Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 30, 1905, Page 6

Published Every Saturday. By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEA IN ADVANCE Entered in the Postoffice at Grand Rapid Munnesota, as Second-Class Matter, THE PUPPET HOUSE. As forecasted by the Herald, tne opening of congress was marked by the usual submission of the members of the house of representatives to the rule of autocracy. The rules of the last house were adopted, and the re- elected speaker’ became’the house of representatives, while the men elected by the people to transact their pub- lic business became “an edifying :col- lection of puppets that will dance when the ruler of the house pulls the string. PS True, the minority leader, Joho Sharp Williams, protested, but the minority is still more. inconspicuous than it was in’ the fifty-eighth con- gress, and bis protest, was necessarily perfunctory and ineffectual. 3 The spectacle was presented of some of the majority members, in- cluding one or two from Minnesota, greedily eating small crdmbs from the speaker’s table, proud and happy as children over new toys >with the privilege, extended graciously by his eminence, the speaker, of making some routine motions and acting on some routine committees. Under the rules, the speaker and his committee on rules’will say what measures shall be. considéred’ aad: The speaker.wilk each morn- ing lay down upon’ -his‘desk a listof those who will be .recognized apd of the business that shall,be done, The members of coagress will .sit about, yrateful for such recognition as:the when. speaker while the speakér cdnducts. ‘the -dusi- ness Gf.the house. . , so Why not let, these. Tepresentayives of the people go. home and build fences, since their presence is ‘no longer necessary~in ,Washington?— Duluth Herald. fa PRESERVING ‘ SURVEY MARKS The. United’ States Steel corpora- tion has a surveying force out on the range locating old’ section corners. for twelve miles east of Laprairie river to a point east of ‘the:Arcturus mines, or almost to Snowball. «It is probable that the work willbe prosecuted along the same line ovér the rest of Itasca county’s share of the Mesaba range, probably beyond that. 4 When the government. survey of this section was made the engineers planted their. marks, mostly wooden stakes surrounded by bearing trees at certain specified distances from the corner stake, when the country was crude. Especially when the marks were still new there was no difficulty in locating these corners, but after the lumbermen have been through and cut off the tmber the signs are invaviably obliterated—oft-times _ intentionally— either by a logging road being: built over the various: corners, or a brush fire being built so. as.to destroy the marks, or otherwisé:. _ At any rate, it is the Case in many instances that the corners are hard to find. In this in- stance there is no exception to the general rule.. Owing tothe fact that thesteel company’s interests are largely in land they are having the work of finding the cornets done by a compe- tent body of engineersjand cruisers, George A,-Fay, whois one of the company’s engineer corps, has the work in‘hand and has been at it with a crew of men for several months. Mr. Fay says there is considerable difficulty. experienced in finding the corners, it having. taken as much as three days to find some of the corners. Once the corner found; a standard brass cap monument is supplied for the stake, and a photograph of the same istaken. It is probable that the whole record of it.will be filled in the county surveyor’s office and made a part of the county’s records. Contract Work. 100 cords of wood to haui, quire of J.-S. Gole.. -; In- Logging Outfit For ‘Sale. George H.. Price» has arriyed from Minneapolis and: may be seen at the Hotel Pokegama’ by~ parties who wish to purchase ‘any part of -his logging outfit. rit os The highest cash price paid for raw fur. i may concede, and - make. speeches to be. printed and sent howe, | POISON IN THE EGG. May Sometimes Be. Infected Before They are Laid. “Bggs may be pofsonous even before they are laid,” is the cheerful state- ment made by’Prof. Metchnikoff of the Pasteur institute, in the witness box. The whites may contain disease-breed- ing microbes. These, when heated, survive in a vegetative state up to 60 degrees centigrade’ or 140 degrees Fahrenheit. Consequently a raw or even partly cooked egg, however ‘resh, / may always be poisonous, owing. to the poisonous presence of iively bacilli in the white and contain- ed therein from the very beginning. The professor’s evidence, writes the Paris correspondent of the London Telegraph, was given in a case be- fore the first-chamber, in which a pastry cook is being sued by twenty- five persons who had been made very {ll by, eating some of his cream tarts, and by the heirs of a twenty-sixth who died of it. Official experts, sup- ported by M. Metchnikoff, stated at the first hearings of the case that it is utterly impossible ever to. make sure that whipped cream containing white of an egg unbojled shall be innocuous, however fresh the egg, for the above reasons. ees rain SaaS FIRST TO ROLLER SKATE. Belgian Inventor Credited with Inven-— tion of Pastime. Roller skating is older than most folk imagine. Joseph Merlin, a Bel- gian born in 1735, a.clever, inventive fellow, came tO London in 1760 and exhibited his novelties at a museum in Spring Gardens, and afterward in Prince’s street, Hanover square. Hav- ing made a pair of skates to run on wheels, he appeared with them at a masked ball given by Mrs. Cornelys in Carlisle Howse, Soho. He was duly invited to display his skill. Having put-on the skates he took a violin and began whirling about to his own mu- sic. One thing he had not studied, however, and that was how to guide himself and’to stop quickly, and the result was that before the perform- ance had lasted any time he dashed into.an immense mirror valued at $2,500, smashed his fiddle to-bits and seriously injured himself. That ap- pears to have dampened the spirit of inventors, for we hear nothing of other wheel: skates for, nearly half a century, ; Strong .Men_ Together. Comrades, pour the wine to-night, For the parting is with dawn, %; Oh, the clink of caps together, x ‘With the daylight coming on! H - Greet the morn . ‘With a Souble horn, ‘When ‘strong men. drink together! Cemrades; gird’ your swords to-night ont ee aah of in ag fowether e clash of shie! A ; With the taiumph coming on!’'"' ‘ : Greet.the foe And tay him low, When strong men fight together. i Comrades, watch. the tides to-night, For the sailing is with dawn. F Oh, to face the spray together, <4 ‘With the tempest coming onl : Greet the Sea , ith a shout of glee, ‘When strong men roam together, Comrades, give a cheer to-night, For the dying is with dawn: Oh, to meet the stars together, ‘With the sflence coming on! Far Greet the end As a friend.a friend When strong men die together.. ~Richard Hoyey, in. ‘'Comrades.” Warranted a Speedy Cure. . Dr. William Osler, in one of his Bal-- timoré lectures, recited a quaint old cure for the gout—a cure, from a@ sev- enteenth century medical work, that was designed to show gout’s hopeless- ness. “First pick,” said this odd cure, “g handkerchief from the pocket of a spinster who never wished to wed; second, wash the handkerchief in an honest miller’s pond; third, dry it on the hedge of a person who never was covetous; fourth, send it to the shop of a physician who never killed a pa- tient; fifth, mark it with a lawyer’s ink who never cheated a client; and, sixth, apply it,. hot, to the gout-tor- mented part. A speedy cure must fol low.” Plant Drugs the Fish. A writer in the National Geograph: fecal Magazine tells of a tree. growing in the Maiay archipelago, the Anda- man islands and Ceylon, which pro- duces a fruit used in fishing, with re- sults of a remarkable character. The fruit is pounded.up into paste and leit in bags over night, after which it is sunk at low tide in deep holes along the reefs. The fish soon begin to ap- pear at the surface; some of them life- less, others attempting to swim or faintly struggling, with their ventral side uppermost. In this condition, the natives have no difficulty in picking them out of the water with their hands. Origin of Birds’ Names. Certain birds get their names from St. Peter. According to a writer: “The petrel (in German ‘Petersvogel,’ Pe- ter’s bird), a bird that skims the waves, is named after the apostle who walked upon the waves of Galilee. But the parrot’s is a less simple case. In Spain and in Portugal, as in France, the word corresponding to ‘parrot’ al- most certainly represents ‘little Peter’ —a familiar name playfully applied because Peter was 80 common a Chris tian name. Similarly a house sparrow is nicknamed ‘pierrot’ in France.” SS The Lover’s. Preference. “your every tooth is a milk-white pearl,” tenderly whispered the lover fond. And softly laughed the win- some girl when the moonlight caught in her-tresses.blonde. His lips neared hers, but before they met in a kiss, the rest of the world forgetting, “You the small co- ” he replied, 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 slipped into six ip of water. In a mo ment he 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 knife with more freedom. Then he lighted @ second and a third, and finally sév- eral at one time, but either his haste or perhaps a sigh of the air caused them to fall to the snow. All this time the frost was seizing his Nmbs, his body, his heart, his mind. He turned to the fatal mittens, which he never should have taken off, but his 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 {t was too late. DON’T WAIT TOO LONG. ? Time to Show Good Will and Sym pathy Is Right Now. : Too many people keep the flowers they have plucked for you -until: the day of your funeral. cession is passing their. door. 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 walt for the funeral.—l.iverpool (Eng.) Mer cury. i 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 timp ‘| protected. ‘the’‘eatth, Everywhere’ Were signs of life and’ mérritven| tling sound as of a body movtng faptd- ly through the atmosphere.and some strange-shaped foreign object’ janded ing thud. Presently, however, Satan (for it was indeed he) sat up ‘and rubbed himself, Hé recovered his wind and said: “Alas, my. graft scHeme wasn’t. popular up there,’ but I'll eat my shirt if I don’t make it per fectly 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. 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 sald, and slung her body into the scrub. Then they both hopped jnto 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. lodkers sobbing bitterly. A bystander touched ‘by the man’s grief, endeavor- ed to comfort him: ““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 ts just why I am so unhappy.”—T. P.’s Weekly. A Song of the Way. Give me the road, the great broad ‘That wanders over the hill; Give me a heart without a care And a free, unfettered wil— Ah, thus to wander. thus to fare, i nd happy I. e ways le ¥ Away, away from the town. Give me the path. the wildw That Peuntiony deep in a aoe pee ‘Where silence sleeps and sunbeams fain oe oe sree CaP By ed anya ‘or 1e] again, immortals of ancient lore And time e, and a mad-; Knows the ay of Greece ae Sie ; —Thomas 8. Jones, Jr. road, Claim of Vege w- ans. Vegetarians contend that fiesh-eat- Ing is not only immoral—immordal be-” cause it necessitates the wanton tak- Ing of inoffensive life—but also ex- travagant, for whereas twelve atres of land, if used for the rearing of cat- tle .for slaughter, will maintain one man feeding. on the fiesh produced, the same area under wheat will main- tain twenty-three, and on a mixed crop of fruit, pulse, ¢ ang vege- eis TRAGEDY OF THE KLONDIKE. ‘ already frozen fingers could only lift. Their, songs of. praise are not heard until your pro-" The® Suddénly there was a crescewdo whik on the mossy turfwith a dull, sicken-, She hada! youngster, who began yelling at sight | Feared Death by. Lightging Stroke “+ Might Run in Families. AS ALARMED. lowing story. of Washington Irving, which, he had from the latter’s lips: “During a prolongetf stay in Eng- land,” began Mr. Irving, “I was one day walking in the country with a friend when a violent thunderstorm burst upon us. We stopped under a large tree, and while standing there I was reminded of the fact that a brother of mine who had taken shel- ter under an oak on the banks of the Hudson was struck by lightning. 1 mentioned the incident. The face of my friend took on a look of consterna- tion. He ran out into the pouring rain, and when I shouted to him to come back he answered: “No, sire-ee! That kind of death probably runs in your family. I'll take my: chances. out in the‘ open instead of by your side!” 4 “And he did,” added the hermit of “Sunnyside” with a smile that would haye opened. oysters.—Pittsburg Dis- patch. ae _NINESA MYSTICAL NUMBER. Many Superstitions Connected With Three Times Three. Nine, is!a mysti¢al number. A cat is said, to have nine lives; there are is “nine. points of the law,” and the whip for punishing evildoers has nin tails, the superstition being that a floggiiig by a trinity of trinities would be sacred and more efficacious. In or- der to see the fairies, mortals are di- rected to put nine grains of wheat on a fourleaf clover. The hydra had nine, heads, and leases are frequently granted for 99 or 999 years. Milton, in.“Paradise Lost,” says: “The gates of ‘hell are thrice threefold—three ‘fold8 adamantine, three folds iron and ‘three folds adamantine rock. They have nine folds, nine plates and nine Mnings... When the angels were cast out.of heaven nine days they fell.” The nine of diamonds was consid- ered the curse of Scotland, and to see nine magples in the land of cakes is gonsidered as bad as to see the de’il his ane sel’, _ Laughter and Worldly Success. + “Speaking of laughter, I have often ‘| wondered if the laughing man and the laughing woman really get along bet- f in the world than the man and woman who do not laugh, or if they laugh at all merely grin.at some amusing thing,” said the observant man, "{ do not. know, I am sure. Of courge, .you, will find that men and omen, of both types probably in your owt -a¢qiaintafice' have’ been ‘able ‘to’ dre fairly well in’ the world. ughter is no doubt good capital in & great many instances. It is equally true that the grim face, the sour look, I may say, has often proved a valu- able asset. The which would seem to indicate that there is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh.”—New On leans Times-Democrat. Question of Economy. Elmer was the oldest child of an al- ready somewhat numerous and inter- ‘esting while rapidly increasing family, and yet Elmer was only a little boy. One pair of twins had marked an epoch in the family history between and see before she was honored with a name, or was big enough, in Elmer’s @stimation, to be ‘designated as any- thing more than just “it.” Asked by his mother what he thought of the dear Uttle creature, Elmer looked at the mite very attentively for a time, and then answered, like the young economist that he was: “W’y, mama, it’s nice, of course; it’s real nice. But do you think we needed it?”—Lip- incott’s Magazine. Dreamin’ by the Fire. Settin’ by the fire, whilst Molly's stirrin’ roun’ I dream the eld dreams over in Recol- lection town, Outside I hear the winter—see the rallin’ But Fn with the old-tim ut I'm wi old-time sweethearts that loved me long ago! The first sweet flowers she loved. fair place I She leaned an’ kissed th: pinned ‘em on for me! The peaceful paths and pleagant—the valleys an’ the hills, Where, hand-in-hand, we listened to the wild, sweet. whippoorwills! BSettin’ by. the fire—ah, well! I'm gittin’ Y 5, Too da" to ‘be’ a dreamer—to reap the rose of May! The lights an’ shadows ‘round me like friends from old times ‘seem— The babes oe ithe talkin’ an’ I listen an’ ream! —Atlanta Constitution. Castor Oll for Mummies, M. Berthelot, secretary of the Louvre museum, believes that he has discovered the secret of the agent used in embalming in ancient Egypt. After a laborious examination of the sarcophagi of the fifth and sixta dynasties, which date back as far as 8500 B. C., M. Berthelot has come to the decision that the oil employed was simply castor oil, such as is still used in Egypt, which has undergone some oxidation, but retained during the long period its preservative quali- ties.—London Telegraph. A Misapplied Petition. Not long since the choir in one of ‘the fashionable churches of the South fendered ‘a:long-and difficult anthem— one with many frills and furbelows. The good minister sat patiently through it, but when the anthem was finished he arose and, to the amuse- ment .of both congregation and choir, E i Gen; James A. Wilson told the fol: | nine. crowns in heraldry; possession | Elmer's birth and that of a little baby |: sister, which he was invited to go in } ig Sareea Down and $5 per month Grand Rapids Village Lots $5 We have choice residence lots all over town and weare sell- ing them on such easy Lerme that anybody can buy. down and $5 per month is certainly easy. Come inand talk the matter over, A house and three lots for sale cheap. We also have some choice business lots on our lists. They are for sale on easy terns. 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By spe arrangements with the publisher we are enabled to offer, for ashort. time only, the Commoner and the Grand Rapids Herald-Review one year, both for $2.00, Address all orders to E. C. KILEY, Grand Rapids, Minn. FACTORY LOADED SMOKELESS POWDER SHOTGUN SHELLY Good shells: in your gun mean a good bag in the field'or a good score at the trap. Winchester “Leader” and ‘ Repeater” Smokeless Powder Shells are good shells. Always sure-fire, always giving an even spread of shot and good penetration, their great superiority is testified to by sports- men who use Winchester Factory Loaded Shells in preference to any other make. ALL DEALERS KEEP THEM Si I SPSIEVSS. See WINCHESTER ITASCA COUNTY | A. B. CLAIR, ABSTRACT OFHGE) = Mineral ABSTRACTS, atl Lands Pine Stumpage Bought. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE. REAL ESTATE, FIRE INSURANCE. Conveyances Drawn. Taxes Paid for Non-Residents, KREMER & KING, Proprietors. GRAND RAPIDS, - - W. E. NEAL Real Estate and Insurance MIDN Joe Craft At the Northern Sample Rooms —Sundays included. GRAND RAPIDS, MINNESOTA. Have a Shine? is there all the time with gilt-edge work Dealer in FOR SALE! I have about 2,500 acres of land in 55-23 and 55-24 that I will sell for $5.00 an acre. Write immediately to _P. 0. Box 211, The finest List -f Agricultural and Grazing Laads in the County. The Most Excellent Sites for Manv. tacturing Enterprises. - Prospective Settlers Located. Correspondence Solicited. Grand Rapids, ACE