Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 4, 1902, Page 5

+ man K. 1 Gran ‘AReoits PheraitetReview Published Every Saturday. By E.C. KILEY & SON. WO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE yntered in the Postoffice at Grand Rapids Minnesots, as Second-Class Matter Official Paper of Itasca County, Village of Grand Repids and Deer Rover aud Town of Grand Rapids. MINNESOTA'S GREAT DEAD. Priliminary Nominations Made for Minne- sota’s Places in the Proposed Hall of Fame of the Louisiana Purchase Expositian. By William Vincent Byars’) In the Hall of Fame which is pro- sed in connection with the World’s rat St. Lo in 1903. each state f the Louisiana purchase will be en- itled to select two of. its distin- guished ci tues will represent it, Theonly lim- ion ou the choice of any state in thus selecting its representatives, is that the selection is to be made from historic characters no longer living. ‘They need not have been born in the state if they have been indentiftied with it, but such questions as this ire, of course, to be determined by each state in making selections. Before this is done officially, it is highly desirable that there shall be widest possible discussion in each the people of and to that end prominent 1 men, educators, jeurnalists ind others in Mianesota are being isked to tuggest nominations and to romote the publis discussion of the history which the great men of Min- nesota bave belped to make in the e and out of it. \ gre al of interesting and val- le Listory is being thus devoloped. ng those who have Suggested numes ip this preliminary discussion fthe mirits of Minnesota’s great dead, are President Cyrus. Nortbray, t nesota, Pres- entd s W. Strong, of Carleton ton College, Mr. E. Louis PeLestry, of DeKestry’s Western Maga- sident James Wallase, of icalestcr Cullege, Mr. A. W. Minch- editor of the Am » Geologist, uneapolis), Mr. C. McDonald, tthe Cloud ‘Times, Mr. Rausom Metcelf, editor of the West uth X-Ray, Mr, J. Frank Dean, rof the Eveuing Journal, Owa- na, Mr. E. R. Jobrston, editor of ies, Minneapolis, Mr. William ayne* of the’ Goodsell Observa- of Carleton :College}, Editor of Astronomy,” and Mv, J. S. ditor of Minneapolis Daily St. a is nowinations tino igh colamns of the Jourual, names th editor MeLdi cussed the Wiiliam Windom, Cushman K. Davis. Whidple and Jobu_ Ss. Pils- d found considerable difficul- ticing among them. Minnesotas great names of the living of consideation for this their nationa| yvments for the he writes, ‘we of Bis lering the as regards ind their ach vhol William Windom ard Tahiag 1 name r Cu-hman K, Davi i ecount chiefly history-making within the Louisiana purckae we would name Bishop H. H. Whipple i former Gevernor Johu 8. Pils- bury 1 reaching the final decission, the work of Mr. Windom was disoussed s that of the first Minnesota member the National legislation and to scupy a commauding piace asa Na dial legislation and to occupy a pimandins place as a national emanu, He was for more than a member Of either the er bonse of Congress, and » secretary of Lhe treasury, ef the greatest fl- t me, as one of the saders of the Repnblican party: and ccess!ul refunder of the pation- al bebv.” ‘If Windom was the first, Cush- vis Was the second Minnc- soLan Lo achieve a high place in Na- tional politics whether of the party venty ye upper or lo Was twic zed as one ers of his t hes oration,” continues Mr. MeéLuain, Ic had made a splendid record for esmanship, knowledge of Lnter- pati thew, and su ul legis’'a- tion before the dispute with Spain over Cuba which lead to the Spanish- an war. “Histoositior as chair- tne senate Foreign Affairs man of committee before and during the war, made him lz responsible for shaping events and formulating merican policies. After the war his position as member of the Peice Commission addeJ to bis fame and he ssfully discharged the duties is to md ke his name as close ly identified with an epoch-making treaty of peace as it was with the in ception of a most unselfish war of hu- manity. Howeve. Senator Davis, as one of Minnesota’s governors ‘in the early seventies. played no meau part im vhe upbuilding of the state.” ns whose bust or sta- After areview of Bishop Whipp'e?, ppd export great usefulness as ‘the apostle 10 the Indians,” Mr. McLain conclud:s “Governor John S. Pilsbury was perhaps personally less known out- MARQUETTE'SCHAPEL A emall, weather-stained, clapboarded church with shingled spire, standing in an side the state than Davis, Windom Cr ojd-fashioned village on an island in Lake Whipple, but his achievements with- in the state were greater than those of the two eminet national statesmen Superior, was burned the other day. Its money value was probably less than $500, but it was visited every year by thousands of tourists, and the news of its destruction and fully equal to those of Bishop | was cabled to the old world. There were Whipple. sota from the blight of repudiation, his rearing of the University, his magnificent charities and public gifts. his personal goodness, the lofty tone of his life, its broad scope, the value of his example to the youth of the west—all these combine to give him a BZ onfame. Then tvo, bistory in these days is not only the story of kings and presidents, law-makers and politicians: it must give much space tu industry. As a captain of industry Governor Pilsbury takes a rank with tbe greatest and strongest. Consid- ering him asa great man whose work was done in the Louiiiana Purchase, it counts strongly in his favar that he was the founder, savior and pro- tector of what is unquestionably the greatest inststution of learning with- in the limits uf that vast region. If the conditions of the choice were that one of the two should be nated for his regional work, the other for bis national work, we would, all things considered, name Governor Pilsbury and Senator Davis. It is highly de- sirable and important that there shall be a general discussion of the question so thutitmay ke thoroughly sifted before the official ceoice be made ” President Northrup of the Univer- sity of Minnesota writes in suggest- ing Cushman K. Davis and William Windom: Minnesota is a young state and there are others more familiar with the details of her early history than I am, but it seems to n.e that the three men who have rendered the most dis- tinguished services to the country and the world and are no longer liv- ing, are Willian Windom, Cushman K. Davis and General Henry Hast- ings Sivley. Mr. Windom served in the Senate and in the cabinet = Mr. Davis wasa most distinguished sena- torand diplomatist. General Sibley was the first governor of Minnesota and a warrior of local promivence—a man who did a great deal to establish the character and form the state. If I were compelled tu. name two, I think $hat the expression. services reudered to the country and to the world would require me toselect the first two whom I have named. Prob- ably the old residents of Miunesota would have better judgment than I have.” WILL HUNT FOR THE POLE. William H. Brewer of Yale Will Ac-| company the Baldwin Expedition. William H. Brewer, chief of the de partment of agriculture at Yale col- lege, will accompany Evelyn P. Bald- win, of New York, in his search for the north pole. Prof. Brewer will be first assistant to Mr. Baldwin. the exploration. Mr. Baldwin came to New Haven the other day to confer with Prof. Brewer relative to the expedition. Prof. Brewer has had experience in ex- ploration, having had charge of the! researches made in Alaska a year ago by E. H. Harriman. Prof. Brewer said, in speaking of the proposed trip, that the idea of professors of leading American univer- sities trying to reach the north pole in an expedition is a unique one and he is confident it will succeed. As She Is Spoke in China, The Chinese, if they have mastered the mysteries of the laundry, have not yet syrmounted the more serious diffi- culties presented by the English tongue. The following neat little cir- cular has been sent round to pros- pective English customers in Hong- Kong by a firm just starting busi- ness: , “Ladies and Gentlemen: We, the washer of every kind of clothes, blankets, and so on; newly estab- lished the company and engaged the business. Contrary to our opposite company we will most cleanly and carefully wash our customers with possible cheap prices. ‘With your wages we will work the business.” Strained Relations, Tod Sloan has been discharged by the prince of Wales, but, says the Chicago Times-Herald, it is thought the diplomatists at Washington wil] succeed in bridging the matter over without permitting serious interna- tional complications to rise. Up to the Game. Keen business ability was shown by the train robber, says the Kansas City Times, who forced the sleeping car porter to collect from the pas- sengers for him. 4 ©7The back of the opposition to the shipping bill was rather broken when the re publican leaders in the senate got together and united in favor of a bill which they could ‘all enthusiastically support, and the passage of which at the present session is now assured. ‘ G7 After all has been said and done, if congress don’t legislate in the interest of the American ship the American people wiil be compelled—no. one knows how much longer—to pay $200,000,000 each year to for- i ican imports . eign ships for carrying Ameti Wir) liam Zeigler, the wealthy Brooklyn: merchant, will pay the expenses of; His redemption of Minne-|logs in the structure that were blessed by Father Marquette nearly 240 years ago, and inside, above the altar, a copy of Ru- bens’ “Descent from the Cross,” which he had brought into the wilderness, and which had been viewed with awe and veneration by eight generations of Chippewa Indians and French Catholi French, over which Parkman, the _his- torian, puzzled for months when getting material for his great series of histories. All gone now in a puff of smoke, smaller | than that of many a council fire, that, in the old days, had trailed away over Gitchee Gaumee and the forest crowned headlands and sheltered bays of the Apostle isla:ds! When Columbus was dying in poverty and neglect in Valladolid, Spain, in 1506, a great Indian tribe, the Ojibwas, was al- most exterminated by the Iroquois near Lake Ontario. The remnant flew west and north on foot and in canoes, and stopped only when they found a refuge in the clus- ter of wild islands on the southern shore of Lake Superior. Here, on Chequamegan bay, they lit the council fire of their na- tion. A hundred years later they had grown strong and driven back the Sioux, and were in possession of all the lake coun- ; try about the headwaters of Superior and the Mississippi. In 1665 Father Allouez, a Jesuit missionary, came over with a party of couriers du bois, French fur trappers and traders, and established the Mission of the Holy Ghost in the Indian village which the French called La Pointe. A year or so later, Pere Marquette followed (Father Allouez going to a new station on Green Bay), and built the little chapel of logs in the woods above the most populous and prosperous village in all the vast re- gion peopled by the Ojibwas. In 1669 he was back in Mackinac, in 1671 he went across the wild rice lands of north- western Wisconsin, through the Ojibwa country, and explored the upper Mississip- pi. In 1673 he established a mission among the Illinois Indians west of Chicago. In 1675 he died in Michigan while on his way back to Mackinac. The Ojibwas always spoke of him as a spirit and, after he had gone from them, took eare of his little chapel, the sacred picture and the rude font and communion service, though they fell away from his teachings. A quarter of a cen- tury after his death they abandoned the Apostle islands for the mainland. Later, in the eighteenth century, a fur trading post was built at La Pointe by the French, and to them came Father Baraga, who found Marquette’s chapel in the woods, with the Rubens over the altar. There he said mass and gathered about him the French settlers and the remnant of the Ojibwas. He built a larger church, inclos- tng the old one, and later died as bishop ot Sault Ste. Marie and was buried in the cathedral beside the ashes of the Apostle of the Wilderness. Madeline island of to-day is a wilderness almost as virgin as when Pere Marquette’s canoe first glided into Chequamagon bay. When; the lodges were taken down and the trading post with its high palisades and fur warehouses disappeared, the Indians, in dwindled ranks, retired to their reserva- tion set apart by the government, the halt French, half Indian town slipped down to the water’s edge, and the inhabitants sat with folded hands and half-shut eyes, and watehed the summer fleets go by. The pines and birches and wild blackberry vines crept up to the once busy streets, the vil- lage cattle browsed on the common and the historic chapel stood apart, above the town , on an eminence overlooking Ashland and Bayfield on the mainland. Should you visit the spot to-day you would see a heap of charred wood where | the church stood so long, surrounded by a stunted growth of silver birches and wild blackberry vines forming, with the help of a rude fence, a sort of hedge; within the enclosure a graveyard, the headstones fallen and broken, and the inscriptions filled with moss or wholly obliterated. ep ea The little church was never closed day or night. A priest who spoke English and French and Chippewa (the modern pronun- ciation of Ojibwa) lived near and was al- ways ready to show the sacred picture, the parish records in their glass case, and the communion service and vestments from France and Austria whence Father Baraga came. And if a tourist lingered for an hour he was sure to see an Indian glide into a canoe, say a prayer and depart—or hear @ parishioner question the priest in French. The island lies in the roadstead to Ash- land, Bayfield and Washburn, and all sum- ; mer long steamers and freighters pass its shores, so close that the villagers can read the names on the sides. Now and then a pleasure boat draws up to the old wharf of the fur traders, and discharges a crowd of sightseers. But the greater number go by, leaving the forest-covered rolling up- lands of the “Queen of the Apostles” be- hind, with its quaint little French-Indian town lying neglected and weatherbeaten at the foot of the single cleared slope of land, once the harbor of refuge of a great tribe of Indians, a place of council fires, a fur metropolis, the farthest outpost of the old world’s religion. The greater part of Madeline island has reverted again to the wilderness, and gives up its trophies to rod and gun. It is diffi- cult to imagine that 200 years ago the shel- tered lodges of the Ojibwa tribe stood by | hundreds along the heights. Then the birch bark and skin-lined streets were filled with careless couriers du bois, dusky maids reveling in French beads and prints, dig- nified chiefs in deer skin and feathers, med- icine men, naked brown babies and smoke- dried squaws. beaver skins were being bought and chil- dren and dogs romped on the beach when the canoes of the hunters and trappers came in. And always in the vision of the Madeline islands of old is the figure, black- robed, pallid-faced, standing in the midst of the motley throng and unrolling his copy of the old master. In a brief ten years he left throughout the great northwest an influence and tradition of peace, purity and holiness that have never died. The region still echoes his name, and the hearts of little children thrill when hearing of the simple courage and saintliness of this fragile priest who lived so serenely and securely among the savages in the wilderness.—Lit- tle Chronicle, Chicago. An Emphatic Touch, The man who lives in a flat and is often annoyed by the violent.piano playing of his otherwise agreeable neighbor of the floor below remarked to his wife the other day: “That Smith downstairs would make en elegant carpet beater.” “Why?” asked his wife. “Oh, he has the regular carpet beater’s touch,” replied ber busband.—N. ¥. Times . And there were | crumbling, yellow. parish records in old | Loiterers gathered where | FAVORS MARCONI SYSTEM. special Commifaston in Great Britain to Urge the Adoption of Wire- leas Telegraphy. A revolution—but one whigh would andoubtedly be weleomed—looks like toming to pass in the near future. It is no less than revolution of the tele- graphic arrangements. For’a long time people have quite st sight of or forgotten the fact i that a departmental commission has | been appointed to consider the ques- | tion of wireless telegraphy, but now {t is understood the commission will very shortly report favorably and recommend the general adoption of the system in the British isles by the postal authorities. Though nothing has been officially announced, it is hot denied that the extraordinary success of the experi- ments which have been carried on | during the last week on board the steamer Princess Clementine, cross- | tng the channel between Dover and Ostend, has hastened the determina- | tion of the commission and proved to (\t that wireless telegraphy is quite | veady for use in serious earnest. ‘There are, of course, many things to be considered, one being the ques- tion of government monopoly, but the commission is about to suggest | to Mr. Marconi the terms on which the patents may be acquired. | ._ Mr. Marconi recognizes the difficul- | ties in the way of afranging details but he is anxious to cooperate with | the commission in every way in order to expedite matters. , OPPOSES SUBMARINE CRAFT. \getphan Boat Builder Thornycroft, of England, Says It Is of Little Use. | Mr. Thornycroft, England’s torpedo boat builder, has been expressing in- teresting opinions on submarine boats, He does not believe it necessary for Great Britain to build submarine boats, even if the experiments of oth- er nations have been quite successful, Me is carefully studying the problem of devising a submarine destroyer should it ever be necessary. He re- gards the American submarine boat as the best type yet made. But he doubts its efficacy, even for harbor defense. “A shell dropped in the neighbor- hood of a submarine boat,” said Mr. Thornycroft, “and exploded either level or below it would afford suffi- cient shock to crumple up the boat. Possession of a submarine boat of your own will not help you to find an enemy’s. They are at present of too limited range and insufficient propell- | lng power to be really a serious factor and the unsatisfied problem of keep- ing a level keel under water is yet : to be solved. If I ever have to go under water with a submarine boat , L will prefer to sit outside.” : In spite of the pessimistic opinions of Mr. Thornycroft the British ad- miralty has at last decided to, grant a submarine boat designed by J. E. Howard, of Tasmania, an official trial. FACTORY GIRL WEDS RICHES, Son of Connecticut Millionaire Marc< ries a Bridgeport Mill Operative, Joseph Backingham Canfield, son of H. O. Canfield, the wealthy owner of the Canfield Rubber works, has chosen as his bride Miss Maie Kathryn Don- nell, who until recently worked hard for her living in the factory of Burns, Silver & Co., at Bridgeport, Conn. The fashionable set in which Canfield moves is shocked, but the young people are not troubled. Mr. Canfield, Sr., was seriously disturbed at first, but the young man took Miss Donnell to his house and introduced her to his par- ents. She won them instantly and Mr. Canfie:d told his son he could have | made no better choice. Miss Donnell is 24 years old and a | beautiful brunette. She was left an orphan one year agoand promptly be- gan to make her own living. She and young Canfield met one day as she was on her way to the mill and the next day he sought an introduction. Soon his friends of the exclusive Seaside club were dumfounded to see him driving out with the factory girl in his carriage. They joked with him fora time, but soon saw that he was too serious to be trified with. SHEEP IN EAGLE’S TALONS. Bird’s Efforts to Get Away with Ita Prey Is Frastrated—Fail to Bag the Bagle. While R. M, Dotson, an oil man, was driving from the oil field west of Lima, O., the other afternoon, he no- ticed a commotion among a flock of sheep on the Coon farm. He stopped to investigate and was surprised to see a Jarge gray eagle with its claws fastened in the back of a sheep, with which it was trying to fly away. Mr. Dotson, who was hastened to Coon’s house, secured a gun and returned with Coon. Just as they got near enough to the eagle to shoot the bird released its hold on the son took a shot and the bird’ was slightly wounded, but continued its flight. The sheep was found dead and several others were wounded. Mr. Dotson says the eagle measured fully ten feet from tip to tip. This is the first eagle seen in this section of the country for many years. All in the Interest of Setence. 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