Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 4, 1899, Page 1

| ] ; meme st SSEARGE HOHE THRESH SOG SHESH IHR OHDE REPOS OHSS HSC ONSA SOONER E RE EEEE —_—_—_——- SSS ees Vo. VIL—No. 24 ae "eg, We Have “GRAND Rapips, Irasca Counts, Mixy,, Sarurpay, Ferpuary 4, (899. . Two Dotvars a YEAR La prairie Delivery : Tuesdays and; H Fridays. See PROMPT DELI sean eens secnue Seeecee Sseeeneee eee ae ae ee! Seeseeesous (95-6 8 0 ee a ee ee ae eae eee ee ee ae aa a terete ttre er Trt ttt tt AANCHEESOTHOSOSOSESS CHROSSSE SONS TEER ENOTOOES EoOKoHE SHEE CECH SEE SORE EEES ROCRES SS CCosOKESeeCOHORE RSE suopooosenoonDenenenopes rs HReneReReeSsEsneoEsene Just Completed Our Annual “Stock Taking” -— a } = = rei = a rr fo } = SS <= Go oo i a = | Go. = —_ (J) = re = rr a ow | —< L— | rr “co > — — = | oan | = rr = oll Itasca Mercantile Company, Grand Rapids, Minn. VERY. a nam ofities gets New Advertisements. . BVHDO0F Lumbermen’s Supplies... eription » We earry the et of the best goods to be io y > ud as FO D t to be “Cheap "weenn ua ‘little money in competition witha y store and ude ntee 3 Ou'sbperior gO To We Want 4 Your ‘trade And will @o all we can to merit it. Long experience hus taught us the require- ments of the trade of this section. and we to cater to the most are fuHy prepa exacting custome> u the country. Our Stock is so Large jon our assortment of goods so complete that you wiilha no difficulty in fiuding whatever you may 8 bw. J. & H. D. POWERS * Oe p%e ISLS: > MARKET AT DEER RIVER. City Meat Market | 4 J. F. Metzger, Proprietor. (Eee ae eae ae ae ee he ae ae a sea Grand Rapids, Minn. HE Ea Ae ae ee eae ae a ae S2SVSSSLSN Wholesele and Retail Dealer in Camp Beef,, Pork and All Kinds of Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish, Etc. BROEKER & WHITEAKER, REMEMBER THE THITEENTH That is the Date on Which the Firemen Will Dance |. The last social dance before the !Jenten season has been pre-empted by |the Grand Rapiks fire department. | February 13 is the time fixed for the | fourth annual ball of the fire fighters. | Preparations are bemg madeona jmore elaborate plan . than on any ‘former occasion and that the eve xt will be a success there is no doupt, ‘It costs money in many ways to sys- tain an efficient fire department and knows what it says is not true, and jisa matter of self-interest for every | citizen to aid and encourage the boys | j by all means possible. ‘The firemen are the soldiers of our town and they should be sustained and encouraged by a patriotic spirit that will shew 2a just appreciation of their vahent ser vices. The committee should find noj trouble in disposing of all the tickets, that will ve printed. It will not be required that the purchaser of a ticket shall attend the festivities untess he be so incllnec—but the presence of} all citizens 1s earnestly desired. The Grand Rapids orchestra will furnish music, and their music is the best. The Willing Workers will serve supper and that is a_ sufficient guarantee ot its excellence. Remember the date—Monday evening, February 13. US BAD BOYS.” Mc an’ Murry Taylor We Aint Got No Buysi- ness to Oppose the Maget, No How. | The Supreme Court Decides That Re-Dist- The Herald-Review is always mak- ing some fool break through its por litical ignorance and unsophisticat- edness. But Murry Taylor of the Deer River News is no better. The Magnet philosopber and student of | political economy, regulator of pub lic servants and general censor of the entire community, frequently finds necessary to call us to time for these journalistic deficiencies, and it“dn- noys us most. amazingly.. Wi is papers rushing into a defense. a Its elegant and delicate construction ' Herald-Review would fain dismiss the subject in silence did it not feel that an apology is due the publi¢. in venturing to briefly comment an the fact that the inspectors’ reported on the conduct and masagement of the Grand Rapids. postoffice in most was. the following, for example; ‘ Céstajn|Of the Swan River house at Swan man when they have no busiséss to.” | EW hotelsat that piace were totally Now, that argument, boiled down i destroyed. © The : a two-line head, ought to settle al- owned and operated by Wright & Rel- most any controversy on any subject. lis, proprietors of conveys so much in one single epi- | Of the Scandinavian bouse. The loss jgrammatic sentence that there’ ap-|!8 Said to be about $15,000, with very pears nothing left to be said. ‘The | little insurance, flattering terms we did not realize Mr. Grant stat how graveand great the offense really cialal afford to tole Our political tutor did pob| a5 that implied in the Magnet men-} teach that better conditions would | gon of hmm and nothing short of a libel | prevail ina community where every | suit will repair the dama Democrat regards every Republican | jess acomplgie and a as a horse-thief and vagaboud by | is made at once. our erroneous conclusions became conspicuously apparent when the Magnet announced in the best langu- age at its command that none but Republicans had a right !o adminis- ter either compliments or kicks under this administration. That paper uctually printed the following re- markable statement: ‘‘ Now, in or- der to prove to the people of Grand} Rapids that they haye no kick com-|} iog on the way their mails have been handled, Stilson bas had himself de- fended by the Grand Rapids Herald- Review, a Democratic paper that) the Itasca News, a wou!d-be Repub- | liean paper that’ does not care whether what it says is true or not. It seems strange that Stilson should resort to this kind of defense, seeing that he is a Republican,” cte. Com- ment on tke foregoing quotation is unnecessary. It makes uot one par- | ticle of difference to the Herald-Re- | view whether O. H. Stilson or some other competent person shali handle the mails at Grand ids, but asa good citizen, a publis-spirited busi- ness man and a most worthy neigh- bur werather dislike to be deprived of the privilege of speaking a word in his behalf whea occasion offers. MYERS IS SEATED. Pieting Ousted Wilder, The supreme court rendered a de- cision in the case of Myers vs. Wilder jn the contest for a seat on the county board this week and Myers js declared the member entitled to act. T. D. O'Brien of St. Paul presented the case in behalf of Wilder and C. L. Pratt of Grand Rapids represented Myers. In this case the court Clearly reverses itself on a former decision | written by Judge Mitchell. | A Disastrous Fire - On Monday morning last about 2 o'clock tire broke out in the laundry River and ina very short tiie the properties were the Swan River house, and J. J, McDonald proprietor Charles Grant was the most indig nant man in Grand Rapids the other day wien he read in the Magnet that he had been. arrested on a charge of} rovbery. He went after the manager, | but that worthy put the blame qn his editor. With imperious indignation ei that no gentleman rate such a slander} e done, un- | ot retracuon } Mr.:Grant says that! choice, and vise versa, Experience|there was. a slight misunderstanding ; had lead us to believe that pergon- | between, himself and Mayor Churchill j ality, morality and compe' is not confined to any party. © of Deer River, but an explanation readily adjusted the matter, j strict observance of the lex talionis, CHINESE PARRICIDE, | Neither Influence Nor Money Can Saye | His Life. In China, when a parent has met with death at the hands of a son or daughter, no circumstance of intention or age are permitted to interfere with | the infliction of the penalty, which is followed by decapitation. Any miti- gation of this cruel sentence would be considered by the Chinese as aiming a blow at the fundamental principle of filial duty, whieh is supposed to be | the groundwork of their code. Time and again has the penaltysof lingen’l been recorded against parricides or mat- ricides, even when they happened to be idiots or lunatics, and, therefore, not accountable for their actions, ‘The cor- ruption and venality of the great mass of officials in this empire has become a by-word, and it {s not strange, there- fore that justice can easily be evaded through bribery. Thus a wealthy mah who has been guilty of killing a fellow creature, whether by premeditation or accident, can escape all serious conse quences and receive a sentence of three years’ banish*hent to a spot 1,000 miles distant instead of the death penalty. Or, on the other hand, when the rela- tives of the murdered men are power- ful enough to make themselves heard by the officiats, and to demand the the rich criminal may purchase a sub- stitute from among the beggar class, or perhaps an old and faithful servant of the family may be permitted to forfeit his life in his master’s stead, But nev- er has it happened since China had a history that one who. oecasioned the death of his parent or parents had con- trived to buy himself off or escape the lingeh'l, or ox-éared knife, and the exe- cutioner’s heavy two-handed sword. So deeply has the doctrine of the an- cient sages on the’ observance of filial piety bécome rooted in the hearts of the people of China that no magistrate would dare to exercise leniency by tak- ing into consideration the circumstanc- es that led to a case of parricide or matricide with the view of mitigating the doom fixed by law. Not only would the magistrate incur thereby the dan- ger of violence from the mob, but he would subvert the obedience due from, his own family. A parricide not only brings certain death on himself, but disgrace on the district in which he resides.. In the case where beth par- ents are victims Chinese law ordains that a corner of the district city walls shall be pulled down as a lasting ehron- icle of the shame and disgrace of the district in having sheltered such 4 monster. The magistrate and local of- ficials are cashiered and debarred for- ever from public employment, as a punishment for not having taught, more effectively, the doctrine of filial piety, while the governors of the proy- ince, with his colleagues, the treasurer and judge, together with the taotai and prefect of the district, are all degraded several steps in rank. A Real Prize. “If | had such a wife as Mrs: Neg- ley I think I could be supremely hap- py.” “Why, I don’t consider her:espe- cially good looking, and it is easy to see that she isn’t very clever.” “I | know; but when her husband étarts to tell a funny si she doésn’t sume the look of a thartyr or try change the subject.” _ WORKS FOR DESPISED MEN. Mrs. D’Arcambal’s Noble Efforts for Dix. charged Prisoners in Detroit. A large patriotic concert was given last week in Detroit, Mich., for one of the city’s most helpful institutions, the house of industry. The event seemed to call attention to a noble and philan- thropic woman, Mrs. A. L. D’Arcambal, the founder of the home, who has made a record-of years of disinterested work for prisoners and discharged convicts. The history of Mrs. D'Arcambal and her works reads like a romance. More than fifty years ago, when she was Ag- nes Harrington, a little gir] in Buffalo, she went one day to the jail to take a dinner to @ prisoner at. the request of a friend. Her visit made a deep im~ Pression upon her mind and she could not keep from thinking about the un- fortunate men she had seen within the walls and behind iron bars. She often went again, and began her life work of helpfulness in this small but devoted way. Not long afterward she removed to Kalamazoo, Mich. « She continued her work among prisoners by visiting the little frame jail. One day of each week she gave up entirely to the pris- oners. She went about asking for sub- scriptions and donations of clothing, books and fruit. As many of those whom she had helped wrote to her from the state prison at Jackson, she began a series of visits to that institu- tion, which has not been interrupted since that time. She early married, becoming Mrs. D'Areambal, As the cells in the state prison were dark, she secured lights for them from the legislature, and then by a great effort going from city to city, she obtained a large number of books and magazines for a library for the prisoners. No one who came under her notice failed to receive help in both material and spiritual lines. She made the prison- ers love her for her kindness and good works. When they left the institution wherein they were confined they did not forget her, but often wrote to her, telling how they were getting on. Like’ Jean Valjean in “Les Miserables.” many of them could find nothing to do, no one to have anything to do with them, no place to go, no friends. “Mo- ther” D’Arcambal con¢eived the idea of establishing a home for such men, where they could learn to look the world in the face after r the gloomy and degrading influence of prison life. After much hard personal work for this end, she finally succeeded in opening the home of industry in Detroit. In the ten years during which the home has been running more than 1,200 dis+ charged prisoners have been assisted ta lead ves of respectability. The Small Boy’s Hair, si The small boy’s hair is now partea | in the middle and hangs down in cai straight, uncompromising lines until it |, grazes the shoulders, where gre me — lon, {is hacked off, whisk-broom { The ears are completely covered. T! w new cut is probably copied from the pictures of mediaeval French children shown in the pictorial representations of Joan of Arc and her times. About the Onjen. Philadelphia Public Ledger: Do not use an onion which has been cut and- t | a