Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 1, 1899, Page 5

am neemyen as Has always .on hand _a full line of Foreign aad Domestic Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Liquors . for. Medicinal Purposes a Specialty. Fine THE ONLY. BILLIARD AND ‘ POOL ROOM IN TOWN. % Leland Ave. Grand Rapids. ST. RAUL axv\ MINNEAPOLIS TO ST. LOU: Sao Wnt aud Gnd Sel) k Enough For all the Winter Evenings “= ALMOST FREE. will send, on receipt TOWN TOPICS, ssi cirss . 208 Sth Ave., N. Y., Stamps, anyone i the following prize novels (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX pages, regul FIFTY DO! AHALF the whole library of SIXTEEN volumes. 6-THE SALE OF A SOUL. By C. M5. Mo- Lellan. A-THE ‘COUSIN OF THE KING. By A.S. Van f 8-SIX MONTHS IN ITADES. By Clarice L Clingham. bate OF CHANCE., By Captain Thompann. 10-ANTHONY. ‘REN . By Charles Stokes Wayne. 11—AN ECLIPSE OF VIRTUE By. Champion Bissell. 12-AN UNSPEAKABLE SIREN. ByJohn Gilliat. 13-THAT DREADFUL WOMAN. By Harold R Vy . U4-A DEAL IN DENVER By Gilmer McKen- S-WH'? SAYS GLADYS. By David Christie’, 7 ‘ 3 Haye just opened a ) M le, 16-A ERY’ REMARKABLE GIRL By LB. ord 1-A MARITAGE FOR HATE. By Harold R rane 0] SULPHUR By T. C. De Leon. %-THE HU Baty HAPPINESS. By Anita Vv “§ M-HEN ATRANGE EXPERIMENT By Harold R. Vynne. : @® Indicate by the numbers the novels you went | * What is this ” It is the only bow (ring) which - cannot be pulled from the watch. To be had only with Jas. Boss Filled and other watch cases Ww stamped with this trade mark. A postal will bring you a watch case opener. Keystone Watch Case Co.,. PHILADELPHIA. A Reason. ‘Washington Evening Star: “I some- times wonder,” said one enthusiast, “why the baséball season doesn’t be- Sa earlier.” “It’s a wholly imprac- tieal idea,” replied the other, “They've got te give us a chance to get over our spring colds: Otherwise how could we. yell?” Persians Support Him. His Excellency Mirza Mahmond Khan, the shah’s ambassador at Con- stantinople, derives his only income from 9 tax upon the 5,000 Persian sub- jects in the Turkisb capital Ghould Accept It. . Priseilla (. just arrived)—Are_ there any men here? Phyllis—Oh, there are a few apologies for men! Priscilla— Well, if an apology is offered to me 1 shal] accept it—Tid-Bits. SS IF YOU WANT A FIRST-CLASS MODERN ‘PRICED HOTEL Stop at the ST, JAMES HOTEL, WHEN IN DULUTH 213-215 West Superior St., DULUTH, MINN. CENTRALLY LOCATED.. $100 PER DAY AND UPWARDS Steam Heat, Electrie Light, } Electric Bells. Baths, Ete | vee THE 44 n onal @o n S wm fan ise] 5°] —] is”) Se ir} er WILL OPEN A Boarding School .for Girls The terms being $0 very reasonable, it is expected that quite a number of the good people of the surrounding country will take advantage of this excellent opportunity anc send thelr daughters at once. Terms, per session of tive months, PAYABLE STRICTLY IN ADVANCE: Board, Tuition, Washing and'Bedding...$50 Day Scholars, per term of five months...$ 5 | Music lessons will be given on piano, organ. violin, mandolin, guitar, zither or banjo. PIVATE AND CLASS VOCAL LESSONS. | bor particulars apply toSisters of St. Bene- dict. Duluth, Mississippi River & Northern. | | orth Goin: S a ae By Lv. Ar9 9 PEEP PEPPER BBPEBSBB 7:40 p. m.Ar. D. M. PHILBIN, I ' F ATE AVEATS TRIDE MARK RKSs a COPYRIGHTS. WAN T QITAT or answer Single eat. nd photographs of new | bling Luilders to show tha ntraets, ; Benton & Lawrence i NEW Sample Room Witha FINE LINE of Wines, Liquors and Cigars. CieS Ge Suk 4 | i SWB FIRB SHSWSSOSDSOSIIVSBSVTG SSIES Sawyers’ Bldg; Leland Ave. 2 | 4 | GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. ® | : | SPSS SLSLES | | | amatic stage. » run ‘Uncle cabin lit. by getting away --3ss sled."—Chi- No Value, #1 csa ss ~~ your daughter nothing Sut iv, ucvoted heart,” said Scroggs. “Um! Well, I .don’t find hearts quoted on the stock list,” grunted the worldly parept.—Philadelphia North | American. Something Wrong. Mrs.—Am I still “the star of your Ufe,” as 1 was when you used to write | love letters to me? Mr.—Of course, dear. “I don’t svem to be drawing a star salary, theugh,’—Washington Star. Not Altegether Hopeless. “[ shall never marry,” declared Miss — Elderly in a tove meant to be firm. | “Don’t say that,” answered her best | friend, Florence. “Women older than | ‘ow have bad proposa!s."”—Detroit Free_ ress. ; Leng Lived, “What is the average life of a good bicycle, Sprockets?” ~Welll, some of them last until they are paid for.”—Chicaga Kecord, ra | | have been s' | “peculiar exertion,” nine or.ten miles. | The steering wis done with a pair of j in berry time. | Legion of Honor. ORIGIN OF THE BICYCLE, It May Be Traced as Far Back as the Nineteenth Centarv. It has often been said that “to trace the origin of the bicycle we must go back to the beginning of the century;” and as this has not been denied it. is probably true. I shall try to show that the bicycle grew from experi- ments in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and that the Celerifere, first invented in 1690, was the earliest form of the “safety” of today. The first at tempts to ride wheels date back as far as the fifteenth century. True, the machines then made were crude, clumsy, and imperfect; yet they de- serve mention, for they were a dis- tinct step in the history of the wheel. The first of these was a heavy carriage driven by means of ropes attached to and wound round its axletree..To the other end of the ropes a pole was tied, and this pole was used as a lever in front of the vehicle; and by this means it was slowly drawn forward. Little was done in the century following; yet in the “Memoirs of.Henry Fether- stone” it is told that a Jesuit mission- ary named Ricius, who was traveling down the Ganges, having missed a boat that plied at regular intervals between points he was to visit in his journey, made up for lost time by building a smali carriage propelled by levers. Be- cause so few details are told, the truth of the author’s account has been doubt ed or discredited by many. In one of England’s olf.er churches—St.- Giles’, at Stoke Poyis—is a window of stained glass on which may be seen a cheruy astride of a hobby horse, or wooden “wheel.” At the sides, in separate pan- els, as if to fix the date of the design, stand two young men attired in puri- tan dress, one playing the violin, the other, with hands in his pockets, smok- ing a pipe. Is it from this design that the first thought of the hobby horse of other days was taken? Before the | Royal Academy. of Sciences, in 1693, Ozanam read a paper describing a veha- cle driven by the pedaling of a foet- man, who stood in a box behind, and rested his hands on a bar, level with his chin, attached to the back of an awning above the rider in the con- veyance, This may prove that Fether- stone’s account was not untrue Oza- nam’s vehicle was followed. by an- other, built on a somewhat similar plan, by an Englishman named Oven- den, about 1761, for a description of the machine then appeared in the Uni- versal Magazine, The vehicle was said to be “the best that has hitherto been invented.” The distance covered “with ease” by this rude vehicle is stated to miles an hour;. with a reins,—St. Nicholas. MOSQUITOES WHICH KILL BEAR Yukon Insects Foree Deer to Fiee to the Snow Line. From the Denver Times: Not only do the Yukon, mosquitoes attack men and overwhelm them, but they drive | the moose, deer and caribou up the mountains to.the, snow line, where these animals would prefer not to be They kill dogs, and even the big brown bear, that is often miscalled a grizzly, has succumbed to them. Bears come down to the river from the hillside in the early fall to get some of the salmon that are often thrown upon the banks when the “run” is heavy. If bruin runs foul-of a swarm of mosquitoes and has not his wits about him his day has come. The insects will alight all over him. His fur pro- tects his body, but his eyes, ears and nose will soon be swollen up and bleed- ing, and uniess he gets into a river or a strong wind he will be driven mad and blind, to wander about hopelessly until he-starves to death. Although the Alaska summer is short, two broods of mosquitoes hatch eut each year, and are ready for busi- ness from one to ten seconds after they ieave the water... It rains a good deal along the Yukon, and rain is welcomed, | for it drives the mosquitces to cover. They hide under leaves and branches | antil the shower is over; then. they | come out boiling with rage at the time they have been forced to spend in idleness, and the miner has a harder time than ever after his respite. Mosquitoes and snowflakes are not contemporaries in the states, but. in Alaska it is different. Snow does not bother them so much as rain, and an early snow may fall while they, dre still on the wing. Fog does not choke them, either. They appear to Mke it. They float about in it:as. in wmbush, and take the unwary prospector hy sur- prise. Jules Verne. Jules Verne is an officor There ire many. others who wear this distinction, and there is nothing noteworthy about this fact except that the decree conferring the honor upon him was signed only two hours befcre the fall of the em- pire. His well-known book, “Round the World in. Eighty , Days,” has brought-hie publishers about $2,000,009 and to himself a goodly share of the proceeds. From Stenographer to Premier. Like many another successful man, Sir John Gordon Sprigg went to the Cape in his youth because he was too delicate to live comfortably in Eng- Jand. His occupation was at first that of a shorthand-writer, but he quickly found his talent. in the direction of politics serviceable, and has. been premier no fewer than three times in the Cape parliament. A Greater Necessity. “A French officer has invented » noiseless cannon.” “Wish somebody Cleveland Plain-Dealer. would invent a noiseless pugilist.”-- | of the. MYSTERIOUS FALCON ISLAND. | A VETERAN'S: REMINISCENCES.| COLLEGE GIRL PATRIOTISM. _. Which Has a Way of -Disappearing and He Began with a Catnp: Stove Ontéit and Students at Smith and Mount Holyske-~ ‘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 aHegiance to any country. Govern- ments often experience 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 looked 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, avhen the country that has performed the annex- ation has given up all claim. Our old friend, John Bul:, 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 foamh 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 fsund 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 protest against the theater regulations which call for the removal of women’s hats in the various New York temples of Thespia. She visited seventeen different ladies and urged them to attead; 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 ber denuncia- tionsof the hat-remoyal 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. Enthusiastic Lawyer Carried It Too Par. “There is such a thing as overdoing your paxé,” declared a man of the law who now has the knowledge gained by much experience. “Shortly after I be- gan practice in the west I was called upon to detend a man who had drawn a revolver on another and threatened to kill him. The accused dia not have a character above reproach, but the prosecuting witness also was shady in reputation and I made the most of this dacs. I pictured him as a desperado of the most dangerous type, a man that was a constant menace to the commun- ity and one who would recognize no other law than that of force. Such men as he, I insisted, made necessary the organization of vigilance commit- tees and injured the fair name of the west among the older communities of the country. 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 to me 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.’” - 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.”— Moc chine. From the New York Sun: “When- ever I see that picture illustrating the Bible story of the two men carrying @ great bunch of grapes hanging from a pole resting on their shoulders,” said & civil war veteran, “it reminds me of | the way we used to carry our camp kettles sometimes in the army on the march. We had, when we left our, state, a stove for each company, de- signed for camp use. It was made of. sheet iron, about five feet long by two high and a foot and a half wide. . It. was stayed inside with iron bands riv-: eted to the shell, to keep it in shape. The boilers, to boil meat and things in, were shaped like square wash boilers, | and when we moved, these, with the rest of the cooking outfit, went inside the stove to save room and for: con- venience in transportation, When the stove was packed in this way two men could lift it into the wagon, and there you -were, everything snug and com- plete. But while the stove with: its outfit was a good thing, we never had but that one; it was like many another thing that we had when we started out—some good and some not so good —when it was worn out its place was supplied with things of the regulation kind. The steve was certainly con- venient, and it was all right when we had a wagon to carry it in, but it was on the whole rather an elaborate out- fit for actual service, and when it wore out, as it finally did, getting more and more battered and smashed up, Wwe drew in place of it and its boilers camp kettles; straight-sided kettles of heavy sheet iron. This was at about the time we got settled down to real business, and camp kettles were what we had from that on until the end ot the war. We had three kettles that nestled together so as to take up less room in transportation. One was for coffee—that was the kettle most used— one for meat, and one for vegetables. There were plenty of times when we had only one kettle in use, the meal consisting of -hard bread and coffee. Many another time we had use for only two kettles, cooking coffee in one and pork or salt horse-in the other. When we had all three going at once it meant coffee, meat and potatoes all at one meal, and it was a sight agreeable to contemplate. When we were settled anywhere in camp the-ccok fire was at the inner end of the company street, and there wes the cook tent, alse, where were kept whatever supplies wt had on hand, in the way-of hard bread, sugar, salt and so on, and where the cook slept. In cooking the camp ket- tles were hung on a pole, whose ends rested on two crotched sticks driven into the ground; the fire was built on the ground under the kettles. When we moved, if we had transportation, the kettles would go in a wagon; if we had no transportation, or were going on some expedition where we didn’t take-any, or there were wagons but not room for everything, then as likely as not the cook and another man would tote the camp kettles hanging from the pole used over the fire, or, if that wan too heavy, from a lighter pole cut for the purpose.” COLLIDES WITH MOTORCYCLE. Fred Clark Nurses Brulses for Steering Between the Lights. Fred Clark, chief scorcher of a north side club, is nursing many bruises from sudden and unforeseen contact with a mysterious vehicle that masqueraded during the night as two bicycles. Fred was preparing for a club road race and sacrificed all his spare moments to the acquisition of tough muscles. He arose early in the morning and flitted through Lincoln park like some specter of the night that had overslept itself beneath the trees. Far out on Sheri- dan road the milkman would hear a peculiar swish noise, see a human form glide by him, and then all was still. Many times he nad hailed the mysterious rider, but no word of greet- ing came back from the gliding figure. Clark was not content with the many hours of sunlight, but invaded the night. He would distribute three lamps of 1,000 candle power about the- front frame of the machine, attach two more behind, screw on a rasping horn to his handle bars and then cut the at- mosphere at a 2:02 gait. The incor- rigible scorcher bisected the north side and bounded the limits of Tim Ryan’s baliwick: Strips om cement were miss- ing from the half-mile speedway at Garfield park, and the grass was singed where the scorcher had left his trail. Jackson boulevard was the site of Clark’s Waterloo.. He sought to dis- appear about carriages and - other wheels and appear again unscathed without letting up his pace. One night he saw two lights approaching him at a speedy clip. He marveled at. the even distance between the two. head- lights and with the precision of an ex- pert undertook to steer between them. There was a crash of bending tubing and a stifled scream. Mr. Clark had run into a motor carriage. A Busy Minister's Wife. The lot of a minister’s wife is not always a bed of roses. Rev. William Alderman, pastor of the Methodist church at Pawnee, Okla., has been seri- | ously ill for several weeks, during which time his helpmeet has not only nursed him, but has conducted the church services. She has led the pray- er mi -and has: preached two ser-- ¢ Sunday, to the entire satis- of the congregation. f Old-Time Regulation of Dining. | An act of parliament was passed in the reign of Edward -Ill., prohibiting ~ | anyone from being served at dinner or supper with more than two courses, except upon some great holidays there- — in specified, on which he might be | 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 the soldier boys. went away. A great crowd gathered at the station at 8:15 to cheer the soldiers on their. way to the state eamp. The band played:pa- triotic: airs, cannon saluted, bells rang, whistles blew and the people shouted themselves-hoarse, and the college girls 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, an@ even the girl who did not sympathize with the war felt a thrill of the 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 even tenor of their way, to do well the dur ties before them, and to hold the junior promenade on May 11. Mount Holyoke has r.ot been behind her sister college in exsressions of pa- triotism., On April 27 a flag was prer sented to the students by Mr. Hill) the steward, and a flagstaff by A. L. Wil- Hster. At 8:30 in the morning the girls marched, two by two, in long Mines, from the different houses con- verging on the south campus, where the flagstaff was placed. The flag was 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 0. Tyier Grand Army post of Hartford, Conn. At chapel, Miss Hazen read a letter of presentation from the donors, saying: “In this time of war and battle whea we, as true Americans, wish to show our colors, it is the desire of the mem- bers of Robert O. Tyler- Post, ‘No. 50, of-the Grand Army of the Republic, Hartford, Conn., to present this flag to Mount Holycte college. Throw it to the breeze and there let it wave until victory is ours.” As Miss Hazen finished reading the letter there was an outburst of ap- plause; the audience rose as one gint ead sang “America.” A TRAIN OF HARD TACK, One Million, One Hundred and Twenty Thousand Biscuit: for Cuba, From the Atlanta Constitution; 4 train load of hard tack, made'in Atian- ta factories, was shipped from -here to Tampa yesterday for the army whieh _ is to invade Cuba tomorrow. The go¥- 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 tomorrow. Eighty thousand pounds of hard tack was sent from this city. 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 as . any they had ever eaten. The-order 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 sodg cracker. The tacks are cut with the soda cracker molds and are the same size, with the exception that-they are much thicker. They have the little. in- dentations -and-~ perforations which mark the soda crackers-and ean not, be told from a common cracker until tasted. One million, one hundred and twenty thousand of the tough little bis- cuits were made here Sumday 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 cf the meg - every day, and, considering the faet that they are solid, they make- three good meals. The hard tack is-only used to a large extent upon invasion marches and like excursions. . Alway# where a campaign of active fighting be- gins-the troops.are well supplied with the tack, so that thev may have bread ready cooked. ‘“ ¢ large supply of hard tack sent to ‘arpa makes it cer- tain that the trer < ‘hore are ready to invade Cuba. fcr unless an invasion was contemplated the immense supply would not-have been sent. Advantage of Proper. Training. There is one great practical advante age to women that comes from train- ing or from proper exercise that is ag much a matter of beauty and attracr tion as it is of health—that is her car- riage. Many a woman who sweeps along in her coach with steeds-of fire before -her cannot. boast the carriage of 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 long for-this luxury from any fatigue that walking produces for her ee a ~~ -_--