Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 9, 1901, Page 4

GEO. BOOTH, SeseSse2ocrsoecsececoses5= 25525232 522555555 I ccienn S CIGARS of the finest selected stock by experienced workmen in Mr Booth’s own shops here, and. under his personal supervision. This insures the utmost cleanliness and care in manufacture. For sale everywhere. —) Manufacturerof Fine Cigars GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. Minnesota. Call for them. 97” Have achieved an excellent esputation all over Northern They are made a en ss phim t l l BODES ca RR, x FINEST -MODERN TRAINS DINING CARS A-LA-CARTE A. E. WILDER, Prop. Hotel Gladatewe FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT. Sample Room and Livery in Connection. Special Attention Given to Transient Trace. Headquarters for Lumbermen. Ween GREAT NORTHWEST SsTHE EAST. T.-H. LARKE:ASST.GEN'L PASS. AGT ,~PULUTH: MINN? HENRY HUGHES & GO. LUMBERMEN! We wish to call your attention to the fact that we carry a complete line of Lumbermen’s supplies. Our Groceries, Canned Goods, ®Teas and Coffees are all new and fresh, and the prices are the lowest in this section of the Northwest. Clothing, Shoes, Shirts, Woolen Socks, Underwear, and Mackinaws. direct from the facories in We buy larget quan- tities and are thus enabledfj.to sell, at prices to defy all competition. It will prove to your;{fadvantage to call and inspect our stock{ and get -our]prices before purchasing GRAND RAPIDS your Fall outfit. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR MONEY REFUNDED. HENRY HUGHES & CO. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in General Merchandise: COHASSET aids Mcralde'iReview Rapids Every Saturday. By E. C. KILEY WO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE antered in the Postoffice at Grand Rapids Minnesota, a8 Second-Class Matter. Oficial Paper of Tasca County, village Grand Repids and Deer River aud Town of Grand Rapids. SHIFT AMER SHPS Their Importance i in the Transpor- tation of Perishable Products. UNFOUNDED OPPOSITION TO SUBSIDIES, Value of Ocean Flyers to the Gov- ernment in Time of Peace or War —Build Up the Nation’s Ocean Trade and Augment Its Naval Power. {Special Correspondence.] Washington, D. C., Jan. 16. Considerable opposition to the payment of subsidies to swift American steamships has developed in the press of the country. The statement has*been widely circulated that these ships merely carry passengers abroad to spend American money, and to bring back wines and silks for luxurious cit- izens, and that such ships, so employed, are of no help to.American commerce. . What is wanted, these opponents declare, is car- go carriers, the . low-powered steamships that take cargoes wherever they offer, and carry them wherever they are consigned, regardless of established lines. And these are the ships, they go on and assert, that have given Great Britain her preeminence maritime power. “all this sounds plausible, and somewhat Vegieal, and, if not analyzed by those hav- aE .| ing knowledge of the facts, helps to create an unfavorable and hurtful sentiment to- ward the shipping bill now pending in congress which properly considers swift steamships, as well as slow ores. Asa mat- ter of fatt, the swift steamships carry those produets from, the United States that are the. most valuable, and, in many cases, the most perishable. Were it not for the fast steamship California fruits — a growing business—cou!d not be exported to Europe; with them, the exportation of Pacific coast ‘fruits steadily grows and prospers. All kinds of dressed meats, ham, bacon, lard and an infinite variety of agricultural or farm products, that have gone through va- \Tious stages of manufacture are sent abroad in swift ships. Swift ships carry the mails; and it<is es- sential that the maiis be carried with the utmost rapidity. Invariably swift ships are parts of regularly established lines, and they make regu‘ar and frequent voyages to and from their terminal points. The swift- er, the greater, the more powerful the ships, the more profitable their use is to their re- spective terminal countries, but the truth is the less remunerative they all are to their owners. They carry the most expensive cargoes that,.go both ways, the manufac: tures upon which labor and skill have been expended, and which return the largest sums to their producers. * But these are the ships, the large, pow- erful, swift ocean flyers, t! that are most use’ ful to the nation in time of war. They are at once availab’e ae carriers of important sdispatches, in ca’sés where celerity is of the utmost importance; they are useful as aux- iliary cruisers, they can be quickly trane- formed into cruisers and then prey upon and destroy the enemy’s commerce; they tan‘act a¢ scouts for fleets, and keep them informed regarding the movements of the enemy, keeping, in touch with the enemy and eluding capture through their swift: ness.’ Thie was well illustrated by the four great ships of the only American line in the trans-Atlantic trade, during our war with Spain. They were eteaming at full speed between 500 and 600 miles a day, far out upon the Atlantic, keeping watch for Spain’s cruisers, ready to report them to the .flying squadron at Hampton Roads. It was this scouting work, so effectively done, that compelled Spain to send Cervera far ‘to the south, when but for them Cervera might have threatened if not “seriously and irreparably injured our great Atlantic and Gulf seaports. The swift steamships are the nearest at- tainment to the ideal, the consummation of the highest hopes of the artists engaged in their construction, at once an effective dem- onstration of man’s best handiwork, and at the same time an invaluable aid to the na- tion when most in need of aid. Such ships are the final outgrowth of regularly estab- lished lines where a trade has been built up at great expense, after many years of faithful effort, and through a service that is thorough, complete and attractive. They arethe best of their kind and a nation whose people fail to appreciate’ them does not grasp the full significance nor the full value of sea power. The so-called tramp steamships, the ves sels that carry cargoes wherever destined, are merely the carriers of the surplus car- goes that accumulate after:harvesting, or at exceptional times, when the regular lines are overcrowded. But it ig the regular-fines ; that build up a nation’s trade—never, the tramps—and they often do it for years ata | loss, until they are thoroughly established | and have accumulated a paying business. ' And Britain’s sea power lies in her great steamship lines, not in her “tramps.” O7If the agents of foreign steamships are deliberately working to defeat the pending | shipping bill—as is being said all over the i country—congress should be warned. The | American people are not in the mood to see [legislation helpful to a great American in- | dustry defeated in the interest of foreign- ers. Congress is not, of course, deliberately conspiring to injure any foreign interests, But if the latter happens to monopolize any great American industry, as they do the \ carrying of our imports and exports, and congress in legislating to promote thie in- ‘ dustry in the United States does hurt for- eign interests, that is a mere incident, not the objective. @7If the foreign steamship linee are spending money lavishly to defeat the ship- ping bill now pending in congress, as is ae serted in Washington press dispatches, it must be that the bill in question would hurt the foreign ships. It that be so, it must fol- low that it would help. American ships. Con- gress should not be sow to follow this ar- gument to its lozioa Jusisn., | | MEGS FAVOR Tn SUBSIDY BIL Democrats Who Will Support the Measure to Build Up Amer- ican Shipping. GROWING SENTIMENT IN THE. SOUTH Improvement of Rivers and Harbors and the Construction of Larger Ships Viewed with Approval by Producers and Business Men, (Special Correspondence.} _» Washington, Jan 2 When the opponents of the shipping bill came to be finally counted,during the clos ing days of the debate on the army bill in the senate, the fact was uncovered that a few influential republicans were among them. These men had certain notions that the bill was inequitable inj its provisions, and they had been in the habit of meeting and comparing ,notes and assuring each other that their ‘suspicions were well grounded. Finally, however, these objections were brought to light, and, when that was accom- plished, and the friends of the bill were given a chance to discuss these obje¢tions, their apparent force melted away like snow under a summer sun. The result has been that a few amendments have been agreed to in the bill that cover every possible point of doubt on the republican side, and they are now all united in the senate in favor of the bill as it stands. When a vote is reached on the shipping bill there will be a disagreeable revelation to the democrats of a few of their own members who will support.it:' Not lessythan half a dozen democrats have, one way and another, indicated that tlhtey~may be relied upon to support and to vote for the bill, and they explain, too, that this is, largely, in obedience to urgent requests from their con- stituents. Nowhere in this country is this more in evidence than in the eouth, where, hitherto, opposition has been eo general to ‘all forms of government aid, at least’on the part of the statesmen representing southern constituencies, as to have caused a feeling of despair at times among their more pro- gressive and up-to-date colleagues from the north and west. The improvement of rivers and harbors in the south, followed by the construction of much larger ships for the carriage of eouth- ern export products, and the eonsequént re- duction in freight rates and increase in di- rect returns to the producers, have been ob- ject lessons of jmmenge’value to the south- ern business men, and the fact is «lowly dawning upon those whom they send to congress to represent them. No longer is there opposition in the south to the im- provement of rivers and harbors; indeed, there is more money likely to go into the improvement of the great’ seaports of the south, and especialiy ot ‘the gulf, and its tributary streams, than int the north. The direct benefits from this have been felt in every hamlet, village and city in the south, whether located ‘upon a ‘navigable stream of not. So, too, it is beginning to be fel#, through- out the south that the construction of the Nicaragua canal will be an undertaking of the most far-reaching benefit to the south, end the people of that: section are\ begn- ning to appreciate the wiedom of Scnetor Morgan’s yajiant. fight for that great. water. way. The spendi of 8 $150,000,000,, Sr,even $200,000,000, for th: éonatruction of the Ni- caragua canal, it is bévinning to be belived throughout the ‘south, will have a benefit each year, upon the “increased markets abroad for their surplus products that will repay them, and the nation, too, each year for the total sum of the expenditure. And, with these thoughts crowding one another upon the southern mind, it is qui easy and logical fot’southerners to appreci- ate the value of ships of our own, doing our own foreign carrying, and keeping the whos of the $175,000,000 at home that is now spent every year for ocean freights that are paid to foreignship owners, and by them taken from the country, te the loss of our national wealth, to the deprivation of our own peo- ple of emp:oyment, and to the strengthen- ing of the auxiliary naval resources of our foreign rivals. In these circumstances the expenditure of $9,000,0000 a year to save from $175,000,000 to $250,000,000 a year is not a proposition ether to frighten the average American citizen or call forth his protest. In fact, the demand for just this kind of a thing is becoming quite unanimous among the business men of the country, south, west, north and east. ©7Senator Hanna is quoted as saying that his mail contains each day a number of re- quests, ranging between haif a dozen and a dozen, from students in the high schools and colleges and universities, for copies of his and other speeches on both sides of the shipping question, in order that members of debating teams may familiarize them- selves with the arguments proand con. The ‘subject is one of the most popular debates now throughout the country, and the results of these debates, almost ihvariably favoring subsidies, are extremely gratifyng to Sena- tor Hanna. Few people are aware that at a very recent debate between two strong teams, one representing Columbia unversity, of New York, and the other representing the Universty of Pennsyvania, on the question of paying subsidies to American ships, the former taking the negative and the latter the affirmative of the proposition, the Penn- sylvaniane won, and this notwithstanding the fact that the three judges were free traders and democrats, one being a very dis tinguished ex-United States senator from Delaware. 7 However uninformed on the eubject of American shipping the present generation of Americans may be, the popularity of the question in our high schools, colleges and universities insures a.grasp upon the sub- ject on the part of the young men just enter- ing active business life that is quite reassur- ing as to the future of our mercantile ma- rine. When the American people are thor- oughly informed on any subject they are in variably right, | | see their share. 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Then her hair is the rich brown that painters love, and there i3 plenty of it. Wil- helm:aa has a reputation for dignity but not long ago she enjoyed herself so much at a court ball, waltzing with the energy of a heaithy girl who has temporarily forgotten she is a queen and only remembers she # young and happy, that a coil of her hair fell down and, had to be pinned. up again by a lady-in-v-aiting. This little incident set all tongues wagging. It was exaggerated and commented upon all over Holland with an anxiety only abated by the dis- covery that the queen’s partner in the dance had been her uncle, her moth- er’s brother, the Prince of Waldeck- Pyrmont. This relative and his wife, who.are both still young, are the only people with whom Wilhelmina real y fraternizes in a natural jolly way. Sie has no friends of her own age, and in Holland the royal family is Mmited to a very small circle. The two or three princes and princesses available are middle-aged, dowdy; and dull. Yet Wilhelmina obviously enjoys her “splendid isloation.” She gave every- one to understand, on her accession, that she liked independence, and in- tended to preserve it as long as pos- sible. in the Fun with Rubberneeks. In front of a five-story Main street block there was the usual crowd of passersby. A heavily loaded electric car was just coming along. Suddenly a@ man rushed out from a store in the block into the middle of the street. Gazing up to the top story, he cried out: “You'll fall, you will certainly fall.” Everybody in sight stopped and gazed into the air. Those who were on the wrong, side of the electric car ciambered over to the right side to And there was noth- ing to see. No one was about to fall from the fifth-floor; in fact, there was no one to be seen there. It was all a bluff, and the wicked bluffer hurried away to escape the “-ngeance of the, bluffed.— Worcester Snv. Heavy horses—good stuck for sale, Itasca Mercantile Co.’s : haibaroas Proceedings in Bangary. An extraordinary story is reported om Komorn, in Hurgaiy. The offi- ials of the municipazity of Mocs: a he Komorn Comitat, are accused of having applied torture to persons iun- prisoged on suspicion of theft, It seems that some time ago the safe of the municipality was robbed of nearly 3,000 florins... Numersns arrests were made, but the thieves were not discov ered. It was then that torture was applied to six cf the p among whom are three wome The mayor and councillors were present. The p: cners were thrashed with red-bot rods, burning spirit lamp under their bare feet, of pen knives inserted ger najls. These barbarcus proce ings did not lead to the desired r and finally the thief. who w: no zmong the six, confessed his guilt Strange to say neither the mayor nor the worthy membcrs of the counci heve vet been susnended men sovvants Disappearing. Tarisians sre citing up Keeping men servants. For the sake of economy, male domestics are everywhere being seplaced by female. The clubs first set the exampl> by digmissing thelr nale cooks and engaging women cor- dos blues. Now the tendency is gain- ing ground 1a all directions. People are banishing their butlers, keeping parlor maids where they used to keep footmen, and .lischarging their valets. The last straw has now come to break the eamel’s back. “he financial pro- posals of the Li severnment includes a tax on men ser tants; but the cruel- est cut of all ls the new law, wherein lackeys are to be scheduled with car riage horses. No worder the domestie servants’ syndicate of Paris is agitat- ing against the threatened legislation, London Mail. The Coffee-Eating Habit. The coffee-eating habit is on the in- *rense, and it is probably the worst that can be found, says a well-known physician. Cofiee, when boiled and tukeu as a beverage, ‘is not only unin- juious. but beneticial, uniess taken in very great quantity, but when eaten 6S roasted is preductive of a train of ills that finally result in complete physical and mental prostration. I have had a number of cases of the kind, and they are as difficult to cure as those arising trom the opium b>bit- ‘The trouble is anore prevalent amore young girls than any one elese, ‘They eat parched coffee without any definite object, just as they eat soapstone slate pencils, with much more disas- trors results, The coffee-eater be comes weak and emaciated, the come plexion }s muddy and sallow, the appe- tits poor, digestion ruined and nervea all unstrung.. Coffee will give a few minutes of exhileration, followed with ment weakness, The victims nearly, clear —Washington Star. ‘jie when deprived of the accustomed ” |