Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 9, 1903, Page 7

3 Bb “ —— ; % SEE ~ + - — etl a OF THE D4 The Greatest Ever. “Pshaw!” cried the newly arrived spirit; “you ancients had no great captains of industry. Take our Beef Trust, for instance. See what it has done.” “Oh, I don’t know,” replied the Shade of Noah, quietly, “I cornered all the live stock in the world at one time.” The Yellow, Instinct in Cleopatra. Cleopatra pressed the asp to her ‘bosom, ; “What a pity,” she exclaimed. “If I could only use a sea serpent, what va story it would make!” However, her tine instinct for the dramatic enabled her to carry off the _affair with great eclat. Fitting. Bings—How do you cook that new breakfast food you manufacture? Bangs—Just add hot water ‘serve. Bings—But how do you manage to iplace it before the public? Bangs—Just add hot air and nerve. and Too Curious. “There is never any uncertainty where I stand,” said the pompous speaker at the ward meeting. “I’m a stalwart.” Whereupon the little man with a squeaky voice half arose and putting his hand to his ear inquired, “What kind of a wart?” Again Mystified. “I'm sure I don’t quite understand it, Charley, dear,” said young Mrs. Torkins. “What don’t you understand?” “Why people insist on calling the horse man’s best friend, after what hhe does to people at the race track.” Impossible. Jack, in the background—Hello, it there isn’t Percy Pypate. Why, I understood he’d been killed in the Adirondacks last fall by some chap out deer hunting who mistook him for a men. Very Likely. “] worder what makes the falls roar so,” queried the bride of a week as she gazed at Niagara. “For the purpose of drowning the fool talk of newly married couples, I suppose,” answered the other half of the combination. 7 Save Us from Our Friends, Dolly—Poor Tillie couldn’t go to’ the meeting last night. Weren’t you sorry? Madge—Why, no. If she’d been there we'd never heard that story about her. The Truth Comes High. “Oh, oh!’ moaned the man. “Lan- guage fails me.” And it was even so, for he was @ teacher of French and out of a job. Two Points to Remember. 1 WILL THE GREAT NORTHERN Trainmen Prevent a Reduction in Freight Rates? ‘The St. Cloud Journal Press of April 27 contains an interview with R. S. Landis, a Great Northern conductor, who is polling the conductors of the Fergus division of that road to see whether they will accept the new scale of wages offered by the Great North- ern, and which is somewhat in excess of the rates demanded by the em- ployes, or whether they desire the grand officers of the Order of Railway Conductors to order a strike if thé Great Northern persists in, its refusal to either abolish double-header trains or allow train crews double pay while riding on trains hauled by two en- gines. This interview puts the question in a new light. Mr. Landis says: “On other lines the employes have been given a double-header schedule where it means very much to the companies own- ing them. On the Santa Fe, which is probably the greatest _ double-header system in the country, a basis: of settle- ment has been effected, and on the Northern Pacific, which uses by far more double-header trains than the Great Northern, the company and the employes have agreed. i “One of the things urged by the West- ern association of general chairmen last June at Kansas City was a uniform agreement on all roads. west of Chicago, covering this matter, for it had beea urged by the management of some roads that they could not afford to make the concessions when competing roads were not required to live up to a similar agree- ment. It is to perfect a system of uni- formity that we are trying to bring about a general agreement of the roads cover- Ing the points at issue. It is not a live issue on the Great Northern, it is true, but in fairness to members of our Brotherhood on other lines, where it is very much a live issue, we are endeavor- ing to bring about an agreement with the companies,” It would seem from the above that the Great Northern’s empleyes really have no grievance, but are trying to force the Great Northern to yield a principle that will not benefit the men on the Great Northern, but will bolster up the interested Orders on other roads. It is not exactly clear why the line was drawn at Chicago and the demand was confined to roads west of that city. If double-headers are an objectionable feature west,of Chicago, it would seem that they would be equally objection- able east, and, as far as we know, no road east of Chicago has yielded the principle of how many engines shduld haul a freight train. Neither do we see why double-headers are objection- able on freight trains but not on pas- senger trains. There is another feature about this that is worth consideration. If all roads are put on the same basis as to expense, there will be to a certain ex- tent a restraint of competition. The State of Minnesota and the United States government have both gone to considerable expense to insure com- petition between the Great Northern: and the Northern Pacific companies by. knocking out the merger, and have ac- complished it by the decision recently given in the Northern Securities case.’ If the trainmen accomplish their avowed object they are to a certain ex- tent going to nullify the effect of that decision by making it impossible for one road to haul freight at lower cost than another. E It is for the interest of the people of Minnesota that each road in the state should conduct its business at the low- est possible cost, due regard being had, of course, to the payment of a reasonable and proper scale of wages to all employes. In this case there is no question as to wages. The sched- ule offered by the Great Northern is in excess of the demand of its em- ployes and is admittedly as high as is paid on any other road in the country. Beyond thatscaletheGreat Northern,in the interest of the people of this state, should not go, because every cent it pays out over a _ reasonable wage comes out of the pockets of its patrons and prevents a reduction of freight rates. 4 The courts have held that a railway company fs entitlea to earn a reason- able rate of interest on the cost of its property. When its earnings are in excess of that, and the necessary amount for keeping up and improving the facilities, the earnings from traffic must be reduced. The Great Northern has heretofore recognized that, for in January, 1902, it reduced its rates on all classes of merchandise between stations in Min- nesota and the Dakotas an average of 15 percent, and in August, 1902, re- duced the rates on grain and grain products from stations in Minnescta and the Dakotas to its eastern minals an average of about 10 per cent. The report of the railroad and ware- house commission of this state, re- cently issued, shows that the Great Northern, during its fiscal year ended | June 30, 1902, hauled about 73,000,000 bushels of wheat. If the rates on wheat were reduced a half a cent per hundred pounds it would amount to $218,000, and every farmer who ship- ped 5,000 bushels of wheat would save $15. The farniers are more interested in getting that $15, or a reduction in | the rate on wheat that will save them that amount, than they are in boister- ing up the seitlements trainmen may Lave made with he Santa’Fe and other roads in the West. It makes no differ- ence to us what it costs the Santa Fe to do business. What we are interest- ed in is what it costs to do business on roads within the State of Minne- sota, and if that cost can reasonably be reduced, or if anything reasonable can be done to prevent its being in- ereased, it should be, and the people of this state should have the benefit of it without regard to people living in other sections of the country. “what is the court costume pre | An examination of the pamphlet just scribed for an American diplomat?” . “any old combination that doesn’t disgrace his anatomy or his family. For Windy Weather. “ Do you keep rubber hose?” “Well, madam, we have some in fight red and green which are almost ure to attract attention.” ; issued by the general manager of the Great Northern to the trainmen, giy- ing a full report of the correspondence and conferences between him and the trainmen’s committees, shows that the employes have nothing of vital im- portance to strike for; that all their ter- | and that to grant the double-header proposition means the paying out of money for nothing, except to bind the bargains the trainmen have made with roads in other sections of the country and which would postpone for an in- definite period the reduction in freight rates to which we are entitled. It should be further remembered for by the employes is once granted, there is no knowing how far it may extend, what ober demands may be made and which would have to be granted, and how much longer a re- duction in freight rates may be post naned. —_+——_. . { GAME AND FISH BOARD RESIGNS New Law is Conflicting as to Organl- zation. The members of the state game and fish commission resigned recently as a result of an ambiguilty in tne game and fish law passed by the recent leg- islature. The regular terms of the members were to expire as follows: President Lamphrey of St. Paul, and Executive Agent S. F. Fullerton of Duluth, Jan- uary, 1905; Vice President B. H. Ward of Fairmount. January, 1907; Secre- tary D. W. Meeker of Moorhead, and Treasurer H. G. Smith of Winona, Jan- uary 1904. The new law, relating to the organi- zation of the board, has several con- flicting provisions which the commis- sion was unable to reconcile, and to settle the matter the members decided to resign. Section 1 reads: “There is hereby created a board to be known as the board of game and fish commissioners, which shall consist of five members, to be appointed by the governor as soon a this act is passed and takes effect.” --5 the act took effect immediately on its passage, the commissioners decided that this provision legislated them out of office. Sec. 2, however, contains the follow- }ing provisions: ‘Provided that the present board of game and fish com- missioners shall serve out their full term of office as provided by the law under which they were appointed.” The members fearegp moreover, they were legislated out of office by another | provision, reading: “Any and all acts | and parts of acts, general or special, which relate in any manner to the pre- servation, protection taking, use and transportation of game and fish are hereby repealed.’ This seemed to the members to do away with the law un- | der which they were appointed. The resignations of the members are in the office of the governor, It is probable that he will reappoint the board to fill its unexpired term. DEATHS FROM RABIES. Rabies Killed Twenty-seven Animals, and All Were Not Reported. Rabies caused the death of twenty- seven animals in Minnesota during the last quarter, according to the report ‘of Dr. S. D. Brimhall, state veterina- rian, to the state board of health. Dr. Brimhall adds that the reports are in- complete and that the number is actu- ally very much larger. The twenty- seven animals included eleven pigs, twelve dogs, one cow, two sheep and one horse. Dr. Brimhall says in his report: “This does not represent nearly all the cases, for it has not been possible for us to get reports from health officers of each individual animal affected the disease. The first report receives often states that a number of different kinds of farm animals Were bitten, and in some instances several of them were killed at once, but what’ the final outcome is we are seldom able to learn.” This is Dr. Brimhall’s final report, the state live stock sanitary board having practically done away with that office. The report as usual deals with the diseases that have been prevalent in the state and contains suggestions for their eradication. During the quarter seventeen head of cattle have died from blackleg, and cerebro-spinal meningitis has caused the death of thirty-five animals, prin- cipally horses. There have been thir- ty-three horses killed for glanders, and fifty-two have been quarantined. Hog cholera appeared in fourteen counties, sixteen farms being infested. Six horses died from swamp fever. There were reports received of the testing for tuberculosis of 1,250 cattle, 96 of which reacted. There were 48 | retested, with 42 reactions. i} NAMES STOCK BOARD. | | Vested With Power to Control! and Suppress Diseases Among Domestic | Animals. | Gov. S. R. Van Sant’s appointments | to the live stock sanitary board, pro- | vided for by the recent legislature, | were announced recently. The mem- | bers appointed are John S. Furlong of Austin, Dr. M. H. Reynolds of the state school of agriculture, Dr. Charles E. Cotton of Minneapolis, Forest Henry of Dover and W. W. P. McConnell of Mankato. The members serve for five, four, three, two and one years, respectively. | The board is vested with the con- trol and suppression of diseases among | domestic animals, and: will exercise | the powers and duties heretofore per- | formed by the veterinary department |of the state board of health. All | books, records, end documents in the | possession of the state board of health that, in case the principle contended © Womea Made Strong Mothers. o2d Happy Catarrh of the Pelvic Organs is a Frequent Cause of Barrenness Pe-re-na Eradicates Catarrh From the System. the woman of ancient Israel not to become a mother was regarded as the greatest of earthly ‘calamities. To become a mother—more especially the mother of a strong, healthy boy—was the height of glory for the faithful woman of the good old Bible days, Even now, when ma- ternity is not esteemed as of yore, the mother of healthy children is an object of admiration, and sometimes envy, by her neighbors. As compared with ancient peoples, the average American woman has a low appreciation of motherhood. There are, however, a great many exceptions to this statement. The accompanying letters from grateful women who have been madestrong, healthy and happy mothers need no added words of ours to make them convincing. 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In cases of la grippe it works like a charm, It cured my baby when other medicines failed. She was real bad with la grippe.'’—Mrs. L. M. Griffith, Mrs. E. E. Thomas, Alpha, Mo., writes: “T have used your Peruna and Manalin. Thad been doctoring for several years, but A YOUNG MOTHER’S LETTER. Mrs, W. McRoberts, writes to Dr. Hartman from Delano, Miss., the following: Doctor S. B. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio: Dear Sir:--+«1 feel perfectly well of catarrh. The third of March I gave birth toa 10-pound baby girl and we are both well and happy. 1 recommend it to everyone and can’t “«I send you my own and my baby's picture. She is so sweet and I have such good health now. housework and take care of my baby, and feel so good. ‘* There are three or four of my neighbors using Peruna now, since it did me so much good. They were just run down, and they think it is It is so good to give strength.’’—Mrs. W. McRoberts. “PE-RU-NA SAVED MY LIFE,” Writes Mrs. W. McRoberts. | | | il | Delano, Miss. I did as you directed me lam very thankful I do all my kept getting worse. One day a neighbor woman brought me your book, the ‘‘ Ills of Life,"’ and wanted me to take your med- icine. I told her that I had given up all hope of ever getting well. I had tried so much medicine. My neighbors thought I was nearly dead with consumption. ‘Finally I concluded that I would make a last trial. So my husband got me a bottle of Peruna and Manalin. I commenced tal:ing them according to directions. That was two ‘years ago. A year ago last No- vember I gave birth to a 10-pound baby boy, who is well and hearty; and I am * doing my own housework. I can never give Peruna too great praise. I think it is the best medicine I ever heard of.'"—Mrs. E, E. Thomas. 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