Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 26, 1913, Page 24

be PAGE FOUR FINANCIAL CONDITION. Annets. ash in Treasury to credit of County Funds .... Taxes levied for County purposes year 1912 211,183.12 Uncollected County taxes and penaltiesyear 1911 11,212.50 TGncollected County taxes, penalties andinterest for 1910 and prior years : 15,000.00 County Court House and Grounds 65,000.00 County Jail and Sheriff's Residence. 40,000.00 7,500.00 Furniture and fixtures County Poor Farm and buildings. 12,000.00 County Fair grounds ........ 10,000.00 County Pest House 300.00 Tool and implement shed and road tools and machinery . 1,000.00 Ditch liens sees 17,684.59 Notes and mortgage loans.. 11,500.00 State Ditch Bonds purchased by County 3,067.95 A. A. Kremer notes and mortgages. «+ » 13,900.00 A. A. Kremer deeds to undivided \% of Lot 2, Sec, 19-55-25 an Lots 5 and 6, Block 51, Plat of Grand Rapids ...........++++++ 300.00 TOtal ....cccecceccereccesevceees te eeeeees ceeeecsees wececenee $570,295.82 Liabilities. Mounty Jail Bonds ......cccecececccccecccccee seeeeecene saseeeees $ 24,938.80 Court House Bonds . 8,000.00 Wunding Bonds ...... 78,000.00 Read and Bridge Bonds. 31,000.00 State Ditch No. 57 Bonds. 3,067.95 Judicial Ditch No. 1 Bond 13,000.00 Outstanding warrants .... 5,937.50 Amount unpaid ON CONTFACTS....--eeeeeeseeeee eeeeteeene woe 23,465.53 Total $184,341.78 Mxcess of Assets over Liabilities 385,954.04 Total ......ccccccccccccccccccscceceescess eccssesens cocccccces $570,295.82 TAX RATES FOR 1912 | | | Total Sch. | State} Co. Town| Sch. | Tax Dist. | Tax | Tax Tax | Tax | Rate | Mills i) -| 1 | 3.58} 812 15.40 | 15.70 | 42.80 -| 1 | 3.58) 812 16.80 | 15.70 | 44.20 ARBO -| 1 | 3:68 | 812 15.80 | 15.70 | 43.20 BEARVILLE _ -| 1 | 3.58} 812 11. 15.70 | 39.30 BIGFORK -___ -| 1 | 3.58 | 812 26.10 | 15.70 | 53.50 BASS BROOK -| 1 | 3.58 | 812 14.20 | 15.70 | 41.60 BASS LAKE. | 1 | 3.68) 812 12.90 | 15.70 | 40.30 BALSAM-.- -| 1 | 358) 812 38.30 | 15.70 | 65.70 BALSAM.__ -| 2 | 358 | 812 38.30 | 7.70 | 57.70 BLACKBERR -| 1. | 3.58 | 812 24.60 | 15.70 | 52.00 CARPENTER -| 1 | 3.58] &12 12.40 | 15.70 | 39.80 -| 1 | 3.58) 812 22.00 | 15.70 | 49.40 -| 5 | 3.58} 8.12 22.00 7.00 | 40.70 -| 6 | 358} 8.12 22.00 | 32.70 | 66.40 -| 1 | 3.58 | 8.12 15.70 | 15.70 | 43.10 -| 1 | 3.58) 812 8.10 | 15.70 | 35.50 -| 2 | 3.58 | 8.12 8.10 | 7.70 | 27.50 -| 1 | 3.58} 8.12 9.40 | 15.70 | 36.80 -| 11 | 3.68 | 9.12 9.40 | 23.30 | 44.40 1.} 3.58 | 8.12 13.60 | 15.70 | 41.00 1 | 3.58 | 8.12 5,00 | 15.70 | 32.40 2 | 3.58 | 8.12 5.00 | 7.70 | 24.40 1 | 3.58} 8.12 15.00 | 15.70 | 42.40 1 | 3.58} 8.12 11.80 | 15.70 | 39.20 2 | 3.58 | 812 2.30 | 7.70 | 21.70 6 | 3.58} 8.12 12.30 | 32.70 | 56.70 MOOSE PARK_ 1 } 3.58) 8.12 14.70 | 15.70 | 42.10 MARCELL 6 | 3.58 | 8.12 12.90 | 32.70 | 57.30 NORE _____ 1 | 3.58} 8.12 | 8.20 | 15.70 | 35.60 NASHWAUK - 2 | 3.58 |-8.12 2.00 | 7.70 | 21.40 NASHWAUK 9 | 3.58} 812 2.00 | 11.10 | 24.80 OTENEAGEN 6 | 3.58 | 8.12 12.60 | 32.70 | 57.00 POPPLE._- 1 | 3.58 | 8.12 9.40 | 15.70 | 36.80 rr 1 | 3.58} 812 17.30 | 15.70 | 44.70 SPANG ____ 1 | 3.58 | 8.12 23.20 | 15.70 | 50.60 SAND LAKE _ 6 | 3.58 | 8.12 15.00 | 32.70 | 59.40 TROUT LAKE _ 1 | 3.58 | 8.12 14.90 | 15.70 | 42.30 TROUT LAKE 2 | 3.58 | 812 14.90 |_ 7.70 | 34.30 ‘THIRD RIVER - 1 | 3.58 | 8.12 10.20 | 15.70 | 37.60 WIRT . 1 | 3.58 12.00 | 15.70 | 39.40 6 | 3.58 12.00 | 32.70 | 56.40 1 | 3.58 11.20 | 15.70 | 38.60 1 | 3.58 15.70 | 27.40 UNORGANIZED _ 5 | 3.58 | 7.00 | 18.70 UNORGANIZED 6 | 3.58 32.70 | 44.40 UNORGANIZED _ 0 | 3.58 | 26.00 | 37.70 c Sch. | S Co. Vil. | Te Sch. Te = ch. | State . il. |Town| Sch. | Tax Name of Village | Dist. | Tax | Tax | Tax'| Tax | Tax| Rate Mills 2 | 8.58 | 8.12 | 28.80} 2.30| 7.70} 50.50 1 | 3.58 | 8.12 26.10 | 15.70 | 53.50 1 | 3.58 | 8.12 | 25.00 | 14.20 | 15.70 | 66.60 2 | 3.58 | 812] 9.00) 230) 7.70} 30.70 2 | 3.58 | 8.12 | 37.00} 5.00) 7.70) 61.40 6 | 3.58 | 812} 1.02} 8.28 | 32.70 | 58.70 4 1 | 3.58 | 8.12 | 32.20} 8.10) 15.70 | 68.70 2 | 3.58 | 8.12 2.30 | 7.70 | 21.70 9 | 8.58 {| 812] 9.70} 2.00 | 11.10 | 34.50 2 | 3.58} 8.12 8.10 | 7.70 | 27.50 2 | 3.48 | 8.12 | 5.60} 5.00)” 7.70 | 30.00 9 | 8.58 | 8.12 | 14.50} 2.00 | 11.10 | 39.30 2 | 3.58 | 812} 6.60) 2.30) 7.70 | 28.30 1 | 3.58 | 3.12 | 16.90 15.70 | 44.30 6 | 3.58 | 8.12 32.70 | 44.40 c= = - “ The foregoing statement, prepared by the County Auditor, is hereby approved by this Board, respectfully submitted to the tax- payers of Itasca County, Minnesota, and ordered published as pro- wWided by law. Dated at Grand Rapids, this 6th day of January, 1913. | C. M. KING, Chairman. ] JAMES PASSARD, \ ANDY NELSON, M. O’BRIEN, JNO. L. SHELLMAN, County Commissioners of Itasca County, Minn. “M. A. SPANG, (Seal) County Auditor. Subscribe for GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW All the News All the Time $150,647.66 Soldiers Who Foresaw Their Fate on the Eve of Battle. KNEW THEIR TIME HAD COME. It Was Not Mere Fancy, but Grim Pre- monition, That Moved These Men to Read Their Own Death Warrants—A Case of Red Tape and a Bullet. Premonitions get little attention, and those who have them little sympathy in these days. During the war, how- ever, a premonition came to be looked upon as a most unwelcome guest. In the company I went out with there were two Garfield brothers..The young- er, a quiet, modest fellow who. spent his leisure time writing letters and reading, never joined in camp amuse- ments, told a few of bis more intimate friends while the regiment was in camp opposite Fredericksburg, Va., in 1862, that he would be wounded in the first battle he went into and die from the effects of it. The boys laugh- ed at him and tried to cheer him up, but is was of no use, he never changed his mind. Aug. 28, 1862, was the first battle of the regiment. Young Gar- field was as brave as the bravest at Gainesville. “This is my first and last fight, boys, and I shall do my duty,” is what he said when the regiment plunged into that battle, in which the Iron brigade of four regiments and two regiments of Doubleday’s brigade, the Fifty-sixth Pennsylvania and the Seventy-sixth New York, met “Stonewall” Jackson's sixteen regiments and held them in check for four hours, our brigade alone losing 800 of its 2,500 men. “I’m hit; goodby, boys,” said Gar- field, as he fell out and went to the rear. “Yours is a flesh wound in the calf of the leg and in a few days will be all right,” said the surgeon to Garfield. “Tell my parents I did not shirk my duty,” pleaded the poor boy. And he lay there without a word of complaint and died. Near him was “Kicker” Finch of the same company with a shattered knee, a much worse wound than Garfield’s. | Finch demanded attention. He forced the nurses to keep his wound bathed in cold water, and if they were at all neg- lectful he swore at them. Finch lived to kick about poor hardtack and- salt junk cut from dead horses, but Garfield is sleeping in the Bull Run cemetery. Frank King was a rollicking young fellow in the same company, generous, brave and popular, a singer who always drew an audience. Like a hero he fought at Gainesville, Second Bull Run, South Mountain,’ Antietam, Fred- ericksburg and Fitzhigh Crossing. “Lime, this finishes my fighting,” was what Frank King said to Lime White, a comrade, just as the Sixth Wisconsin day at Gettysburg. “Killed in battle” is what the orderly entered after Frank’s name that night “Have all the fun with me you de- sire, gentlemen; it is your last chance,” was what Major Phil Plummer of the Sixth Wisconsin said to a company of officers who were chaffing him about being so very sober the day before Grapt moved into the Wilderness in 1864. Forty-eight hours later they roll- ed his blanket about him and buried him where he fel). Nothing could con- vince him that he would not be killed in that battle, though he had escaped in a dozen other great battles. Captain Rollin P. Converse, who had won his way from the ranks and gone through a score of great battles, went into the first day’s fight of the Wilder- ness, May 5, 1864, confident that he would do his last fighting that day. He never fought more bravely. They left him on the field with a thigh cruelly torn and death looking him squarely in the eye. A Confederate surgeon told Converse that his leg would have to come off. “That would not save my life. so let it alone,” was his quiet reply. But the surgeon began to arrange for an ampu- tation. “Let that leg alone,” said Converse. The surgeon paid no attention to the wounded captain until Converse had taken out his revolver and pointed it at him. There was no amputation, and the next day they buried Converse with both legs. Lieutenant John Timmons of Com- pany C was entitled to muster out July 16, 1864, his three years having ended, but red tape intervened and delayed the order® Days and weeks passed without the word which would take him out of the service. On the night of Aug. 16, 1864, an order came for the regiment to march. A march then, in front of Petersburg, meant a battle. “This is tough,” said Timmons. “I |ought to have been mustered out and gone home a month ago. In a day or two we shall have a fight, and I shall go to my long home—be killed.” The first of the Weldon railroad bat- tles, Aug. 18, John Timmons was killed —died of red tape and a bullet.—Chi- cago Record-Herald. His Conscience. “Oh, yes, he’s a very fine alderman.” “Why, I’m told he can be bribed.” “Of course. But he has some com science about it.” ‘ “How is that?” “Why. you can buy him to support a measure, but he won't stay boughbt.”— Cleveland Plain Dealer. To do just one thing at a time has led many a harassed soul into quietness ‘acid order and rest. te, swung into line for a charge the first j Since blue and probably gray eyed parents have no brown pigment ih the outer surface of the iris they cannot transmit brown to that portion of their children’s eyes. This absent character- istic may be one that has been lost or it may never have been acquired. It is known in heredity language as a re- cessive. Hence, to repeat, two reces- sives produce in their offspring only their recessive condition. The hereditary behavior of brown eye color, however, is very different. In brown eyes actual pigment occurs in the iris. Here there is something ac- cumulated to hand on down to subse- quent generations. The amount that can be transmitted, however, depends on one’s own hereditary history as well as that of one’s consort. If both of Smith’s parents belong to brown eyed strains, then Smith can have only brown eyes. And since Smith has been given, as it were, a double dose of brown his eyes will be dark brown. Smith will have, in his. turn, only brown eyed children, whatever may be the color of his wife’s eyes. In the lan- guage of hereditary, Smith’s brown eye color dominates over blue or gray. When Smith’s brown eye color has been derived from one parent only, then his.own eyes will tend to be light- er in color and only half of his germ cells will have the potentiality for mak- ing brown eyes. Hence, if he marries a blue or gray eyed wife, only half of his children will have brown eyes, and a light brown, too, because of two gen- erations of dilution: In case Smith’s wife also has brown eyes derived from one of her parents only, then three out of four of their children will -have brown eyes, but only one of the three ‘will get a double dose of brown; hence Smith’s brown eyed. children will not all transmit brown in the same degree. ‘Thus it is possible for.a brown eyed parent to have one-half or one-quarter of his childrem blue or gray eyed: But it is never possible for two blue or gray eyed parents to have brown eyed children.—Independent. FREEZING WATER. Conditions That Cause the Bursting or Cracking of Ice. Ice never bursts from freezing. As soon as the liquid of which it is com- posed is frozen solid expansion ceases. The cracking or bursting of ice is brought about in this way: When wa- ter is subjected to extreme cold ice crystals will gradually form on its sur- face until the same are covered with a thin coat of what appears to be wet snow. From this outer coating of ice crystals all subsequent freezing goes downward, the ice thickening accord- ing to the degree of cold. The water | which is being converted into ice now begins to expand, creating a pressure upon the unfrozen water below. This pressure is both downward and out- ward, and in case the water under ob- servation is in a vessel the sides and bottom of the receptacle supply the re- sistance. ‘ As the freezing process continues the pressure upon the confined water and air in the interior of the bulk increases until something yields. If the vessel be stronger than the ice stratum that has formed over the surface the layer of ice will be bent upward at the cen- ter, that being the weakest point, on account of the fact that the outer edges of the congegled mass are frozen fast to the sides of the vessel in which the experiment is being made. In this condition the’ center of the ice contin- ues to rise or bulge until it bursts from the resistance of the water below. Could the vessel be tapped from below and the water drawn off no amount of freezing would be sufficient to crack or bulge the ice layer on the surface. At a Disadvantage. “A newly married man always has great confidence in the superior wis- dom of his wife.” “Naturally,” replied Miss Cayenne. “A man who has been accustomed to eating with plain knives, forks and spoons is likely to feel pretty humble and subdued while he is being instruct- ed in the use of all the silverware that came with the wedding presents.”— Washington Star. Breaking It Gently. “Whom have you there in tow?” “This is Rip Van Winkle. He just woke up.” “Why guard him so carefully?” “Well, we're letting him see the wo- men’s styles gradually, don’t you know.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. Not Encouraging. “Madam, do you think you can use your influence with your: husband to induce him to support me in the com- ing campaign?” 3 : “I don’t know, sir. I’ve never yet succeeded in inducing him to support me.”—Baltimore American. Stingy. s “She’s the cheapest woman I know of.” “Why do you say that?” “The other day we got on a car to- gether, and I insisted on paying my own fare, and she let me.”—Detroit Free Press. ‘Pecan Nuts. Try cracking pecan nuts by placing them on end in the nut cracker. One vigorous crushing of the cracker will split the nut open through the center. Giving Advice. Sillicus—Do you ever give advice? ‘Cynicus—Not unless I’m pretty sure it won't be followed.—Philadelphia Rec- ant on the Sidehill Creeper. Paul Smith, the famous Adirondack guide and story teller. once met his match. There was an Englishman, supposedly with the proverbia! Eng- lish sense of humor, who went to Smith’s for some deer shooting. The morning after bis arrival he started out with a gun alone. As he left the tamp Paul told him to beware of the” “side hill creepers.” “What’s a side hill creeper?” asked the Englishman. “Well,” said Paul, “it’s an animal that lives on the side of a hill, and as its right legs are long and its left legs short it can only «run on sloping ground. They are very ferocious, and if one starts after you you must run up or down hill, as on account of its deformity it cannot catch you when you do that.” The Englishman shouldered. his gun and went out. About night time he re- turned. The guide said to him, “Well, I see you dodged the creepers, all right.” “No, I met one,” said the Englisb- man. : “Yes?” said Paul. get away from him?” “I ran uphill,” said the jhman. “You shouldn’t have done t. You could make better time running down- hill.” “I know it,” said the lishman, “but you see I met a hooked tail bear, and I just naturally had to run up- hill.” “How’s that?” asked Paul. “Well, you know when a hooked tail bear gets started running the only way. he can stop is to wrap his hooked tail around a tree. If I had run down- hill he could have stopped, but when I ran uphill why every time he hook- ed his tail around a tree he just tum- bled over backward, and so I ‘got away.” Paul owned himself beaten and when the Englishman left refused to accept any money for his board.—New York Herald. BURNING WOMEN ALIVE. A Punishment That Was Abolished In England In 1790, The horrible punishment of burning women alive seems to have existed in Saxon England, but perhaps only in the case of slaves. Under the Norman rulers any woman, bond or free, who killed ber husband was burned alive. and the same punishment for this crime ‘and also for high treason and even for coining and other minor of- fenses continued or arose from time to time through the second and third periods until it was abolished by act of parliament in 1790, the last actual execution of this kind having, however. taken place six years earlier. The whipping of women for various offenses continued even later. Public whipping was not abandoned until 1817, and cases of private whipping oc- curred as late as 1820. There can be no doubt, we think, that the savage human instinct of cruelty had something to do with the barbarous punishments above mention- ed. As the old Roman public longed for the carnage of the circus, as the Spanish populace crowded to theauto- da-fe in the flourishing days of the in- quisition, so the lower (perhaps not only the lower) strata of English na- tionality took delight in witnessing tor- tures which in all probability were de- vised and kept up partly for their en- tertainment. Judge Jeffreys in sen- tencing a woman to be whipped is re- ported to have said: ‘ “Hangman, I charge you to pay par- ticular attention to this lady. Scourge her till her blood runs down. It is Christmas time, a cold time for madam to strip. See that you burn her shoul- fers thoroughly.”—Cornhill Magazine. “How did you The Bright Guide. It was a party of visitors seeing the sights in Pittsburgh that finally enter- ed the conservatory presented to the city by Mr. Phipps. The curator while showing them around was called away on business and left the visitors in charge of one of the clerks. They came to a beautiful statue which was admired immensely. It was of trans- lucent marble. He pointed out the ex- cellences of the statue, told the name of the sculptor and showed it from ev- ery viewpoint. One asked, “Alabaster, isn’t it?’ “No,” he said, “Venus.”— Argonaut. Spanish Women’s Hands, The hands of a Spanish woman have a classic beauty, and their movements are incomparable. Such hands cannot be described; they can only be ad- mired. When they manipulate a fan or roll a cigarette, when they raise a skirt’ or arrange a mantilla, it ig al- ways done with infinite grace. A Spanish woman alone knows: how to use her hands as they truly should be used.—New York Sun. A Settler. “Yes,” said Mr. Cumrox earnestly, “but what convinces you that the duke Joves our daughter deeply and devot- edly?” “The fact,” replied his wife icily, “that he is willing to accept you as @ father-in-law.”— Washington Star. Defining a Canard, Willie—Paw, what is a canard? Paw —aA canard is when a newspaper prints a statement that a politician who is a friend of the pee-pul has had his pants pressed.—Cincinnati Enquirer. He Knew, Little Brother— What’s eitquette? Bigger Brother—It’s saying “No; thank you,” when you want to holler “Gim- me!”—Judge. “Have you ever had any experi ‘with snakes, Uncle Henry?” asked one} of the listeners. “Waal, I did have a queer thing hap- pen to me about thirty year ago,” Un-| cle Henry responded. “The minister| happened in to dinner one day, and| Ann had me go to the chicken yard and kill our last rooster. While he was floppin’ round, as chickens do} with their heads off, he started up I'd heerd tell, though, how they’ together again, if ye leave pieces layin’ round, so I jest took the} piece with Mr. Snake’s head on it and burned it in the stove. “Waal, we was enjoyin’ our unusual, and the minister was ‘callin’ for.another helpin’ o’ chicken, when a rooster began to crow out in the chick- en yard. f j “‘Land’s sakes, Henry,’ says Sary Ann, ‘what rooster’s that? I’m sure the only one we've got is right here on the table—and he’s in no condition to ‘crow.’ “The minister and me, we hurried right out into the chicken yard, and gure enough we heerd another crow, sort o’ husky like, before we got there. “Waal, it was simple enough when ye stop tothink. The jints of that snake had ail'j’ined together again, and when they couldn’t find their own head they jest took the rooster’s, which I'd left layin’ handy.” - “There was a moment's silence: When the conversation was resumed it no longer dealt with snakes. — Youth’s Companion. SHE WANTED A MASTER. © The Way a Woman of Montenegro Se< lected a Husband. | The Montenegrin woman wishes not only to be the mother of men, but the wife of a man. She holds to a high led husband, to one who will be rin his own house. Here is the story of the wooing of Gordanne was the beautiful daughter of an innkeeper. Her suitors were many, and it was time for her to wed. She promised to make her choice among three suitors and summoned them alt to her father’s house. First it was a youth gloved era- vatted who during a week end at Cat- taro had acquired the elegancies of city life. “Excuse me,” he said, with a po- lite doffing of his hat as she met him at the doorway. “Will you let me pass?” Gordanne stepped aside, but as. she did so she murmured, “You -will never be my husband.” The second, a comfortable farmer, was less polite. “Let me in,” he said, pushing past the girl. “Neither shall you ever call me wife,” said the girl to herself. s Then came the third, who said noth- ing, but, seizing Gordanne by the arm, flung her aside and entered the house as if already its master. “That,” sigh- ed the innkeeper’s daughter, “is a true Montenegrin. He is the husband for me.” Of such stuff, after all, are the mothers of heroes made—Paris Letter; in London Telegraph. The Domestic Economist. There are other housewives who as calculating as she who is celebrated! in the Manchester Guardian, but not, many of them have the daring to carry} off their frugality so triumphantly. An excellent Manchester lady fre- quently invites her friends to tea, but} she does not furnish ber table la ‘. When her guests have eaten all the bread and butter and cookies and real- ize that the meal is over, she looks brightly at the empty dishes. “Well, now,” she says, in triumphant tones, “haven't I judged your appetites; exactly?” Left Handed Drinkers. A commercial traveler says that can identify members of his profession in the hotel dining rooms by their habit) of drinking their coffee “left handed.” He says that many traveling men have} adopted this habit because when they drink “left handed” they drink from the side of the cup that isn’t generally used. This is one of those’ customs ‘the| value of which will lessen as it be comes more general—or as dishwashing, becomes more of a fine art.—Exchange. Right Up to Date. “In regard to the custody of the child,” said the judge in handing dowa his decision in the divorce case, “Til let the young lady decide for herself.” “Oh,” replied the worldly wise young thing, “if mamma is really going to get all that alimony I guess I'll go with her.”—Brooklyn Life. Sacrifice For Art’s Sake, “You say you have devoted your life to art,” said the man who tries to be polite, even when surprised. “Yes,” replied Mr. Cumrox. “I have devoted myself to an effort to become rich enough to own a gallery of genu- ine old masters.”—Washington Star. More Trouble Coming. Ambulance Surgeon—Cheer up! You 't wrecked machine)—I don’t know about that. That was my wife’s:at —Chicago News. are not going to die! Motorist (looking ~ a%