Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 7, 1906, Page 4

eis Published Every Saturday. By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered in the Postoffice at Grand Raptd Minnesota. Second-Class Matter, NDOWED IDLERS. £. It has been our boast that an abid- ing wealthy class was impussible in this country, because the children of the newly-rich, pampered in idleness, puffed up with vanity, and capable of taking on only a thin veneer of edu- cation, are unfitted to control and keep the fortunes left them. The families. that have retained large wealth through many genera- tions in this country are extremely rare. The natural law is that the servants of one generation become the masters of the next, while the wealth-weakened sink back to sere vice. But there is growing a tendency to make of great fortunes permanent in- stitutions, not to be shattered by: mis- management or dissipated by reckless living. Th fortunes are no longer dis- tributed among a man’s heirs, byt are kept intact and placed in the hands of trust companies for admin- istration. The assume none of the responsibilities of wealth, bat simply heirs receive an income. Under the Marshall Field will three young children have approximately the same endowment as that of Yale, Harvard, Columbia and Chicago uni- versities combined. Here method by which the natural law is being nullifled and an is a abiding rich class created. The endowed may idte away their lives or ruin themselves, but the fore from it are after ygenera- tune and the income secure to generation tion. This means concentratioa of the great fortunes of the country into the control of trust companies. Already an enormous part of the productive wealth 1s held by a small proportion of the people. If the new tendency keeps up for a few years the trust companies, or one trust com- pany, will be in absolute control of the productive wealth of the United States and will be bolding every in- dustrial and political interest of the people in a grip of steel. With control of a vast aggregation { great fortunes in its hands, the trust company will become the most absolute and most autocratic power the world has ever known. ‘Two remedies seem to be feasible. One is a rapidly progressive inheri+ tance tax which shal! insure the pub- lic’s large partieipation in all huge The second is the repeal of laws permitting the promotion of trusts of more than a few years’ dus ration, thus forcing the respousi- bility of wealth upon those who have inherited it. The American people have no de- e to destroy incentives to the ere- ation of wealth or to drprive the fam- ily of arich man of a generous share of his fortune. But something must be done to pre vent the establishment of an en- dowed class of idlers.—St. Paul News. SE gees A LaCrosse farmer, who lives ten miles from the nearest church of his faith, has been left a legacy by his mother, with the stipulation that he fortunes. can’t have it unless be gues to church every Sunday. Heis not ofa religious turn aod the way seems but as he needs the mouey he will long to him, probably hitch up and attend service on every Sabbath. .In the otd days many a Christian pioneer in Minne- sota walked that Gistance to service on Sunday, making twenty miles in the day.—News-Tribune. pied SaaS alle The war clouds at Algeciras have faded away, and again Americamdi- plomacy gets the credit. ‘They should hurry Ambassador White over to the cual Herald. WanvteD. — Men in each state to travel, post signs, advertise and leave samples of our goods. Salary $75 per month; $3 per day for expenses. Kuhlman Co.,, Dept. S, Chicago. “|Mate Charles T. Yerkes,” gaid conference at once.—Duluth ! “T went high school th \delphian, “and afterward I saw a good deal of him while he was In the bank- ing business here. . rs “What I liked about Mr. Yerkes was his disposition. He never com- plained or growled. He hated to hear growls or complaints. On this: head there is a story about him that few old Philadelphians still remember. “A tugboat captain at a banquet one night said that tugboat men were the champion growlers of the world. He said they growled especially about their food, that even at a banquet they would find something to com- plain of. “Mr. Yerkes doubted this. He de- clared it couldn’t be true. There was an argument, with the upshot that the next week he took a runson the tug and provided for the crew a sump- tuous surprise dinner. ' “It was a roast turkey dinner and when it was set before the men Mr. Yerkes and the captain were hidden in a place where they could see and hear all that went on. “The men looked very suspiciously at the fine roast repast. Then one speared a big bird on a fork and hold- ing it up said: “‘Go slow on this, boys. If it wuzn’t cheaper’n salt pork it wouldn’t ’a’ come our way.” HOW TO DEAL WITH HUSBANDS. Advice Probably Given by Spinster, But Here It Is. Never tell your husband that you give him this or that for dinner, and not what he asks for, because you know what is best for him. A man will willingly yield to the woman he loves, he will make any sacrifice she may require, but he generally draws the line at being told what is good for him. «Of this he will beg to re- main the best judge, and tell you so frankly and firmly. Never complain of your husband because he now and then criticises your dress or your néw hat. On the contrary, return grateful thanks that he takes notice of what you wear. There are husbands who allaw their vives perfect freedom in this respect, for the simple reason that they care absolutely nothing whether they have a garden of flow- ers or an old saucepan on their heads. Be grateful your husband is not one of these.—Exchange. Amenities of Lawbreakers: No member of the British parlia- ment is permitted to say bluntly and directly that another is drunk, but he may hint at the fact in periphrase, as when Mr. Gladstone, replying to an unconventional speech of Disraeli’s, remarked: “The right honorable gen- tleman has evidently had access to sources of inspiration that are not open to me.” A violent scene has been caused in the parliament of Vic- toria, Australia, by a labor member saying of a legal colleague: “The hon- orable and learned gentleman was once called to the bar and he has since gone frequently without being- called.” The angry barrister retort- ed: “You tea-drinking skunk!” Even- tually both withdrew and apologized. Ever Read a Cento Book? “This volume,” said the bibliophile, “is acento. It is composed of de- tached sentences taken from the works of Thackeray. It makes a nov- el, sensible, but short, and it was composed in seven years by a bedrid- den baroness. The best-known cento is probably the Empress Eudoxia’s ‘Life of Christ,’ made entirely of lines from Homer. There is a similar life, composed by Ross, that consists whol- ly of detached lines from Virgil. Cen- tos are often very valuable. One com- piled by Alexander Hamilton from Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ sold not long since for $500. The book was a his- tory of America.” True Politeness. An excellent suggestion was that contained in the remark of a little ten-year-old girl from the country, who had been visiting a friend in her city home. “Did you have a good time?” asked the child’s mother when the girl came back from her week’s visit. ‘“Beautifvl!” replied the little traveler, with great enthusiasm; “why, they were so polite they made me feel just as if I was the one that was at home, and they were visiting. I had a beautiful time!” That is the secret of hospitality—making friends feel at home. Umbrella as Burglars’ Tool. In a jewelry robbery just effected in London, the thieves apparently commenced operations by drilling through the flooring and ceiling and then passing through the hole an um- brella. This was then opened and held in a position while the ceiling around the hole was cut away, and used as @ receptacle for the falling pieces of plaster and wood work. The umbrella was found below the hole, together with a rope ladder.— Stray Stories. Favor Requested. It is an interesting fact that it was partly to aid Mercer’s hospital in Dub- lin that Handel composed the “Mes- siah.” On the morning of the produc- tion of the “Messiah” this quaint no- tice appeared in a Dublin journal: “The stewards of the Charitable Musi- ‘eal society request the favor of the jadies not to come with hoops this . day to the Musick Hall in Fishamble j Street. The gentlemen are desired to come without their swords.” | ‘ried life for the benefit of her own ‘It isn't often th ¢ back to the threshold of her own mar- children, When she does she may tell them that “When I married your father he made $12 a week and he did not have any nest egg in the bank. He had been taking care of his moth- er and sister and the marriage of your aunt made our union possible. We j had hardly a stick ef furniture at the start, and it almost seemed as though you three older children were babiec all together.” But somehow these little families of a generation or so ago managed, for they loved each other. They worked and they did not have the foolish ideas about keeping up appear- ances that play such an important part and work such havoc in homes to-day. If the mother is the kind that is not ashamed of the simplicity and per- haps poverty of her early beginnings as a matron, she will endeavor to im- press ideas of economy and truth upon her girls and also the paramount one that money is not essential to happi- ness but that the love of a good man and a quiet place called home are.— Chicago Journal. THE FINISHING TCUCH NEEDED. Kind Words of Farm Hand to Brilliant Young Artist. The late Henry Harland, author of “The Cardinal's Snuffbox” and other graceful stories, was once recounting, at the Authors’ club in New York, his experiences as editor of the famous “Yellow Book.” Mr. Harland praised Aubrey Beards- ley. ' “Though only a boy of twenty-one or so,” he said, “Beardsley was as clever in the editorial as in the con- tributing capacity. He was, indeed, practically the art editor of the ‘Yel- low Book.’ “I was fond of him. I once took a three days’ walking trip with him. He sketched, of course, on the walk. He mate a number of sketches in oil col- ors. And they were very artistic and shaggy... “A farm hand watched Beardsley finishing a particularly shaggy sketch one afternoon and said encouragingly: “My lad, that won’t be a bad pic- ture after it’s been sandpapered down a bit.” How to Stop Gossip. There are two words, simple enough in themselves, that introduce untold trouble into the world and are re- sponsible for more gossip, scandal and harm than any other two words in the English language. These two little words are nothing more than “They say.” They have done more to ruin reputations than any other thing. If you never quote what “they say,” you may be quite certain you are not a gossip. Eut if you find your self telling your friends at all times what “they say,” and at the same time lifting your eyebrows and shaking your head, you may rest assured you are saying something the world would be better for not hearing —Exchange. Disraeli’s Picturesque Metaphor. Few men had a richer talent for vivid picturesque metaphor than Dis- raeli. Often, no doubt, it was bizarre, and sometimes even tawdry, but it sel- dom descended to the cheap. And what could be more vivid than the figure by which he pictured one of the Gladstonian Ministries: “The Min- isters remind me of one of these ma- rine landscapes not very unusual on the coast of South America. You be- hold a range of exhausted volcafoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. But the situation is still dan- gerous. There are occasional earth- quakes, and ever and anon the dark rumbling of the sea.” Narrow Escapes of Soldiers. . Two tales of narrow escapes at Lucknow during the Indian mutiny: “Col: May told us many thrilling inci- dents of the siege, which brought the scene more vividly before one. He brought out a wall, against which he told me he was sitting one day, when suddenly a round shox struck the wall between his.legs. This, however, is not to be compared with the escape of a trooper in the relief force, who had his saddle destroyed under him by a blind shell which passed between his thigh and the horse’s back, he him- self and his horse remaining unin- jured.” : Ammonia For Mosquito Bites. In hot climates, where mosquitoes abound, it is usual to carry a tiny’ bot- tle of ammonia in the pocket, which is fitted with a little glass point on the stopper, and, as soon as the ene- my has worked his wicked -vill, the bottle is produced and a drop of the liquid is applied to the spot. The same beneficial effect is found from treating the stings of midges with am- monia, and it is useful to know of a harmless and effectual remedy for their aggravating attentions, which often cause serious b!ood poisoning. Costly Supervisicn Necessary. The United States government will gpend a whole million if necessary to investigate the causes and correct an error in any of its financial depart- ments, even if no more than a cent is involved. And it could not safely do otherwise. It must dispel every sug- gestion of.laxness in discipline, and to admit an error would be simply an invitation and a hint for open mouth- ed crooks to make money through dana. Locai Time Table. West East Bound Bound 2iSwan’ Rayer... Grand Rapid: Vohasset eer Rive Cass Lake.. 7:15) ....Crookston.... 8:15/Ar.Grand Fks. Lv 'C. L. FRYE, Agent, Grand Rapids, Minn. "The Comfortable Way? Duluth Branch| Lake Shore Engine Works Marquette, Mich. 330 West Superior St, DULUTH, MINN. We build boats all sizes, and en- gines 1 to 40 H. P. Let us figure with you on your re- quireme: Weacan save you money. Write for catalogue. OUR 1906 LEADER: 18 ft Launch complete, 3 H.P. Engine $200. ITASCA COUNTY = ABSTRACT OFFICE ABSTRACTS, REAL ESTATE, FIRE INSURANCE. 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