Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 1, 1905, Page 5

Published Every Saturday. By E. C. KILEY. £2 DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Butere? in the Postotfice at Grand Rapid Minvexota, 28 Seeond-Class Matter, RveERY newspaper in the state has noted the first thunderstorm of the year and nearly every one has been seeing bluebirds, remarks News and Commeut. Has any of the brethren seen snakes? Don’Vall speak in con- cert. We'll record: the report one at a Lime. ee Tue Herald-Review: will admitthat in times past it has consented to give a nominal support to vogabonds who bad the audacity eto aspere to politi- cal position when it appeared neces- sary to do 80 for the good of the party This is a humiliating confession, but it is true of nearly all partisan news- papers. ‘To do otherwise would some- times prove disastrous. Whatever the conditions, however, and what- ever the consequences may be, the Herald-Review proposes to strike a pirate whenever one pokes his- head } above the surface in. Itasea county. We haye several on our note: book who have aspired in the past aud who have aspirations for the future. No latter what the party, no matter how powerful or how pvuor the man, all will be treated alike. 0+ A Wi Lp and wouly story was sent out the other day from. Bimidji and published in the Mirneapolis Tribune which tells of the thrilling experi- ences of Editor Greeley of the Big Fork Compass, and F. L. Maylor, a homesteader in Campbell townsnip, The narrator is very Itasca county. every detail, and yet the Herald-Review believes him to be one of the most imaginary string fiends that ever filled newspaper space with tropical atmosphere. The editor and his compauion were float- ing down the Big Fork river after a visit to their respective claims when suddenly came upon a hugh moose standing in the middle of the stream to relieve himself from the specific in they torture of flies. Flies on ‘the Big Fork inthe mouth of March! But that is not theclimax. The two gen- tlemen were in danger of being swept over a falls just below to almost cer- tain death. ‘bey hooked ento the antlers Of his: majesty, Mr. Moose, steered up him agai a jagged rock and there became so entangled that was escape muose or wen, and there tbe trio. re- mained all night. They were re- jeased by a cruiser_in the morning. Greely, stand up and explain while Annias takes bis. place at the foot of impossible fer cither Ube class. ——e Sustains the Veto. If the Republicans in the state legislature have not Jost their senses. of the expedient along with their senses of the decent, they will per- wit the discredited. Herton. bill. to Urop quietly iato oblivion. Gov. Johnsop has yetoed it, as be was-sure todo. He would have deficient ina sense of what is owing to his office could he have done otherwise. The bill was conceived for the pur- pose of shifting a certain amount of patronage from the executive office to the legislature because the present executive happens to be a Democrat. The whole idea has been repudiated by the people of the state at large with unmistakable disgust. There eught now to be an end of it. Not the governor alone, but every ether state official and every man with a proper pride in. his state should resent the motion that all the offices of the state are tenanted merely by their occupants-on suffer- auce of a body known as the capitol commission. The position is idiotic. The new capitol. is- the. home of the state, and should not only be occupied but cared for by. the state through ils proper representative. Not only should it not be turned. over té the capitol commission indefinitely, but that body, which. is entitled to and has received full credit for the good work that it has done, should not be allowed for one moment longer .to exercise functions foreign to purpose of its creation. Its business shouid be to complete the capitol at the earliest possible date. It should be the business of the executive to care for it. Even in this short time. the absurd arguments by which it was'sought at the beginning to give some peor ex- euse for the Horton bill have been made ridiculous. With the capitol | commissiun ‘in change, the building has been wore or leys: defaged. The commission is not a whit more able or more desirous to prévens this than would ve the governor or those whom he might appoint for quty. The suggestion that he makes for a pro- per maintenance fund: and authority to appoint a superintendent, are rational and right. ‘Tbe legislature was origually taken by surprise when it passed this petty scheme concocted secretly by a few men who meant well but did not know, and a number of o hers who did know and meant ill. The whole disgraceful proceed- ing has. wow been advertised for what itis. The scheme to strip the gov- ernor’s office temporarily of powers and duties justly belonging to it, io the bope that by the time these are restored a Republican may occupy. ti, bas been rejected. and condemned by all our people except wretched and pur-blind persons. ‘The best thing forthe Republican party. as well as for the credit of the state, is to sustain the veto and passa. brief act embodying the recommendations of Gov. Johnson; which are wholly with- out personal reference, and intended merely Lo save to executive office the dignity and honor that rightfully be- long vo it. Republican Populism. Editor Greely of the Big Fork Compass, was a Populist down in Missouri befure he drifted north, and} at one time, as the story goes, he was a candidate for the state legis- lature on that ticket. Is he still thinking. of- his old love when he writes the following? Perhaps: ‘The populist party of. yesterday is the republican party of today. Listen to the purple-veined Republican lead- ers and editursas they rail against the trusts, as they advocate goverment ownership. of railroads and public control uf private: enterprises! Hear Republican editors and teachers curse the U.S. senators, whom they selected and elected when they knew said senators were the hired covlies of corporatiuns and the watch dogs of the money power! What means this sudden roar and squeal? Have our big men gone mad, or are they begin- ning to see the danger pictures which Ignatius Donnelly painted twenty years ago? This sudden plea for the rights of the people againsu the greed of corporations— is itthe result of the teachings of Bryan, or the influ- ence of our first reform president since Lincoln? Or is this Republican war cry the growth of a fear that socialism. is becoming powerful? We know not. We only know that the Republicanisin. of today looks fear- fully like the Populism: of ten years ago. Massie eS It Singeth Low In: Every Heart. it _singeth low in every heart, We hear it each and all— A song of those whe answer not, However we may call; They throng the silence of the breast, We see them as of yore— The kind. the brave, the true, the sweet Who walk with us no more. 'Tis hard to take the burden up ‘When these have laid it down; They brightened all the joy of life, They softened every frown; But. oh, ‘tis good to think of them ‘When we are troubled sore! Thanks be to God that such have been, Although they are no more. More homelike seems the vast unknown Since they have entered there; To follow them were not so hard, Wherever they may fare; They cannot be where God is: not, On any sea or shore; 2 Whate’er betides, Thy love abides, Our God. for evermore. F John White Chadwick. Energy Expended in. Coughing. A patient German scientist of a sta- tistical. turn of mind calculates that the amount of energy expended by a person who coughs once every quar- ter of an hour for ten hours is equiva- lent to 250 units of heat or the nour- ishment yielded by three eggs or two glasses of milk. Coughing is. thus. seen to be an expensive luxury. The reason for the waste in force entailed by it. or one reason at least, lies in the fact: that while in normal respira- tion the air is expelled from the chest at the rate of four feet a second, in violent coughing it may attain a velocity of 300 feet. Keeps Customers in Line. A Watervile barber has a unique contrivance in his shop. It is a large erunciator about two and one-half feet in diameter and works on the same principle as the date indicator on the face of a clock. The numbers run from one to forty. The idea is that when a man goes in he takes a card from a spindle on a stand by the door and every time a chair is empty the barber presses the electric button and the indicator moves up a number. When a man’s number rings up he ‘takes his turn.—Lewiston (Me.) Jour- nal. Horses in Battle. Arabian horses show remarkable courage in battle. It is said that when a horse of this breed finds him- self wounded, and knows instinctively that he will not be able to carry his rider much longer, he quickly retires, bearing his master to a place of safe- ty while he has yet sufficient strength. But if, on the other hand, the rider Is wounded and falls to the ground, the NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA. Great Conqueror Bitterly Resented: Banishment to. isiand. \ What Napoleon thought of his. ban- ishment to St. Helena may be gath- ered from the following protest: “The idea of it is a perfect horror to me. To be placed for life on an island within the tropics, at an im- mense distance from any land, cut off from all communication with the world and everything that I hold in it! —c’est pis que’le cage de fer de Tam- erlan, (It is worse shan Tamerlane’s cage.) I would prefer being deliy- ered up to the Bourbons. Among oth- er insults,” said he—“but that is a mere bagatelle, a very secondary con: sideration—they style. me general! They can have no right to call me general; they may as well call me archbishop, for I was head of the church as well as the army. If they do not acknowledge me as emperor, they ought as first consul; they have sent ambassadors to me as such; and your king, in his le-ters, styled me brother. Had they ><:fined me in the Tower of London, or one of the fort- resses in England (though not what I had kcped from the generosity of the English people), 1 should not have so much cause for complaint; but to banish me to an island within the tropics! They might as well have signed my death warrant at once, as it is impossible a man of my habit of body can live long in such a climate.” —“The Surrender,” by Admiral Mait- land. , LIKE ANY OTHER. TEA. Nothing Wonderful in Mixture That Brought About. Revalution. A little Western gir) visiting Boston for the first time was told that the museum actually contained’ some of the historic tea that was thrown into Boston harbor in 1773. Nothing else in Massachusetts so appealed to the little maid’s imagina- tion, and she straightway became in- tensely desirous of seeing the article that had made so much treuble and about which she had heard so much in school. An obliging uncle under- took to gratify this modest wish, but was greatly surprised at the outcome. As the child gazed at the famous relic, her eyes slowly filled and finally overflowed with tears. “Why, my dear!” exclaimed the as- tonished uncle. “What in the world is the trouble?” “It 1-l-looks like any other old tea,” sobbed the disappointed little girh— The Sunday Magazine. Failacy Regarding Bread. The fallacy that the whiter the bread the higher iis quality, seems to prevail all over the world, and the cemands for snow ite flour have been answered by the production of a flour which is robbed of considerable of its, nutritive value. There are vari- ous ways of accomplishing this object, but the newest and most novel pro- eess for that purpose comes from France. Here the dough has been treated with ozonized air, and the effect was that while the bread was much whiter than the untreated the quality of the bread was very much impairéd. Both the taste and the amount of nourishment were very much inferior. Children. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food. Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into wood— That to the world are children; Through them it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate That reaches the trunks below, Come to me. O ye children! And whisper in my ear What the birds and winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings And the wisdom of the books When compared with your caresses And the gladness of your looks? Ye are better than ail the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. —Longfellow. Worry Too Much About Health. Most sincerely to be pitied is the man who looks at his tongue every. morning and keeps a clinical ther- mometer. But it is quite certain that the number of such folk is increas- ing. The most to be commiserateJ weigh their food, observe their ton- gues in the glass every morning, and carry pepsin powders. They avow that this and the other article of diet al- ways upsets them, as it certainly will if they expect it to do so. Nine out of ten of these good folk have just as good digestion as. anyone can ask for—A Physician in the Pall Mali Gazette. Helping Others. To help those less fortunate than themselves. should be the coveted pleasure of those favored of fortune. There is no happiness equal to that enjoyed through making others happy. The sunlight we cast into other lives concentrates its rays, reflecting back in brighter, purer force. We cannot sift out or investigate every case of need. hut we can take it for granted that truth has been told us and extend a helping hand for humanity’s sake. — Exchange. The “Alms Cow.” A eurious custom still holds good in the village of Waddesdon, in Buck- inghamshire, England, where, on any morning or evening of the year, you can claim a free drink of new milk from a cow specially kept for the benefit of thirsty wayfarers. This ani- faithful animal remains beside him | ma) ig known locally as the “alms cow,” and when she dies another has to be provided by the parish authori- ties. unmindful of danger, neighing: usti? assistance is brought. re, Oe Lae eg geal —n Oe 1 \ GIN BELOW THE VINEGAR. Sailors’ Smart Trick Deceived Officers: for a Month. While on the China station in 1886 the master-at-arms’ mess on the U. 8S. S. Omaha was in a drunken and de- moralized condition for several. weeks. Try as he might, the captain could not discover where the liquor was com- ing from. Finally all shore liberty was stopped, but the drunkenness did not cease. On the morning of sailing, while the executive officer was near the port gangway watching the taking in of stores, he asked what was in a large demijohn that came over the side with boxes and packages. He was told that it was vinegar. He | pulled the cork and sniffed it. It was vinegar. ‘Then his attention was at- tracted by ibe tag, marked “master- at-arms’ mess,” and remarking that the mess must be using vinegar for bathing, as he had already seen the same demijohn brought aboard twice within that week, he ordered the offi- cer of the deck to inspect it carefully and taste it. He did; it was vinegar. That officer, bowever, noticed. that the jug had an unusually long neck. He poured out a small quantity of vine- ger and discovered an. extra cork in the bottom of the neck. Below that were three gallons of gin. The vine- gar between the corks had served te deceive the inspecting officer at the gangway for a month. DUE TO FASHION’S CAPRICE. Artificial Flowers Had. Their Origin in italian. Festival. Fashion is responsible for many in- ventions. This is the case with the manufacture of artificial floxers, for the demand was due to a caprice of | fashion. In Italy during festival time it was decreed that flowers should be worn in and out of their season and that their color should be retained. Many plans for solving the pxoblem were brought forward and at last some one hit upon the idea of making them of various materials which would re semble the real flowers. Later, in the middle ages, the artificial so far super- seded the natural that both men and women decked their heads with imi- tation flowers of cambric, glass, pa- per, wax and metal. The most beau- tiful -artificial blossoms are made in Paris, an@ their making is one of the chief industries of that city. Why Gambling Was Prohibited. in England. as in Rome, gambling was prohibited, not because it demor- alized, but because it rendered its devotees effeminate. An act passed in 1541 had in view the double object of “maintaining the artillery and debar- ring unlawful games.” An act passed during the reign of Queen Anne de | clared that all bends or other securi- ties given for money won at play or money. lent at the time to play with should be utterly void and all mort- geges or incumbrance en lands made on the same consideration should be made over to the use of the mort- gagor. This ccntinued to be the law until 1845. fe Ss eRe Curious. Facts of Napoleon |. A recently. discovered manuscript written by a schoolmate of Napoleon I., whose name was H. A. L. de Cas- tres, contains curious information re- garding Napoleon in the years of 1780 te 1784. When he entered the Mili- tary school at Brienne he knew so little of the French language that a | private teacher of Tt had to be en- | gaged for him. He was tolerably good in mathematics, and had an amazing memory. He liked to play rebbers or war with the boys, but eared little for ball playing or other games. A “Dark” Romance. A young native woman, attractive, and, for a negress, good looking, a few years. ago nearly caused. war in Western Africa between two chiefs, each of whom wanted to marry her. As trouble seemed imminent, a white officer intervened, and married the girl to a native civil servant. Would that-end the matter? “I believe she has common sense,” said the official. There has been no trouble since, and to-day the dusky beauty in-the case, commercially inclined, has a good business at taking in washing! The Experiment. A million years ago the chemist old Fused, in his. furnace, many potent Fiend pelde: ‘rea’ hidea Tincture pride, re: jood, ~ ne dered gold. i eas Anger, and pride, and dust of broken wings, And laughter, and the salt of unshed tears. Sun-rays and moon-sheen from the skies above. And courage in full measure: Down the years He spilled the mixture—and we cail it Love. e —Munsey’s. Saw No Joy in the Kiss, Kissing seems to have attractions even these many centuries after it originated, and not a few have been the toasts upon this art of osculation, of which a good New England divine once said: “I never can understand why people kiss; it seems to me not only a purposeless, but a disgusting habit.” Evidently this sentiment was that of Dean Swift, who wrote: “Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing!” Bishop Brooks and: Matrimony. The late Phillips Brooks, being a bachelor, was greatly annoyed by receiving offers of marriage from women all oyer the country. One wom- an told him that she had fortune at his disposal if he would accept her hand and heart. 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