The Expense of taking witnesses to Duluth or St. Cloud can be saved. All usiness Entrusted to my care will be given prompt attention. If You Want to File upon lands under any laws of the United States, or when you are ready to make final proof, call at the office of the Judge of Probate, Court House, Grand Rapids. E. C. KILEY. 7 BETTER CIGARS ARE MADE THAN THE .. . Manufactured in Grand Rapids By CAb Pokegama Boquet “Cup Defender ++1tt GEORGE BOOTH. © for either of these brands and you will get an excellent smoke, None°but the. finest stock used. For the above sum Broeker & Whiteaker are making as fine a suit as can be had in any city in the country for the money. Or, if you want something better, they can show you the finest line of samples ever brought into the county. Atany rate, give them a call before placing your order, They guarantee every garment they turn out in every way. 2 BROEKER & WHITEAKER, Bard Fv, ba ra ’ ly j | } i i |b » a