Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 14, 1900, Page 5

badies’ and @hildren’s Qundrwear and Handkerchiefs... Brooks has added a fine line of these goods to her stock of millinery. Everything in furnishing goods for ladies and children can now be had at the very lowest prices at her store. | Pressmaking Mesdames Brooks and Dory have opened dressmaking eae parlors in the Brooks millinery store. Work entrusted to them will be made in the latest styles and absolutely d guaranteed in every way. Mrs. M. Brooks. ‘ ‘ 1] +; | Are You i He oo / | riguring | | | | | yowre + By a { | wonld li Oeall yourattention to the | | making clothes is where I shine. I | clothes for the pec | | vicinity for a good made years, have ¢ | made them right, and Iam not going tc } i inv bacties now. A fine stock and thousands “of | | samples to select from. I guarantee my wares ! | and my guarantee is good, | i i : | Johnson, The Tailor. li sk a ———— seme Se en ee a Pin eon OELSASSSRSLSISWSVSLTLS® amae @ ef A % g a Dy % Painters and ; 6; 3. 3 Decorators... Y ; % G Fresco Work and Sign Painting a So ale y @ . } @ 5 3 eland Av2un2, Grand Rapids. iowerarececeress® BSSSS LSS: SLSOSTSEI SOT ISVOLS LSS BLES S®SISISOSLSIGVSVE —— ‘Hotel Leland, It is Headquarters for Cruisers, S22 SSIWSTSLSS Vioodsmen Best and Most Centra! $1 per Day House In Itasca County. SSVSSSLSLSSS: ana River Drivers. S860 Choice Rooms hy the Day or Week and Virrt-Class Board at’ Moderate Prices. SE SILSTSVSLSS. Thomas Tratnor, Prop. Grand Rapids. ‘ PISIGOSTSLSLSISITSISLE WE SWOSLSVSLGHHS HOST HIGSE HISLSISD SSSVSVESS DOSMESELVED: RIPAN'S tours Doctors find A Good Preseription For mankind Ten for & 2, at Di Stloons, News Stinde, Saar Cinenl Morctesa eDerben ‘banish ‘in, induce sleep, and prok life. Gee gives re fe ater hse aan one will samples and one thousaud. testle ee a address on bythe gent al Ge ,aaSprace St Sion Ci MIGRATING SWALLOWS, Watching Their Flight Along the Thames on a Rainy Evening. If the late Mr. Seebohm had wit nessed the scene which I did on the evening of Sept. 15, he might have added a chapter. to that on the migra- tion night on Heligoland, which is the locus classicus of that branch of ornl thology. It was a dark, dripping evening, and the thick osier Led on Cheswick Byot was /covered with wet leaf. Between § and @ o’clock immense flights of swallows and martins suddenly ap- ared above the eyot, arriving, not in undreds, but in thousands and tens of thousands. The air was thick with them, and their numbers increased from minute to minute. Part drifted above, in clouds, twisting round like soot in a smoke wreath. Thousands kept sweeping just over the tops of the willows, skimming so thickly that the sky-line was almost blotted out for the height of from three to four feet. The quarter from Which these armies of swallows came was at first undis- coverable. They might have been hatched, like gnats, from the river. In time I discovered whence they came. They were literally “dropping from the esky.” The fiocks were trav- eling at a helght at which they were } quite invisible in the cloudy air, and from minute to minute they kept drop- ping down into sight, and so perpendic- ularly to the very surface of the river or of the eyot. One of these flocks dropped from the invisible regions to the lawn on the river bank on which I stcod. Without exaggeration I may say I saw them fall from the sky, for J was looking upward, and saw them when first visible as descending specks. The plunge was perpendicular, till they. were within ten yarés of the ground. Soon the high-fiying crowds of birds drew down and swept for a few min- tites low over the willows, from end to end of the eyot, with a sound like the rush of water in a hydraulic pipe. Then by a common impulse the whole | mass settled down from end to end of the island, upon the osiers. Those in the center of the eyot were black with swallows—like the black blight on beang Next morziag, at 6:30 o’clock, every, swallow was gone. In half an hour’s watching not a bird was seen. Whether they went on during the night or started at dawn, I know not. Prob- ably the latter, for Gilbert White once found a heath covered with such a flock of migrating swallows, which did not Ieave till the sun dispelled the mists. The whole army are now, I hope, catching gnats in the Nile valley or beyond the Atlas mountains.—Com yespondence of the Lenser “tues. The Fear of High Places. President G. Stanley Hall of Clarg University has lately beea studying the origin of various forms of fear and ter- ror, aud he suggests that the common fear of high places, hich many ani- mals cxhibic, and w is very acute with some human beings, may he “a vestigial trance, like the gill slits under the skin of our necks, antedating limbs and inherited from our swimming an- yestors.” In reply to this Professor Wesley Mills of McGill University says that while the youngest mammals ang birds exhibit pecullar manifestations when placed near the edge of an ele- vated surface, yet a turtle will wei off any elevated support again and again, and a frog “will Jump almost any~ where.” These exceptions, he thinks, present a difficulty to the acceptance of resident Hall’s theary. MICE HAVE A STANDING IN LAW They “i,ured tn a Keeent Contest Over Land Ownership. From the Spokane i land-contest case in v ef mice played a promin been decided on the appeal to Bi get gen- The Hermann, coimmiss: of the eral land office at V ashingvon. rodents are not mentioncd i sicn, but the man whom it allow A the mice to est ne 4 to retain , the rul being re- and Y fea when the fan tioned it + that their of the entryman ent of the home- nd office eppar- of the mat- 1 was ap- ad that the as wu argument steader. Fred O. cuttin was the entryman, having taken up a homestead rear Davenport three years ago. Last gust Jchn O'Neil instituted a contest to the homestead entry, allegi: that Grutt had aban- doned the claim, d!d not keep up a continucus residence thereon, and that the onty inhabitants of the shanty on the ranch were a family of mice. After hearing the case the registrar and receiver dscided that Grutt’s en! try should be canccled. From this de- elsion Grvjt bad sixty days in which to file an sppeal to the commissioner at Washington. The appeal was filed by Leo Walton, attorney fcr Grutt. In the appeal the mice family was re- ferred to as follows: “If there were any mice in this entryman’s hed dur- ing the early part cf September, 1898, it plainly, shows that the entryman did have a bed on the lard at the time.” “sossoo0id [eoyMayo yWeMJepun Cuenbesqus ‘poyiod Suymacj-jeoo aq SupINp speq 4sva uy umop prey Sulog {10}7VU YONG “Leyva equyeSea wow poayiop oie Aljawuypao szyeydse yey} Al[edeue3s waur oynuoros sq sfupeaou Peaoyysq St 3{ “yued Uf ySeol 7B ‘UpETZ0 yeujuy ue jseSZns 0} sv gongs sea dn -O4VOI S}] 3Vy} puNOoJ oy puL ‘stsdyeuT doy AU ‘Jorg Jo spuvy oy} ur poorjd Sem ‘pojwo ApreiNCod st at se ,, ‘yeydse uins,, £14} JO eulog ‘sayym 403 of OU) UNA PeMoloy eq Ueo oy} jeq} Os ‘a[ep PUE TTY JOAO UOggtZ Jo sdyijs ONL UNI oYtoEL]!F ey} Jo syvens sno “hoyesu0y “yowso ou TTA 3 Jo opem feYSTWIeA Ssntoeq ‘pees Ay[woedse s] 3 @godind fu} Jog ‘soustuies Sutenus Tae STRAIGHT= S AWAY Eine - BETWEEN THE GREAT NORTHWEST » THE EAST INAUGURATION Bek IN APRIL. | A Constitutional Change Based on Wash- ington Weather. What is known as senatorial resolu- tion 83, otherwise “the Chandler amendment,” proposes an alteration in the federal constitution, which in or- | der to become effective must secure (as | {t is generally believed that it will) | the assent of the legislatures of two- thirds of the states. There are now | forty-five states, and the assent of two- thirds means the approval of thirty, a larger number than there were in the | whole country fifty years ago, when, in May, 1848, the proposition to admit Wisconsin as a state was passed upon favorably, the number previously to that time being twenty-nine. The pro- Dosed constitutional amendment makes —beginning 1901, following the next presidential election—April 30, instead of March 4, the inauguration day. It fs a peculiar circumstance, which stu- dents of American history have not failed to observe, that while the pro- visions of the constitution regarding the method of choice of the president are somewhat vague and indefinite, the provision, which is article XII of the amendments, for the inauguration cf the president cn “the 4th day cf March next following the election” is explicit. As to the choice of president, it is pro- vided only that cach e Shall ap- point, “In such manner as the lesgis- lature thereof may direct,” a number ! ef electors equal to the total number of congressmen allotted it, senators and representatives. There may be ® popular vote for these electors, as in Most states there is, but this is not ob- ligatory. The legislature ftself may choose the electors, without the inter- vention of the voters, except in so far as this action is prohibited by stato constitutions. In some states at pres- ent (Colorado conspicuously) women vote for presidential electors on the same terms as mex, and in some states even aliens, not yet citizens of the United States, participate in such choice of electors. While this branch of the matter of presidéntial elections is left without any general rule, the time for inaugurating the president 1s @ part of the organic law of the coun- try, and can not be altered except by Yormal change in the constitution, as is now proposed. It is a somewhat curious fact, too, in connection with this agitation for a change, that April 80 was originally the inauguration day. George Washington, the first president, was inaugurated in New York city on April 80, 1789. The second inaugural ih Washington, however, was on March 4, 1793, and the twelfth article of the amendments, which prescribes March 4 as the date, was proposed in the first session of the English con- gress, and was adopted on Sept. 25, 18¢4. The reasons now advanced for {ts change to the original date are chiefly meteorolcgical and based upon the weather conditions, which are most unsatisfactory and even \dangerous in the city of Washington In early March. | Incidental to the inauguration of a president there are, of course, many changes in the federal administration, though these are fewer than heretofore, of which he is the chief. Thousands of sightseers are drawn to the national capital at this period, along with those whose presence is required, or, if not always required, is certainly desired, and it is believed generally, and the weather conditions in Washington fa- vor this view, that April 30 would be a more appropriate time for such obser- vations and festivities as the {nauguz- ation of a president. Against the choice of this date, however, is one ob- jection, which, though not urged in the senate, 1s likely to be brought up for consideration in the various states. It is this: The president ts voted fot on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November. From that time until his inauguration four months elapse—four months of uncertainty, in- definiteness, negotiation and active po- litical rivalry. During these four months the outgoing administration is practically helpless to enunciate any policy or to carry out any plans. Theso devolve upon its successor. The pro- posed constitutional amendment would add to this period of uncertainty near- ly two months, and it is a question whether the more desirable conditior of the Washington uncertain climate vat the end cf April compared with wha! it is at the beginning of March wouis justify a ch7ege, adding nearly twe months of uncertainty and dissatisfac tion for the great body gf American electors, who, while participants in the , take, and seem to desire “to Be age we tavert part in the formality cresting {ge president Te PATENT Good ims ouraid. Address, | THE PATENT RECORD, Baltimore, Md. Subscriptions te The Patent Recor’ $40 per ennoz. Driving Shoes ana Pacs Kurtzman, “The : Dudley” Dray and Express Line L. W. HUNTLEY, Manager. Package Delivery a Specialty WO0D FOR SALE Leave Orders at Ponti’s Confectionery Store or Kremer & King’s Office. W.C. GILBERT, Pine Lands ad |oans Grand Rapids, - “ W. E. MARTIN, MANAGER Itasca Lap Co. PIHE AND FARMING LANDS Bought and Sold. SETTLERS LOCATED. Choice Farming Lands for Sate on Long Time and Easy Terms. GRAND RAPIDS, - - MINN Eastern Minnesota Railway. TIME TABLE. Going East. Ar) (10 am Ly|1.15 pm ¥/ 645 pm STATIONS. Going West. 1 LR. 12.55 122 2.01 3.82 453 5.38. 325 “* 3.5 am 705 “11135 pm 1030 © «| gi30 7% 1.45 pm * 1 8.00 am Te “ 86 “ 10.3) “*E Z| 8.30 am - Portland. . «| 2.10 > in ¥. I. WHITNEY, G. a7) and T. A., Paul, Minn, JG. 1 pease N.P. A. daiiata, M inn, , girl's head, then?” -Ally Sloper. W. iE NEAL, Dealer in Pine and Farming Lands. The finest List of Agricultural and Grazing Lands in the County. The Most: Excellent Sites for facturing Enterprises. Manu Prospective Settlers Located, Corres. ondence Solicited. Grand Rapids, - - Minn. A. B. CLAIR, Register of Deeds of Itasca County. Mineral, Pine ana Farming Lands cad Stumpage Bought, ABSTRACTS OF TITLE. GRA D BAPIDS. Itasca County Abstract Office KREMER & KING, Proprietors. ABSTRACTS, REAL ESTATE, FIRE INSURANCE, Conveyances Drawn. Taxes Paid for Non-Residents, GRAND RAPIDS, - - MINY, Herald-Review July 11-Sept. 22. Notice for Publication. United States bw Office, Duluth, Minn., June 28, 1900. se is here! ue ziven that in compliance with the provisions of the act of congress of June 3, 1878, entitled “ an act for the sale of timber junds in the states of Calitoenia.. Oregon, Nevada and Washington Territory,’ tended to all the public land states of August 4, 1882. Albert rand Rapids, county of Itasca, state of Minnesota, has this day filed in this office his sworn statement No. 4971, for the pur- chase of th: 6 of the nw and se\ of nw of section No. 28, in ‘township No. 60, range No. 24. and +wili offer proof to show cthat the land oes ght is more valuable for its timber or stone than for agricultural Far poss es, and to establish his claim to said land before the register and re er of this office at Duluth, Minn, ‘on Tuesday, the 25th day of Septem: 1900. He names as witnesses: oO. Werden, John Dolph, Arthur Wilder and pcre Root. all of Grand Rapids. Minn. and all persons claiming adversely ry hove described lunds are requested to file their claims in this bites on or before said 25th day of eptember 1900. WM. E. CULKIN, Register. The Cheerful Idlot. ' “J wonder if Maceo ‘3 really dead?™ |said Mrs. Hasheroit, as she poured the ‘coffee. “In view of tie fact that his physician is said to have had a hand in the affair it looks as if it might be teue,.” said the Cheerful Idiot.—Iudia- napolis Journal. Poor Girt. “Bob, Nsten to this: ‘The oldest love fetter in the world is 3,000 years old end is written on a brick.” “S'pose the feller throw his proposal at the viliiads 6: 2 AN ceil ecarae, pas epancenin LLL ILLS, PLT IE LL IIG RO