Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 28, 1907, Page 1

Grand Uapids Herald-Neview. Granp Rapips, ITasca County, MINN., SatuRDAY, DECEMBER VoL, XV.—No., 27. 28, 1907. Two Dollars a Year. HPHOSOOOOOO OO: root i A NEW THEORY ; is understood that the couple will | ake their h here. Chavarria iss () QUARANTINE OF AFFINITIES oa. tarewaa bis wife Wa ton iness in Holiday Goods proves it. New Year, that 1908 wiil be as bountifu us as 1907. A Happy New Year This was Santa Claus Headquarters this year. We thank our friends and customers who have been responsible for our magnificent success of the year just closing. We wish you a Happy Here’s to you and your continued prosperity. ITASCA MERCANTILE CO, Our big bus- 1 t- you and all of Have a Happy New Year with the happy Plucky Pixies, “Here’s to 1908, may it be the happiest year of your life so far” is the toast of the Plucky Pixies to you. You can start the year right by resolving to buy at our store, we will not disappoint you. Our goods were bought. for people with a wealth of good taste, but not necessarily so in money. Con- sequently our attractive prices and liberal terms. To be happy, trade with us. = YI YAY AUAULUAUM AUAUAUAUAUAURUAURURUAUAUAY Che Dew-Born Year YESTERNIGHT the year lay dying; By his lowly couch we met. Bringing ivy leaves, and trying Some with smiles and some with sighing To remember---or forget. Now the nursing year is waking, And we gaze into his eyes, Heedless of his sire’s forsaking, In his cradle he is taking Gifts from earth and sea and skies Dawn of gold and sunset gleaming, April eve and Junetide morn, Things of truth and not of seeming, These have glorified his dreaming, He the heir, the newly born. In his tiny grasp he treasures Riches that may soon be ours Sunlight gold in brimming measures, Meadow fragrances and pleasures, Honeyed wine distilled of flowers. Soon the child will frolic lightly O’er his father’s grass-green grave; Day shall be his playmate brightly, And his sleep be sweetened nightly By the songs of wind and wave. ALLA UNA NYIULUAUAUAULUAUAUAULUAULUAUAUAULULUAURULUAUAULULUAURURULUAURUAULUAULULUAUAURULUAUAU] 2 |out the chastisement, The Parcels Post. It seems certain that the extension of the parcels post system will benefit mail order houses and still further encourage people to buy by mail. But the tendency of people to buy away from home does not originate in the parcels system and isa problem which must be solved independently of the extension or non-extension of the parcels post system. If the parcels post system were completely wiped out, the business of the mail order houses would nevertheless con- tinue te grow. The situation appears to be that we cannot stop the parcels post and we cannot stop the mail order busi- hess, so that the important question is how we are to wisely regulate them. The same problem presents itself with the trust andthe rail- roads—it is not a matter of annihila- tion but of regulation.—Hibbing Tribune. The principal reason that the people patronize the mail order houses is the unquenchable desire to get something just as good cheap, As long as this is a component part of the human family, the mail order houses will thrive regardless of whether the parcels post system is in existence or not. There is no yalid | reason on the part of many for their | opposition to the parcels post. It is suspicioned that some of the large commerical houses are bucking be- cause it will cut into the express business and may result ina cutin the extortinate rates now charged tu a majority of the people. Houses doing a large parcel business evident- ly get a reduced rate, or else how is it they can afford to prepay express charges and not add any to the price of the goods? When it costs 35 cents to get a small package sent afew miles and only 45 cents from New York or Philadelphia there isa leak somewhere. The parcels post will be of benefit to the people asa whole and those that have the mail order craze will not be cured of the disease by opposing or abolishing the parcels system. The Scientific Americans give a bits of advice for the treatment of diphtheria which it might be well to follow atleast while the family is waiting forthe doctor. It advises that at the first indication of diph- theria in the throat of a child, you make the room close and take a tea cup and put into ita quantity of turpentine and tar, equal parts. Then hold the cup over a fire so as to fill the room with fumes. The little patient on inhaling the fumes will cough up and spit out the mem- braneous matter and the diphtheria will pass out. The fumes of the tar and turpentine loosen the matter in the throat and thus afford relief. Francis B. Hart, the Minneapolis attorney who was so bold and _ indis- creet as to express his opinion of the state supreme court, is to be disbarred, dismantled and dismembered by the State Bar association for his alleged misconduct. The man may _ have jused poor judgment and may de- serve punishment, but why not let the court uphold its dignity and mete To the ayer- age layman there is something un- canny in the manner attorneys are .|forevercatering to, fussing over and palavering the men that sit on thej bench. That 1s one sampleof “‘legal ethics” that sickens the public.— Border Bug det. Happy New Year. FOR SMALLPOX Unless the State Board of Health | Reverses its Mandate There is Chance for a Spread of This Disease. The stand taken by the State board of Health inthe matter of quaran- tine against smallpox is likely to meet witb vigorous protest on the part of a large number of citizens of the state. The following article from the News Tribune voices the senti- ments of many who see in this order a menace to public safety and a con- dition that will be of damage to the state at large. Ibe only ones to de- tive any benefit are the doctors: “After January 1 under the regula- tious promulgated by the state board of health, the people of Minnesota and all who come within its borders must depend wholly upon vaccina-— tion for protection against smallpox. The disease will no longer be quar- antined, and no patient or his family can be restrained from going about as they please. Sometimes it may be well to takea bull by the horns, but the cases are exceptional where the one who vent- ures it does not regret it. With due deference to those learned gentle- men who form the state’s board of health, we cannot see that this is one of the rare occasions. Nor does this involve any question as to the efficiency of vaccination as a preventative. But no man can be sure he is immune, because the vac- cine does not ‘‘take” at the first or second trial, nor can he be sure of how long he will remain immune af- ter a successful vaccination. Nor 1s it possible to compel all the people to submit to yaccination, let alone repeat at regular intervals the sore arm experience. Besides the expense of the uperation, itis nota small hardship for those who work with their hands to be compelled to remain idle for two or three days, or pussibly two or three weeks. More than this, tens of thousands of people from other states annually visit Minnesota. Are they not en- titled to protection, or must we put a sign at all the roads where they cross our boundaries. ‘‘Beware! Do not cross this line upless vaccinat- ed.” Thanks we believe to vaccination, smallpox is a much less terrible dis- ease than it was before that great discovery. But it still claims its vic- is still rankly contagious still very noxious, and the time is still distant when it will be safe or wise to reimove the safeguard of quarantine. Iv is proof sufficient of this that there are now thousands of cases in this state. If these were not res- trained from guing about the streets and other public places, there would be thousands more, and the fact that one Case is a mere rash does not pre- vent its carrying death to others. There are 2,000,000 people in this state. Most physicians say that every one should be vaccinated once a year as a matter of complete safety. At the nominal charge of fifty cents, that would mean $1,000,000 annually. This is quite a tax for arich state, even though it all would remain in tbe state. It would be much wiser, much safer, much saner and would give a much greater feeling of public securi- ty if the board would let go the horns and permit this beast to be kept in its stall, away from sight or the possibility of doing barm. Even if the board is right, it is worng, as is frequently the case where a correct theory or motive is in practice an injustice and a serious evil.” If you really understand farming, every owner of 160 acres of land in Northern Minnesota will have a_ big- ger income than he can spend when he gets his land under cultivation. A farmer in an adjoining county recent- ly brought to town a load of clover seed and when he returned home he had $608.26 in his jeans. There was ' seventy-five bushels in the load and it was raised on ten acres of land which | the farmer purchased a few years ago at $5 per acre. This willbe a fre- quent occurence in Koockiching county in a few years.—International Falls Budget. DEFECTIVE PAGE ; In the dark beginviag of existence, when chaos reigned in the infinite, there was a soul let loose, amid the | thundering of rending, crashing planets, with great suns fiying to pieces and waking little worlds like ours, and was itself torn asunder. For millions of years the two separ- | ate parts of this divided soul sought through the universe for each other. It was not until Noy. 6, 1906, that the soul pieces met each other at Sixty- fifth street and Fifteenth avenue, Borough park. Their meeting was inopportune. Unfortunately each piece of soul had encumbered itself by a common, wordly marriage, not expecting that this incarceration would bring the two affinities together. The efforts of the reunited soul to forget these earthly encumbrances had several results. Here area few of them. Capt. Charles B. Stoddard, Ward steamship line, husband of one of the pieces of soul, has brought a suit for $50,000 damages against George H. Hermann, the physical embodiment of the other piece of the soul. Mrs. George H. Hermann, wife of one piece of soul, has had Ella St. Clair Stoddart, the other piece of soul, summoned to Flatbush police court in the most earthly fashion known to police courts. Mrs. Stoddart has begun suit against Mrs. Hermann, Mrs. Her- manu’s son, Laura Hermann, for $10.000 damages for slander and de- famation of character. Other court proceedings are threat- ened. Alva W. Burlingame, Jr., 215 Mon- tague street, isin part authority for the split soul theory. He is counsel for Capt. and Mrs. Stoddard, and he says that his information is that Mr. Hermann believes that his soul and Mrs. Stoddard’s soul are parts of the same original piece and that they have been seeking each other through all the ages that have passed. Mrs. Stoddard confirms this in language of mystic eloguence and she points to the letters whicn sbe says were written by Mr: Hermann as proof of his soul theory. Usually, in affinity cases, they are twin souls; in this cases, the symbol of perfect love and union is more striking—halves of a single whole. Herinann is a prominent real estate operator, with a wife and four chil- dren, the eldest of whom, a son, is 21 years old.—New York Dispatch. MARRIES A FULL BLOODED INDIAN Denver. Col News has arrived here that Mi Marie Arnold of this city was married last Monday in Santa Fe, N. M.. to Albin Chavarria, a full blooded Indian. The wedding ended a romance which began five years ago, during the mountain and plaio festival, when a number o f In- dians were brought to this city. The cremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. Rendon, a Presbyterian clergyman, and was witnessed by the bride’s sisters, Misses Lillian and Geneva Arnold of Denver. Chavarria is chief of the Pueblos in New Mexico. With a large numver of his tribemen, he was in camp in the city park in Denver five years ago, when Miss Arnold saw him and immediately formed an attachment forhim. After frequent visits to the camp, Miss Arnold invited the In- dian to her home. She lived at the time in a fashionable flat with her sisters and stepfather, George Wil- der. The Indian’s first visit to his sweet- heart was the cause of a disagreement between her and the members of her family. Objeetion was made only to the Indian’s race, his character being above reproach. Miss Arnold, how- ever. announced her intentions to marry the Indian despite the objec- tions of her family and friends. In April 1905 Mr. Wilder jumped overboard from a steamer in the Gulf of Mexico and was drowned. He left a will in which he disinherited his stepdaughter because of her re- fusal to give up her Indian sweet- | heart. The sisters of Miss Arnold finally consented to the marriage and one month ago they went with her to New Mexico. Chavarria is fully civilized, relig- ious, fairly well educated and well to do. He speaks the Indian and Span- ish languages, but does not under- stand English, and Miss Arnold set* to work to learn Spanish. Chavarria owns a large farm near Laos, N. M.. years his junior. KILLING OUR DEER The United States department of agriculture has issued a_ circular om the destruction of deer by the northerm timber wolf. The data was gathered by Vernon Railey, assistant in charge of geographic distribution, who visited several localities in Northern Michi- gan, Wisconsin and Minnesota from which he cultivated himself, and it which complaints have been made. In his circular Bailey says: “Deer were found in considerable: numbers in the swampy and dense timbers, where, during the time of deep snow, they had gathered into well beaten yards, often a hundred or more in a yard. Within the yards and along the trails food was abun- dant, and the deer would have wintered in good condition if un- molested, but while the snow was soft they were entirely at the mercy of the wolves, “Wolves were numerous, and dea@ deer were found in almost every yard visited, some partly eaten, others only torn and mangled. Large bucks, as well as does and fawns, had beem killed, many more than could be eater at the time. Only those killed since the last heavy fall of snow were visi- ble, but in previous seasons hundreds of deer carcasses have been reported in the yards after the melting of the snow. When the snow becomes heavily crusted in the spring the deer leave the yards and scatter over the country and are not easily caught. The wolves then return to the car- casses, which probably furnish much of their food during the breeding: season.” Mr. Bailey urges that all the breed ing dens of the wolves should be located and the pups destroyed, By concerted efforts on the part of resi- dents, and those interested in the pro- tection of deer, he says the increase of wolves may thus be effectually check- ed. The dens once located they should be visited every year in the breeding season, as wolves are Known to use the same dens in_ successive years. —Ex, SCISSORINGS. When a young woman tells a_ clerk 1n a shoestore that she is not prepared to try on shoes, it means that she has a hole in her stocking. lia man is healthy he can afford te take chances on health food. that self made man is sometimes unmade by t sometimes happens woman. The less religion a man has the more he thinks his wife ought to have When trouble drives a man to drink he begins to look around for more trouble. And what a lot of happiness there would be inthis dizzy old world if love would only remain blind after marriage. Although the man who doesn’t pay his debts may be gone, he isn’t for gotten, When nature neglects to make fool of a man it gives a woman chance. If we could only induce the three- ball merchant to accept our hopes collateral for a small loan! as It’s up to the fatted calf to hike of for the tall tmber when he sees the prodigal son enter the kitchen door. Anxious: Lovely chicken salad may be made by adding chopped veal to anything lett over from dinner. “I know what my wife is going to give me for Christmas.” “Did she tell you?” “No. But all the neighbors are talking about it.” “Is thata fight in the kitchen’® asked the customer. “No, sah. Dat noise is merely de cook pounding yonh steak, sah.” He is a wise man who knows his own napkin in a boarding house. Matrimonal packages are not al- ways what they are tied up to be. Even whena girl dosen’t wanta young man to kiss her it makes her mad if he dosen’t want to.