Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 8, 1900, Page 4

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Call for them. pe ee. s insu I { i FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT. Sample Room and Livery in Connectivn. Special Aitention Given to Transeent Trace. Fleadguarters for Lunibermen, Manufacturer of Fine Minnesota. See Se ee ee ee GEO. BOOTH, Cigars GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. Have achieved an excellent reputation all over Northern They are made experienced workmen in Mr ts ‘ BSae ESSERE sesesegas apes Pubiished Every Saturday, E. C. KILEY, v. 3, AUSTED KILEY & AUSTED, Editors and Pubiishers.- — TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE, Six Months........$1 00 | Three Months....... S0e Entered in the Postotfice.at Grand Rapids, reacts -uba, as Second-Ciags Jatter, Official Paper of Itasca County, Villages of Grand Repids and Deer River aud Town of Grand Rapids. AMERICAN SHIPPING, Wearly Fifteen Hundred Vessels Built Last Year. The Groxs Tonnage of These Ships Was 393,16S—Hecord for the Great Lakes Is Largest Yet Attained, Complete official returns for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900, show that 1,446 vessels of 393,168. gross tons were built and documented in the Unit- ed States. Since 1853 this record has been exceeded only twice—in 1864, when 415,740 gross tons were built, and in 1874, when 432,735 gross tons were built. ‘The construction may be classed ac- cording to the following types: Schooners, schooner barges and sloops, 499, of 109,405 gross tons; great lake steam vessels, 25, of 97,847 gross tons; canal boats and barges, 523, of 74,- 860 gross tons; ocean screw steamships, 20, of 60,369 gross tons (of which all but one, the “Maraicabo,” 1771 gross tons. Were. built wholly or principally for trades reserved by law to American vessels); river steamers, 375, of 44,282 gross tons; square-rigged vessels, 4, of 6,205 gross tons. 498 gross tons—surpass the record, the nearest approach being 1891, when 488 steam vessels, of 185,037 gross tons, were built. ‘The steel vessels built, 90, of 196,851 gross tons, exceed the previous record year 1899, when 91 such vessels, of 131,- 379 gross tons, were built. Cleveland, O., ranks first as builder of steel ves- ‘stls, with nine steamships, of 42,119 gross tons, followed by Newport News, seven steamships, of 28,202 gross tons; Chicago, five vessels, 24,504 tons; De- troit, four steamships, of 15,693 tons. During the past decade the steel steam vessels built in the United States ag- egate 465, of 742,830 gross tons, of ch 198, of 450,089 gross tons, were built on the great lakes. For com- parison, it may be noted that the Brit- ish board of trade reports that 727 steel steam vessels, of 1,423,344 gross tons, were built in the United Kingdom dur- ing 1899. During the ten years, 69 steel steam vessels, of 194,080 gross tons, were built at Cleveland, and 110, of 138,- 593 gross tons, at Philadelphia. The total tonnage built and docu- mented on the great lakes during the year, 125 vessels, of 130,611 gross tons, is the largest in the history of that re- jgion. The total for the middle At- lantie and Gulf coasts, 605 vesels, of 135,473 tons, exceeds any record since’ 1872. The total for the New Englar? coast, 199 vessels, of 72.179 gross tous, has not been equaled since 1891, while the product of the Pacific coast, 300 ves- Sels, of 40,396 tons, is surpassed only by the returns of 1898 and 1849. Construe- tion on Mississippi river and tribu- taries, 217 vessels, 14,509 tons, is 9,000 less than in 1899. The foregoing fig- ures do not cover yachts or government vessels, A “Spouted” Coffin. A mahogany coffin, bearing a gold monogram, gold-plated handles and elaborately chased with gold and silver, says the London Express, is among the pledges in the windows of a Cardiff pawnbroker, Automobile Hearse in Philadelphia, A Philadelphia undertaker has had en automobile hearse constructed. MODERN WEXICO DEVELOPS. Vast Schemes of Internal Improve. ment Are Now Reported Well Under Way. About all the machinery and equip- ment material for the electrical trac- tion system adopted for an extensive system of street railroads at the City of Mexico and in the federal district is being bough} in the United States, Electricity will be first applied to the suburban lines and then to the principal city lines. Electric cars are now running to Tacubaya and also to Guadaloupe, just outside of which is the shrice for all Mexiéan Catholics. Pilgrims now go out there propelled by a modern motor. Sir Weetman Pearson, M. P., of Lon- don, who has now contracts amount- ing to $100,000,000 pending in Mexico, is in the City of Mexico.» He says of the Vera Cruz port works, which his firm is building, that they are prac- tically finished. All the breakwaters have been completed for every effec- tive purpose and a new deep water quay giving over 800 yards of shipping space will be completed in six months, allowing ships drawing over 30 feet of water a chance to discharge their eargoes alongside the pier, their freight going directly into railroad cars or warehouses. Sir Weetman says the port works .| will make Vera Cruz as fine an arti- ficial harbor as any on the continent of Amertea, ee The steam vessels built—420, of 202,- | Tana "S Tone Beset by earth's cares, by Its turmoil and strife, i prayed for some glimpse of the heavenly life; 5 Some ence I prayed for to strengthen my fait! And show me the force that can triumph o'er death. , T walked through the street and I walked - through the square, And the face of a stranger replied to my prayer: ; The Be of a woman where patience and Like Baas smiled ont from the spent fires of youth, The brow’s tranquil arch, and the eyst tender gray, And the happy shut mouth, without words seemed to say: “Our strength may be scanty, our task may be small, But each has his part in the service of alls ‘This also we know, when perplexed by life’s pain: ‘The hand that created with surely sustain. If griefs come upon us, in grief let us prove The conquests of courage, the healing of ‘ love; So, cheerful and calm, to our souls shall be given A foretaste on earth of the kingdom or heaven.” O thanks, unknown sister! Thy battles, T know, Right nobly were fought in the long, long ago; And praise be to God, by whose goodness and grace The light of His kingdom shines forth in man’s face! —Dora Read Goodale, in Country Gentle- man. i Mr. Jobson Is Musical HEN Mr. Jobson got home from his office one.afternoon about & month ago he carried under his arma long, coffin-like leather case, which he deposited with great care on top of the piano. “Why, it’s a fiddle!” exclaimed Mrs. Jobson. “Wrong as usual,” said Mr. Jobson, amiably. “You've another guess com- ing. However, as it is not within the range of probability that you'd guess eorrectly if you had a million coming Tl just tell you what this is, Mrs. Job- son. It’s a violin.” “Isn’t that what I—" “No, Mrs. Jobson, that isn’t what you zaid. You said it was a fiddle.” “But what is the dif—” “Just the difference between 2 plas- ter of paris half dollar and the real thing, or a painted ship on a painted ocean and a real ship on wet water, Mrs. Jobson, that’s all. It’ud be just as well for you to grasp these little dis- tinctions. A fiddle, Mrs. Jobson, is $2.50 worth of pine wood and varnish and catgut, and it’s performed upon by grimy persons with low foreheads, no chins to speak of, and beady eyes set close together, who officiate at parlor socials, farm dances and the like. A violin is—er—well, this is a violin. You've read or heard of Stradivarius violins, haven’t you? Well, I think this ts one of ’em. Got it from a man who keeps a cigar store. He had it on exhi- bition in his window. I’m sorry for that poor cigar store man, for I think I did him right out of his eye teeth, Paid him only $55 for it, and it’s got al’ the earmarks and warts and moles 01 a genuine Strad: Wouldn’t be surprised if some expert ’ud come along and offer me $5,000 or $10,000 for that violin any time. This tobacconist who sold it to me may know a lot about stogies and chewing tobacco, but he’s a good thiag when it comes to violins,” and Jobson tock the battered, homely-looking in- strument out of its case and exhibited it with manifest pride. “What are you going to do with it?” Inquired Mrs, Jobson. “Well,” replied Mr. Jobson, with great deliberation, “I’m not going to kill it for its hide and tallow, and I’m not going to usit for kindling to light the kitchen fire with. I beg to inquire, Mrs. Jobson, what people who buy vio- lins generally do with’em?” “Try to play on ihem, I suppose,” re- plied Mrs. Jobson, meekly. . “Try to play on ’em, eh?” said Mr, Jobson, with the accent on the “try.” “Just you hang on to yoursarcasm until you need it. I’ve bought this violin to play on.” “But,” said Mrs. Jobson, “I never knew that you played the—” “I’m quite aware of that, Mrs. Job- son,” said Mr. Jobson, fondling his purchase as affectionately as if it had been an heirloom, and taking it to the window the better to examine its “points.” “I may remark, incidental- ly, that there are a whole heap of things that you don’t know, Mrs. Job- son. I’m not in the habit of climbing out on the eaves and parading my ac- complishments, like some people I’ve heard tell of, Mrs. Jobson. I may in- form you, however, that when you were wearing dresses down to* your shoetops and before you’d begun to tuck your back hair up under your hat, I was able to saw on a violin toa | make folks that heard me weep or laugh at will.” “Did you ever!” exclaimed Mrs. Job- son. “Then why have you never played since we were mar—” : “Because it’s kept me too busy try- ing to keep a home over your head, Mrs, Jobson—that’s why,” said Mr. Jobson. “I’m going to take it up now, however, and in about a month from date there'll be some music around these ‘parts that] hurt the suburban resorts by keeping ail of our neigh vors for blocks around on their front stoops at night. You'll accompany me on the piano. I’m going to practice up by myself for a few weeks, and then the Jobson parlor concerts will begin. T don’t claim to be any Ysaye or Joachim or Marteau or Sarasate, or anything like that, Mrs. Jobson, but if there was any- old thing I used to be able to do better than another before my plunge into matrimony made it Tar WaS A GIRLS WAY. ChanTY IND LAGE OnFICeS Written for This Paper. COUNTY. It was a prettr affair, that bachelor’s cal- E. J. Farrel endar, which Santa Claus had wished to de- meee C. Miller posit in the worr. sock of a handsome and Ru oEney eS Tene shy young man. The children had been in- | GySieter of Deeds 3 Clair creasing so rapidly that it had been impos- | Jude of Probate ret Halemeneo sible for the dear old man to get around in A Brown his sleigh to make his annual call on the pipe ia ia elders, so he had to use the mail. But asthe young man opened the various packages which the mail man Santa Claus had left ek for him, he forgot for a time the girl who Dictelet had occupied so much of his thoughts for a | District N year and allowed his mind to wander back to the days of his childhood before the old | President. saint had gottem onte the new methods of ineabtes J ie O'Connell the post office department, but had de- | 1*WS*CCS--- rr vee + 7 Toke Hope posited the toys and sweetmeats intended | Recorder. aA for him in the long stocking, usually one borrowed from mother, hung beside the old | Si home fireplace. Those were happy days, and then he thought of what other days might be if he could but muster the courage \ = to speak to Eva, provided, of course, that she SECRET SOCIETIES. would say “yes” to his pleadings, of which | nies SS sie ae he felt not at all certain. “The new way is better zor me after all,” he said, half aloud, “for I am afraid the goodies would run out of the hole in that toe,” and he glanced at the protruding mem- ber which had worked its way through the Baap b 3 ‘ month at &. of silk sock, and which had nut yet been cov- A. A. KREMER, ered by either slipper or shoe. WAUBANA LODGE K. of P. No The young man had been im a quandary Toursday evening in t for most of the year that was closing. Like ALK many another of his kind he had loved, he Bea feared unwisely but too well. True the girl AD 0. 5 of his choice had never intimated that his| 5° ve rst Mae ey attentions were anything but the most ac- | CHAs. Kearney. Recorder, ceptable, indeed she had even encouraged | pox EGAMA TENT NO. them so far as she could with propriety. y st and third Thursday But the young man had not the taint of at K. of P. hall conceit that is necessary sometimes to make | 4 fp WitpeR.R.K. COMMISSIONERS. eorge Riddell |oranp RAPIDS LODGE I. 0.0. P, No. Wednesda, nigh .of E. J. FARR ew, K. R. 8. such encouragement plain to him, Time and again he had determined to end the; A. 0. U, W. No. 826—Moects every Monday misery by having his fate decided and know Pisht, once for all whether she was to bt his or not, but as often had his courage given way before the words were spoken. He thought of these things, and of what a wonderful Christmas present Eva could make him if she only would. It was while his thoughts were engaged in this way that the maid brought him the package containing the pretty calendar. As he opened it he wondered who could have sent such an elaborate affair, hand painted, with the little monthly calendars, two on each page, and around them pretty bunches of bachelor buttons and scenes from a bache- lor’s life, and at the bottom of each page an ITASCA HiVE bL. ee second and fourth Pri The little verse on the first page attracted | in K. of P, hall. his attention and he stopped to read it be- fore turning the next. It was: “The year is young, I will not hurry, Why should a bachelor want to marry, Maids are many and maids are fair, And bargains are promised us everywhere.” | — AC es sevond and month at K. of r ets every ch montis of Lov Lurnrop, L. C. ne RR. 1X. ITASCA CIRCLE LADI meets the Mor ig ML EFFIE CREE oF THE G. A. R.: of each mon “The year is indeed young,” he nused, “but just now is the time to begin a new life | CHORCHEN. How I wish I could. Why, indeed, shoulda , - ASS aa) Sienay saat bachelor want to marry? Why shoulda man | Be Get es é ae want to go to Heaven? Who but a fool |" MESBYTERIAN CHURCI— Rev. E. P. would not want to marry if he had the op- } Rehr Sa portunity of getting as sweet a little woman AN CATHOLIC CHURCH—Rev as Eva? Maids may be many, but maids like | Gumuche, pastor, Eva are not. Who could have sent hsical: | M. E. CHURCH—Rev. R. J. MeGhee endar, anyway?” He turned the page to the next verse, and | 5 read: ATTORNEYS, “The bells a peal are ringing, hark! Go straight and what they tel] you mark, if they say ‘yes’ wed and be blest, If ‘no’—do as you think best.” “The bells say ‘yes’ to me, but to wed and ‘f my ta be blest is another matier. How quick I ATTORNEY AT LAW should wed if I could but ask and get Eva, | Ufiice over and I would certainly be blest if 1 did.” Tle turned another page, and read the nexi | verse. It was: “With a chaffing dish we can cook our food, Ya creck “pence ielaindtyitakeetcade oben waahinalo< | iC C. MeCARTHY, But oh, for a self sewing needie and thread, To mend the big hole in our stocking.” | “What helpless creatures we men are, any- way. Women are an absolute necessity to | ns. That hole in my sock would not be there if 1 was a benedict instead ofa bachelor. Eva would neyer permit such things, ] am sure. | —————_—________—_—_ —— A man must save a large amount in a year L. PRAT? by having an economical wife such as ] am G aq Spee ys sure Eva would be. 1 wonder who could have sent me this thing, anyway?” i Another page was turned and here there | were but two lines of verse. They were: “See these worn clothes hanging on the line, Where’s the girl totakea stitch and save the | | other nine.’ 7 —— “It would take more than one stitch to | J R. POXOUUE, + | PRANK F. PRICE, -Mercautile Meat Market GRAND RAPIDS, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office over Itasca Mercantile Meat Market, GRAND RAPIDS. ATTORNEY AT LAW ONice over Clothing St GRAND RAIDS. save my clothes from complete’ ruination The laundry is playing havoe with them. That is but another one of the many ways in which a man with a wife would money, as well as the possibility of aiways looking decent. I tell you a wife is an ab soiute necessity to. a man these days. My é clothes are in a worse condition, if possible, | * i * than the ones the artist has pictured here, D° GEO. C. GILBERD, but that would be changed if I had Eva. Ib 3 : f wonder if my courage will never reach that rany “OTT point where ¥ can ask her to be mine? | PHYSICIAN ANDISUR ; Another page, the next to the last, was turned over, and on it he found: * ‘ “He either fears his fate too much, GRA. D RAPIDs. Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.” TORNEY AT LAW County Attorney of Itasca County. AND RAPIDS, Office over Cable's Meat Ma ; py CHAS. M. SIORCH, “That's me exactly. It must have been written especially for my benefit. ‘Heeither | PiYSICTAN AND SURGEON fears his fate too much,’ that’s me. 1am so afraid she might say ‘no’ that I dare not try | 9 to win at all. And then I guess my deserts are small besides when I compare them with Eva’s worth. Whoever sent me this did me a kindness, for I am going to muster up the necessary courage to stake all and try to | D win. But when? That isa question that is | vand Re: idence, Cor. Kindred and 3rd. GRAND RAPIDS, THOMAS RUSSELL, hard toanswer. I have been saying the same ! P a a thing for almost a year, and still I hesitate.” PHYS{CLAN AND SURGEON Mle turned to the last page on which he OBice und Residence. South Side. found a surprise. There was a picture in } oo ce o water colors of Eva and below it just two LD RAPTD®. 4 “A dream of the girl who might have been mine, Had I but spoken the word in time.” t “Did Eva send me that? I don’t think she | did, but if she did what did she mean. But | one thing is sure 1 am not going to lose that: | girl by not speaking the word i in time. I'Q) speak it to-night, even if 1 fail.” i And he did, and the Christmas bachelor . | 4.05 is to be a benedict in a month. But he ha siyer “S1el Ban not yet found the person who sent him the m cA 8.00 pm calendar. His Eva was very indignant when |- Lv of he intimated that it might have come from her, and it took more than one box of bon- | {339 *. bons to sooth her injured feelings. No, Eva | 201 did not send it, but she has a very deay | #3? * friend who is an artist, and in whom she} 4: ieee confided her troubles and ideas for a pur- pose, and the idea worked successfully? She may tell her bashful lover all of these things | 1 atte the wedding Bt i but batdly Be | te