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PRINCE HARRY, — AFTER SECURING A FORTUNE FROM A MINE He Set Out to Spend It and Succeeded So Well That He Was Soon Reduced to Poverty and Ended His Life with ® Bullet. The old saying that “a fool and his money are easily parted” never per- haps received a better illustration than in the career of Prince Harry of Tombstone. His real name was Hen- ry W. Bennett, and he rose from the estate of a tattered mining prospector, worth less than $300 altogether, to the possession of $150,000 in a few months. For seventeen years he had searched for mines in Arizona and New Mexico. He had lived among the Navajo and Moki Indians, and had subsisted on the mgst primitive fare for weeks at a time. In the course of his wanderings he located a ledge of sulphurets, that is, a combination of gold and silver ores mixed with base metal—that was in the summer of 1877. The Apaches were particularly hostile to white men that season, and Bennett got out of Cochise county before he had a chance to do much work on his claim. Later that season Ed Schoeffelin and Rich- ard Gird located the famous gold and silver mines of Tombstone, about a mile away from where Bennett had built up the piles of stone to mark the corners of his mine. When the stam- pede began to Tombstone, Bennett was one of the first ones on the scene. He set about developing his own mine, the Boston, and by pick and shovel he soon laid bare enough of his ledge to show that he had a fairly good mine. Tombstone was growing at the rate of 1,000 inhabitants a month, and the .people were mine crazy. In a few weeks he sold to George Hearst for $150,000 cash down. It was practically the only money Bennett had ever had, and he was be- side himself with joy. He went to El Paso, Texas, and put his money in a bank. Then he began to wonder how he was going to have the fun he had planned during all his long years of prospecting and hardship. It was days before he realized that he was really rich. He went into the bank a half dozen times the first week to make sure that his money was there and was awaiting his order. He knew a poor Mexican woman in Paso del Norte, Mexico, whom he had long ad- mired, and he went across the Rio Grande and married her. Bennett Starts in to Spend. Some one told Bennett that he was a fool not to hurry up and enjoy his money, and he started in to spend it. Bennett and his bride went to Den- _ver and San Francisco and exchanged their cheap old clothes for the finest that money could buy. They kept tail- ors and dressmakers busy for weeks. He bought eleven hats and a trunkful of shoes for himself in San Francisco, and he told the dry goods merchants to give his wife two dozen of the finest dresses to be had. The couple had one room of the suite they lived in at the Baldwin Hotel filled with trunks and boxes of their newly bought finery. Im one day Bennett bought some $8,000 worth of diamonds for himself and wife, and they gave tips of $5 and $10 for the simplest service to the hotel servants. * Tiring of San Francisco, Bennett and his wife went down to’Tombstone, determined to show the population that they knew how to lead fashion in the mining camp. They went to New Orleans for the Mardi Gras celebration in 1881, and seven trunks of clothing went, too. The couple lived in the most costly suite at the St. Charles hotel. On that trip Mrs. Bennett saw opera glasses for the first time. When the couple returned to the mining camp each had an opera glass of soli& gold, and they seldom drove out behind their well- known team of white stallions that each did not carry a gold opera glass and occasionally survey the country through it. On that trip, also, Bennett and his wife learned that some rich people bathed in perfumed water. They, therefore, bought scores of bot- tles of the finest Parisian perfumes, and neither ever bathed without pour- ing a liberal quantity of perfume into the water. That was about the beginning of the end. When his last dollar was gone, Bennett ended his life with a bullet. Tallest of All European Scien- Living Men... The biggest living man is Lewis Wil- kins, who is now arousing great inter- est in the scientific circles of Europe. Wilkins was born on a farm near St. Paul, Minn., in 1874. When he was but 10 years of age he measured 6 feet in height and now has grown to the tre- mendous height of 107% inches—just three-quarters of an inch less than 9 feet—and weighs 364 pounds. There have been other tall men and women before Wilkins, and scientists have striven in vain to account for these freaks of nature. Only lately a plaus- ible story has been put forward by a French physician, Dr. Marie, who says that gigantism is nothing more or less than a disease. This disease generally occurs in patients between the age of 18 and 35, and is first called “acro- mega) (from two Greek words mean- ing “enlargement of the extremities.’’) If the patient is not attacked until af- ter he is 18 the ends of the bones in the arms and legs are enlarged and prolonged slightly, but if this disease tists Are $ Interested in a Resident of Minnesota. has attacked a child at or soon after birth gigantism is the result. The bones are prolonged all along their length, grow unnaturally and the re- sult is a giant. When you see a big man it is therefore a question whether he is unusually strong or whether he is suffering from acromegaly. All giants have not been acromegalic, ac- cording to Dr. Marie. He mentions two giants in the French army who did not belong to this class. One was Charles Freuet, a cavalry soldier, who was 6 feet 11 inches, and another was Marnat, a drum major in the Ninetieth regiment infantry, who measured 6 feet 9 inches. Perhaps the greatest giant who ever lived before Wilkins was Charles Byrne, an Irishman. He measured 9 feet 2 inches. His skeleton is still preserved, proving beyond ques- tion his enormous size. He was prob- ably acromegalic. Other giants are Constantine, born at Zurich, in Switz- erland, 8 feet 1 inch; Herold, born at Leipsic, 7 feet 5.inches, and Lady Em- ma, 8 feet 1 inch. The Abyssinian is pretentious and domineering to his inferiors, yet cringing and obsequious to his super- iors. His business being that of a sol- dier, he is more or less, though at times energetic, a lazy individual. He, though not a trader, is willing to take service as mule driver and caravan help, but he will always shorten his day’s work as much as he can. His | inseparable companions are his rifle, cartridge belt and sword. The first is often of the most antiquated pattern, which, even when mule driving and performing long marches, remains with him, carried over his shoulder. His sword is strapped tightly to his waist, and is a characteristic one, be~ ing short, very much curved (cimiter- @ @ Ghe Abyssinian Boasts of Being a Christian... But His Christianity is Bogus like), but narrowing to a sharp point. It is worn’on the right side, and thus, when mounting a mule or horse, he always does so on the right, or off side. Besides these weapons, he uses in war- fare a large, round, basin-shaped, em- bossed leather shield, often ornamented with silver work. He boasts of being a Christian, but the Christianity -he professes is only in evidence in the keeping of feast and fast, though a few, very, few compara- tively, attend church on early Sunday mornings, in response to the call of a doleful, cracked-pot sounding, tolling bell. Whatever is the cause, the Abys- sinian has deteriorated, for apparently he is amuch worse liar, thief, and cheat than his neighbors about his bor- ders. ee errneeeneneeeesessnen A Chinaman on a Wheel. According to the Chinese habit of do- ing most things backward, a visitor in Shanghai says he fully expected to see the first Chinese cyclist he came across pedal backward. “To our astonish- ment,” he wrote, “he rode forward in the proper manner. His attire was such as is not easily forgotten: The ‘baggy trousers were hauled up over the knees, disclosing a pair of shiny. sticks swathed in dishrags or something. This was done to prevent his trousers from tearing in the chain. Bare feet on rub- ber pedals, a big yellow balloon shirt, bulging out like the spinnaker of a racing yacht, and a flying pigtail under a smali tin can of a cap topped by a button. He was a wealthy merchant, we are told, and looked as if wheeling agreed with him in spite: of his slothes.”—Buffalo News, Peru's Vast Mineral Product. The soil of Peru contains the larg- est number of mineral species—at Piu- ria, in the north, petroleum and sul- phur; silver, lead, copper and coal in the great mining basin of Cerro de Pasco, in central Peru and phosphate, quicksilver, auriferous grounds and borax at Arequipa, Carabaja, in the south. At the present time the num- ber of mines in exploitation is 2,500, employing 70,000 workmen. The value of ore has increased by more than 50 per cent within the last two years, Captain Has Great Name. Capt. Alexander Nikolayevitch Ga- netzki, the late commander of the Rus- sian volunteers of the Boer army, be- longed to a most distinguished family. His father was the most famous gen- Jeral of the Turkish war of 1877-78, No Onion Needed His Kerchie' Undertaker (to bystander at funera.) ~—Are you one of the mourners ¢ Bystander—I am,’ sir. Undertaker—What relation to the de- ceased ? Bystander—None at all—but he owed me $5.—Chicago News. Millions for Base Ball. year for base ball, but large as this is, it capnot equal the amount spent in search of health. We urge those who have spent much and lost hope to try Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. It strengthens the stomach, makes diges- tion easy, aud cures dyspepsia, consti- pation, biliousness and weak kidneys. | BK ae aE ae Why He Rend It. “Have you read Borus’ latest book, ‘Boiled Brains? ” “Yes.” ' ; “J thought you didn’t like Borus style.” “I don’t.” “What did you read his book for?” “Because I knew some blamed fool would be sure to ask me if I had read; it.”—Chicago Tribune. Best for the Bowels. No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. | CASCARETS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy | natural movements. cost you just 10 | cents to start getting your health back, CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the | genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Be- ware of imitations. Helen Gould’s Handshake. Miss Gould has an interesting little handshake. She has evidently learned that to protect and preserve her own hand when giving it to hundreds ot others, she must do most of the “shak- ing” herself. She takes the: proffered hand firmly in her own at about elbow level; holds it there for an instant, then raises it quickly in an almost ex- actly perpendicular line, then suddenly releases it. She looks directly into the eyes of the person she is meeting, and probably not one in a hundred passes on without carrying with him the con- viction that the jolly-faced young wo- man he kas just left sincerely enjoyea the meeting—Boston Post. HEALTHY WOMEN. Mary J. Kennedy, manager of Ar- mour & Co.’s Exhibit at the Trans- Mississippi Exposition at Omaha, Neb., writes the following of Peruna, as a eure for that common phase of summer ¢a- | tarrh, known as indigestion. Miss Kennedy says: “I found the continual: change of diet incidental to eight years’ traveling com- pletely upset my digestive system. In con- sulting several physiciansthe: decided 1. suf- fered with ca- tarrh of the #| stomach. “Their pre- scriptions did not ‘seem to help me any, so, reading of the remarkable cures effected by the use of | Peruna I decid- ed totry it and | soon found my- self well repaid. . “I have now used Peruna for about three months and feel completely re- juvyenated. I believe I am permanent- y cured, and do not hesitate to give . unstinted praise to your great remedy, | university courses as .well as to give Peruna.” The causes of summer catarrh are | first, chronic catarrh; second, derange- ments of the stomach and liver; third, impure blood. buch being the case anyone who} knows anything whatever about the operations of Peruna can understand why this remedy is a permanent cure for summer catarrh. It eradicates chronic catarrh from the system, invig- orates the stomach and liver, cleanses the blood of all impurities, and there- fore permanently cures by removing the cause—a host of maladies peculiar to jsot weather. The cause being removed the symptoms disappear of themselves. “Summer Catarrh” sent free to any address by The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. Easy Monthly Payments We sell Regina Music Boxes for public | places. with money slot attachments, and for home use without attachments, on easy Monthly Payments. ments they are A Constant Source of Revenuc and soon pay for themselves. They can be | placed in all kinds of business houses. We Repair Music Boxes. Correspondence invited. NATIONAL NOVELTY CO., 519 First Ave. So., - - - Minneapolis, Minn | DO NOT BUY WELL DRILLING ACHINERY until you see our new Cata- ue No, 2. We will furnish it to you FREE. Write to our address, either Harvey, Il.,Chicago, UL, or » Texas, -C. AUSTIN MFG. CO. Factories at Harvey, Ill. MONEY FOR SOLDIERS’ HEIRS With money attach- Heirs of Union Soldiers who made homesteads of Jess than 160 acres before June 22, 1874 atter copergoctd if the eee stead _Was not sold or used, should , with particulars, HENRY N. COPP, Washington, D.G R WITH ABERGELE. mald Has Been Hi: Trouble of Her Own in the W Town. . While Lord Dundonald has been away in South Africa fighting the ; Boers his coutitess has been waging 4 little war of her own with the Welsh town of Abergele, near which her cas- tle stands, It was all about the im- provement of a highway. The count- ‘ess got so angry that she cut down Some beautiful trees which the towns- people wanted preserved. While the contending forces of the castle and the town were refusing stubbornly to re- treat, there came the news of the reliet of Ladysmith ,and the story of Dun- donald’s entrance into the beleaguered city. The town and the castle at once began to rejoice ,and to forgive each other. The town went wild with en- thusiasm over Lord Dundonald, and the countess made a gift to the town of all the land the townspeople desirea for the improvement of the highway. To Lord. Dundonald was cabled the news of the ending of the Abergele war, and_in return he requested that the improved highway be named Lady- smith avenue. This was done, and now the castle and the town, which ‘have been saying all manner of hard things about each other for the last few months, have called off their Jaw- yers and are complimenting each oth- er at a great rate. Thus was the relief of aLdysinith and Abergle effected at one and the same time by the valor of Lord Dundonald.—New York Prigs. ;, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, Notre Dame, Ind. We call the attention” of our readers to the advertisement of Notre Dame University, one of the great educa- tional institutions of the West, which appears in another column of this paper. Those of our readers who may have occasion to look up a college for their sons during the coming year would do well to correspond with the president, who will send them a cata- logue free of charge, as well as all particulars regarding terms, courses of studies, ete, There is a thorough preparatory school in connection with the univer- sity, in which students of all grades will have every opportunity of prepar- ing themselves for higher studies, The Commercial Course, intended for young men preparing for business, may be finished in one or two years according to the ability of the student. St. Edward’s Hall, for boys under thirteen, is an unique department of the institution. The higher courses are thorough in every respect, and stu- dents will find every opportunity of perfecting themselves in any line of work they may choose to select. Thor- oughness in class work, exactness in the care of students, and devotion to the best interests of all, are the distin- guishing characteristics of Notre Dame University. Fifty-six years of active work in the cause of education have made this in- stitution famous all over the country, Cause of the Coldness. Edith—So it’s all over between you and Harold? Ethel—Yes; I gave him $10 to bet for me on Pocahontas yesterday. Edith—Well, Pocahontas lost. Ethel—Yes; and the mean thing wouldn’t go to the bookmaker and ask him to give me my money back.—Puck. SACRED HEART COLLEGE, Watertown, Wis. We call the attention of our read- ers to the advertisement of Sacred Heart College, Watertown, Wis., which appears in another column of this paper. This institution is a branch of the great University of Notre Dame, and aims to fit boys for entrance to the | them a thorough training at moderate cost. For the parent of limited means Sacred Heart College fills a long felt want. Founded in 1873, it has gone on increasing from year to year until now it ranks as one of the foremost col- Ieges of the middle west. There is only one box a man gets into that he does not ask his friends to fieln him out of, and he would then if he could. As a man grows older he gets just as contradictory and obstinate as he was when he was yourg. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. Price, 5c. There are‘some men on earth to whom even hades would be a paradise —if you believe them. To Cure Dandraff Quickly use Coke Dandruff Cure. Money refunded if it fails, so why not try it? There are three things that need to be well trimmed—a lamp, a lawn anda woman. ling, take a bar of White’s Yue When é ‘ou can ride further and easier. catan, It’s a Jong lane that has no turning, put some turn so much they waste space. Did You Ever Run Across an old letter—ini. all faded out? Couldn't have. beew Carter's Ink for it doesn’t fade. Every cloud has a silver lining; the trick is to detach it. “Many causes induce gray hair, but PARker’s Harr Baxsax brings back the youtnful color, HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns. 15cta, Be a philosopher; . but, amidst all your philosophy, be a man.—Hume. 4 There: are race horses, horse races and owners. » TWAIN AT THE TELEPHONE. The Hamorist Used Shocking Lan- guage But Managed to Wriggie Out of the Trouble. While living at his home, in Hart- ford, Conn., Mark Twain was one OVARIAN TROUBLES Lydia EB. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Cures Them —Two Letters from Women, “Dear Mrs. PINKHAM:—I write to | tell you of the good Lydia E. Pink- morning deep in the composition of | ham’s Vegetable Compound has done | sonfe humorism from which he expect. ed a good deal, when he was called to the telephone. He told the servant to receive the message and bring it to him, but in a few moments was in- formed that the party at the other end of the wire wanted him. Provoked at the interruption, Mark went to the tel- ephone, and, after “helloing” for some time without an answer, he used some language not generally seen in print, but which was certainly picturesque. While thus engaged he heard an an- swer, in astonished tones, and recog- nized the voice of an eminent divine whom he knew very well. “Is that you, doctor?’ questioned Mr. Clemens. “I didn't hear what you said. My butler has been at the tele phone, and he said he couldn’t under- stand you.” | PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Stewart Circross, Grafton, N. D., aerial wheel; Lorenzo J. Cody, Duluth, Minn., steam log holder; Williari Dovgherty, Fountain, Minn. gayin sieve; Catherine T .Dukes, Huron, 8. D.; Hugh G. Maewilliam, St. Paul, Minn., suspenders; James Martin, Howard Lake, Minn., device for over- coming dead-centers; A million of dollars are spent every Henry, St. Paul, Minn., track guage.’ Merwin, Lothrop & Johnson, Patent Attor- seys, 011 & 912 Pioneer Presa Bidg., 8t Paw Anything Goes. “What sort of a man is your ideal asked one summer girl of another. “Oh, I like tall, fair, intellectual types,” was the answer. “Well, that is just my style, tco,” said the first speaker. But when the short, dark and brain- less youth arrived at the hotel, he ap- peared to fili the ideal all right. ” Supreme Court Sustains the Foot-Ease ‘Trade-Mark. Justice Laughlin, in Supreme Court, Buffalo, has ordered a permanent injunc- tion, with costs, and a full accounting of sales, to issue against Paul B, Hudson, the manufacturer of the foot powder called “Dr. Clark's Foot Powder,” and also against a retail dealer of Brooklyn, restraining them from making or selling the Dr. Clark’s Foot Powder, which is declared, in the decision of the Court, an imitation and infringement of “‘Foot- Ease,” the powder to shake into your shoes for tired, aching feet, now so large- ly advertised and sold all over the coun- try. Allen 8. Olmsted, of Le Roy, N. ¥Y., is the owner of the trade-mark “Foot- fase,” and he is the first individual who ever advertised a foot powder extensively over the country. He will send a sam- ple Free to any one who writes him for ft. The decision in this case upholds his trade-mark and renders all parties liable who fraudulently attempt to prof- it by the extensive ‘‘Foot-Ease” adver- tising, in placing upon the market a spurious and similar appearing prepara- tion, labeled and put up in envelopes and boxes like Foot-Ease. Similar suits will be brought against others who are now infringing on the Foot-Ease trade- mark and common law rights. Information While You Wait. Mr. I. Ne Ventor of Waverly writes: “I have invented a folding bed. Please tell me how to get it in the pa- Fold bed. Unfold paper. Then wrap. —Baltimore American. I do not believe Piso’s Cure tor Consumption \ has an equal for coughs and colds.—Joan F BoyeEn, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. A Cause in Point, “What little things often turn the current of a man’s life and save him from disaster!” % ye you had such an experience?’ once I was going to St. Louis . and I couldn’t get a pass.”— Fart Mortgage Loans. In amounts ranging from $300.00 to $10,000.00 on choice, improved farms in the western part of North Dakota. ‘Write us if you have money to invest, and we will be pleased to send you description of loans, rates of interest, etc. Personal exam- ination of all loans.. We have invested nearly one million dollars in farm loans in North Dakota since 1881, without the loss of a. North Dakota Land and Loan © Rugby, N. Up-to-Date Tactics. Sergt. Finnegan (on the skirmish line) —Stiddy, me byes; sure, they be too far off yit, but when they git furninst the bushes there, thry a few blank cari- ridges at ’em until yees git the range.— Life. Rend the Advertixements. You will enjoy this publication much better if you will get into the habit of reading the advertisements; they will afford x most amusing story, and will help you in the way of getting some excellent bargains. Our advertisers are reliable; they sead what they adver- tise. Un-American. First Boston Boy—Yes; father pun- ished me severely yesterday. Second Boston Boy—Indeed! Some parents have such radical views about government without the consent of the | governed.—Puck. Mrs. Winstow’s Soothing Syrup. For children teetning, softens the gums, reduces {n> flammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. Because a man earns money by it, does not make it work; because he H does not, does not make it pay. All play and no work makes Jack as dull a boy as all work and no play. -This I refused to do Edwin H. Me-| me. Iwassick in bed about five weeks. The right side of my abdomen pained me and was so swollen and sore that 3 could not walk. The doctor told my hus- band I would have to undergo an operation, until Lhad given your medicinea trial. Be- fore I had taken one bottle the swelling be- gan to disap- pear. I con- tinued to use ae : your medicine —— until the swelling was entirely gone. When the doctor came he was very much surprised to see me so much better.”—-Mas. Mary Smrru, Arlington, Iowa. “Dzanr Mrs. Pinkuim:—I was sick for two years with falling of the womb, and inflammation of the ovariesand bladder. I was bloated very badly. My leftlimb would swell so I could not step on my foot. Ihad such bearing down pains I could not straighten up or walk across the room and such shooting pains would go through me that I thought I could notstandit. My mother got mea bottle of Lydia E. Pinkhzam’s Vegetable Com- pound and told metotry it. I took six bottles and now, thanks to your won- derful medicine, Iam a well woman.” Mars. Exsi: Bryn, Otisville, Mich. EDUCATIONAL, “ee. THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, Classics, Letters, Economics and History, Journalism, Art, Science, Pharmacy, Law, Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Enzinecring, Architecture. Thorough P, ‘atory and Commercial Courses. Ecclesiastical students at special rates. Rooms Free. Junior or Senior Year, Collegiate Courses. Rooms te Rent, moderate charges. St. Edward’s i *, for boy's under 13. ‘The 57th Year .:1i open September 4th, 1900 Catalogres Free. Address REV. A. MCRRISSEY, C.S C., President. SACRED HEART COLLEGE, WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN. Branch of Notre Dame University, Indiana. Thorough Classical. English, Commercial and Preparatory Courses. Terms Moderate. Build- ings heated by steam. Home comforts. Por further information and catalogues, apply to REV. J. O’ROURKE, C, S. C., President. ABSOLUTE — SECURITY. Genuine Carter’s Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of CURE SICK HEADACHE. When Aaswering Aqyertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. N. W. N. U. =No. 30.— 1990, 6 PISO!S*CUR ED FOR. WHERE ALL ELSE on bed Best Good. Uso PM 5 nig iso pS JP &.C. MAGUIRE’S: EXTRAC F-CURES Colie,.Cho nplaints “NEVER F cea,.Dysentery a rank 7 byifour7Ar MEDICINE. and U. M. Ti cents to any one wi GET SHOT, funsane.aiint) eer Bee are eat +

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