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Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-27

Persons interested in the improve
ment OF Grand river have carefully
weighed the prospect for securing Fed
erat aid and decided that lt Is highly
improbable that any favorable action
viii 10 taken III that direction. The
revenues Of the government are barely
equal 10 the expenditures and WITH the
incoming 'stsrtf reform adminlstra-
ton il Is unlikely that there Will be
any increase. Without "a abundant
surplus congress will DO tardy to APP
propr.ate money for rivers and harbors.
The practical eommon-sense view OF the
matter - that congress will not appro-
pirate money for deepening the chan
mel Of Grand river until its commercial
Importance as a navigable stream is
greatly emphasized. Therefore the duty
of the city OF Grand Rapids. and the
counties and towns contiguous TO
the riser, Is TO make the river an
active channel of traffic and transport
eAtion. Then II obstacles and impede
meats 20 unrestricted navigation shall
BE- found To exist the government will
remove them. To bring the subject TO
the att-ntIon of the people the board
OF trade will exert itself. one of the
6rst steps TO be taken will be the
amending of the city charter 50 that
the Municipality may pledge its credit
90 raise funds to be expended IN rIyer
improvements. Sucn an amendment
vii contemplate the issuance of bonds
within well defined limitations. Ii IS
believed that tho physical condition of
the river bed Is s"c.. that An expendi-
ture of $500. 600 D. the city will deepen
the enamel so that light draft steamers
may ply the river unlmpeded. The
city OF Grand Haven and the counties
bordering on the river ought to secure
like enabling act From all sources
the sum of $500. 900 could be raised and
applied to the purpose. Then govern
mens aid would be Forthcoming.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-27

Without stopping TO consider the
moral aspect OF law restricting i'm
migration there seems to exist power
full sentifaent favorable TO such rem
edy for the congested condition Of the
labor market The mere mention Of
the deslrability OF such al act has al
ready been felt in England, where
grave spprehenaons are excited that
such law in America would conges.
and psralyze the labor market there.
Preliminary steps have been taken TO
prepare parliament to meet such &C
ton on cur part by provlslonary en-
sctment, at least, which Will shield the
English work people from ruinous CON-
petition with the undesirable cheap
labor of the continent. Under our i'm
migration laws the very refuse OF for
eian cheap labor has been emptled into
our ports in increasing numbers.
Injured to poverty and starvation wages
IN their own countries they come here
90 reap for days toll what in their
own country would have been q
princely rscompense for weeks
menisi LABOR. This enormous influx
bss continued with unsbatsd intensity
unssl today the great masses OF labor
Gre lesvened with n most destructive
element. Tie native horn American Is
% hemmst n ~ the competition of
the lowest orders Of foreign workmen
that he finds himself comparatively
helpless ami with no prospect q relief.
The only relief that ne can have il in
checking the prod g.ous stream that
continues 10 How INTO our ports. The
necessity for sacn action il the only
mersl and legs just fication for e. In
our present stage Of progress We have
oil the men ia tnis country that can be
gwen employment at living prices for
. PERIOD Il ten years yet TO come. The
doors have been closed on the west
eosst and no eTil results have snsued
Let us close the doors on the cas-, coast
and run our chances Of international
crmp. tcations
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-27
GROVER is Eat home" on Hog Islal
HIT AND MISS STORIES,

To spend about half million dollars
in preparing to light up the Worlds
fair on afternoons darkened by the
thunder clouds, or in the event of q
possible solar eclipse, would seem to be
q singular proceeding. Probably COM
mon sense will prevail and the fair will
be kept open in the evening.-New
York Sun.
Weaver, the late candidate of the
peoples party, has issued an address
congratulatlng the public upon the re-
suit of the presidential election. This
seems to be Weaver's unique way of
assuring the people that 1t is q good
thing he was beaten.-New York Press.
The young man in Detroit who COM
mitted suicide because, as he said,
there was only one woman in the
world for him and she was obdurats to
all his prayers, showed himself to be .
good lover, but the possession of good
deal less than ordinary common sense.
Boston Globe.
That comet may have designs on the
earth, and it may not, but If it comes
too close to Jackson park it will be
gathered in and exhibited in one cor
ner of the big building next year with
out extra charge. Trusty men are on
the lookout for it.-Chicako Tribune.
One of the thing that congress should
attend to this winter without fail is
locking the doors, carefully and
securely, against the undesirable i'm
migrant" lie has become muck too
plenty and much too undesirable
Hartford Courier.
Orator Hams definition of snolIy-
goster is q picayune fellow who goes
sneaking around for little Office which
he can't get, and which he couldn't fill
with ability if he should get it. We
think we recognize the plcture.-Bos-
ton Herald.
Should Mrs. Lease be elected United
States senator from Kaneas Il will
knock out Mrs. Woodruff Martins
presidential boom. This country is not
big enough to hold two female aspir-
ants for that high office.-St. LOUIS
Post.
The early patriots made this country
al asylum for the oppressed, but we
have let il become stamping ground
for the repressed. Thieves, thugs and
cutthroats have poured In to escape
not tyranny but law.
An Omaha man who was dealt q bad
poker hand dropped dead of heart dis.
ease on looking at II. The lesson OBJ.
vious: Either hold four aces or dom,
poke.-Chicago Mail.
Chicago has adopted terra Gotta az a
fair color. TINS means that Chicago
wants the ALFRED earth-Galveetor
News
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-27
FIVE SHORT DOC TALES.

A. J. Halford. brother of the private
secretary III President Harrison, used
20 own great dog ont in Indianapolis.
Wherever Nr. Islford started To sing
the dog howied. On one occasion,
after a special manifestation OF the
dogs intelligence, Mr.. lialford's
brother. who was the editor OF the
indianapolis Journal, suggested max
ing the dog musical critic OF the paper.
bat nothing ever came of II.
Dr. Newcomer, CT Ind annapolis. once
owned ferooIous English niastif and
q small. but large mouthed, terrier.
A night they we're allowed to run At
large. One night a man IN the neigh.
bornood was attacked by one OF the
dogs. lie climbed up tree and stayed
thsrs until daylight while the dog kept
watch holo~. When morning came he
found he had been freed by the terrier.
A Newspaper man who ouce lived IN
Philadelphia gave hs wife a beauti.
ful silky haired ky terrier for a
present. THIS dog wa very elesniy by
nature. spd ~hen u vent out on muddy
days ard soii~d lis coat Il would jump
"a the bath tab snd howl until some
0pe came and gave 4 a bath.
Jerome X. jerome tells sbatIt dog
that swallowed money, IL tbussd OF
psaBis- sad sspshass. has one day u
foaad a purse filed Nfa gold places
= % ste thsn5. The Diet Wss sslasatif
teo fseh faf Il. hessast The feast gave
i fstsi aftsek 0f .na gsstlun,
~. 4. l.. fsaaisf ~ sns fesiesin'n
eiihs once osHad = dog thst used ~
dflaE ehsHpsgae. Tie hstift bees Ris
- flsea tat BE asa fefead % give Ire
dos s~sr 81 fIlsna ~ha could sifasa
- sappsst Il,
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-27

The entertainment 10 be given N
Powers' December I'll by Marie Wilson
Bessley and her pupsis promises 10 be
q novel and interesting event. The
march will he given by Mrs. Beasley
and fifteen puplls-Nisses Belle Thor
ington. Alice Taylor, Bessse Walker.
May Conlon, Eliza Wilson. Hattie
Hoffman. Evelyn Holland, Louie
zstee, Nellie Dregge. oddie stewart,
Lulu Rookus, Lizzie Tsylor, AIMS
Hogadone, Helen Cray and Anus
Hansen, unaer the direction Of coi.
tharles Rose, clcsng ~ . drill win
the vAnds. Swedish and German meth
Cd combined. followed by eight tots,
vbo will present one ~ the lssding
features OF the entsrts inmsnt-
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-27
FAITH cUsEs

There are not few persons IN this
busy world who believe IN the efficacy
ef the laying on-of-hands cures Tor
human disabilities and diseases. There
are also not few persons who believe
that the so-called miraculous cures are
AL shams and counterfeits. Between
the two extremes there 10 . common
sense mean that affords ground upon
which the thoroughly unprejudiced
may Gift the exaggeration aud super
stinon from the real and reasonable
and arrive at such conclusions as they
may DO abe 10 deduce. The mystic
ism and REPRESENTATIVES. thrown about
many OF the more remarkable mani
festations are well calculated to inspire
sceplicism, but tine actualities, after
all, lsad the calm investigator 10 .
point where his human discern
ment can afford no rational ex.
PLANTATION for the phenomena. Zola.
the French novelist, material
ist, has investigated the miracles
alleged to take place at the shrine of
Lourdes. He reports that he is at a
loss to explain the undoubted mystery
of the unquestioned cures. He reasons
that while the blind are made to see,
the deaf To- hear and the manned and
halt TO skip and dance, the secret may
h. a fasf Of 20
ing from nervous diseases who are
touched by sanity hands, laved IN holy
water. and are healed. But some OF
the diseases cannot be classed in the
category Of nervous diseases. and he ID
therefore compelled to admit the bona
fide character of some Of the cures.
Down in Pennsylvania q Methodist
minister is creating considerable excite
ment among the impressionable by
performing feats IN the cure of invalid:
no less remarkable than those per.
formed by Fr. Molitor IN his life
time. He Is said to cure asthma, palsy
and rheumatism by the touch of hi.
hands and . brief invocation. Thai
some of this work Is OF the rankest I'M
position will admit Of no doubt, bu
there are cures 80 pronounced and
phenomenal that only occult power
will be- able to pierce the mystery anC
make the primal force that heals thes,
sick and MANNED q matter of rationa
human conception. Until such dis
pensation the element of supernatural
ness will remain to battle universe
belief
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-27

have often ssen the water Tiss lea
inehos ~ bass river. cAuscd ~ The
winds OF Lake Michigan We have
four feet OF water here and OK aad
'one-nah feet iai. To the lake, conse-
9nently the bottom Of the channel here
IL only too and ens-hsf feet above the
surface OF Lake Michigan.
The idea of sand hars 10 . wrong lua-
psession. The bottom Il this river
wherever dreaged, except down near
orsDd Haven 10 clay and gravel. and
The Improvements made IL thai line
some eight yesrs ago are firm - rock.
IN some places. al Blendon fer IN
stance. there - fourteen feel Of water
Tor LOU feet. Our business Well.
you see ! don't expect 70 he on the
river ~ long ~ ! have been, at my
age, and 80 III more tor river lin-
provement for the general GOOD the
longer ! live. With ten feet Of water
We could bring up big lake barges AZ
don't draw over seyea teet. 6fsnd
Haven - the greatest harhor on the
east shore Of Lake Michigan by al,
odds. both ak TO width and depth and
Grand RApids should and will make
use OF Il"
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-27
PRACTICAL RIVER TALK.


Eyes, the Barrett will Law up the last
Of the week." said Capt. John Muir,
90 ne gazed out of he Office window at
q film of ice just forming across the
steamboat channel yesterday. "She
left Grand Haven this morning aud
telephoncd them that ] thought there
would be no ice 10 trouble them com
ing up. We have run later thar usual
this TALL and tie time TO quit. Yes,
business has bees better for having two
boats on the hne. | always did ad-
vocste q daily line SINCE I've been on
the river. which 10 over forty years. A
round trip . day would be nothing
though, mind you II We have the
water 10 run IN. Ii would only be an
eighty mile run. It's not 80 much the
speed OF the boat AZ the condition OF
the water that prevents IL. She may he
ever 90 fast, hut she cooldn make II
regularly unless the channel - deep
ened.
Now that, you zee, brings us again
90 the subject Of riser improvements
that 70 being sgitsted by the bcsrd OF
trade. Non may have noticed that al
most every great tort city OF Europe
and Great Britain is iocstcd ~ sofne
distance from the coast. l believe We
might apply that same RUE % tfana
Rapids. Our public sentiment = chang
ing new aud citirens see fnst deep
wster communication would increase
cur popuiat1on and not burt the rail
fosds tit Jast thmk 81 .. We have
enly AK and oue-hsf feet fall between
here and Lake Miehgsa. sup
boslDs the dam he'd fsraDd rleer
hack A. that 40 vstsr ret through.
lake Men gsa would hack fise water
aimest up here taen. From hsss rlvsf
50 ssfzna ffaven 10 fftssn ussies. N
shien thegs . no fall 81 al. There -
40 euffent ia i1sk. -. llssf. tai the
water gets thteakh 4 nevertheless. |
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-27

Today tnis little bst Of wonanly
counsel Is 10 he gwen 10 the army OF
young girls who are sweet and lovsble.
yet who are just . trifie inclined 10
think they know more than tnelr
mothers and do not heed her advice or
give her their uIbounded confidence
They love her dearly. but she wasn't
born At the end of the nineteenth GEN.
fury and her IDEAS IN consequence are
apt 10 be- regarded by them az some-
what Old fogey.
With the assumption OF superior
knowledge and q freedom OF speech
that ~ foreigners seems abso usely
shocking, they openly correct her pro-
nuncistion or her grammar. and are
more prone IA their sixteen or eighteen
year worldly wlse way TO fail 70 regard
her advice because, perhaps, II 10 not
framed in language ~ elegant - they
think IT ought 10 be.
Now, dear knowing ones. just few
words kindly meant aud sentlent with
truth--listen To your mother At all
times as the anc.ents did 10 the voice
of the oracle. Give to her your fullest
and freest confidence. She 10 the one
who loves you most and therefore best
4 8oSC w obstSo yOus III tSA SOohoCs
there Is no tinge of selfisnness; II 10 tor
your good and your happiness that
she warns you OF such = thing or eau
tons you against such n person.
Your companion may appear delight
full. but mothers eyes are keen to de-
tect haws IN those with whom their
daughters associate, and II that tender
intuition scents danger you may be
sure there is occasion for 1t. When
you cease to tell your mother every.
thing you may rest assured you have
started on the wrong tack. II you can
no longer give her your fullest conf.
dencs the concealment means that you
are ashamed Of things you have done
or are going to do and the sooner you
free your mind of its weight and just
tell mother AL about il the sooner you
will find rest and peace III the knowl.
edge that you can look into her tender
eyes and freely give back trust fol
trust with no lurking secrets hidden
from her loving gaze.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-27
ECSTASY AND SENTIMENT.


The ecstatic kiss is the kiss Of the
poet. Whether it be real or imagln-
airy, it is modelled after the same pat.
tern. 1t il filled to the brim with in
SEPARATION. 1t 10 ~ rosy - the dawn.
1t has no height, no breadth. no depth,
because it 10 immeasurabie and un-
fathomable. There 10 no reason in it.
1t is rollicking and riotous. 1t con-
lures up visiOns beside which the
visions of the Apocalypse are tame
and ordinary. There Is no boundary
line to the eestatic kiss. 1t takes .
mans soul up to the door Of the
seventh heaven of lively bliss. If one
were to be asked to define the most
ephemeral and yet the most thrilling
thing under the heavens he would be
justified in declaring it to be the kiss of
ecstasy. The sentimental kiss has been
a theme for poets since poesy was born.
But there is not in this the same rea-
son for rapture that one finds in tho
other. When poets write about the
sentimental kiss they do it in an idyllio
way. When they describe the ecstatic
kiss they unbucklo the reins of their
imagination and Pegasus goes at q
tearing gait. l doubt if the fancies
born with kiss like this are healthy,
eithe- to the body or to the soul. My
advice to the reader is to abjure the
ecstatic kiss and confine the energies
solely to the sentimental.-Chicago
Post.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-27
Aucs,oneers Quarrel.

There was . ripple OF excitement
about the auction store run 10y /. X.
Wilson. corner Monroe and Waterloo
streets last evening. Wilson leased
the store of W. c. johnson, excepting
five feet on the east side, which john
son had intended TO use Tor cigar
and news stand. provided be bad been
granted . saloon license Tor the rear OF
the building. Last evening W. c.
Powers, a well known suctioneer who
had been working for Wilson. came in
with q few potsons, mounted the
counter on the east side OF the store
and commenced ceiling down" ul,il
the place became too hot 20 bold both
belligerent aucuoneers and be hur-
riedly left. A crowd collected on the
etrest. but Wae quickly dispersed.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-27
HINTS ABOUT HORSES.

A number OF papers have figured out
that ~ Nancy Hanks has trotted mile
Ia 2:o4, which means that she uotted .
little over AZ feet TO the second, the
wo-mlnute goal 10 eaey for her, for.
~ they lngeniousiy put II, ''she has
only ~ gain . small matter Of two feet
TO the second" Two feet IN . second
locke small, but IL is 2s4 feet in . mile,
or little more than Is yArds, from
being dlstanced by horse going in two
minutes. For = horse 10 vim in two
minutes IL has TO trot q second faster
each quarter. or over G. feet. winch IT
the tremendous clip 10 an awful gain.
Budd Doble. the famous trainer and
driver Of Dexter and Flora Temnle-
Nancy Hanks, and other record break
ers, has the following &c say in regard
TO the offer made BY Robert bonner 70
the driver who would beat Maud s.'s
tune: "The fact 10 when / wired Mr..
Bonner from Terre Haute that Nancy
Hanks had trotted in 2:04, thought 1
had won IS coo. / consider that fairy
earned that 5000. l don't suppose
Mr.. Bonner cares for the money, but
a. in the cases where has horses have
been beaten before he died awfuliy
hard"
The announcement made some time
ago of Mr.. Robert Bonner's intention
20 send Maud &. for . trial against the
record Of Nancy Hanks 10 confirmed
today. Mr.. Bonner Is IN earnest Ia his
desire TO have the once peerless mare
beat her own record and, II possible,
place the time for mile lower than il
10 now. Maud 5. is today Ne sound rs
she WAS when retired from the trotting
track.
Andy Mcdowell has q little yearling
PAGER which he calls Jakey Elnsteln.
He purchased HIM at Los Angeles,
Cal. The other day he surprised the
timer At Oakland by speeding little
Jakey an eighth Of . mile in IL Sec
onds, and the quarter In 81 seconds.
George Starr has gone to California
with Q portion of the Salisbury string,
which will 70 into winter quarters az
Pleasanton. Stare contract with Mr..
Salisbury expires on January /, and IL
10 doubtful If it 10 renewed.
One of the most remarkable horses
on earth 10 the old PAGER Jewett. Six
teen years ne has been on earth and he
them, yet he goes out and wilma money
in his class.
Orrln Hickok says there is very little
difference between q pneumatic sulky
and the old style rig in the stretch, but
q horse hooked 10 the former has q
great deal the beet OF il on the turns.
A trotting horse is the only educated
horse, and trottipg stock 10 that which
has been educated for generations un-
Ill speed has become the leading char
acteristic.
When Alix trotted in 2:lo she stepped
each half Of the mile IN LOS.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-27
New Assistant prosecutor.

The election of Alfred Wolcott -
prosecuting attorney will make
changes necessary In at least two of
the local law firms. The new assistant
prosecuting attorney will be Charles T..
Ward, late of the firm Of Ward 4
Ward. He will be the active assistant
of Prosecutor Wolcott in the criminal
and county work and also his partner
IN their civil business. The firm name
will be wolcott h Ward, and their
Offices for civil business will be in the
Ottawa building, near the court house.
There are other appointments 10 be
made, for which there are plenty of
applicants, among the younger Of the
legal profession.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-27
Late Amusements.

In "Princess Audua." which Rhsa
gave ct the matinee 1T Powers yester-
day, tho plot reveals young husband
who has become infatuated with .
reigning danseuse. A wrongly directed
bracelet betrays to the young wife the
real circumstances and she vlsits the
star disguised as = dressmaker
and meets her husband upon
his visit to the dressing room.
She Immediately percelves the
intxtuation, and through her as
sumed ignorance of the affair the
dAnseuse invites her husband to &C
company her from the city that sve-
ming. The project of police, whom
she afterwards visits, advises her To re-
turn home and try and retain her nus
band until after the departure, and
should she be unable 10 keep
him from departing without ex-
planning her knowledge Of his
Intentions, the director promises upon
her signal to arrest him 40 he leaves
home and to consign him to an insane
asylum. The husband is captured. but
manages to escape, returns and is over
come with intense Jealousy upon see
ing evidence OF Q visitor having taken
supper with his wife. The visitor
proves to DO her brother, who 10 q
physiclan.
Upon this strain is the audience kept
at ell times. in . fever of expectancy.
The part of the princess in movement
and dash il admirably adapted for
the part of the princess at the
same time giving pronounced expires.
SION to the feelings Of the abused but
true woman. Her acting was at all
times spirited and sincere. Mr.. Hart.
as the husband, found . character con.
genial to his talents and artistic sympa.
thies. The support left nothing to b.
desired and the costuming revealed, a
usual, Rbea's carefulness and regard
for richness-but, best of oil, correct
NAla.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-27
VIVA, Election Cost Them.

The following persons have filed
sworn statements of election expenses:
John Mcqueen. 81 ,l25; T. v. Moulton.
Sl9959; Jacob Eisenhardt, $3.50; NJ. II.
Walker, 81; w. II. Hughes. 500; George
q. Steketee. sl35; John l. Bailey,
xil.35; Charles T.. Belknap, $75l.s5, Of
which $3.50. 40 was given g. the repr iii
can committee; S. G.. Ketcham, for the
republican congressional committee,
S2,o4A40; the republican county COM
mttee, Sa.545.92; Fred w. Stevens,
sl4.i0; II. 4. Locker. SIS; Thomas
Heffcran. S74; +. T.. Allen. SO; John
Il. Greenway. 1915; Charles ID. steb-
BINS, $As5; Alfred Wolcott, s269; James
A. Cove, S23q.50.