Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 30, 1905, Page 4

Sr Tare Re Published Every Saturday. By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A 2 YEAR IN ADVANCE Ratered in the Postoffice at Grand Rapid Minnesota, as Second-Class Matter, INsINUATIONS that are being thrown out by certain newspapers indicate that there 2s a suspicion of graft rela- tive to the drainage movement. Some body is afraid that somebody might have expenses prid while promoting the project. That would be too bad, pei ial BA tates Hon. J. M. MARKHAM, of Bemidji, died at Hot Springs, Ark, last Satur- day afternoon of Bright’s disease. Mr. Markham was for many years a promi- nent figure in the politics of this sec- tion. He served as sheriff of Aitkin county several terms and was elected to the state legislature from this dis- trict. cai ‘fue Mississippi Valley Lumberman, speaking editorially for the class it represents, is very much opposed to the proposed sale of the White Earth timber on the rsth of November, as advertised by the department. ‘The Lumberman is afraid the Indians will get the worst end of the deal if the sale is made at that time. ——— Gov. Jounson has appointed A. G. Bernard, of the Cass Lake Voice, as a delegate to the Upper Mississippi River Improvement Association con- vention, which will be held at La- Crosse, Wis., on October ro and 11. The other delegates from Minnesota are ex-Governor Van Sant and B. S, Beardsley, of St. Paul, ‘Tue Minneapolis Times printed its ewn obituary last Sunday and still lives. It appears from the evidence at hand that the Times entered the body of the Tribune and the two were to have been as one hereafter, but some ‘Times bondholders objected and the paper still retains a fraction of its individuality and hfe is not wholly ex- tinct, ——— Norway AND SWEDEN have got together and got apart without war. ‘The nght of Norway to secede has been recognized by Sweden and the affair will be amicably adjudicated. [bis arrangement suits the Herald- Review first-rate. Now if England would do the same by Ireland every- bedy would be happy—except the Irish. —— fen THREE pork packing conspirators have been fined $25,000 by Judge Humphrey of the United States Dis- trict Court at Chicago.. The culprits pleaded guilty to soliciting rebates from railroad companies. ‘They should have been sent to jail, also. What would it profit a man if he stole the whole sausage factory and thereby Jooseth his liberty? ‘These fat thieves like to run at large, eg oe AuTHOR of “Frenzied Fi- Thomas W. Lawson, takes a prophetic peep into the future of some men and says: “I make the solemn and positive assertion that before all the investigations are finished, before the sworn evidence of the financiers of the leading insurance companies in this country which have been. plun- dered 1s finished, there will be any- where from 100 to 150 men, now pos- ing us men of affairs, Wall street magnates and manipulators of insur- ance funds, doing tme in state prisons for terms varying from eight years to life.” THE nance,” ere ce J. Bryan has written another to Fresident Roosevelt. He says in part: “To President Roose- velt: Permit a passing word. You have the centest of your life before you, and I desire to render you all the assistance in my power, You have asked congress to enact a law so en- larging the powers of the interstate commerce commnssion as to permit it to fix and enforce a reasonable freight fate, and the railroad lobby was strong enough to stop in the senate the bill passed in the house, The railroad wiagnates expect to block the passage of the bill again, Stand by your guns, You have developed a reform element m the Republican party; you youst lead it or sufter the humiliation of seeing the leadership pass to some- one else. Go forward; you owe it to yourself, you Owe it to your party, and more than all, you owe it to your gowntry.” : letter TRAGEDY OF THE KLCNDIKE. Few Minutes’ Exposure to Intense Cold Is Fatal. Klondike river is fed by numerous soda springs and even the winter’s cold fails to close them entirely. Walking on the edge of the ice near the shore, a miner one day siipped into six inches of water. In a mo ment he was out and hastening to the brush hard by to light a fire before his feet froze. Rapidly he cut a few fragments of wood with his heavy pocket knife. But the unlighted match dropped from his already chill- ed fingers, for he had rashly removed his mittens in order to use the knire with more freedom. Then he lighted a second and a third, and finally sev- eral at one time, but either his haste or perhaps a sigh of the air caused them to fall to the snow, All tis time the frost was seizing his limbs, his body, his heart, his mind. He turned to the fatal mittens, which he never should have taken off, but his already frozen fingers could only lift them from the ice\ where they had fallen, and after a vain attempt he hurled them from him and strove once again to light a last match. But it was too late. DON’T WAIT TOO LONG. Time to Show Good Will and Sym- pethy Is Right Now. Too many people keep the flowers they have plucked for you until the day of your funeral. Their songs of praise are not heard until your pro- cession is passing their door. The mantle of charity does not become public property until put in use by the preacher who conducts the “last sad rites.” If a man has flowers for me, I want them while I am on earth and can smell their fragrance. They will do me no good sitting at the head of my coffin. The grass that is kept green about my last resting place will be of little avail to me on the other shore. Here is where I need the flowers and the smiles and the praise, not over there. If the fellow who is going round to the house after I am gone to see “if he can be of any help” will come round to-morrow, i can tell him how he can be a whole lot of help. Carry your flowers to the living and sing your songs of praise at the dinner table. Don’t wait for the funeral.—Liverpool (Eng.) Mer- eury. Where the Game Started. It was a beautiful spring morning early in the year 4004 B. C. (Ussher’s chronology). The ardent rays of the sun were diffracted and softened by the misty envelope which at that time protected the earth. Everywhere were signs of life and merriment. Suddenly there was a crescendo whis- tling sound as of a body moving rapid- ly through the atmosphere and some strange-shaped foreign object landed on the mossy turf with a dull, sicken- ing thud. Presently, however, Satan (for it was indeed he) sat up and rubbed himself. He recovered his wind and said: “Alas, my graft scheme wasn’t popular up there, but TT eat my shirt if I don’t make it per- féetly respectable on earth.” Then he got busy in the garden and was doing nobly until the magazines got on his trail. Tale of Kanaka Brutality. This tale comes from New Cale- donia, where a ship was loading up with natives to work in Australia: “There was a man and a girl—a young couple, they seemed. She had a youngster, who began yelling at sight of the boat. ‘Can’t take that young- ster!’ the boss shouted. The woman said she wanted to come, too. ‘No, we can’t ship that squalling little beast. Leave him with his auntie.’ There was no auntie in sight.» So the Kanaka man, after taking’ a look around, caught the kiddy by the heels, swung her around like a rabbit and dashed her head against a tree. ‘She was only a girl anyway,’ he said, and slung her body into the scrub. Then they both hopped into the boat and were shipped aboard.” Why He Wept. During the funeral of one of. the Rothschild family in Paris a beggar was noticed standing among the on- lookers sobbing bitterly. A bystander touched by the man's grief, endeavor- ed to comfort hfm. “Do not weep so bitterly my poor friend,” he said. “See, even his relatives are able to restrain their grief more than you are doing.” Then, as a new idea struck him: “Surely, you are no re- lation of M. de Rothschild?” “N—no,” sobbed the beggar. “That is just why I am so unhappy.”—T. P.’s Weekly. A Song of the Way. Give me the road, the sent broad road, That wanders over the hill; Give me a heart without a care And a free, unfettered will— Ah, thus to wander, thus to fare, With only the sky to frown, a= happy I, if the ways but lie Away, away from the town. Give me the path, the wildwood path, That wanders deep in a dell, Where silence sleeps and sunbeams fain ‘Would waken the slumber spell— For there the find the world again, Immortals of ancient lore, And time is gone, and a mad-glad faun Knows the glades of Greece once more. —Thomas 8S. Jones, Jr. Claim of Vegetarians. Vegetarians contend that flesh-eat- ing is not only immoral—immoral be- cause it necessitates the wantan tak- ing of inoffensive life—but also ex- travagant, for whereas twelve acres of land, if used for the rearing of cat- tle for slaughter, will maintain one man feeding on the flesh produced, the same area under wheat will main- tain twenty-three, and on a mixed crop of fruit, pulse, grain and vege- | tables a still higher number, f COSTLY HATS FOR MEN. Grant’s $1,500 Mexican Som. brero Still Holds Record. “Talimng about expensive hats,” said a prominent hat. dealer, “the most costly hat that was ever made was presented to Gen. Grant. while in Mexico in 1882. It cost $1,500 in gold. It is now in the national museum at Washington, says.the New York Press. “Panama hats used to be frequently sold as high as $500 each. ° I remem- ber selling four hats at that price in a single day in 1872, but such hats are no lorger to be obtained. The most expensive panama I have sold in years was bought by a banker of this city last week for $100. It was the last fine panama hat in stock. Such hats are still worn by the hidalgos in South America. They are not made in Panama, but got the name because that city was formerly the greatest market for them. The finest hats come from Peru. They are made of the fiber of the pita or pineapple plant, which is as soft and pliable as silk, and some of them are so fine that they can be folded up and carried in one’s vest pocket.” Gen. ORIGIN OF WORD BONFIRE. Expression Most Probably Dates Back to Druidic Days. Was “bonfire” originally written “bone-fire” and were “bone-fires” an- ciently so called from the burning of the martyrs? This is one theory of the origin of the word. From ancient times bonfires have formed a striking part of the celebration of St. John’s eve, or Midsummer eve, June 24, which was cbserved with similar rites in every country in Europe. Fires were kirdled in the streets and mar- ket places of the towns. The young people leaped over the flames. or threw flowers and garlands into them with merry shoutings and songs and dances. A heathen origin is believed to be indicated by these acts. A writer says: “On the whole it seems prob- able that the ¢ruidic fires, round which it was considered lucky to leap and dance on the occasion of the stm- mer solstice, were built up of contri- butions brought by every one who wanted to secure his luck for the com- ing year, and so bonfire is really’a boon-fire.” Rode Too Fast for Tiger. Because he could ride a_ bicycle faster than a tiger could follow a priest tn India recently escaped an unpleasart death. The Rev. Father Froger was riding quietly along the road when he saw what looked like a tiger sitting on a rock on the bare hillside above him. Says a report: “As he watched, the fact that it was a tiger became apparent and to Father Froger’s horror it suddenly bounded straight down the hillside and madé for him. There was a slight incline in his favor in the road and he cycled for his life until the upward grade be- came too steep and he had to get off, Apparently the beast did not pursue after he had lost sight of the cyclist, but the unprovoked attack is in it self an unusual occurrence.” The Contented Man. Contented? What makes him contented? The comforts, the struggles have gained, Which men discontented invented, The safety. that fighters obtained. Content in the mire would still wallow, With troglodytes huddled in caves, Or find in a tree's ready hollow The shelter an animal craves. Content hinders progress and action And cultivates fgnorant sloth, Counts study a sort of distraction, And pities the follies of both. Content maketh freemen dependent, And fastens the shackles on slaves. Its motion is ever descendent. To ditches and paupers’ sad graves. But the reverent. hearty submission To Deity’s footstool men_ bring, After toiling with lttle fruition, Is @ different, maniter thing. Herbert. Oniversalists Convention at Minneapolis, Minn. On account of the Universalist Gen- eral Convention at Minneapolis to be held October 19, 25, the Great Norths ern will sell ticketsat one and one third fares for the round trip on_the certificate plan. See C.L. FRYE, agent, for particulars. Lost—Watch fob, August 29. The finder please call at First State bank. Reward. For Sale—one range stove, six hds; one dresser, chairs, dining tabie. Apply at this office. Hage of Grand Rapids. Smal! Cost—Big Results. lf you havea farmto sell or ex- ehange.for city property. homes to dispose. of—in fant anything to buy, sell or exchange, send a lithle wantad tothe Duluth Evening Heraid sand | receive the benelit of the wide c Jation of the best and most popular newspaper at the Head of the Lakes. Every day big deals are made as a re- sultof a little want ad in the Duluth | Herald. The cost is Wut one cena} word. Try it. Pride soap 1s the ideal medium for laundry purposes. Are you using il? | Wanted—Woman cook at Brook- ; ston. Call on or address the Sher man bowe, rogestc PEE ROR Minn. j= Dr. Cy Cy. Larson, BY the well known eye} specialist will be at Hotel Pokegama, Grand Rapids, Tuesday and Wedsday September 26 and 27. Dr. Larson measures errors of vision with the new system Retinoscopy by which the | errors of vision to be corrected with glasses, Can be measured without as- sistance or ability of the patient. Have your glasses fitted to your eyes now and avoid the dangerous mistake of improperly fitted glasses. Notice ot Dissolution of Partnership. Notice is hereby given that the partnership heretofore existing be: tween Peter Foley and Williain Quackenbush, undr the tirm name of Quackenbush & Foley, retail dealers iu wines, liquors and ars, in the vib va county, y mutual Minnesota, was diss consent on Saturday d day of September, 1905. The said Wu Quackedbush will continue the b ness, assuming all liabilities of said firm cf Quackenbush & Foley and col- lecting all aceounts due said tirm. Dated at Grand Rapids, Minn., Sept- ember 4th, ai A. B. CLAIR, Mineral Pine ana Farming Lands Pine Stumpage Bought. ABSTRACTS OF ‘TITLE. GRAND RAPIDS, MINNESOTA. Special Offer 50 lbs of Granulated--o ‘$1.50 Write for special, price listto Duluth Wholesale Supply House 102-104 W. Mich. Stu. ITASCA COUNTY ABSTRACT OFFICE ABSTRACTS, REAL ESTATE, FIRE INSURANCE, Conveyances Drawn. Taxes Paid for Non-Residents, KREMER & KING, Proprietors. GRAND RAPIDS, - Dulth MINN. When You Want | Confectionery Ice Cream Or most anything else in the line of -luxeries, go to oa oa Ff ao MILLERS It on Fourth Street in the building formerly occupied as : a Bowling Alley. Soft Drinks, All the Best Brands of Cigars, Smokers Articles, Etc. Winchester FACTORY LOADED SMOKELESS POWDER SHOTGUN SHELLS Géod shells in your gun mean a good bag in the field or a good score at the trap. Leader” Smokeless Powder Shells are good shells. Always sure-fire, always giving an. even spread of shot and good penctration, their great superiority is testified to by sports- men who use Winchester Factory Loaded Shells in preference to any other make. PALL DEALERS KEEP THEM and “Repeater” The Herald-Review For Up-to-date Printing gecsaeceseesescveseses ascscssseses SSP SBSTSE SMSS.: CVESM y i Say. Pa, Why Don’t f You Buy “The Me- HH SISLSLSOL ps SVSVSESIS! SLO“ SLSLSLVSLSLS2S LE: nomjnee Seamless” Sensibie boy, that. He made a bull’s eye when he spoke. We make shoes which put the corn- cure dealers on theranxious seat. We cure corns by fitting the feet scientifically. The best way to cure corns is to prevent heir growth in the first place. The Menominee Seamless Union Made Shoe 1s easy-to- wear, easy-to-buy, easy-to-sell, For Sale Ry # J. 8. XURTZMAN, The Shoe Man TO RIPS= NOE TT FEET, f 3 GUARANTEED TOT OUF WEAR Grand Rapids Mnnesoa ANY SHOE ON THE MARKET. SLSLSVSS: NNN NT SSSVSSENENESCS 5s ‘ ai } Pioneer Meat Market, REMOVAL ANNOUNCEMENT Having purchased the Meat and Provision Market of J. F. Metzger and moved into the building formerly occupied by Mr. Metzger, opposite the Postoffice, I wish to call the attention of old and new customers to the fact that I will be better prepared than ever before \¥ to serve the public with everything in my line. of the two markets should naturally increase my business, and with this a in view I am prepared to meet the demand. I also wish to thank the peopie of Grand Rapids and _ vicinity for their liberal patronage in the past and will assure them that the ¢ est Goods will always be in stock and prompt service rendered. THOMAS FINNEGAN, OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE. LELAND AVENUE, The consohdation . ee fein SHAS SSONPHSSSSSHCSCESS SOSH SSH THSS Soe Tse Si AB Favorite Resort dd Rapids. | de chads oDesdshashe dcobeshecbsehcobcadssbsbsshaiheele de che she shea enna is RR AE HE A AE AE AE EAE AR ee ae a a Heh ame a a a ae a a SS HD eS EE SS for refreshments and where may be seen and heard one of the largest phonograpbs in the world is at THE: NORTHERN SAMPLE ROOM. Cabinet Rye Whiskey We handle the finest whiskeys ever distilled. NORTHERN In connection—Ope Day and Night. Season served at all hours. OTTO RANFRANZE, Chef, a most delightful beverage always in stock—we are Agent for it an Grand CAFE e All Delicacies of the is PHSCOS ISHS STSS OSSS BEES “aA IS HERE AT LAST The Famous Beer of Wm, J. Lemp is now on the Market in Grand Rapids and is sold by Ww. C. TYNDALL Call up 180 and Order a Case. LEMP’S IS PERFECTION