Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 21, 1899, Page 4

TED tomorrow. 3y B.C. KILEY, Rotered et the Postoffice at Grand Rapids. Minn. ss second-class matter. COLLEGE GIRL PATRIOTISM. Students at Smith and Mount Holyoke Stirred by the Events of War. From the New York Sun: On Tues- day morning last the Smith’ college girls had an opportunity of seeing at «close range what the parting of thirty years ago must -have been when tha soldier boys went away. A great «erowd gathered at the station at 8:15 to cheer the soldiers on their way to the state camp. The band played pa- triotic airs, cannon saluted, bells rang, whistles blew and the people shouted themselves hoarse, and the college girly helped in the enthusiasm. For a week or more the college organ had been out of repair, but at chapel that morning it was ready for use again. Dr. Blodgett played “The Star Spangled Banner” as the girls marched out two by two, and even the girl who did not sympathize with the war felt a thrill of thé patriot- ism on that occasion. At a class meeting which lasted the entire afternoon, a few days ago, the juniors discussed the advisability of giving up the promenade. Many argu- ments were brought forward pro and con, but it was finally decided that the best thing Smith girls could do in these exciting times was to keep the eves tenor of their way, to do well the du- ties before them, and to hold the junior promenade on May 11. Mount Holyoke has not been behind her sister college in expressions of pa- triotism.. On April 27 a flag was pre- sented to the students by Mr. Hill, the steward, and a flagstaff by A. L, Wil- lister. At 8:30 in the morning the girls marched, two by two, in long lines, from the different houses con- verging on the south campus, where the flagstaff was placed. The flag wes raised amid much. enthusiasm, and after the formal ceremonies the girls sang together, alternating college songs ‘with national ‘airs. On May 2 another American flag was presented to the college, this time by the Robert O. Tyler Grand Army post of Hartford, Conn. At chapel, Miss Hazen read a letter of presentation from the donors, suying: “In this time of war and battle when we, as true Americans, wish to show our colors, it is the desire of the meme bers of Robert O. Tyler Post, No. 50, of the Grand Army of the Republic, Hartford, Conn., to present this flag to Mount Holyoke college. Throw it to the breeze and there let it wave until vietory is ours.” As Miss Hazen finished reading the letter there was an outburst of ap- plause; the audience rose as one git} and sang “America.” A TRAIN OF HARD TACK. One Million, One Hundred and Twenty Thousand Biscuit for Cuba. From the Atlanta Constitution: A train load of hard tack, made in Atlan- ta factories, was shipped from here to ‘Tampa yesterday for the artiy which is to invade Cuba tomorrow. The gov- ernment, in its contract, stipulated that the bread for the troops at Tampa be ready there today. This in itself sig- nifies that the invasion is to be-made Eighty thousand pounds of hard tack was sent from this ¢ity. Block’s candy and cracker factory and ‘Lewis’ cracker factory made the hard tack for the soldiers, and the govern- ment officials said it was as good a3 any they had ever eaten. Theorder for the crackers was at first for 60,000 pounds, but it was increased to 80,000 pounds to meet the demand of the troops. Hard tack is tough-cracker, in shape exactly similar to a large soda cracker. The tacks are cut with the #oda cracker molds and are the same size, with the exception that they. are much thicker, They have the little in- 4entations- and perforations whick mark the soda crackers and egn not be told from a common ‘cracker until tasted. One million, one hundred and twenty thousand of the tough little bis» euits were made here Sunday and yes- terday. It takes fourteen of the crack- ers to weigh a pound, and 80,000 pounds were made. About twenty of the crackers are served to each of the men every day, and, considering the fact that they are solid, they make three good meals. The hard tack is cnly used to a large extent upon invasion marches and like excursions. “Always where a campaign of active fighting be- gins the troops are well-supp}ied with the tack, so that they may have bread ready cooked. The large supply of ard tack sent to Tampa makes it eer- tain that the troops there are ready tq. invade ‘Cubs, for unless -an- invasion was contemplated the immense supply would net have been sent. Advantage of Proper Training. There is. one. great practical advant- age to’ women that comes from train- ing or from proper exercise that is as much a: matter of: beauty and ‘attrac- tion as itis‘of health—that ‘is her car- riage..: Many ;a:woman-who sweeps along ip her:coach* with steeds: of fire before ‘her cannot: boast. the’ carriage ot her: poorer ‘sister: who ‘walks: along to her destination,tempted perhaps by | the beauty-of the turnout to be envious of Madame Rich, but not induced to ong for this luxury from any fatigue that walking produces for her. Se aaennel The Days When Fon Meant Only Sheer | ra | Bratality. The king who died in this house }owas that young Dane who appears to have been an incarnation of the ideal } Danish brutality. He dragged his brother’s body out of its grave and flung it into the Thames; he massacred the people of Worcester and ravaged | the shire; and he did these brave deeds and many others all in two short years, says the Pall Mall Magazine. Then he went to his own place. His de- parture was both fitting and dramatic. For one so young, it showed with what a@ yearning and madness he had been drinking. He went across the river— there was, I repeat, no other house in Lambeth except this, so that it must have been here—to attend the wedding of his standard bearer, Tostig the Proud, with Goda, daughter of the Thane Osgod Clapa, whose name sur- vives in his former estate of Clapham. A Danish wedding was always an oc- casion for hard drinking, while the minstrels played and sung and the mummers tumbled. When men were well drunken the pleasing sport of bone throwing began; they threw tne bones at each other. The fun of the game consisted in the accident of a man not being able to dodge the bone, which struck him and probably killed him. Archbishop Alphege was thus Killed. The soldiers had no special desire to kill the old man; why couldn’t he enter into the spirit of the game and dodge the bones? As he did not, of course he was hit, and as the bone was a big and a heavy one, hurled by a powerful hand, of course it split open his skull. One may be permitted to think that perhaps King Hardacnut, who is said to have fallen down suddenly when he “stood up to drink,” did actually intercept a big beef bone which knocked him down, and as he remained comatose until he died, the proud Tostig, unwilling to have it said that even in sport his king had been killed at his wedding, gave out that the king fell down in a fit. This, however, is speculation. MYSTERY OF SHOE SIZE. America and England Use One Stick, France and Europe Another. From the New York Sun: Although every one has his feet measured for shoes, there are very few persons who know what the sizes marked upon the shoe stick mean. There are two shoe sticks in use in America and Europe. The stick used in the United Statea used in England. The rest of Europe uses the French stick. The sizes on the English shoe stick were derived from the length of a bar- ley corn, and they run three to the inch, The first mark on the stick, or size 1, is made arbitrarily, just four and a half inches from the upright. Why this distance was fixed upon does not appear to be known. For some other Teason, which can only be guessed at, the graduated part of the stick is again divided into two sets of numbers. These numbers begin at 1 and run up to 13, and then they begin at 1 and run up to 13. The first numbers from 1 to 5 are known as infants’ sizes, those from 6 to 10 as children's, from 11 to 3 as misses’ sizes, from 244 to 6% as women’s, and from 7 to 13 as men’s sizes. The French shoe stick is divided into a great many more sizes than the Eng- lish, and the French shoemakers sub- divide these again, as is done with the English sticks, into half sizes. There ia no exact relationship between the markings on the two sticks, but the French size 16 corresponds to the Eng- lish infants’ 1, and their size 44 is the same as the English size 10 for men. A woman who wears a 2% shoe by Eng- lish measure would get a 34 or 35 by the French measure. and a man with a 7 foot by English measure would wear a 40 shoe in France. Over here the width of the shoe is designated by a letter, while the French use figures. The width AAA is the French 000. B ig the French 1 and EE the French 5 width. IT CAME LATE. Bat It Was None the Less Heartfelt and Sincere. “The assistant rector of a well- known Episcopal church in the bor- ough of Manhattan told an amusing story to a Brooklyn acquaintance not long ago,” says the Brooklyn Standard Union. “There is a colored woman in my parish whom I have known for several years. A year or so ago she lost her husband, and though she did not put on mourning for him, she seemed to feel her affliction deeply. A short time since she was married again, I met her a day or two ago, and to my surprise she was dressed in the deep- est mourning. “Why, Mrs. Black, what does this mean?’ I asked. ‘Well, you see, sah,’ was the answer, ‘when my money, sah, to pay for mourning; and now I’se married again, and got de money, I’se put on mourning for my first. husband.’” Lord Wolseley as Man of Letters. Lord Wolseley #8 almost. as devoted to the pen as to the sword, and if he had not been fated to be a field-marshal he would beyond question have betn a man of letters. He rises early in the morning to write, and his official duties only commence when a pile of MS. testifies to his industry with the pen. For some time past he has/employed a number of copyists in making ex- tracts for him in the Archives of Venice. j Heinrich Heine's Jealousy. Heinrich Heine, the German spet, ‘was terribly jealous. One day he jois- ‘oned a parrot belonging to his lady love, for fear it should claim too much of her attention. .KING KILLED°BY A SEEF’/ BONE. was originally English, and is still | first husband died I didn’t hab no | va révolver on! the country. “MYSTERIOUS FALCON ISLAND. |. - ‘Which Has a Way of Disappearing and Reappearing at WilL. Far away out in the deep Pacific ocean exists a small strip of land which shows that it has a sweet little will of its own, for it will not undergo allegiance to any country. Govern- ments often experienee considerable trouble in preserving the allegiance of people they have conquered, but as a@ rule a piece of.property or real es- tate has been lodked upon as likely to remain in: the same place for a considerable period of time. This lit- tle island, which has received the name of Falcon Island, proves an ex- ception to the rule, however. No soon- er has it been annexed than it disap- pears off the face of the globe, leav- ing only a dangerous reef to indicate its former whereabouts, and coming up in a few years’ time, when the country that has performed the annex- ation has given up all claim. Our old friend, John Bull, always on the watch to increase his imperial empire, was the first to encounter it. In 1889 the British corvette Egeria was sent on a cruise among the South Sea Islands, with orders to seize upon any islands or coral reefs that had hitherto been unclaimed, and to take possession in the name of the queen. Cruising around she noted from afar off a prominent island, towards which she sailed. Tall palm trees were growing on its south- ern extremity, which was a command- ing bluff, rising 150 feet above the sea. Having received the report of this voy- age, the admiralty next year sent out a transport ship, with orders to make, further discoveries and reports. What was the dismay of the captain of the Egeria, who happened to be in com- mand of the transport, on arriving at the place where he had the year be- fore left the island sporting the union jack, to find that it had disappeared from view. Instead of the beautiful island standing out so prominently from the ocean, was a low and dan- gerous coral reef with the sea beat- ing and surging up against it. Two years later France, also seized with the desire of annexing new territory, sent the cruiser Duchaffault to the Pa- cific. Cruising around she found her way to Falcon. There, instead of find- ing a sunken reef, whitened with the foam of the breakers, the vessel’s crew discovered an island the exact shape | of the island found by the English corvette in 1889. Scarcely two years had passed away when.a brig sent out by France to revisit her possessions found her way to Falcon Island. It had again disappeared, it being simply a reef dangerous to navigation, where- upon France was obliged to give up all rights of possession.—San Francis- |. co Chronicle. NO WONDER SHE KICKED, Ample Reason for Not Wishing to Re- move Her Picturesque Hat. Mrs. Falls Front had been the lead- ing spirit in the movement to call a meeting of women to pfotest against the theater regulations which call for the removal of women’s hats in the various New York temples of Thespis. She visited seventeey different ladies and urged them to attend; she pro- cured the use of a hall for the meeting and when the ladies came together she made no less than five speeches, de- claring that the removal of hats in the theater was an iniquitous innovation that the women of this great and glori- ous land of the free should rise up and crush. Her vehemence was so noticeable that after the iniquitous innovation had been duly crushed by weighty pre- ambles and resolutions several women | who attended the meeting were won- dering why she threw so much spirit into the crusade. “She was so fierce in her denuncia- tion of the hat-removal regulations,” said Mrs. Upton Howles. “I never saw her so much in earnest before.” “Yes?” said Mrs. Willard Henderson. “Did she have any good reason for be- ing so ardent?” “Reason!” cried little Mrs. Gadsby Teller. ‘Did she have any reason? Well, rather! The first and only time she was compelled to remove her hat in a theater her frizzes went with it!” —Harper’s Bazar. SIN OF OMISSION. Lawyer Carried It . Far. “There is such a thing as overdoing your part,” declared a man of the law who now has the knowledge gained by ™much experience, “Shortly after I be- gan ctice in, the west I was called wpo. ‘aereng’a man who had drawn another and threatened to kill him. #’'The aceused diu not have a charactef’ above reproach, but the prosecuting witness also was shady in reputatiotr and I made the most of this fact. I pictured him as a desperado of the mogt dangerous type,.4 man that was # constant menace to the commun- ity ahd one who would recognize no other Jaw than that of force. Such men as he, I insisted, rhade necessary the organizction of vigilance commit- tees and injured the fair name of the west among the older communities of The jury returned a ver- dict of guilty and’ my man was sen- tenced to a year’s imprisonment. As soon as court adjourned the foreman of the jury came tome and said: “Young feller, you spread it on too thick. After that there rip-snortin’ speech of yourn we couldn’t do nothin’ else ’an what we done,’ ‘I don’t understand you, sir?’ *You don’t? Why, we found the ger- loot guilty ‘cause he didn’t shoot.’” Enthusiastic Too Not That Kind. Smack .Owner (to fisher boy)—“I’m | sorry to hear you were the worse for liquor last night, Sam. You take after your father.” Sam—‘No, sir, I don’t. Father never leaves none to take.” Mconskine. ‘FASTER TIME LOWER RATES Offered by D.S.S.&A.Ry. Leave Duluth 6:30 p. m. (Except Saturday.) First Arrive Class Fare Saginaw, * next day, 6.27 p.m. Montreal, second day, 8.10 a. Boston, second day, 8.30 p, New York, second day, 8.45 p. West bound trainarrivesDuluth 8:50 a.m. (Except Sunday.) T.H. LARKE, Com’ Agent, 426 Spalding House Block, Duluth, Fling. yyeeeeeetecccercs C. W. Hastings. F. P. SHELDON. President. P. J. SHELDON, Vice President. Lumbermen’s Bank Of Grand Rapids. Mina cyt Pall & Dy - Railroad C.E. 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