Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 25, 1902, Page 4

a Bron Rants Heras tReren Published Every Saturday. By E.C. KILEY & SON WO DOLLARS A Cit A LVANCE wgntered in the Postofiice at’ Grand Rapids Minnesota, as Second-Class Matter Official Paver of Tasca County, Village of Grand Repids and Deer Rover aud Town of Grand Ranids. <— ee A Remarkable Turk. {n the village of Bodra a Turk tiamed aged ‘120 years, is in’such good that he frequently walks to in, six miles distant, to sell eggs, for he is a poultry dealer. He has had thrity-four wives, the last of hom he married recen The bride ) years his junior, and the mar- age was celebrated with much sol- i to the sound of drums and The whole The wedding pro- oa included all*the male progeny triarch bridegroom, consisting grandsons and great- sons, Effective Bird Laws. From many parts of New England nmer comes the news that the seem to be more in evi- n they have been for many rs. An old Rangely guide said re- tly that it was hardly within his collection of the past twenty years that the birds had been so aboundant or of so many species as they may be seen this year. In the want of any other reason to account for the ‘wele come ch it seems fair to assume that the New England laws for the protection of insectivorous birds are beginning to have some effect, this sun song b dence ye The Five-Clawed Dragon. In China the five-clawed dragon ig the emblem of royalty. ‘USually it is red as arising from the sea and hing at the sun, thus expressing the idea of universal dominion. ‘The peror’s person is called the ara- body, his throne the dragon's one. To see the Emperor, a privi- allowed to but few, Is to see the zon’s face. The Emperor's crest is a dragon; a dragon appears on the he dragon is called 1, and symbolizes all and powerful. The e believe in the dra» tence, and waste in attempting te the monster, The dragen described by Chinese writers fearsome looking monster, y give it all sorts of extraordi- attributes. HAVE A STANDING IN LAW Yhey @:.uted Ina ent Contest Over Land Ownership, the Spokane Review: Tix ntest case in w layed a prom. the gen- ington. The | ned in the deci- | was claimed blish a resi- re not ment ut the man whom it wed the mice to es: cence in his bed is allorred to retain ession of s homestead, the rul & of the local land office being re ed and the contest dismissed. A iar feature of t case is that the family of mice was first men- was contended that their in the bed of the entryman d an abandonment of the home- nd the local land office appar-, ook the same view of the mat- ut when the decision was ap- from it was set up that the e of the mice was 4% argument sr of the homesteader. Fred O. rutt was the entryman, having takep p a homestead near Davenport three rs ago. Last AuguSt John O’Nei! uted a contest to the homestead , alleging that Grutt had aban- d the clrim, did not keep up a 24as residence thereon, and that only inhabitants of the shanty on’ nch were a family of mice. ring the case the registrar ver decided that Grutt’s en- uld be canceled. From this de- ion Grvit had s days in which tv file an appeal to the commissioner at Washington. The appeal was filed by Leo Walton, attorney for Grutt. In he uppeal the mice family was re- ed to as follows: “If there were ny mice in this entryman’s bed dur- ing the early part of September, 1898, it pleinly shows that the entryman have a bed on the land at the dit i re ry sh elr to $590, Robert E. M. Cooper, formerly a prominent newspaper man and politt- ‘clan. has fallen heir to $506,000. The estate was Jef, to Cooper by John C. Cregu, a miser hermit, who recently i at Crip Creek. Years ago Panhandle country Oo. was not inclined to equaintaneces, but Cooper found to drown ina river and is own life to save the miser. 4 ited in a friendship. Cooper seturned to Springfield, Mo., and be- fame prominent, He kept up a cer- recpondence with Creso for some years ‘out they finally lost . track of each her. Crego left Texas and was a er prospector at Cripple Creek. jie cleaned up $600,000 and quit. There- efter he lived in absolute seciusion ‘So far as he knew Cooper was still in fpringfield, and a few ¢ays before he” ied he sent for Justice Martin, and a ‘il) was drawn up leavjug everything Hp poner FEATS: IN MIDAIR. Career cf ‘*Steeple Joe” Lawler, Original Steeple Climber. Had Plied His Dangerous Profession All Over the Country and Had Senled the Highest Spires of Many Tall Buildings. “Steeple Joe” Lawler, the original steeple climber, who’has just died in Gouverner hospital, was 40 years old and during his time asa “steeple Jack” probably ascended more steeples and tutored more pupils in his dangerous trade than any other man in the coun- try. Lawler was originally a member of the fire department and it was in the training he received as a fireman that he developed his ability as a stee- ple climber. While a member of a ladder company he made a record of ascending over 128 feet in a trifle over two -minutes. Lawler was sent throughout the country by the fire de- partment to exhibit apparatus and performed some daring feats at his trade of scaling the side of buildings. When he was in San Francisco on this mission in 1895 he met and married Cleo Levine, an actress. He gilded the ball on the top of the flagstaff of the dome of the Pulitzer building five times, swinging 435 feet in the air while thousands of people below watched him with anxiety. He worked at old Trinity and Grace churches, helped place Diana on the tower of Madison Square garden and handled the preliminary rigging on the high Poughkeepsie bridge across the Hud- son. He served in Cuba and Porto ico during the war with Spain, and superintended the building of the first military bridge in Porto Rico, WANT DUTY SUSPENDED. Automobilists of This Country Seek- ing to Have Touring Machines _ Freely Admitted to Canada, Reciprocity with Canada in the matter of touring vehicles crossing the border free of duty was the chiet topic discussed by the law commit- tee of the Automobile Club of Amer- ica at its sessions held in New York city. Mr. George F. Chamberlin, chair man of the committee, called the at- tention of the members and also of Mr. A. R. Shattuck, president of the club, to customs regulations obtained in 1898 by the Canadian Wheelmen’s association whereby members of either, upon presentation of their membership tickets and securing the permission of the collector of the port of export, could take their bi- cycles across the border duty free. Mr. Chamberlin urged that an ef- fort be made to obtain for touring automobilists similar privileges through like custom-house regula- tions by the Canadian and United States treasury departments. A com- mittee was appointed to visit Canada. for the purpose. POEM ON NEW CANAL TREATY. str Edwin Arnold Prints in a London Paper a Tribute to Anglo- American Amity, The London ‘Telegraph prints a poem by Sir Edwin Arnold apropos of the ratification of the isthmian treaty. He depicts Balboa with “the Spanish steel rod in his conquering hand,” viewing the Pacific ocean and thanking the Queen of Heaven for the glorious guerdon. Four hundred years pass, and Nature is represented in the same spot saying: ‘The gift I gave To Nunez de Balboa could not keep Spain from her sins. Now must the ages sweep To larger legend, though her own was brave. Here on this ridge I do foresee fresh birth. ‘That which is disparted I shall bring side by side, The sea shall sever what the hills did di- vide, Shall link in love, and there was joy on earth, While England and Columbia, quitting fear, Kissed and iet In the eager waters there. Cotton Manufacturing Indastry. A statement exhibiting the extent of the cotton manufacturing industry of the United States for the year 1900, as compared with 1890, has just been issued by the census bureau. The statement places tke total value of cotton manufacturing products at $336,974,882, a again of over 25 per cent. since 1890. The number of estab- lishments in 1900 was 1,051, a gain of 16 per cent.; capital employed, $467,- 240,157, a gain of 32 per cent.; salaried officials, 4,996, a gain of 84 per cent.; amount paid in salaries, $7,535,129, a gain of 117 per cent,; average number of wage earners, 302,861, a gain of 38 per cent.; total wages paid, $90,384,532, a gain of 36 per cent.; cost of material used, $176,551,527, a gain of 14 per cent. Giant Joins Diplomatic Corps, Lord Pauncefote, the British ambas- sador, is more than six feet tall, but he looked like a pigmy the other day beside the giant who accompanied him to the state department. The giant is Arthur Stewart Raikes, the new first secretary of the British embassy, and Lord Pauncefote brought him to the de- partment to present him to Secretary Hay. Mr. Raikes is more than a head’ taller than Lord Pauneefote. He isa Cambridge graudate, who entered the British diplomatic service in 1879, and has served at Athens, Berlin, Brussels, Buenos Ayres, Copenhagen and Rio de Janeiro. Queen Victoria conferred a jubilee medal on him in 1897, A Real Hero, A Pennsylvania bridegroom whipped 20 college students who tried to kiss | his pi tty wife, says the Chicago Rec- rald.. There’s.a hero who will AO EE SUESOY Measure to Build Up Amer- ican Shippiaz. GROWING SENTIMENT IN THE SCUTH (mprovement of Rivers and Harbors and the Construction ct Larger Ships Viewed with Approval by Producers and Business Men. [Special Correspondence.] Washington, Jan 23 When the opponents of the shipping bill eame to be finaily counted,during the clo» 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 in 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 objections, their apparent force melted away like snow under a summer sun. The result has beez 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, owa members who will support it. Notlessthan half a dozen democrats have, one way and another, indicated that they 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 south, where, hitherto, opposition has been co 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 south ern export products, and the consequent re duction in freight rates and increase in di- rect returns to the producers, have been ob ject lessons of immense value to the south: ern business men, and the fact is slowly 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 especially gf the gulf, and ite tributary streams, than into the north. The direct bemefite from this have been felt w every hamiet, village and city in the south. whether located upon a navigable stream or not. 5 i f v So, too, it is beginning to be felt through- out the south that the construction of the Nicaragua canal wil] be an undertaking of the most far-reaching benefit to the south. and the people of that section are begn- ning to appreciate the wisdom of Senator Morgan’s valiant fight for that great water way. The spending of $150,000,000, or even 200,000,000, for the construction of the Ns earagua canal, it is beginning to be beiievee throughout the south, will have a benefir each year, upon the increased markets abroad for their surplus products that wil 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 quite sasy and logical for southerners to appreci- ite the value of ships of our own, doing our own foreign carrving, and keeping the who:e of the $175,000,000 at home that is now spent very year for ocean freights that are paid to foreignship owners, and by them taken from the country, to the !oss of our netional weaith, to the deprivation of our own peo: pie of empoyment, and to the strengthen- tng of the auxiliary naval resources of our toreign rivals. In these circumstances the expenditure of $9,000,0000 a rear 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 fe-th protest. In fact, the demand for ; this kind of a thing is becoming quite unanimous among the business men of the country, south, west, north and east. » ‘ © Senator Hanna is quoted as saying that his mail contains each day a number of re- quests, ranging between half a dozen and a dozen, from studentg 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 invariably 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, an/ the other representing the Universty of 1 ennsyvania, on the question of paying subsidies to American ships, the former taking the negative and the latter the affirmative of the proposition, the Penn- sylvanians 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, ty However uninformed on the subject 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- vine, When the American people are thor- ough'y informed’ on any subject they are in ‘MRS. JOBSON'S COAT. “T'm afraid,” remarked Mrs. Jobson, one evering ubvut a couple of weeks ago, “that “ll have to Lave a new wrap of some sort for the cold weather—a jacket or some- thing. To-day 1 was looking over that astrakhan-trimmed coat that I’ve had for three seasons, and it looks rather faded and frayed.” “Um,” said Mr. Jobson, dropping his newspaper. “You're afraid you'll have to havea new one, hey? Afraid is good. Aren’t you afraid somebody’ll come along and hand you the title deed to one of the Thousand Islands, with an Italian rennaissance villa built in the middle of it? What you got to be afraid of? Don’t you think it’s up to me to be afraid instead?” “Well,” said Mrs, Jobson, calmly, “I did think that I could get another year out of the old coat, especially as I wear my seal- sen poke for very bitter weather, but i | “About how much is this new garment going to set me back?” interrupted Mr. Job- | mn. “I ought to be able to get a neat little jack- ea for about $20 or $25,” replied Mrs. Job- son. “And,” she went on hastily, “I should like very much to have you help me pick it out. You have such excellent taste in such things.” “Uh-huh, that’s a pretty good jolly, all right,” said Mr. Jobson, pleased, neverthe- leas. “I observe, however, that whep’f help you pick out such things I’m kept guessing as to how I’m going to pay my rent for a couple of months afterward.” Mrs. Jobson had observed the same thing, but she wasn’t saying anything about it. “Oh, I wouldn’t think of getting anything expensive,” she said. “I merely want a little jacket to wear on days when my sealskin would be too heavy and warm.” On Saturday morning last Mr. Jobson met Mrs. Jobson down town and they went together to look over jackets ranging in price from $20 to $25—that is to say, Mr. Jobson had that range of figures in view. Mrs. Job- son had other views. “T want to give you fair warning,” said Mr. Jobson, as they walked in the direction of the store they were to visit first, ‘that $25. is the very outside dig that I’m going to make on this job. So you needn’t try to work any bamboozling scheme on me to wring any more out of me. I’m not the president of any more than ten or fifteen national banks, you know.” Mr. Jebson stood by gloomily while Mrs. Jcbson was trying on a number of $20 tan coats. He shook his head over each try-on, “Dinky,” was his comment as to all of the $20 coats. “Dinky to the last degree. Wouldn’t be seen on the street with you in such a rag as that. Thought you said you could get something decent for $20?” “Why, I think they’re real nice,” said Mrs. Jobson, innocently, as she removed the sixth $20 jacket that she had tried on. “Well, I've got something to say about that myself,” said Mr. Jobson. “I have to take you out, you know, and if you think I'm going to traipse around town with you in any such tack rig as that you're mistaken, that’s all. Have ’em show you some of the $23 kind.” The $25 grade of jackets were. brought forth by the saleswomar “They make.you look like you worked in a ibox faetory,” he commented. “They’re Sheen and all bunched up in the back, ‘and—” “But of course any jacket would have to be altered,” interrupted Mrs. Jobson, in- wardly delighted over the way her little scheme was progressing. ‘Altered nothing,” said Mr. Jobson. “All the tailors on earth couldn’t make any ore vofithose things fit to be seen in-é back yard, How: did you happen to get your mind set orf one of those mea#ey, miserable little jackets, anyhow? Why don’t you get some- thing that will cover you up? I see women on the street with those long things—come down to their heels and fit "em snug—don’t mean those. imbecile automobile coats or raglan, but those long ones that cling to the waist—” “Oh,” put in Mrs. Jobson, “you mean the Newmarkets. They are pretty, of course,” and she was seething with inward joy, “but they cost a great deal more than jackets. you know. Mrs. Kaystreet has one that looks lovely, even if she is too stout, but of course her husband makes a great deal of—” “That’s all right about what her husband makes,” said Mr. Jobson. ‘There are a whole lot of bluffs running around this town. These jackets that you've been trv- ing on won't do, that’s all. TYere’s nothing to’em. They look silly. You get the young woman to show you one of tie long ones. and—” “Well, I tried one on—an a-vfully pretty ene—in this very store only lest week.” said Mee. Johenn, “OF eonree, Very tried it on for fun, to see how it wonld lock. It is lovely and all that, but "t think of having anything so expen “There’s a heap of things that you can’t think about, Mrs. Jobson,” said Mr. Job- son, oracu'arly. “I'm the one that’s doing the buying in this family, youll remember, and if you think you're going to plow around this town in one of the things you've heen looking at with me at your side you've got another guess. And if that dumpy Mrs. Kaystreet can wear one of those long things Ym talking about you'll shape up all right in one of them. Let’s have a look at some of ’em.” Whereupon Mrs. Jobson winked shrewd: ly at the saleswoman, who smiled furtively in reply, and in about half a minute the saleswoman produced the melton Newmar: | ket, with storm collar revers of beaver, | that Mrs. Jobson had had put aside for fur- ther inspection on the previous day. Mrs Jobson got into the beautiful garment and it fitted her like a violin ina box, and gave het ‘figure a svelte appearance that caused Mr.; Jobson to gaze at her admiringly out of the slants of his eyes. “Um! That’s something like it,” he said, surveying the garment with repressed enthu- siasm. ‘How much is the thing?” “Sixty dollars,” said the saleswoman. “Oh, goodness me, I couldn’t think of purchasing such an expensive wrap just now,” hastily put in Mrs. Jobson, catching the saleswoman's eye and starting to re- move the coat. “Couldn’t hey?” said Mr. Jobson. “Well, I could. Just you button it up and wear it out now to sort o’ christen it.” “But, my dear,” protested Mrs. Jobson, very gleefully interiorly, “we can’t afford it. 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