Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 6, 1902, Page 4

Published Every Saturday. By E. ra KILEY. Ye R IN ADVANCE fice ut Grand Rapids Batere? in the s ond-Class Mutter Minnevota Oficial Paper of Tasea County, Village of Grand Rapids and Deer River aud Town of Grand Rapids. eee WU'S LAUNDRYMAN. Green Reporter for Lega- tion Attache, An interesting story is told apropos of a repor zeal to obtain news he Chinese legation in Wash- , D. C., regard.ng affairs in Pe- He ioW ser Eilstaken by t by the regular Wa ent, who was away on his ‘Va- and he had spent the whole in the vicinity of the lega- avoring to pick up some- t knowing that the most di- ould have been to see Min- himself, who is invariably about granting interviews. He about to abandon his project when ntelli ing and well dressed the steps of the onded so pleasantly ‘that he bombarded him hole list of guestions, to he Ds olite Celestial repeatedly n know, dun know.” rate at his inability ag out of what he re ckance, a walk jion’s secretaries, : “Well, surely ae the sled Wau it to be the proprietur.—San sco Argonaut. of HERRINGS AND SAWDUST. Pave spbalt rents May Be Made from and sawdust y as to suggest surpris- of the jon of the | ston, and | 1 substance! up to s found in whicn hae rocks. These ked up by bitu- ng from the bow- Z atid in this way the of eae s it is now < were formed. It is a singu- arly pu ries of asphalt, and is ed in a large way, the 1 of it constituting an im- ant juduetry Th: = wand tee Blessing the River Neva. If the present moderate weather con- tinues in Russia the ice in the River Neva will.soon break up, and there- upon will occur the blessing of the river, an annual event of national im- 2 to Russia. Qn the day when the river first ows signs of being released from its winter bonds, the solemn ceremony of ng the waters is perfarmed by n dignitaries of the Greek in the presence of the Czar. mony takes place at St. Peters- site the Winter Falace of in a pavilion decorated with ed pictures. the pavilion platform are as- sembled the high officials of state, and low the steps, in two lines facing other, appear the Russian priests splendid vestments. average number of days dur- ch navigation is possible is , the least 172, and the greatest 279. ently ice breaking vessels have peen introduced, Cunfornia @ Land of Contrasts. uornia is indisputab.y a land of sts. It has fertile lands and the ocean in the west and the desert in the east, the region of eternal summer is found in the south and a land of ed winter in the north; it has devoid of vegetation and its es of “big’ trees, the largest in4 ibe world; also, there is to be found in the state some of the finest scen- ery in the world and some of the most desolate of landscapes. Then, too, in the matter of elevation, which has a decided influence upon conditions of temperature, altitudes vary from a point 400 feet below the level of the vea, in Death Valley, to more than 54,000 feet above—in fact, California has the highest and lowest land of any state in the Union. ‘The Man They Wanted. Whea John Stuart Mill ran for Par- Nament in Westininster he was asked at one of the meetings, chiefly com- posed of the working classes, whether, ne had ever published the opinion that AomiITTED CUILT. A Missourt Convict Pardoned for ‘Yelting the Trath. Gov. Bod Stewart, Bourbon ané Democrat, was the most pictureBque character who ever occupied the exee- utive mansion in Missouri, He de- teuted Major James S. Rollins for governor in 1857. The governor was trom St. Joseph and many are the stories told of this eccentric and er- catic westerner, The following inci- dent illustrates Gov. Stewart's keea noted throughout Missouri. It was sense of humor for which he was the custom of the governor to question the convicts in the penitentiary as to why they were imprisoned. The in- variabie answer wes an avowel of in- pocence and of wrongful conviction. Finally, in his rounds he encounteres one prisoner, who said he was im prisoned for horse stealing, “Are you guilty?” asked the governor. ‘Weil governor, I guess | am; I touk tae horses,” rejoined the man in stripes, “Get right out of this penitentiary,” Governor Stewart vehemently replied. “You will contaminate all these in- nocent men who have been wrongful- ly placed here.” ‘The fellow was released immediate ly and a pardon was filled out for him, BK of tho Cameo Cutter. The,cameo cutter’s occupation tr very exacting. He can put in only a few hours’ work at a time as a usual thing, because of the tension on his neryes. A quavering hand may be re- sponsible for the single stroke which will spoil a week’s work. He rust have an eye almost like a microscope, and a very delicate touch; he must be an artist in soul, and as skitlfyl a craftsman as is a watchmaker; he must know how to model and draw, und he must have a knowledge of chemistry, sc as to remove offending spots. The work is executed in relict on many kinds of hard or precious etones, but essentia‘ly the chalcedonic variety of quartz aud on shells, _ Royal Corpse Awaiting Burial, It is said that since the year 1700 @ custom has prevailed in Spain which prohibits the burial of a dead king before the death of his successor, ‘The .ate King Alfonso XII, therefore. lies | embalmed on a marble slab in a vault of the Escurial, covered over with 3 sheet. On the death of his son the present young king, the body win be removed and buried with great nomp by the side of its ancestors in tps Rise eurial chapel, that of Alfonso XiTL taking Its place gn the marble siab, HINDOO BORROWER. Claims Me Has Returned 82 by Postat Card. or neglect on the part of another, and Among the guests at the Raleigh a few days ago was a well-educated and pleasant-mannered son of India. Hae had been at the hotel several times be- fore, always ordered the best, and paid his bills without complaint. On this oceasion he paid for his) room in ad- vance and seemed to have plenty of money. When he was ready. to depart, however, he confided to Clerk B. A. Smith that he had lost his pocketbook and was without a cent. He didn’t as to borrow money, but when he men- tioned that he had friends in Pulti- more who would help him Mr. Smith offered to lend him a couple of dol- lars. The Hindo was profuse in his thanks and promised to return the money as soon as he reached the Maryland city. Yesterday Mr. Smith received a postal card from the map in India, upon. which was written: “I Levewith send you $2. Thanks very much, I appreciate your most noble kindness.” Mr, Smith looked on first one side and then on the other of the card, and finally split it in two, but could find no trace of the $2. He is now wondering if the Hindoo ‘is poscessed of an abnormally developed bump of humor, or whether one ‘of ‘poisoned in the Little Miami. river, * Ohio, those Indian tricks of magic is being performed. The latter theory is the more inviting, and he has placed the card in a glass case azd is watching 4t closely to see if by some mysterious means it will not transform itself into a $2 note, payable at the treasury of the United States——Washington Post. Ox Races in Germany, An on race is held annually in many of the provincial districts of Germany. The entry fee for the race is very small, but each ox entered must be ridden by its owner. Furtherniore, the rider is net allowed to have either whip or spurs and he must ride his animal bareback and depend entirely upon his voice to guide the beast. It is here that the skiil of the rider comes into play, as everything depends on the training of the ox and the ability of the owner to direct its movements, despite the distracting noises of the other competitors and spectators. As the oxen do not race on a track to direct them is no easy matter. The cider who can force his lumbering steed to go in a straight line is cer- tain to win, Superstitious Mother's Cruelty, A curious case of gross superstition, which led to the practice of barbarous cruelty to a little boy, was revealed the other day in a local police court court in British Guiana. A woman named Ashby of Uitylugt, a sugar es- tate, the defendant in the case, stated that she had dreamed of a way to cure the working classes of England, though they differed from those of other coun- tries in being ashamed of lying, were generally liars. He answered without hesitation that he had, whereupon there was vehement applause. The first wor! who spoke after Mr. Mill’s admis 1 said io fo cheers that her little son of certain faults. It con- sisted of boiling an egg and putting it while still hot into the boy’s hands. Next morning she procesded to put the suggestion of her dream into exe- . SENATE'S “MORNING HOUR.” It Occurs in the Afternoon and Con- " sumes 120 Minutes The “morning hour” is one of the queer things oi the United States sen- ate. In the first place the “morning hour” is two hours lang, though it may be completed in 10 or 15 minutes. In the second place it never occurs in the morning but begins at 12 o'clock noon, except on the rare occasions when the senate meets at 10 or 11 o’clock, Sena- tor Hoar of Massachusetts is respon- sible for the elongation of the morning hour so as to make it cover 120 min- utes. Prior to fourteen years ago the “morning hour,” while existing in the afternoon, was but an hour in length, but a resolution submitted by Mr. Hoar was adopted August 10, 1888, and that provided that the “morning hour” should be two hours in length or that it should end at 2 a'clock. This resolution provided “that after to-day, unless otherwise ordered,the morning hour shall terminate at the expiration of two hours after the meeting of the Senate,” The morning hour is devoted to the presentation of petitions, the in- troduction of bills, reports of commit- tees, ete; and is the time when all sorts of little matter of that kind_are attended to. At 2 o'clock the presid- ing officer lays before the Senate the bill on the calendar, which is set aside as having precedence over other meas- ures, and that fs generally the time for long speeches of all kinds unless unan- imous consent is secured to consider pension bills for a specified time or | unobjected bills on the calendar. Whe Angei of tne Home, She does not meke any fuss about {t, nor ask to have a reporter at her eb bow. But her sunny heart and self- forgetting love will not let her hands oe at rest while there is any bit of helpful service she can render. If she ean, without observation, slip the burnt roll or undercrust on her plate, It Is dene. If some one must stay at home when there is a day’s outing, she tells, with musi¢ in every tone, how | glad she will be to be left e letly be pind and have time all to herself to do ever so many things she has in mind. And none suspect, from word or tone, how great the sacrifice to give up the pleasure. Her quick eye detects the oversight she quickly hastens to remedy the matter, careful that none shall know ber hand has made up another failure, Is a harsh round of judgment started by some ill-advised critielsm? She deftly and tenderly drops the gentlest, the sweetest possible word for tne criticised one and switches the conver sation to other topics. Do we not recognize this “angel?” We call her mother, wife, sister. Ip the glory-land tbey will call her saint, Polsoning Fish with Cocaine. Large numbers of. fish are being especially in the vicinity of Branch Hill and Remington. Mem- bers of the different camping clubs in this section have found fine fish which had succumbed to “dope balls” used by “pot fishermen.” Parties have been on the lookout for the men and the other evening 4 member of the Corryville club, which is camped near Remington; saw a man planting the bait. He escaped, however. Some of the bait was secured. It consisted of corn meal mixed into a pellet and sat- urated with cocaine. This stupefies the fish and they come to the sur- face. As a general thing they die from the effects of the drug. ee Gonitontathanbalsite warring. London is at last to have a complete ambulance service. There is no place in the, world where it is so much mneeded, The Metropolitan corps of the St. John ambulance brigade does ex- cellent work, but its chief surgeon, Mr.¥ Osborn, recommends that the service should be under the contro! of the London county council. His idea is to graft an ambulance system for Lon- don on to the Metropolitan fire bri- gade, by whom it can be easily horsed, boused and supplied with alarm calls. The London fire department does not Aave any too many horses now for prompt responding to calls and it would necessitate an increase of the uumber if the new scheme is adopted. Dr. Temple's Temptation. ——_. When Dr. Temple, the present Pri. mate, was head master of Rugby school he paid a visit to Dr. Benson, his predecessor in the See of Canter- bury, who was at thet time the mas- ter of Wellington College. One after- noon the two went for a stroll through the woods behind Heath Pool. Benson began to point ont to his companion the sylvan beauttes of the place, cajling his especial .tention to a magnificeng beech tree. For a while Temple ad- mired it in silence, then suddenly crying, “I can’t resist-the temptation. ‘Look out!” made a rush for the tree, and, ere his amazed friend could grasp the situation, had scrambled up the trunk and seated himself among the branches. Then the two future Arch- bishops, locking’ at each other, broke into a burst of schoolboy merrimeat.— Golden Penny. A Wn! Whistling reupe. Tbe natives of Gomera, one of the Canary isles, converse with one an- other by whistling on their fingers, It 1s possible to understand a message a ‘mile off. Each syllable of a word has its own peculiar sound. — is cut up bya Taimver’ of deep glens, 'and War departments, a _ OABINET OFFICE NUMBER NINE. This Will Ge the Next if Approved by the President. = The President’s family, like Topsy in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin, -may be said to have “just grow’d.” The original Cab- inet members were five. The-office of Secretary of State was the one first created, in July, 1780. That of Secre- tary of the Treasury was established September 2; that of Secretary of War, combining the affairs of the military and those of the marine, on August 7, and the offices of Postmaster-General and Attorney-General on September 22, all in the year 1789. These five of- fices constituted the ‘original Cabinet,” | from the members of which the. Presi- dent was authorized, under section 2 of article 2°of the Constitution, to “re- quire the opinion in writing of the principal officer in each of the execu- tive depart.:ents upon any subject re- lating to the duties of their respective Offices.” Such was the historical origin of the Cabinet. There was no direct provi- sion for it in the Constitution other than the one quoted, and all laws or regulations as to Cabinet members, or the order of their succession to the presidency, in the event of a vacancy in that office and in the vice-presiden- ey, are matters of statutory provision. The office of Secretary of the Navy was created on April 30, 1798; that of Secretary of the Interior, with duties partly taken from the State, Treasury in 1849, and that of Secretary of Commerce at the head of the Department of Commerce and Labor will, if passed by the House and approved by the President, bring the membership of the Cabinet up to nine. THE CHARTER MEMBERS. Exhilarated Actor Relleves the Formal- ity of a Club Meeting. One of the most conspicuous features of a recent entertainment at the Play- | ers’ Club was a pyramid of lobsters in the grillroom awaiting the time when the flow of soul should give way to appetite. It was a beautiful pyramid and not a single lobster was under the prescribed length. The dignity of the occasion was equaled by its soiemnity, and every one was talking when an actor who happens to be a member came in. He was slightly exhilarated, but after listening to the conversation a few minutes he became sober. Sud- denly he saw the pyramid of lobsiers. He grabbed the arm of a guest, led him into the grillroomand said sol- emnly: “Here is where the house of bishops lunched once,” “Indeed?” “Yes. How would you like to meet a stack of our charter members?” “Delighted, I’m sure.” a Taking the guest to the table where the lobsters, were piled the actor in- troduced him to them very formally. He devoted his attention during the rest of the evening to introducing as many people as he could persuade to go into the grillroom to the pile of lobsters. His exhilaration returned by the usual , Process, and eyen such of the charter members as were present admitted that the evening developed in a lively fashion.—New Yorx Sun. IRISH HERALDRY Knowledge of It Not Monopolized by People with English Ancesiors. Knowledge of heraldry, which occu- ples people with sncestors from Eng- land and the continent, is not monop- olized by them. The Irish in this country have crests and coats ofearms more authentic and elaborate than many we see on carriage doors and fashionable note paper. Every Irish surname of any account, whether of she milesian ‘stock—the “Macs” and ‘O’s”—or the Anglo-Norman or of the Elizabethan reign, has its insignia. During Ireland’s years of oppression these were ldst, and many are utterly unknown to the descendants of the original bearers, says tte New York Telegraph. The fatal battle of Augh- rim, fought on the property of ths Wounty Galway, was doom to the an- ccstral pomp and glory of the O’Kel- sys, and they scattered all over Eu- rope, went into the continental ar- mies and cutfought the natives every time. The Kelly crest is a weird ani- mal, called an enfield, having the head of a fox, the mane of a horse, chest of an elephant, forelégs of an eagle, body of a greyhound and tail of a lion. The motto in Latin is ‘God is to me a tower of strength.” Forefather of the Shea family had a swan for his crest and underneath a whits shield dotted with red fleur-de-lis. The Burkes were a Norman-Irish tribe Their flag was of ermine, white, span- gied with black, like the trimmings of @ judicial robe. In the center was m large red cross, in the ‘upper left quarter a black lion and in the oppo- site corner a black hand. The nome Burke comes from the same root as “burgh,” meaning town, and the tribe owginally descended from Norman, “settlers in Ireland-of the goodly French name De Burgho, meaning “of the town.” The Ryans and MacNamaras have‘ coats of arms more authentic ‘and far more beautiful ‘than many of the folk with “Van” names. That ot the Ss vend or O’Mul- which are no bridged over, ards 5 it | tr \OTICE WARNING Hunters Will Take Notice Z Prery. hunter who shootsa man in Ttasea county. this fall will be prosi- ¢ounty are not going to stand for the reckless killing of men by fool bunt- ers who shoot Ingen and then excuse themselves by saying they thought it was a deer. Many Citizens, mer & Kremer, the grocers. When you want butter made in Itasca county go to Hughes & Co, PEP Seer FIRST-CLASS_IN Head quarters cuted for murde¥. The people of this | : | Canned meats of all kinds at Kre- | F Hotel Gladstone , A. E. WILDER,¢Prop. is Ps Ig és i Sample Room and Livery ‘e in Connection. is Special Attention Given to Transient Trade. if You Are Going East On your summer vacation, and wilt tell us where you want to go we will tell you the best way to get there, and what it will cost. We ean offer you a variety of de- lightful Rail and Lake Trips on the finest trains and steamers in the land. Our new. electric-lighted trains “Phe North Country Mail® are just out, These trains are the acme of modern car-bullding art. | Write or call on us for detailed in | fermation regarding rates, ete. “Ne Trouble To Answer Ques-- tions.” | *M.ADSON, |General Agent, Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Ry. 426 Spaulding Hotel Block. Duluth, Minn. EVERY RESPECY. for Lumbermen. GRAND RAPIDS. are ESSER Issues Foreign Drafts direct, o No Company Represented w W. R. BAUMBACH, Writes Fire Insurance m the Strongest Comp: Capital, "$10, 600. 00. First State Bank’ OF GRAND RAPID, MINNESOTA. The Only Bank in Itasca County Under Government Cupery'sion. | Pays Interest on Time Deposits. Loans Money 00 Improved fusiness and Residence Pr a all Principal Cities of hs n mothe BY peat ith Agsetts Less thai. 1,000.00, | I. M. BOL’ PER, President. JNO. OREILY’SS SE AE ARE AE aE aE ae she eae ae sae Se a EE Rapids. 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