Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 8, 1903, Page 3

—— “IN ALL THE WORLD NO TRIP LIKE THIS” Thomas F. Woodlock in “Wall Street Journal,” July 15th. * Your correspondent ig more ‘or less of an Atlantic traveler, having made some fifteen trips across the ocea®, and is more or less familiar with this particular form of holiday. Its strong points are: (1) Absolute rest for mind and body. (2) Unlimited fresh air. And its weak.points are: (1) Monotony, (2) Bad weather—frequently. with, of course, the strong points much the most important and entirely pre- dominant. Circumstances compelled the writer this year to forego the usual Atlantic trip, as he had to go West. Having some detailed acquaintance with rail- road affairs, he was * * * aware that the Northern Steamship Company— owned by the Great Northern—oper- ated a steamer from Buffalo to Duluth, making the irip in three days, and he cetermined to try it. * * * He found a magnificent ocean-going steamer close upon 400 feet long, of 8,000 horse-power, de- veloping a speed of 18 to 23 miles an hour, fitted up in a style that he has mever seen surpassed on any ocean vessel, whatever her size, furnished with large, airy staterooms, lofty sa- loons and decks innumerable, the top deck being something like 70 feet above the water. Brilliantly lit, admi- rably ventilated and most convenient arranged as to all appointments oe ee Lake Erie is not especially pictur- esque as to its eastern end. * * * when the St. Clair river was entered the scenery became beautiful * * * From that time, with a very few hours of open lake, the trip to Duluth was a succession of changing pictures, any one of which would make the fortune of an Atlantic route lucky enough to possess it exclusively. Just above De- troit there is Belle Isle Park, which fis surely the most beautiful public park in the world, and it lies at the water’s edge. Across the river is sleepy Windsor. The river is full of excursion steamers plying up and down to half a dozen resorts, all on the river and full of holiday crowds, and our steamer threaded its way among them, meeting all kinds of craft from ore-carriers and whale- backs to naptha launches and rowing boats. All this at sunset after a typ- ical summer’s day with the mercury standing at 70 degrees and no more! Next day there was Mackinac Island, looking something like a little Welsh fishing village, with the hill rising di- rectly from the water’s edge, dotted with summer cottages and here and there a large hotel, and the bay filled with all kinds of sailing craft. Beauty enough for one day’s steaming, you would think, but in three hours we reached St. Mary’s river and passed the famous “Soo” canal by moonlight. You are to imagine a stretch of river some miles, with campers on every point, their tents lit up, and here and there remains of the Fourth’s pyrotechnics in course of dissolution— all on a still summer’s evening, so still that the voices on the shore could plainly be heard on our steamer as we passed, until the roar of the “Soo” rapids drowned them as the town and the great lock came in sight. Finally we came into Lake Superior and en- tered on the last day of the trip. Qnce more a variation in the scen- ery. The red banks of Lake Superior sandstone topped with pine and cedar and a refreshing coolness in the air marked the change, and presently there was the Houghton-Hancock ship canal opening up with its twin copper. cities on the hills rising on each side, and its red waters. The temperature at the Houghton dock was 90 odd degrees, with a strong southwest wind, but we were hardly out of the canal when wraps and overcoats were in order for the first time since leaving Buffalo, and we were headed direct for Duluth. * * * The writer’s purpose is to bring out the fact that this Lake trip has all the advantages of an Atlantic voyage with the disadvantages elim- fnated altogether. You will note, first, that the steamer itself is of the ocean type, only more comfortable; second, that the trip is three days’ long, which affords time for a complete rest (quite apart from the fact that a round trip from New York city to Duluth with six days’ steaming can be made be- tween Saturday morning and the fol- lowing Saturday night * * * ), and third, that there is no monotony about any part of it. * * * The emotion of surprise in its ultimate degree is susceptible of change into other emotions. To find the bell-boys (or cabin stewards) at- tentive yet unobtrusive, the waiters courteous and painstaking, the ship’s officers genial and comminicAtive, the purser a gentleman and a diplomat of the first water, the cooking absolutely first-class, the staterooms clean and cool—and all this with the other ad- vantages noted in the foregoing, is enough to arouse the ire ofa man who only finds it out after it has been avajlable nine years * * *. * * * The Steamship Northwest sails from Duluth for Buffalo and in- termediate points every Tuesday at 11:30 p. m. A Reminder. Cheapley—You’re in a brown study, old man. Sububs—Hello! Yes, my wife told me to stop at the market and get something, and I can’t think what it was. Cheapley—Have a cigar. that’ll help you to think— Subbubs—Ah! That's it. Now I re- member. She wanted some cabbage. —Philadelphia Press. Maybe An artistic temperament is always Dae elit but a bank account is more eracti NURSERY OF THE STREETS. ae : How ‘the Tiny Tots of the Tenements Amuse Themselves.- The streets are the only nursery the children of the East side know. They have no places for play within four picture-covered walls. Most of them never even hear of Central Park, where the little folks in smart frocks and smart sashes frolic on the green. I had seen a group of East side young- sters hanging, open-mouthed, upon the descriptions of an adventure-loving, intrepid gamin who had traveled to that far-off wonderland as breathless- ly as if he were a living Munchausen. Familiar only with the sights and sounds of the streets, the world’s love- liness is a sealed book to them. The tiny girl of four that I found in Mon- roe street one night at 2 o'clock, go- ing round and round, with one arm encircling a barber’s pole, and singing softly and happily to herself, “Ring around a Rosey,” presents a picture not uncommon in the streets of the foreign quarter Jong after the midnight hour has rung out over thé city.—Ev- erybody’s Magazine. What Was It. Friarpoint, Miss., Aug. 3rd.—One of the strangest cases ever reported oc- curred here recently, The son of Mr. G. 1. Butler was very ill. The doc- tor said he had some disease of the spinal cord, and treated him for two months, but he grew worse all -the time, and finally the doctor told Mr. Butler that he did not know what was the trouble. The boy would wake up in the night and say that he was dying. . He would be nervous and trembling and want to run out of the house, saying that he saw ugly things which frightened him. His father was very much discour- aged till one day he saw a new rem- edy called Dodd’s Kidney Pills adver- tised, and he at once bought some and began to give them to his boy. He used altogether eight boxes be- fore he was entirely cured. He has not been troubled since. Mr. Butler says: “I feel it my duty to tell what Dodd’s Kidney Pills have done for my boy. All this remedy needs is a fair chance and it will speak for itself.” INVASION OF CANADA. How Yankee Thought and Yankee Spirit: Is Creeping Across the Bor- der. “Grant, O Lord,” prayed a Western minister recently, “that Canada may come of her own accord into the great sisterhood of states; that no harsh measures be needed in working out the destiny of this republic.” In this man’s mind his prayer was also a prophecy. His was the pulpit vision of a theme of politics that is looming big and grave beyond the Mississippi. “Yankee thought, Yankee spirit, Yankee ways, will one day dominate the great country across the border on the north. The time is not far away, and when it comes the Ameri- can republic will reach from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic regions.” This is what thinking men of the West are saying. The logic of cur- rent events leads strongly to that con- clusion. Pioneer experience, human nature, national necessity, the phys- {eal characteristics of the continent— all these may be invoked as argu- ments. If it be a dream, its realiza- tion is in the process this very day. American farmers are migrating by the tens of thousands across the bor- der into Canada. The average citi- zen of this nation has not gome to understand the magnitude or meaning of this movement of population. From the states 40,000 farmers flocked to Northwest Canada in 1902. Judging from this year’s rush there is reason to believe that 100,000 will go in 1903. Iowa alone sent 15,000 last year. The border states contributed liberally. Thirty-five per cent of all the immi- grants into Canada were from this country. During the year ending June 30, 1902, Americans homesteaded 825,000 acres of agricultural lands in the “granary” of the British empire.” —National Magazine: be CHANGE. Quit Coffee and Get Well. A woman's coffee experience is in- teresting. “For two weeks at a time I have taken no food but skim milk, for solid food would ferment and cause such a pressure of gas and such dis- tress that I could hardly breathe at times, also excruciating - pains and heart palpitation and all the time I was so nervous and restless, “From childhood up I had been a coffee and tea drinker and for the past 20 years I have been trying dif- ferent physicians‘ but could get only temporary relief. Then I read an ar- ticle telling how some one had been cured by leaving off coffee and drink- ing Postum, and it seemed so pleasant just to read about good health I de- cided to try Postum in place of coffee. “I made the change from coffee to Postum and such a change there is in me that I don’t feel like the same per- son. We all found Postum delicious and like it better than coffee. My health now is wonderfully good. “As soon as I made the shift from coffee to Postum I got better and now all of my troubles are gone. I am fleshy, my food assimilates, the pres- sure in the chest and palpitation are all gone, my bowels are regular, have no more stomach trouble and my headaches are gone. Remember I did not use medicines at all—just left oft coffee and drank Postum steadily.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Send to the Co. for particulars by mail of the extension of time on the $7,500 cooks’ contest for 735 money prizes. STATE TO GE1 MONEY BACK. Spent to Put Soldiers in Field In the Spanish War. “The State of Minnesota will get back all that it paid out’to place its soldiers in the field at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war,” said the state auditor in regard to the dispatch from Washington that Minnesota's claim, amounting to $199,619, had been allowed only to the extent of $84,139, with $88,591 discllowed and $26,887 suspended. “The facts are that it cost the state in May, 1898, $143,164.34 to equip the troops and place them in the. field. This sum included the actual cost of equipment, the expense of, getting them to camp and what the state had in ordndnce and quartermaster’s sup- plies. “The legislature of 1899 appropri- ated $30,000 to pay the volunteer sol- diers of the national guard for the time spent at Camp Ramsey in St. Paul prior to the time they were mus- tered into the service of the United States, and this sum we hope to re- ceive in full under acts of congress and it is only a question of presenting them according to the forms specified by the war department. “In addition to the foregoing the state expended $23,780.20 for hospital trains and medical attendance to bring the sick soldiers back from camps at} Chickamauga and elsewhere. The state realized when this expenditure was made that there was no act of congress which provided for its repay- ‘ment. But Gov. Clough believed it to be just and proper, and had faith that | he common justice of the cause for} eimbursement from the national con- gress, and the disbursement was made, pnd an appropriation therefor will be | asked from congress. “Jt is really an error to say that so | Jarge a portion of cur claim has been disallowed. Some minor items have ‘been disallowed, but the amount re- ferred to as disallowed should be talled suspended. This is because the exact formalities in applying for the | ame have not been complied with in the presentation of the claim to the war department.” SANITORIUM TO OPEN IN A YEAR. | Minnesota State Institution for Con- sumptives. By this time*next year it is expected that the Minnesota sanitorium for consumptives will be ready to receive patients. The $25,000 appropriated by the last legislature is now available | and the advisory commission will be appointed by the governor and will, as soon as possible, select a site for the institution, which, as provided by the legislative act, must be near Walker, Cass county. The site will be selected officially by the board of control of state institutions, but it must be ap-| proved by the advisory commission. After the site has been decided upon the consideration of plans for the buildings will be begun. As in the matter of the site, the plans will be ac- cepted by the board of control after they have been approved by the ad- visory commission. The cost of the site and the buildings, ready for occu- pation, must not exceed $150,000. The institution will be managed by the state board of control, which will appoint a superintendent, and he will namt his employes. Those that are ‘unable to pay for the attention they receive will be admitted free upon the request of the county commissioners ‘of the county of which they are resi- dents, and the expenses of the patient | will be paid by that county. Only persons suffering from incipi- ent pulmonary tuberculosis shall be received as patients at the sanitorium. Homeopathic treatment ‘vided for those that desire it. So far among the states, Minnesota nd Massachusetts are about the only ones that have tried to do or have done anything to stop the ravages of a dis- ease which, if taken in time, is con- sijered curable or preventable. LOSES BIG VERDICT. Anton Schmidt Is Knocked Out the Second Time by the Supreme Court. For the second time the supreme court has dashed the hopes of Anton J. Schmidt, who was run into by a Great Northern traiu in Anoka county ‘and injured: In a per curiam decision handed down the second verdict is set aside and judgment ordered for the railway company. Schmidt first got a verdict for $5,000 and on appeal the supreme court granted a new trial. ‘This resulted in a $6,000 verdict, which jis set aside on the ground that the evidence showed contributory negli- gence on the part of the plaintiff. The supreme court js through work for the summer. All the April term cases have been decided but one, and the opinion in this case will not be handed down until October, when the court meets again. TO FINISH ALL DITCHES. The contract for the Good Hope ditch in Norman county was let by the ‘state drainage board to A. Amundson of St. Hilaire at his bid of 12 cents a cubic yard. Engineer Ralph says that fall the contracts for state ditches will be finished this season, making the first time in years that the work has been cleaned up. This,is made pos- sizle by the dry weather in the north, which has made work easy, and the contractors have been able to make a good profit. will be pro-| ROB STATE OF SWAMP LAND. Few Contests Are Filed by Real Home- steaders. The state auditor some time ago came to the conclusion that it was high time that drastic measures be test cases brought in the different United States land offices in Minnesota by persons attempting to file entries and secure the swamp lands under the United States laws. The number of these contests shows a tendency to increase, and the char acter of the cases fur good faith on the part of the contestants has not im- proved. It is more than suspected that the large majority of the persons who manifest such a seething desire to de- prive the State of Minnesota of a part of its swamp lands are mainly actu- ated by the same causes which led the commissioner of the general land office to suspend and cancel a large number of stone and timber entries in Minne- sota and other states. The honest and actual homesteader, it is believed, is but a small minority of these contest~ ants, probably not 5 per cent of the eases being of this character, while the large majority of the filings ad- verse to the state’s swamp land claim are made by parties who are interested in securing the land more on account | of its supposed value in timber and mineral than for the purpose of resid- ing thereon and establishing a home. This being the case, the state 1s naturally: anxious to reduce the num- per of such contests to a strictly legiti- mate basis, and while affording the honest settler every chance to make a home for himself, to put an end to the operations of a clique of speculators, | who, as soon as they have worked their filings through the land offices, turn their lands over to some lumber | concern, in whose employ, to all in- tents and purposes, the entrymen have | been, MINNESOTA HAS A GOOD YEAR. Financial Affairs Are in Excellent Con- dition. Minnesota has enjoyed a most pros- |perous year financially, and this will | be shown when the reports are made | public ina few days. The fiscal year ended Friday, and all the counties had paid up with the exception of St. Louis, Beltrami and Dakota, and all except St, Louis had reported their tax col- lections. It is too early for the state auditor to make 4 definite statement of the increase of the state’s business for the year, but enough is in hand to show that everywhere there is a surprising growth. The state tax levy last year was less and so was the amount collected | from direct taxes. There was a heavy | increase in property values, but not’ | sufficient to offset the amount taken away by the lower assessment rate. In the taxes received from railroad earnings and misvellaneous corporate taxes the state profited to an extent which makes good all that lost by low- er assessments. The state auditor has paid the state university claims in full, amounting to $68,672.97, and a balance bf about $3,000 is left to the credit of the fund. This payment includes many claims which have been standing for three months and longer. There hus been a noticeable increase in the registered tonnage of lake ves- sels the last year. The total tonnage | in the state now is 11,000, which is aw | increase of 2,000 more than last year.. From the general results thus far ascertained the state is found to be financially sound, and is keeping pace with the increasing expenditures de | manded by its progress. —— MONEY FOR SCHOOLS. State High School Board Will Have $493,000 in Addition to the $4 a Child. The state high school board will have $493,000 to distribute this year in addition to the $4 a school pupil. The high schools will get $217,000 of this, $10,000 will be distributed among schools for the special instruction in the common branches for the benefit of teachers, and villages maintaining high schools will get $79,000. The state superintendent is allowed to dis- tribute $167,000 among rural and semi- graded schools showing special excel- lence. Minnesota is a very liberal state in the encouragement of rural school de- velopment. _Its policy is to allow a district to establish a school and to extend aid according to the progress made. Good faith only is required on the part of the community. When this has been demonstrated the state will come forward with its aid in recogni- tion of the ‘special excellence shown. The annual meeting of the state high school board was held at the state university. SMALL COLLISION. 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