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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
Needs One Billion.

The privilege of borrowing in the
next few years the enormous sum Of
81 000,000,000 in the French money
market through government encour-
agement, is the guild pro quo that
France gave to Japan in the negotia-
tons for the recently signed Franco
Japanese entente relative to the far
east, according to high authority
here.
1t is stated that Japan will need
fully that much, partly to refinance
her high-priced war loans and partly
for industrial and commercial develop
ment, and that she was very glad to
guarantee Frances rights in Indo-
China in consideration of the loan
She does not need Frances help in the
far east, but she does need the money.
France, on the other hand. is de-
lighted with the bargain, for she has
always feared Japanese interference
in her eastern possessions.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
G. A. LIsK, Publisher.
The LeveIina Crowd.

But quite apart from ones private
feeling, there is also the undoubted
fact which meets one on every side,
that people in the company of others
are almost invariably less interesting,
less individual, less tolerant, more
conventional, more tiresome, less sim
cere, less unaffected than when they
are alone; they are less themselves,
in fact. The serious, quiet, suggestive
person, who is delightful when he is
by himself, when he talks easily and
simply of all that is in his mind, be-
comes feebly jocular, mildly cynical,
given to anecdote, given to reminis-
cence in company. The bluff man be-
comes rude, the laughing philosopher
becomes a screening platitudinarian
the weeping philosopher becomes
gloomy poseur, the shy man becomes
silent or, still worse, voluble, the
talker becomes a chatterer, the SYM
pathetic man becomes unctuous. 1t is
the natural result of an audience, says
A. c. Benson, in Atlantic. In tete-a-
tete one has only one person to think
of; but when the listeners are multi
piled, one feels obliged conscientious
ly to try and hit the taste, not OF the
individual but of the type; and the
type is always duller, and generally
lower, than the individual. And in any
case prudence warns one to abstain
from any originality and not to COM
nit oneself.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
LOVE LOST.
Man Aged "a Sues Youth OF 43 fol
Alternating Wife's Affection.

Peter Esterle, aged "a, charges
Charles f. Karchner, aged As, with the
alienation of the affections of his wife,
who is 73 years of age. He demands
$4,000 damages. The parties reside
in Kent county.
According to the court records Es-
terle year ago gave Karchner a
deed TO his property in Lowell on his
agreeing to pay mortgage of $3.50
and give the Esterles a home for the
rest OF their lives. Esterle AYERS that
after short time Karchner induced
mis- aged wife to consent to sending
him to the poorhouse while she was
to be given a home by Karchner.
Esterle told his story to Prosecutor
Brown, of Grand Rapids, who ordered
karchner to return the deed and
harchner was given a mortgage for
$3.50 to cover the amount he had paid.
Al the first opportunity Karchner
loreciosed and the property was being
sold at auction from the city hall
steps when the papers alleging aliena
tlon were served on Karchner. He
stopped the sale and it was adjourned
Tor two weeks The Esterles have
ilVed together for 49 years.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
MICHIGAN
EVENTS NOTED
THE TAX COMMISSIONS WORK
TO KEEP IT BUSY FOR
MANY WEEKS.
UNJUST TAXATION CRIES
Midland Farmers Fifteen Sons Help
Him in Farming-Family Of Thirty
Children Blessed His Home.
The Tax Problem.

The tax commission is finding con-
siderable work outlined for it by citi-
zens and corporations complaining of
unequal valuations fixed by assessing
officers.
Secretary Wells II. Brown will go
to Bellaire to investigate the COM
plant Of large power company that
its assessment is unreasonable and
excessive. He will also visit Rapid
City, where it is claimed much prop
erty has been left off the assessment
rolls. One complaint from a tannery
company at Cheboygan calls into
question nearly all the assessments in
the township of Inverness.
The Detroit United Railway has
filed objections to its assessment in
Ypsilanti, and the Benton Harbor &
South Bend Railway Co. complains of
an excessive assessment in all the
townships through which the road
runs. Another electric company that
seeks to obtain a lower assessment is
the Grand Rapids, Grand Haven &
Muskegon Electric Railway Co.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
Must Leave Town.

A campaign has been startSa to
break up the "Home of Spontaneous
Love" run at Wellesley, Mass, by Fred
erick Reed, former master of the Bos-
ton Latin school. Not only are the
authorities of Wellesley aroused, but
the staid residents have determined
to run the community out of town.
Reed has run the colony for two
years. His wife, who strongly believes
in his principles, has helped him.
There are absEEely no restrictions
in the life at 1.-THE Home of Spontan-
eous Love-" Reed maintains that "des-
tiny controls everything While the
marriage contract is not decried, it is
not essential, he says.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
The KNIGHTS TempIar.

Michigan Grand Commandery,
Knights Templar, closed its annual
conclave in Saginaw Thursday, Sc
lecting Grand Rapids as next place of
meeting and electing the following Of
ficers: Grand commander. Charles A.
Warren, Detroit; very eminent deputy
grand commander, Hutson b. Colemar,
Kalamazoo; grand generalis4
Howard T. Taylor, Adrian; grand cap
tain general, Charles G. Graham,
Ithaca; grand senior warden, George
T. Campbell. Owosso; grand junior
warden, Charles A. Lippincott, Flint;
grand prelate, William II. Kessler,
Detroit; grand treasurer Charles Il.
Pomeroy, Saginaw; grand recorder,
Henry l.. Anthony, Sturgis; grand
sword bearer, Charles Hiscock, Ann
Arbor; grand standard bearer, Gordon
r. Campbell, Calumet; grand warders
George l.. Harvey, Port Huron; grand
captain Of the guards, John Fry, De-
troit.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22

John Burroughs, who lives near to
lature's heart in picturesque home
N the Esopus hills, overlooking the
loble Hudson, has been interviewed
N the subject of nature takers" and
hows that many of the writer's on the
abits of birds and animals are rank
umbugs and know little about the
objects regarding which they profess
} speak with authority. In many
Matters regarding outdoor life he is
thoroughly in accord with President
Roosevelt, of whom he says: "The
resident is as competent in natural
istory as he is in politics. He knows
ur wild life like a book, and what
yer he says on the subject you can
Ike without discount" That, says
roy Times, comes straight from a
AN who never conceals his own opin.
ms, and whose love for the simple
I'D natural life cannot be exceeded.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
Medical Inspection of Schools.

The cordial bearing and the loving
care of children will always be wom-
ans supreme work. Our darkest So
Geological prophets to the contrary
Notwithstanding, she will never eman-
cipate herself from those tender duties.
Not very long ago the home prepared
the children for schools. Now, in the
somersault of conditions, the school
stands in loco PARENTS to the children.
With the children of the very poor and
illiterate this is peculiarly the fact.
The training, the care, the instruction,
the play, which cannot be had in the
home, the public school supplies. The
strong manhood and eficient woman
hood so vital to our material security
depend to-day, declares Herbert d.
Ward, in Woman's Home Companion,
upon the quality of oversight in the
school rather than upon direction and
solicitude in the home. Hotel and fiat
life, the tenement house and conges-
ton in our cities, the public school sys-
tenn and curfew law-these illustrate
the decadence of the home. Our WON
en- must rush to the rescue. The first
requisite of balanced mind will al
ways be healthy body. . New
York city now employs $50 physicians,
who visit each public school once a
day, shortly after nine o'clock, to exam
inc those children set aside by the
teachers as requiring attention.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

On special request of Congressman
Diekema, the acting secretary of war
has issued an order asking Gen. Nc.
Kenzie to give Congressman Diekema
the flood report of the federal board
of engineers. Grand Rapids is to have
the benefit of the government engin.
GERS suggestions, but the report can.
not be made public.
Ira F. Clark, of Boston, Mass. is
visiting his sister, Mrs. Charlotte
Webster, aged SO years, of Deerfield
He is 70 years old, hale and hearty
and has just returned from Denver
Col, where he attended. as a delegate
a reunion of the Sons of the American
Revolution. There are only ID Sons
of the American Revolution in the
United States.
Forest fires are burning quite bad
ly few miles from Republic There
are many isolated farmhouses in that
vicinity and there is danger of their
being wiped out.
Since January l four prominent
Coldwater ministers have resigned.
First, Rev. Herbert Sowerby, for IL
years rector of st. Marks church
next, Rev. M. A. Graybiel, pastor of
the First Baptist church; third, Rev.
Willis f. Gelston, pastor of the Pres
byterian, and now DR.. f. A. Chapman,
pastor of the Methodist church. This.
with the recent death of DR.. William
Wilson, takes from the church rolls
In five mopths aYe popular mipisters.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
Wants Both.

Plans to raise a fund of $500 to
seure for Chicago two national po-
litical conventions next year will be
laid at once by a joint executive COM
mittee representing both Republicans
and Democrats. At conference in
which the special committees from
the Hamilton club, the lroquois club,
the city council and representatives of
the Chicago Commercial association
participated, reports were made that
Chicago has a good chance of land
ing the big meetings, if hall of suf-
fcient seating capacity can be guar
anteed.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
DID THEIR DUTY.
How Eleven Midshipmen and Mon
Met Death.


Colonel CAST and his assistants
made an inspection of the Minnesota's
launch which was sunk with the mid
shipmen and crew week ago. AT
ter careful examination, 1t was
found that the launch, while bound
from the jamestown exposition
grounds to the battleship Connecticut,
at Anchor off Old Point, had run into
steel hawser, such as are used in
towing gigantic car floats used by the
railroads.
1t was found that the brass prov
of the launch showed signs Of hav-
ing struck the hawser The latter
then, no doubt, passed under the keel
of the tiny craft When the cable
struck that part Of the boat it came
in contact with the condenser pipes.
They were torn away, and the shock
threw the launch over on its star
board side. The tiny craft then was
hurled to the bottom of Hampton
Roads and became the tomb of it's
eleven occupants.
Part Of the hull of the launch was
crushed in by the impact with the
cable, but the steamboat inspectors
and the members of the naval board
of inquiry expressed the unanimous
opinion that the Inflated vessel was
not struck by barge or tug, but had
collided with the cable between the
tug and car float
The developments established the
fact that the men charged with the
navigation of the launch were at their
posts and did their duty when the ia.
tai collision occurred
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22

Henry Sehermann, aged z. of Sagi-
nav. was struck in the head with a
baseball and after being about as usual
for several days suddenly died.
News came from Lincoln, Neb., that
George Shaffer. well known at the
500. had taken his life by inhaling
Illuminating gas. following a quarrel
with his wife. She had left him and
gone to her parents at Superior.
Forest fires are destroying much
valuable timber in the vicinity of
Headquarters camp. about IL miles
south of Boyne City, and men from
the lumber mills have been called 70
fight the flames.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
The Deadly Fourth.

The state department of health has
issued to all local boards of health a
statement showing that "A deaths have
occurred in Michigan in celebrating
Independence day in four years. At.
tention is called to the extreme dan.
ger to children in handling fireworks
and assistance is asked in enforcing
the law against the sale of fireworks
and firearms to minors. Local officers
are asked to pass ordinances and to
post the statements of the health of.
ficer as to the cause and the dangers
of tetanus.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
No Race Suicide.

Probably the largest family in Mid
land county, and probably the great
est number of living children of any
man in Michigan, may be claimed by
a man named Neither. Thirty chill
dren have been born to him by his
two wives, the first having six, and his
present spouse being the mother of
"a. She is 40 years old. and Methner
is 63 years of age. With his 20Oacre
farm, Mr. Neither is able to employ
his boys to advantage, Is of them at
present assisting him with his farm
work Neither travelled to Lansing
on May 81, to tell President Roose-
welt about his family, but the secret
service men looked upon him with
suspicion, and kept him outside the
lines.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
Saw Son Killed.

Abraham Verlee, aged years, son
81 Peter Verlee, of Vreeland, a few
miles southeast of Grand Rapids, ran
In front of a Grand Rapids e. Hol-
land interurban car late Thursday af-
ternoon, and was instantly killed
The little fellow was playing ball.
and his father sat on the porch of
their home, watching him. He saw
the car bearing down on his child. but
was speechless with horror and could
10 nothing, seemingly being riveted
to the spot.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22

In an article in Scribner's Magazine
on "Americanisms," Henry Cabot
Lodge will bring joy to many readers
by his remarks on the word guess"
whose use in the sense of think or
suppose is so derided by British
critics. Mr.. Lodge quotes Chaucer,
Shakespeare, Gray, Coleridge, Words
worth and Carlyle as using the word
In this sense, and says: Seriously
speaking, the word guess is a good
old English word, and the American
usage is both excellent and correct, as
we'll as far truer to the tradition and
spirit of the language than the British
substitutes of fancy, imagine or 'ex-
oect, which last is grotesquely wrong
because it can properly apply only to
he future" With this authority be-
lind him even the fastidious one anx-
Gus to display culture need not la
nent when his tongue slips and he
avs Il guess" instead of Il fawncy."
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
Who Believes It?

John d. Rockefeller and William
Rockefeller, the venerable brothers
who have made millions of money out
of oil while working in harmony, have
at last probably reached the parting
of the ways. At least they have had
a sharp quarrel and no longer speak
as they pass by. Both are determined
men. Whether their row will rend
Standard Oil remains to be seen.
John ID. is conservative, stubborn
When he decides on policy he pur-
sues ii to q finish. William is an art
full dodger. OF late he has been try
ing to impress some of his business
policies on John, who has refused TO
listen, and the family fare up is the
result.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
An Earthuuake Theory.

A dispatch from Montgomery City,
Mo-, says: Dr. Thomas jefferson Jack
son See, astronomer of the United
States naval observatory at Mare
Island, Cal, now in that city, visiting
his old boyhood home, says he has
discovered the one common cause of
earthquakes-the leakage of the ocean
bottom, which gives rise to steam
beneath the earth's crust.
He also points out that the chief
danger of the agitations is along the
sea coast.
1T seems to be clearly proved said
DR.. See, that the earth is not con-
tracing, but that the effects of cool
ing of the globe are insensible. The
earth may be slightly expanding. San
Francisco is not likely to have anoth-
er earthquake in 100 years"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
Pastors Wife Is Dead.

Mrs. d. c. Fleming, wife of one of
Charlotte's pastors, died Saturday I'M
der peculiar circumstances. Mrs
Fleming was taken i'll at the supper
table and doctors thought she was
suffering from ptomaine poisoning
from eating ice cream, but as others
were not taken sick the doctors on
further investigation pronounced her
death due to ruptured blood vessel.
Rev. Fleming has held pastorates at
Lakeview, Petoskey. Vassar. Free
port and other Michigan towns. Five
children survive.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
Russian Duma Shut Off.

Emperor Nicholas affixed his sigma
ture Saturday to an imperial ukase
abolishing the present duma and or
dering that the elections Of members
to it's successor, which is to meet No
vember Ia, be held under the new
election law which provides against
the "submergence of the educated
classes by the uneducated masses"
This act constitutes virtual coup
d'etat and overrides the specific pro-
visions of the fundamental laws of the
realm, solemnly proclaimed by his
majesty on the eve of the convoca.
tion of the first duma, which declare
that the election law could never be
changed without the consent of parlia-
ment itself
This breach of the constitution is
justified by the great law of necessity.
the advisers of the emperor holding
it impossible, under present condi-
tons, to secure parliament capable
of cooperating tremendously with the
crown to rescue Russia from anarchy
and revolution.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
MILLIONS.
The State Expenditures Grow to LARGE
Proportions.

Proportions.
The total expenditures of the pres
ent legislature will amount to prac.
ideally $9,500,000, according to Rep
Morrlce. acting chairman of the ways
ana means committee of the houses
The previous legislature made up a
budget of $7,300,000. Necessary in.
crease of expenditures to maintain the
state institutions and keep up with
the growth of the state, are ascribed
as the reason for the increase of So.
100000 in expenditures over that
necessary two years ago.
The so-called general budget, which
provides for the expenses of the state
departments, will amount to approx.
mately $2,506,000, according to the
estimates now before the ways and
means committee. Two years ago that
budget was complete at $1,125000 and
GOV. Warner is of the opinion that
about the same amount should pro.
vide for the departments this year.
Today the appropriation bills for the
big schools of the state were reported
out The committee recommended
that there be given the university ap.
proximately S650,2S7 in the form of a
3-S mill tax instead of the 1-2 mill tax
as was asked by the university's
friends, and which would have netted
that institution about 100000.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
Fell 250 Feet.

Three freight cars broke from a
Grand Trunk train of IA cars Satur,
day in the middle of the lower steel
arch bridge and plunged into the Nj
agara rapids, $50 feet below. In leav-
ing the track they damaged both the
upper and lower decks of the bridge
to a considerable extent.
When the cars struck the water
they were not badly damaged, but
the current of the rapids carried them
to the whirlpool, where they were
broken to pieces. A brakeman had a
narrow escape.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
SPARROW Bounties.

Last fall the board of supervisors
of Genesee county created a fund
for the payment of bounties for spar
row heads on the basis of cents
apiece, to Offset the effect of the re.
peal of the state sparrow bounty law.
The local bounty system has been in
vogue for six months and the total
expense up to date has been 1920, rep
resenting a reduction of over 10000
in the sparrow population of the coun-
tV
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
Prisoner Skipped.

Sheriff A. l.. Briggs, of Monroe
county, appealed to local officials for
assistance in recapturing Spencer
Brookfield, alias William Ash, a pris.
oner who escaped about IL o'clock
Thursday morning in Detroit, while
being taken to the penitentiary at
Jackson.
Briggs and his prisoner came to
Detroit on an electric car and were
to leave on the first Jackson car. His
hands were manacled and his light
overcoat had been thrown over his
arms to cover the cuffs. He had step
ped upon the platform of the car, the
sheriff just ahead of him, when he
suddenly turned and jumped to the
ground and ran. The officer followed
the fleeing man from the car and gave
chase, but was unable to overtake
him.
The missing prisoner is described
as so years old, wearing a black coat,
light trousers, brown derby hat, pat
ent leather shoes and bow glasses.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22

Ernest S. Benson, general auditor
of Isthmian canal affairs and of the
Panama railroad and steamship line
has resigned, as he does not care to
take up his permanent residence on
the Isthmus. as required by the gov
eminent.
Mrs. Sarah l.. f. Read was award.
ed s101,7S9. the largest verdict for
damages ever given in the supreme
court of the judicial district of New
York, for the loss of her husband
who was killed by a New York Cen,
trail & Hudson River railroad train at
the Van Cortland Park crossing three
years ago.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
Burned to Death.

Miss Sina Richards, of Saulte Ste.
Marie, was running a sewing machine
She tried to extinguish the flames by
sitting on the lamp, but her clothing
took fire and she ran into the street,
covered with flames. A neighbor rush
ed to the rescue, throwing his coat
around her when she fell to the
ground. She was taken to the hos
pital. where she died in great agony.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22

Noble Barton, aged Is. son of a
prominent Linden farmer, fell off a
cart and broke his neck. He got up.
walked IL rods and then fell dead.
Secretary Wilson has directed
Chief Chemist Wiley to exploit the
dangers of drinking tainted milk in
an effort to create public sentiment
which will compel reform The agri-
cultural department says that prac-
tically every city in Michigan gets i'm
pure milk.
Additional rural route No. 8 will be
established at Gaylord. Ottawa Co., on
August 1. Michigan rural carriers ap-
pointed Burnside, Arthur II. Wilcox.
regular. Russell +. Wilcox, substitute:
Elba, Arthur Adams, regular. jay
Plumber, substitute; Parkville, Harry
K. Boudeman, regular; Ralph Crosley,
substitute.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
A Deposition.

Representative Ward has signified
his willingness to make statement
to Prosecutor Robson, of Detroit,
concerning the death of Edith Pres
ley
Mr.. Ward is still too weak, physic.
ally. to undergo the fatigue of a rail-
road trip and it is thought that mat
ters can be arranged so that Mr.. Rob-
ison will take the legislators depo-
sition in Lansing or in Bancroft, Mr..
Wards home
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-22
Those Two Cent Fares.

Attorney General Thompson has
filed an injunction suit against four
of the principal railroads in Nebraska
to compel them to maintain the two.
cent fare and anti-pass enactments,
now operative, and to put into effect
the commodity freight rate on July 9.
The railroads named as defendants
are the Union Pacific, the Burlington.
Rock Island and Missouri Pacific.