Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 16, 1907, Page 12

FINANCIAL CONDITION Assets Cash in Treasury to credit of County Funds ... Uncollected County Taxes, for year 1905 Uncollected County Taxes for year 1904 Uncollected County Taxes for 1903 and prior years Penalty, Interest and Costs, and delinquent taxes . Taxes Levied for ear 1906, County funds County Court House and Grounds.... County Jail and Sheriff’s Residence... Furniture and Fixtures, Court House and Jail County Poor Farm . Fair Grounds Tools and Machinery ... Total Assets County Jail Bonds.. Court House Bonds . Funding Bonds .... Road and Bridge Bonds.. Outstanding Warrants calle: Outstanding Warrants Total Liabilities ess of Assets over Liabilities. . Dee e cece cece eee eeees ; neni Liabilitie: «$42,824.13 20,6000.00 10,791.07 18,700.00 12,000.00 110,594.14 35,000.00 15,000.00 6,000.00 7,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 ste ceeoeee $280,509.34 = +$ 24,938.80 8,000.00 120,000.00 31,000.00 4,000.00 2,163.47 + - $190,102.27 90,107.07 $280,509.34 TAX LIST FOR 1906 ‘ ItascaCount. Valuation. Real Estate Personal Property Total assessed valuation For State Purposes ... For County Purposes . . For Interest and principal on State Li For School Purposes... For Township purposes . For Village Purposes Total Levy... oans $ 10,255,602.00 513,051.00 ceeee $ 10,768,653.00 $ 29,936.83 110,594.14 2,115.62 103,342.61 43,483.21 27,860.15 $317,332.56 Tax list for year 1906 for territory set off from Itasca County and Organized as Koochiching county. Valuation. Real Estate... Personal Property. Total Valuation For State PUPpOSeS 6.55.69 iS ssetoonSouseeus sci +$ 2,987,932.00 209,277.00 sida sfa cleats etter $ 3,197,209.00 ~$ 8,886.56 For Interest and Principal on State Loans 408.98 For School Purposes 31,489.48 For Township Purposes . 20,889.48 For Villages Purposes. 2,419.34 Total LeVY... ...cccceccsccccccvcceccsecrccccccceses cose ceeeee $64,093.41 No County Tax extended aainst property in the territory organized as Kooch- ichihg County. The forgoing statement, prepared by the County Auditor, is hereby ap- proved by this board and respectfully submitted to the County, Minnesota. tax-payers of Itasca Dated at Grand Rapids, Minn., this 8th day of January, 1907. AAD A. TONE, NEIL MULLINS M. O'BRIEN, JAMES PASSARD, County Commissioners of Itasca, County, Minn. Attest: (Seal. County Auditor. GOING SOME. Owing to the illness of his regular office boy, a stockbroker recently en- gaged a new lad, named Tommy. Tommy was a jewel, and when Joe, the former lad, was convalescent, the stockbroker was loath to send Tom- my away. But the other boy wanted to come back, and peaded hard for reinstate- ment. “Well,” said his former employer, “you can have the post again if you can arrange with Tommy.” “Very well, sir. I think I can do that,” was the joyous reply. When the stockbroker went to his office next morning a sight greeted him that he had not bargained for. The glass of the door in his private room was smashed, ink was .spilled on the carpet, and chairs were over- turned everywhere. Evidentl« there had been a tremendous struggle. Joe came forward blithely, one eye blackened and his cheek swollen. “Tommy’s gone, sir,” he remarked. “I’ve arranged with him.” A Distinction Without a Difference. The distinction between a journal- ist and an editor is easily explained. A journalist is a man who wears two shirts in one week, while an editor is a man who wears one shirt two weeks. Medical student—What did you operate on that man for? Eminent surgeon—Five hundred dollars. “T mean, what did he have?” “Five hundred dollars.”—Puck. “He is too extravagant for a hus- band.” “Yes, but he’s a dandy to be en- gaged to.’”—Houston Post. Ella—What would you do if you were in my shoes?” Stella—Stuff ‘em with cotton.— Woman’s Home Companion. THE WIDOW'S PROTECTION. Insure and let your widow live. What your fiancee should say: “The miser.” Everybody pities the widow, 80 long as pity doesn’t cost money. Many an uninsured husband will be remembered by what he has left his widow. Many men think so much of their wives that they forget all about their widows. A little less money in the bank for you will provide a little more money in the bank for your widow. The length and brightness of life’s twilight will depend upon what we did before the sun went down for those dependent upon you. Lack of life insurance not seldom sows the seeds of worry and want, leaving to living loved ones a sad, sorrowful harvest. The man is wisest who buys only the best life insurance. Your earning capacity keeps want from the door; when ‘you are dead a life insurance policy will do the same for your widow and children. A man said: “I don’t want life insurance. When I am dead my widow and children can hustle for themselves, as I did.” Do you want your children to undergo the priva- tions and worry that you went through, or will you make provision for them so that they can be comfort- ably clothed and fed, and well edu- cated, so that they may avoid the privation and hardships that you en- countered. Insure your life, so that the good work you have done in their behalf may be continued by your widow.—Spectator. SUCH A LANGUAGE. “How did you happen to fall down on that payment you promised to make me tonight?” “TI woud not have fallen down, only I got held up.”—Fort Worth Record. Common sense is none too com- mon. The doing of a wrong act may be mitigated, but never can be justified. No man can be in love and a phi- losopher at the same time. Don’t force a woman to love you; it can’t be done. Let her go. No religion or reformation is last- ing if you are frightened into it. A dishonest friend can do you more harm than a dishonest enemy. A polished lie is more attractive to some people than a rugged truth. When millionaires get to killing each other, the anarchists can take a vacation. : The education of a man’s intellect does not necessarily educate his con- science. When trouble drives a man to drink, drink drives him to more trouble. A poor thing well advertised is better than a good thing not adver- tised. Explaining gets to be a chronic habit with some people. A society bud hopes she will never bloom as a wall flower. Many a pleasant lawyer is com- pelled to do the cross-question act. Never judge the contents of a woman’s head by the size of her hat. Time is money—and that is the only kind a miser is willing to spend. If you get all your knowledge out of books you might as well leave it there. Only a strong-minded woman can preserve fruit and her temper simul- taneously. " The idle rumor is always busier than any other kind. A man with a good wife is general- y on good terms with his mother-in- aw. Paradoxical though it may seem, it takes a good wife to make a good husband. The most dangerous man in a community is a preacher who tem- orizes with vice and wrong. One stroke of the brush may spoil the finest painting, so one wrong act may mar your whole life. The local custom of not counting the opposition votoe usually swells the government majorities in such places as Panama. We would do well to get our kind- nesses done while they wili do good, not keeping them back till there is no need for them. If you want to find out the people who are not working or who are will- ing to stop work, start a dog fight. One of the most pitiable and de- plorable cowards is a cowardly preacher. Both God and the devil hate a coward. Do not stick to an opinion simply because you have expressed it. It may be wrong and thus show your incapacity to learn anything. A man who finds fault with the weather only agitates himself and doesn’t affect the weather. You touch a criminal on the shoulder and you startle him. He fear it may be the hand of the law. When you offer excuses or qualifi- cations for sin and wrongdoing you ose your faith and will fall down. A man who works on a_ salary works for his employer. A man who works of a commission works for himself. It takes longer to find out some men than it does others, but in the end they are all found out. While it may be just and right that a man should be humiliated no right feeing man will rejoice at it. Man’s feicity consists not in the outward and visible favors and bless- ings of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections of the mind. Do not eliminate the business idea in pushing the interests of the organ- ization. Remember that business and fraternity form a combination that is hard to match. No wise trust will undertake to presume on the fact that the presi- dent is taking a vacation; his sys- tem requires violent exercise at all times. And there are young scions who may live fifty years and never have a court pronounce them sane; such are the unequal opportunities in this life. We can’t help wondering what would happen should Dr. Edward Everetl Hale’s advice, to associate with none but your superiors, be universally followed. Love is an impulse founded on neither logic, sense or reason. If you have an attack of it no body can control you and you cannot control yourself. It is not amenabe to law or gospel. Scientists assert that one mos- quito can carry 80,000 germs and that one tooth can hold 10,000,000,- 000 germs. Herein ies a sugges- tion for getting even after being bit- ten by a mosquito: Bite it back. As a rule, no good comes from criticising others; anybody can do that, but the man who can accept his own honest estimate of himself, and resolve to profit by it, has achieved something. A list of stories and poems that were written by their writers while in jail has just been published. We could suggest many other books that might have been written in jail if their authors had had their just de- serts. The world delights in sunny peo- ple. The old are hungering for love more than for bread. “e air of joy is very cheap; and, if you can help the poor on with a garment of praise, it will be better for them than blankets. The truly happy man is not made by a pleasant and sunny course. Hard tasks, deferred hopes, the beating of adverse winds, must en- ter into his composition here below, as they will finally enter into his song on high. Life is not victory, Fight on, fight on! The perfect character shall come at last. What will it be to fight no more? Shall we then forget the battes? Shall we then forget our sins? Why should we? Hated, renounced, subdued, et them hang on the walls of memory like the shields of vanquished ene- mies. Be patient a little longer. By and by in our hushed and waiting chambers, each in his turn, we shall hear the sunset gun. What an intolerable burden life would be if we experienced one-half the evils that we anticipate. A mul- titude of troubles exist only in ima- gination. They are ike clouds which hold no rain, hence never trouble our paths. There is a sufficient num- ber of real evils in life and real troubles in our experience without wasting strength seeking the imag- inary ones. Don’t worry, don’t fret, however dark the outlook; you -vill ultimately come to the light if you 100K upward, live upward, come up- ward. but battle. We are too prone to forget our present blessings. We seldom ap- preciate them until they are gone. EPITAPH. Here lies Bill Brown, the bartender, His work on earth is done; His death was sad—he always had A ‘smile’ for everyone! Nothing comes so near to censure as good advice. A LITTLE SHADY. A clergyman in baptizing a baby paused in the midst of the service to inquire the name of the infant, to which the mother, with a profound courtesy, replied: “Shady, sir, if you please.” “Shady,” repied the priest. ‘Then ie ,2 boy, and you mean Shadrach, eh?” si BNO please your reverence, it’s 4 rl.” “And pray,” asked the inquisi- tive pastor, “how happened you to call the child by such a_ strange name?” “Why, sir,”” responded the woman, ‘if you must know, our name is Bower, and my husband said as how he should like to her to be called Shady because Shady Bower sounds | so pretty.” | A SMILE OR TWO. Mrs. Oldwon—John, I’ve waited and waited for you to come home, | until I was frightened half to death. | Oldwon—Yes, that’s justj like} you—always doing things by halves! | —Familie Journal. | been very naughty today, Juanita; I shall have to tell your father when} he comes home. | Juanita (aged 7)—That’s the) woman of it! You never can keep anything to yourself—La. Nota! Final. | Teacher—What is the difference | between ightning and electricity? | Bright Pupil—Lightning is free, | and electricity costs money. | EYESIGHT AND MINDSIGHT. There is a vast difference between physical and mental blindness. Some people who can see with their eyes cannot see with their mind, while those unfortunates who have lost their eyesight often possess Abnormal mental perception. One sign of mental | blindness is exhibited by the husband or father who refuses or neglects to assure his life. The uncertainty of life and the insecurity of old age make it apparent to all but the wilfully blind that protection is necessary, and that an endowment policy of life assurance is the safest and best way to make provision. , (There are other sights that are al- so applicable to life assurance, e. g., the old classic: “If our foresight was as good as our hindsight, we should be better off a blamed sight.”—Ed.) A man with an aim will sooner or later be a man with a name. WHAT BABY NEEDED. A young mother left her baby with Mother (impatiently) —You have er obliging mother-in-law one night | in order to attend the wedding of a relative who lived in a town about a hundred miles distant. The young woman, apparently free from all family cares, spent an _ enjoyable evening, until just about midnight, when an expression of acute anxiety flashed across her countenance. “Oh, George,” she exclaimed, clutch- ing her husband’s arm, “there was one aera Fl | thing that I forgot to tell your mother FIRED. | to do for the baby , and he’ll never go A man came into the police court is Bleed, wicnoue, te erous men 6° the other day carrying a friend on his | "ht out and send her a telegram.” “Nonsense,” said George, “this isn’t back. What’s the matter?” asked | the judge. The man answered: | the first baby she has taken care of.” “Judge, this man is a friend of mine, “But Beorge, she’ll never think of do- soe pame ss Gunes Now, gang ing just the right tring, and the baby the law to carry a loaded gun i the | bee Scoept any, substitute., “1 oom streets, so I brought him in here.” | he’s crying hard at this very minute. She was right. A hundred miles The judge said: “Gunn, you are} discharged.” And the next day the | away a weary grandmother was at her report was in the papers. wits end because she could think of nothing that would pacify a wailing infant, who was most wretchedly RIGHT PRINCIPLES OF ACTION. | sleepy, yet . utterly unable to go to it will | Sleep. She was pacing wearily back perish; if we work upon bronze, time | and forth in the nursery to the accom- If we work upon marble, face is about 27% times as powerful as here; a man who here weighs 150 pounds would weigh more than two would not be able to jump any more friskily than an elephant here. Experiments with burning-glasses make it certain that the effective temperature of the sun’s surface, taken |as a whole (doubtless the actual tem- |perature varies widely at different points) is much above any which we can produce by artificial means; n ot leven the electric furnace can rival it. | Carried to the sun and kept there for a few hours only the earth would melt | and pass into vapor. The estimated |temperature is about 12,000 degrees | Fahrenheit, put that cannot be regard- }ed as exact. | Prof. Charles A. Young? | | IN WINTER. | The valley stream is frozen, | The hills are cold and bare, | And the wild white bees of winter | Swarm in the darkened air. | I look on the naked forest; Was it ever green in June? |Did it burn with gold and | In the dim autumnal noon? |I look on the desolate garden; | Is it true the rose was there? | And the woodbine’s musky blossoms, | And the hyacinth’s purple hair? |I look in my heart and marvel If love were ever its own— lif the spring of promise brightened | And the summer of passion shone. |Is the stem of bliss but withered, And the root survives the blast? | Are the seeds of the future sleeping Under the leaves of the past? | —Ralph Waldo Emerson. crimson WHY HE COULDN'T HELP HER. (Ladies Home Journal.) | Avery pretty young woman slipped ‘and fell on the stone steps in front of j her father’s house, spraining her linee. She disliked doctors, but the* | knee finally grew so bad that she was | persuaded to call in medical advice. |She wouldn’t have this doctor or that lone, but finally said she would con- |sent to have called in a certain spruce tons upon the sun, and there a squirrel “ wil efface it; if we rear temples they | will crumble to the dust; but if we work upon immortal souls, if we im-| bue them with right principles of ac- | tion, with just fear of wrong and love | of right, we engrave on those tab- lets something which no time can ob- iiterate, but which will grow bright- er and brighter to all eternity. “NOT AS I WILL.” Blindfolded and alone I stand With unknown thresholds on each hand; The darkness deepens as I grope, Afraid to fear, afraid to hope; Yet this one thing I learn to know Each day more surely as i g0, | That doors are opened ways made, Burdens are lifted or are laid | By some great law unseen and still | Unfathomed purpose to fulfill. “Not as I will.” | THE WISE MOVE. “If you were in Russia just now what would you do?” “Get out.”— Cleveland Plain | Dealer. NOT SO AWFUL BLUE. | Don’t growl about the times, lad, | they’re not so awful blue, There’s lots o’ work for willing hands an’ willing hearts to do. Just take a firmer hold, lad, laugh along the way And turn a deafened ear to all the blatant croakers say. You'll find that perseverence brings its ultimate success, A feller’s always helped along who does his level best. And when you least expect it, sure as one an’ two are three, You’l pick up the persimmon that your brother didn’t see. WHAT’S THE USE? Whene’er you gain a pound or two Your friends set up a shout; “More exercise, my boy, for you! You're getting sadly stout.” And when you’ve worked and starved by stealth Once more they raise a din, “You want to look out for health, Old chap, you’re getting thin!’’ With hollow sympathetic wails They always stand prepared, No matter hoy you tip the scales, They’re bound to keep you scared. —wWashington Star. LET’S DREAM! I am sick of the showy seeming Of a life that is half a lie, Of the faces lined with scheming In the throng that hurries by. No, no; from the street’s rude bustle, From trophies from mart and stage. I would fiy to the woods’ low rustle And the meadow’s kindly page. Let us dream as of yore by the river, And be loved for the dream al- way— For a dreamer liver forever While a thinker dies in a day. —John Boyle O’Reilly. and | your COUNSEL IN RHYME. You must buy what you happen to need, But you’re somehow expected to pay. You may woo a fair maiden indeed, But you’re likely to marry some day; It is gb es you should pay what is jue; Matrimony is good for a man, But it may be much better if you Put it off just as long as you can. —Chicago News. DID YOU EVER. I saw a horse-fly up the creek, A cap-nip at her food; I saw a chestnut-burr, and heard A shell-bark in the woods. —Maverick. | daughter-in-law’s paniment of her grandson’s howls, | looking young man carrying a home- when the door-bel rang and her opathic medicine case who passed the , telegram arrived. | house every day. The family kept a sharp lookout, Tearing it open, the tired, perplexed | u }and when he came along called him | French call it. grandmother read: “Lay baby on his stomach crib.” ° Two minutes later the baby, adjust- ed to his liking, was sound asleep. Leslie’s Monthly. in the THE PROFESSOR OF MANNERS. Many a man of more than ordinary intellectual powers has found himself handicapped because of his inability to make a good impression on the men are | with whom he wishes to do business. | He did not acquire in his youth the “know how,” or savoir faire, as_ the Even his college train- ing has failed to develop this ability in him. The president of one of the great Eastern colleges has recently devised a plan which is intended, among other things, to supply this lack in the col- lege course. A large number of pre- ceptors is to be employed who shall act as advisors as well as instructors of the freshmen. They will assist the young men in the selection ¢# subjects of study, and will also attempt to cul- tivate their social qualities. _ The preceptors are to be “gentlemen” that is, they are to possess social graces, to be clubbale,” as the president said. In selecting men to fill the places, if he has to choose between a gentleman and a scholar he will prefer the gentleman, although his duties will require that he possess some scholarly straits. The development of the gentlemanly side of a youth has usually been dis- regarded by the colleges, doubtless on the assumption that this would take care of itself. But its importance has not been ignored. Dr. Edward Everett Hale referred to it years ago, when he said that the value of a college educa- tion depended not so much on what the student learned from books, as on what he learned “from the fellows he was thrown among.” It is a common saying regarding a famous theological seminary that the success of many a4 graduate has come from the social polish that he acquired at the frequent receptions of the gracious wife of the president, as much as from what he learned in the lecture room. A professorship of manners, by whatever name it may be called and whatever its other functions may be, ought to be established in every school and college in the country. Youth’s Companion WHAT WE KNOW OF THE SUN. A very wonderful and, in some re- spects, mysterious object is the sun; a typical star, the nearest one, and not so far away as to prevent us from studying it in detail, and yet present- ing conditions so different from those we can obtain in our laboratories that to a considerable extent it defies our reasoning and renders our conclusions merely conjectural. Certain facts, however, have been es- tablished beyond any possible doubt, and must necessarily from the founda- tion of all reasonable theories and opinions. We know, for instance, that its mean distance from the earth is very closely 93,000,000 miles; that its diameter is about 866,500 miles, or 109% times that of the earth, and its bulk about 1,300,000 times as great. ‘We know also that its mass is about 330,000 times that of the earth, and that consequently gravity on its sur- “companionable and | lin. The young lady modestly raised |her skirts and showed the disabled | member. | ‘The young man locked at it and \said: ‘That certainly is quite ser- | ious.” 7 “well,” said the young lady, ‘what | shall I do?” | “If I were you,” he said, “I would send for a physician.” i | “But, can you not attend to it | asked the girl. | “Not very well,” answered the “T am a piano tuner.” ” | young man. | ee ee oe | YOU WILL NEVER BE SORRY. | For doing good to all. For speaking evil of none. For hearing before judging. | For thinking before speaking. For holding an angry tongue. | For being kind to the distressed. | For asking pardon for all wrongs. | For stopping ears to tale-bearing. | For | body. | For disbelieving most of the ill re- ports. being patient toward every- LET THE GLAD CHORUS SWELL! | There’s strength for each honest en- | deavor; | Though trouble will come for spell; Providence is with us forever— If we’re doin’ tollable well! | Hope for the years we are livin’! Still let the glad chorus swell! | Heaven is ever forgivin’— To those doin’ tollable well! LIFE’S LITTLE DAY. A little time for singing While days and years are bright; A time for sweet bells ringing; And then there comes the Night! A little time for sighing While hot tears dim the sight; For living and for dying, And then the Night—the Night! Fillers—One We shall find as journey through life There are things that have got to be done Which entail lots of trouble and strife | That the luckiest never can shun. | And at last we must all of us die, But at east my advice you may try; Put it off just as long as you can. —Ideal Reserve. KIPLING’S REPLY. |__ A jocular American once wrote to Rudyard Kipling: ‘Hearing that you are retailing literature at $1 a word, I enclose $1 for a sample.” | Mr. Kipling sent him the single word | “Thanks,” and kept the dollar. First Prisoner—What are you in for? Second Prisoner—Fast ridipg. What are you in for? “Slow riding.” “How’s that?” “TI ran off with a bicycle.” FOR OTHERS ONLY. “No man is indispensable,” We often say, but then We can’t see why this should apply To us like other men. —Catholic Standard and Times. LET US! Let us then be up and doing Everyone we can, and thus We shall keep them from pursuing Clever schemes for doing us. —Four Track News. It’s a gloomy old prospect to scan, | a- +~—- —t—