Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 7, 1913, Page 10

PAGE EIGHT COLERAINE STRING FIEND IS ACTIVE Exagerrted Reports of Fires in This Section Are Hurting Development. The Duluth Herald’s correspon- dent at Coleraine is suffering from a too-vvidid imagination. In last Thursday’s paper he has a report to the effect that the Great North- ern -stations at Marble and Gunn had been destroyed by forest fires, and that at the last-named place the section houses and water tank had also been burned. The facts were that while there was a rath- er bad fire in the neighborhood of Marble, the citizens of that town easily took care of it so that no sulted, while nothing at tion was even near a fire. ese reports of forest fires are about the most senseless and harm- ful things that can be sent abroad concerning this section. Every year the country from one end to the other is flooded with news- paper stories of damage done to property and loss of life in North- ern Minnesota, due to forest fires and the effect is to freighten peo- ple away from here. It is the poor est kind of advertising a new coun- try can have, as is the case nine times out of ten, the reports have no foundation, in fact, the circulat- ing of the damaging matter is ab- solutely inexcusable. Caught a Sunday Sinner Deputy Gamewarden C. V. Smith devoted his time last Sunday to the investigation of fish law vio- lators, instead of attending Sab- bath services, and as a result G. Gouther of Bovey, was caught with an abbreviated pike in his posses- sion. Justice Franti, of the Bovey municipal court, imposed a fine of $10 and costs on the offender. Forest Fires Destroy School Forest fires destroyed a school house in the Third River country last Thursday, causing a loss to the district of about $700. A. A. Stone- field, a farmer near there, lost his residence the same time. Loss, about $300. Itasca county has been particularly fortunate in respect of foerst fires thus far this year, but two or thre instances having been reported where any damage has been done to farm property. Notice to Building Contractors Sealed bids will be received by the board of Common School Dis- trict No. 1, at Grand Rapids, Minn., up until two o’clock p. m. of Mon- day May 12, 1913, for building a two-room frame school house at} Blackberry station. Plans and specifications for said building may be obtained from any member of the School board. Each bid must be accompanied b | a certified check of 5 percent of the amount of said bid. | The board reserves the right to} reject any and all bids. J. D. DORAN, Clerk. Prediction The Wear-U-Well Shoe Co. puts in over 600 stores with practical tailors, cleaners and pressers—be- cause there is no waste in business if in connection with these lines. No clerks standing around. When not waiting on shoe cus- tomers—back to the workshop they! go and produce something by actua work. Everybody must wear and shoes. No charging $5.00 for $3.00 shoes here. Every shoe is stamped on the sole either $1.98, $2.48 or $2.98, thereby protecting the customer. No annual sales here of job lot stocks or fire sale stuff, but plain shoes direct from factory to you— cutting out all middlemen. Get wise and give the shoes a trial. clothes A Bit of Sarcasm. “Is that your regular suit of clothes, Josh?" asked Farmer Corntossel of his son. “It is. Correct thing right from a fashion plate.” “Well, well! I thought mebbe you had to wear it because some o’ your college chums is bazin’ you.”—Wash- ington Star. Henpecked. “We're terribly henpecked, pa, ain’t we?” “Why, what do you mean, my boy?” “Well, ma makes me wash my hands before I come to the supper table. and she makes you wash yours before you hook her up the back.”—Detroit Free Press. LOST EXPLORERS. Pathos and Tragedy Fill the Pages of Their Diaries. SOME FAMOUS LAST RECORDS. The Journals of Captain Scott, De Long, Livingstone, Franklin and Oth- ers Are Mute Testimonials of Their Heroic Sacrifices For Science. A peculiar and pathetic interest at- plorers, dying alone and unaided amid \icy wildernesses or in the steaming depths of tropical jungles. The diary kept by the gallant Cap- |tain Scott teems with tragic touches, |but it also has its béautiful and its | heroic side. No more splendid instance of magnificent self sacrifice has been recorded than the action of the dis- abled Captain Oates in seeking volun- tary death in the blizzard so as not to be a burden on his surviving compan- ions. The world is richer in the possession of facts such as these, which is why the last diaries of men dying in similar circumstances have always been ar- dently sought and carefully treasured. It was, for example, in order to try to recover the papers belonging to the lost arctic explorer Mylius Erich- sen that Captain Mikkelsen recently spent two awful years among the icy solitudes of northeast Greenland. He failed in bis quest, and be and his solitary companion came near to losing their own lives. These journals of poor Erichsen, if they are ever found. will doubtless tell a similarly stirring story to that left behind by Scott. Until then there is only one record that closely parallels it, and that is the diary left by the American, De Long, who, with other survivors from the arctic exploring ship Jeannette, perished amid the fro- zen wastes of northeastern Siberia in the winter of 1881. De Long’s diary. which was recov- ered and has been published. might almost be a duplicate in parts of that kept by poor Scott. Only in De Long’s case the tragedy was even more appalling than in died frem starvation amd exposure. The last entry reads as follows: “One hundred and fortieth day—Boyd and Gortz died during the night. Mr. Col- lins dying.” The gallant De Long was then left with but one companion, Dr. Ambler, the medica! officer to the expedition, for the deaths of the other men had been previously recorded, and doubt- less the two last of the survivors died that day or the next. At all events, the journal ended abruptly at this point. By far the most dreadful tragedy of arctic exploration was the loss of the Franklin expedition, when the ill fated officers and men of the two explor- ing ships. Erebus and Terror, 130 in all, perished. Curiously enough, though many relies of tie fll fated commander Sir John Franklin were recovered by search parties and are now preserved in the museum attach- ed to the Greenwich hospital, none of his diaries or personal papers were ever found. One single written record of the lost expedition remains to us. It is in the form of a sheet torn from a small pocket diary, and these are the words it contains: “April 25, 1848.—Terror and Erebus were abandoned. Sir John Franklin died on June 11, 1847, and the total loss by deaths up to this date nine officers and fifteen men.” This precious scrap of paper was dis- covered in a cairn on King William’s island in the year 1858. There was no signature, but the handwriting was afterward identified as that of Cap- tain Fitzjames, one of Sir John's of- ficers. In the tragic history of exploration no briefer record than this exists of a disaster so appalling in its magnitude, although Burke and Wills, who first crossed Australia, left behind them only a few tattered leaves from an old pocketbook to tell the story of how they and their companions had lain down in the desert to die. Of all the many valuable and inter- esting documents left behind by lost explorers, however, none can vie in David Livingstone, who died, worn out by hunger and privation, at Tlala, in central Africa, May 1, 1873. These were brought down to the coast, to- gether with his body, by his faithful black “boys” and were published in December, 1874. 3 They told of vast and farreaching discoveries and explorations undertak- en under almost, inconceivable condi- tions of hardship and privation. In fact, Livingstone literally laid down his life for his country since to his pio- neer enterprise is largely due the fact that so great a part of Africa is today colored red upon the map.—London An- swers. Where the Benefit Was. Widow's Daughter—Mamma, why did you tell Mrs. Lamode that 1 am only eighteen when I am really twenty- four? Widow—Because eighteen is six years under twenty-four, my dear. Literature. “Do, you consider literature ap art or a science?” asked the very serious girl. “Neither,” replied Mr. Penwiggle. “It’s a great big gamble, in which any- body is permitted to write his own Jottery ticket."— Washington Star. Daughter—Yes, | know, but surely 1 don’t need the benefit of those six years at my age, do I? Widow—Not at all, 1 do. my child, but ‘There are proper dignity and propor- tion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.—Marcus Aurelius. taches to the last records of lost ex- | Scott's, for his party consisted of no | fewer than thirteen men. and these all | importance witb the last journals of ABOUT THE STATE News of Especial Interest to Minnesota Readers, APPROPRIATIONS CUT DOWK Governor Eberhart Strikes Out Sever | Items Aggregating Over Two Hun. dred Thousand Dollars. Governor Eberhart vetoed seven ap propriations totalling $218,000 fron: the general appropriation bills passed by the legislature in its closing days. In a statement supporting his action the governor protests against extrava- gant appropriations by the legislature and urges more economy in the hand- ling of state funds. “I do not wish to be understood as unduly criticising the legislature,” says the governor, “but the time has come when the people of the state must study the questions of state gov- ernment and taxation more closely be- fore we can enter successfully upon a period of retrenchment and econ- omy.” The following items were stricken from the bills: Criminal insane building for’ hos- pital at St. Peter—appropriation avail- able in 1915, $75,000. One cottage for the inebriate hos- pital-at Willmar—appropriation avail- able in 1914, $45,000. One cell wing for the reformatory at St. Cloud—appropriation available in 1915, $30,000. Purchase of additional lands for state institutions—available for year ending July 1915, $10,000. The special contingent of the state treasurer for interest on temporary loans—available July 31, 1915, $25,000. For expenses of the drainage ¢om- mission in carrying on topographical and hydrographical surveys of the wa- ter sheds of the state for the year ending July 31, 1915, anly, $13,000. For the purpose of buying standing timber and lands in Itasca state park for the, year ending July 31, 1915, to- tal, $20,000. Commission Settles Minnesota Lake and Rail Cases. Two important cases of vital con- cern to shippers in St. Paul, Minne- apolis, Duluth and other Minnesota cities were decided by the interstate commerce commission at Washing- ton. They are known as the lake and rail cases and embody questions | that have been in controversy between | Northwestern shippers and the rail- roads for a long time. jtion of the, shippers is sustained in every instance. The first decision involved proposed advances in class and commodity rates from points in trunk line and central freight associations’ territory lake. The second decision involved advances in class rates from points in Pennsylvania and New York to St. Paul and other destinations. | The complainants were the St. Paul Association of Commerce, the Minne- |apolis Civic and Commerce associa- tion, the Commercial club of Duluth and others. GIFT OF $1,000,000 HIGHWAY |Wealthy Man to Finance Parkway From Duluth to Two Harbors. Along the rugged shore of Lake Superior, stretching from the heart of Duluth to Two Harbors, will be con- structed this summer what is expected to be one of the most beautiful parked driveways in the. world. | The improvement, costing approxi- | mately $1,000,000, will be a gift to the public of the two cities by a Duluth millionaire, whose name is withheld Duluth’s new city commission, under the direction of Mayor W. I. Prince, has the preliminary arrangements for the acquisition of the right of way in course of preparation. The boulevard will embrace London road for its full length, going through parts of St. Louis and Lake counties, a distance of nearly thirty miles. ocrats of Murder. in the preached the funeral of the death of trict and state, which he declared “had not died a natural death but had been murdered at the hands of the Democratic majority.” Mr. Anderson referred to the change in the linen schedule in the Underwood tariff bill whereby this product was placed in competition with the Irish and French product upon unequal terms. The house completed the agricul- tural, wines and spirits, cotton, flax, hemp and jute schedules. The Demo- cratic majority rolled steadily on, non- chalantly voting down every one of dozens of amendments presented by the Republicans and Progressives. Woman Burned to Death. Mrs. Wilhelmina Mercer, aged fifty- one, burned in a fire that destroyed her home at Newport, a suburb of St. Paul, died a few hours later. Her two grandchildren narrowly escaped a similar fate, being rescued by neigh- DECISION FAVORS SHIPPERS | The conten- j to Minneapolis by way of rail and , Minnesota Congressman Accuses Dem- Clad in solemn black and speaking in lugubrious tones of mourning Rep- resentative Anderson of Minnesota, lower branch of congress. the infant flax industry in his dis- Easy, No Matter How Freakish, if It Hits the Popular Fancy. STYLES WITH ODD ORIGINS. The Old Masculine Trick of Tying the Hair Behind Was the Result of a Childish Prank, and the Beauty Spot Grew From a Boil on a Lady’s Cheek. That many of the fashions which be- came famous in their day and have come down to our own were due to chance or accident is now a matter of history. Interesting are the stories | told of the odd origin of certain styles whicb an. unsuspecting world probably thought were intentionally chosen for their beauty or comfort. pecially noted for their sheeplike fol- lowing of an idea introduced by the ‘reigning monarch, when frequently | that idea was evolved to conceal one of the ruler’s physical defects. One of the kings of France came to the throne a child of ten. He wore his hair in long ringlets all about the head. Immediately men and women coiffed themselves likewise. The same mon- arch was bald at thirty, and, being a lover of all that was beautiful and feminine, he ordered the elaborate wig which was taken ap and reveled in during many reigns. As for the hair being caught in the | back and held with a small bow of | ribbon, the style beloved of men sev- eral hundred years ago, little girls are | said to have originated the idea, and | accidentally. ‘One day a coart leader | happened to be visiting. and bis hos- tess was late in arriving in the salon. The young man fell asleep, and the two children of the noble lady, creeping in, saw the guest and to play a trick tied his hair all together. The little girls, fearing to be caught, ran away, and the young man never knew of the curious picture the back of his wig presented. Other visitors discovered the garnish, laughed at the ribbon, and the young count declared barefacedly that be had so fastened his hair and meant to keep it always so from his neck and shoulders. Within a few days the entire nobility found the ' scheme so good they adopted the idea. The pannier was introduced by a | queen to cover a misplaced hip bone. It was ap actress who finally threw the pannier aside after it bad been fasb- ionable half a century. One evening just before she was to appear on the stage the actress discovered that one pannier was entirely drenched in oil. The dress, !t was thought, was spoiled | by a rival. The actress and ber maid quickly thought the matter over, and both to- | gether quickly tore off the offending member of the costume. The actress donned the dress, but of course it pre sented a ridiculous appearance. So ‘the other pannier was removed, and the slim young woman appeared on ‘the stage more supple and graceful than ever. The audience at first gasp- ed, then admired, and the next day ‘all of London (the scene took place | there) decided to imitate the actress and her severe skirt. The origin of the beauty spot is no less interesting. The Duchess de Montmorillon suffered with a boil on mixture overnight said to be healing. In the morning she either forgot to wasb her face or did not use enough care, so the story goes, and the inat- tentive or malicious servant allowed her mistress to appear “before the world” with her face spotted. Powder- and perfumed, Montmorillon receiv- ! ed her callers, who found the black spot charming, so much so that before night they had anointed their faces with the black ointment. To come down to present times, the feather bon. was originated less than twenty years ago in Boston. In an idle moment an apprentice in a feather establishment sewed the discarded bits and ends of poor plumes together and strung them about her neck. The other girls laughed at the trimming, the head of the department found it | pretty. and the order was given that no castaways in the form of plumes be thrown in the wastebasket All parts of the plumes were kept, sewed on to a ribbon, the entire thing curled and long ribbon loops put at each end, and the feather boa was the success of the season. The uncuried plume was purely the result of an accident. The biggest race of the year, the Grand Prix d’Au- teuil, was on, and women were there dressed within an inch of their lives. A fearful rainstorm came up, and peo- ple were drenched. Piumes that had left home finely curled were wet, and each spiral stood apart. It was not pretty, the effect, but it was original. and one of the milliners, not wishing to take the trouble to have the plumes of all his customers recurled, advised them to allow the garnish to remain as it was. That week following the Grand Prix @’Auteuil saw nothing but straight spi- The courts of Europe have been es- | the cheek and put on a bit of black | In the sense of hearing numerous problems have interested the experi- mental. psychologist. Among these may be mentioned the range of sounds that can be beard by an individual— that is, the limit both above and be- low which no sound can be heard. The solution of these two problems, the determination of the upper and lower limit of sound, bas occasioned a great deal of careful work and the construction of many forms of appa- ratus, For determining the upper limit of sound for any -individual—and indi- viduals differ considerably—the Galton whistle is generally used. It consists of a tiny pipe. which is lengthened or shortened by a piston adjusted by a micrometer screw. This little instru- ment can be regulated to make a tone | which is too high for any human ear | to hear and which will finally produce | only a painful sensation. | The Galton whistle was devised by Francis Galton for his study of indi- | vidual differences, He had one of the | whistles built into the end of his cane, | and as he walked through the zoolog- | ical gardens be would blow it near the | ears of the various animals. He ad- | justed the whistle too high for bis own ear to hear, and if the various | animals responded to the sound he | knew that their upper limit was great- ‘er than that of the human ear. The ordinary human ear can detect ‘a tone whose vibration rate is at least | 25.000 vibrations per second. while the | whistle will produce 50,000 per second. ‘This upper limit varies with the age | of the individual to such an extent | that. if the upper limit at sixteen years | of age were 50,000 vibrations, at sixty | years of age it would be about 25,000 | per second.—Strand Magazine. MUTUAL IGNORANCE. Quaint Story of Dumas and Scribe, the Playwright. | §ardou had his eyes opened by the plays of Scribe. At that day it was the | fashion among the younger literary men to sneer at Scribe—as it is today, | by the way, to sneer at Sardou. Scribe | was called a “potboiler,’ a maker of mechanical! plays, a man who wrote scenes to fit scenery and a maker of plots rather than of plays. Appalling tales were told of him by unsuccessful playwrights. It was whispered that he | sucked the brains of other men, pur- chased ideas, revamped them and thus acquired the large fortune which he was then enjoying. | How they accounted for the fact that | with the ideas of unsuccessful play- | wrights he made successful plays tra- dition does not tell. But all were | agreed that Scribe was mediocre, that his success was accidental and that he was a miser. Albert Wolff gives these details of the opinions held with re- gard to Scribe in the fifties and adds this anecdote: “The only influential man I knew in Paris.” said Sardou. “was Dumas the elder. One day I said to him, ‘Won't you give me a letter of introduction to | Scribe, the playwright?’ ‘Scribe.’ said the great romancer—‘who is Scribe? I never heard of him.’ I sighed and de- termined to see Scribe without a let- ter. So I called at his house that very day and was at once received. ‘Par- | don my intrusion.’ I said, ‘but I had expected to bring a letter of introduc- tion to you from M. Alexandre Dumas, | the celebrated romancer.. ‘Dumas?’ in- terrupted Scribe. ‘Never heard of him. Who is Dumas? "—From Jerome A. | Hart's “Sardou and the Sardou Plays.” Potatoes and Power. One foresees the triumph of the po- tato, unforeseen by William Cobbett, not so much as a food, but as a means of motion. Coal is giving out: petrol is going up in price and down in pro- duction. The supply of both is limited and must come to an end, but there comes the cheer that alcohol will be the motive force of the future. Petrol and coal may give out. but the earth will always grow potatoes. Potatoes can produce alcohol, and alcohol can drive engines. In the potato we seem to have discovered the secret of per- petual motion.—London Chronicle. Horsepower of a Lightning Flash. The “horsepower” of a bolt of light- ning which struck a house in Hesse last summer has been calculated by a German scientist at no less than 50.- 000. The calculation was based upon the fact that the lightning instantly melted two large nails. An electric current of 200 amperes and 20,000 volts might, it is said. have accom- plished the work in one second, but the lightning did it in a very small fraction of a second. Switched Him Off. “I am not rich like you,” said the young man, “but I am young, strong and willing to work. May I speak to your father?” “Why not?" said the heiress. “He is constantly hiring young men with just such qualifications as you - merate.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. ! Placing the Villain. Criticus—Who is the villain of that new play at the Hamme theater? Wit- ticus—I’m not quite sure, but it must be either the man who wrote it or the man who produced it.—Chicago News. Just “Between You and I.” She—Why., her and me were the best of friends before him and her met. A child having but one arm was ing locations near Hibbing this is healthy and otherwise normally developed. The right forearm is missing. The case is the seventh of record in the United States. Both mother and the little one are do- ing nicely. The case is generally interesting to physicians and so far -as known is the first of the kind in Minnesota. | ‘SALE OF SCHOOL AND OTHER STATE LANDS State of Minnesota, State Auditor's | Office. St. Paul, April ist. 1913. Notice is hereby given that on May 19, 1913, at 10 o’clock A. M., in the of- fice of the County Auditor at Grand Rapids, Itasca County, in the State of Minnesota, I wil offer for sale cer- tain un@old state lands, and also those state lands which have reverted to the state by reason of the non-paymnet of interest. Terms: Fifteen per cent of the pur- chase price and interest on the unpaid balance from date of sale to June Ist. 1914, must be paid at the time of sale. The balance of purchase money is pay- able in whole or in part on or forty years from date of sale; the rate interest will be computed at five cent Der annum. Appraised value of timber, if anyy must also be paid at time of sale. Lands on which the interest is delin. quent may be redeemed at any time uP to the hour of Sale, or before resale to an actual purchaser. All mineral rights are reserved by the © laws of the state. Not more than 320-acres can be sol@ or contracted to be sold to any one (purchaser. Agents acting for purchasers must fur- nish affidavit of authority. Appraisers’ imeports, showing quality and kind of soil, are on file in this office. Lists of lands to be offered may be obtained of the state auditor or the state commissioner of immigration at St. Paul, and of the county auditor at above SAMUEL G. IVERSON State Auditor.. STATE OF MINNESOTA, CODNTY OF ITASCA—ss District Court, Fifteenth Judicial Dis- trict. : Anna Eloise McAllister Plaintiff. vs Allister T. McAllister Defendant. SUMMONS The State of Minnesota to the above named Defendant. You are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint of the plaintiff in the above entitled action which is {filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of the Fifteenth Judicial District, in and for" the county of Itasca, and State of Minnesota, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said com- plaint on the subscriber,’ at his office in the city of Moorehead, in Clay coun- ty, within thirty days after the service of this summons upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and, if you fail to answer the said complaint with- in the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated this 11th day of March, 1913. CHAS S. MARDEN, Attorney for Plaintiff, Moorehead Nat'l. Bank Building, Moorehead, Minnesota. Herald-Review April 23-30 May 7,14,21,28 Citation for Hearing on Petition for De- termination of Descent of Land. STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF ITASCA, in Probate Court: In the Matter of the Estate of Russell Ramsey Decedent. The State of Minnesota to all persons interested in the determination of the descent of the real estate of said dete- dent: The petition of Mrs. Kate Me- Donald having been filed in this court representing that said decedent die@ more than five years prior to the fil- ing ,thereof, leaving certain real estate in said petition described, and that no will of decedent has been proved nor administration of his estate granted in this state, and praying that the de- scent of said real estate be determined by this court; Therefore, you, and each of you, are hereby cited and required to show cause, if any you have, before this court at the Probate Court Rooms in the court house in the Village of Grand Rapids, in the County of Itasca, State of Minnesota, on the 15th day Of May, 1913, at 10 o'clock A. M., why said petition should not be granted. Witness the Judge of said court, an@ the seal thereof, this 21st day of April, 1918. CLARENCE B. WEBSTER, (Court Seal) Probate Judge- Herald-Review April 23-30,M ay 7. NOTICE FOR BIDS Bids will be received by the town board of the town of Arbo until 14 o'clock p. m., on May 26, 1913, for the building of the townships share of road No. 144. Said bids to be opened and considered on May 27. ae at Shs eee the town cl ee ans and specifications may seen at the office of the under- signed, four miles north of the vil— lage of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. ted me, 6, 1913, .G. le Herald Review May 7-14-21. born to parents at one of themin- week. The little one is a girl and