Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 10, 1900, Page 5

one | feu ; J ao the FALL HATS I have jnst received a tine line of fall headwear, ° includingfsome elegant outing hats and caps for ladies’ and children. Mrs. M. Brooks i They | Johnson, ARRIVED! Fall and Winter Goods. Come in and See Them. The Tailor. Elave a sOSSSLSSSISSESSLESSS: JOLEAUD & 4 ~ STELSL FISSS: ~ Mc LISTER’ es Painters and ‘ Decorators... Fresco Work and Sign Painting a Specilaty } All Work Guarante ed to be First-Class. SSE SISESMSSS! % Letand Avenue. queen rerSeSeClSlSlerele®: Grand Rapids. SLSPSISOSLSS RIPAN'S ™suizs Doctors find A Good Prescription For mankind Ten for five cents,at Druggists, Grocers, Saloons, News-Stands, Shops. miowials sent b bythe Ripans Restaurants, General Stores ‘and Barbers They banish pain, ind leep, and prol ¥ One gives relicfi, No matier what's the-matiern one cal by samp! oe 2 mailto any address on receipt of price, ical Co.,1efSprace St., New ¥ ork ¢ 's the matter, one will id one thousand testh ‘ork City. The Herald-Review Does Good Printing “BESET BY EARTH’S CARES.” Beset by earth's cares, by its turmoil and strife, aI a, for some glimpse of the heavenly fe; Some vision I prayed for to strengthen my @aith And show me the force that can triumph o'er death. I walked through the street and I walked through the square, And the face of a stranger replied to my prayer: Tha See 5 precy wees ee rut Like angels smiled out from the spent fires of youth. The brow’s tranquil arch, and the eyes’ tender gray, And the happy shut mouth, without words seemed to say: “Our strength may be scanty, our task may be small, But each has his part in the service of all; ‘This also we know, when perplexed by life’s pain: ‘The hand that created with surely sustaitie. If griets come upon us, in grief let us prove’ ‘The conquests of courage, the healing of love; 80, cheerful and calm, to our souls shall be given A foretaste on earth of the kingdom of heaven.” ° thanks, unknown sister! Thy battles, I now, Right nobly were fought in the long, long ago; And apts be to God, by whose goodness an The light Of ‘His kingdom shines forth in man’s face! —Dora Read Goodale, in Country Gentle- man. Mr. Jobson Is Musical f HEN Mr. Jobson got home from his office one afternoon about a month ago he carried under his arma long, coffin-like leather case, which he deposited with great care on top of the piano. “Why, it’s a fiddle!” exclaimed Mrs. Jobson. “Wrong as usual,” said Mr. Jobson, amiably. “You've another guess com- ing. However, as it is not within the range of probability that you’d guess correctly if you had a million coming I'll just tell you what this is, Mrs. Job- son. It's a violin.” “Isn't that what I—” “No, Mrs. Jobson, that isn’t what you said, You said it was a fiddle.” “But what is the dit—" “Just the difference between a plas- ter of paris half dollar and the real thing, or a painted ship on a painted ocean and a real ship on wet water, Mrs. Jobson, that’s all. It’'ud be just as well for you to grasp these little dis- tinctions. A fiddle, Mrs. Jobson, is $2.50 worth of pine wood and varnish and catgut, and it’s performed upon by grimy persons with low foreheads, no chins to speak of, and beady eyes set close together, who officiate at parlor socials, farm dances and the like. A violin is—er—well, this {s a violin. You've read or heard of Stradivarius violins, haven’t you? Well, I think this fs one of em. Got it from a man who keeps a cigar store. He had it on exhi- bition in his window. I’m sorry for that poor cigar store man, for I think I did him right out of his eye teeth. Paid him only $55 for it, and it’s got all the earmarks and warts and moles of a genuine Strad. Wouldn't be surprised if some expert ’ud come along and offer me $5,000 or $10,000 for that violin any time. This tobacconist who sold it to me may know a lot about stogies and chewing tobacco, but he’s a good thing when it comes to violins,” and Jobson took the battered, homely-looking in- strument out of its case and exhibited it with manifest pride. “What are you going to do with it?” {inquired Mrs. Jobson. “Well,” replied Mr. Jobson, with great deliberation, “I’m not going to kill it for its hide and tallow, and I’m not going to usit for kindling to ight the kitchen fire with. I beg to inquire, Mrs. Jobson, what people who buy vio- lins generally do with ’em?” “Try to play on them, I suppose,” re- plied Mrs. Jobson, meekly. “Try to play on ’em, eh?” said Mr, Jobson, with the accent on the “try.” “Just you hang on to your sarcasm until you need it. I’ve bought this violin to play on.” “But,” said Mrs. Jobson, “I never knew that you played the—” “I’m quite aware of that, Mrs. Job- son,” said Mr. Jobson, fondling his purchase as affectionately as if it had been an heirloom, and taking it to the window the better to examine its “points.” “I may remark, incidental- ly, that there are a whole heap of things that you don’t know, Mrs. Job- son. I’m not in the habit of climbing out on the eaves and parading my ac- complishments, like some people I’ve heard tell of, Mrs. Jobson, I may in- form you, however, that when you were wearing dresses down to your shoetops and before you'd begun to tuck your back hair up under your hat, I was able to saw on a violin to make folks that heard me weep or laugh at will.” “Did you ever!” exclaimed Mrs. Job- son. “Then why have you never played since we were mar—” “Because it's kept me too busy try- ing to keep a home over your head, Mrs. Jobson—that’s why,” said Mr. Jobson. “I’m going to take it up now, however, and in about a month from date there'll be some music around these parts that'll hurt the suburban resorts by keeping all of our neighvors for blocks around on their front stoops at night, You'll accompany me on the piano, I’m going to practice up by myself for a few weeks, and then the Jobson parlor concerts will begin. I don’t claim to be any Ysaye or Joachim or Marteau or Sarasate, or anything like that, Mrs. Jobson, but if there was any old thing I used to be able to do better than another before my plunge into matrimony made it imperatively necessary for me to toil and moil and slave, day and night, in order to get and keep a home together, hard it was playing the violin, that’s After dinner that evening Mr. Job- son opened up the packages of bridges and strings and keys and tail-pieces and chin-rests for the violin that he had bought, for the purpose of fitting the instrumént up anew, and went to |. Work at it. None of the keys fitted, and he had to spend about two hours shaving them down with e bit of glass: The bridge he finally selected. had to be shaved, too, and it was quite a tine before Mr, Jobson recollected that. the strings of a violin can’t be passed through the keys when the keys are not attached to the violin. Two of the strings snapped from too much stretching. Along toward 11 o’clock | at night Mr. Jobson had finished re- #ining the new bow, and he drew the bow across the strings of his $55 cigar store Strad with horrifying effect. The music was like the mingled wailings of condemned gotils. Mrs. Jobson made the excuse that she wanted to put the | cat out to leavé the room, and even when she was downstairs in the base- ment she put her fingers in her ears. “My fingers are a bit stiff, and my bowing arm isn’t what it used to be, from lack of practice, but you just wait till I get limbered up, after a few weeks, and you'll hear the sweet strains around this neck o’ the Jobson woods, all right!” said Mr. Jobson, when he put the $55 Strad away that night. ‘The next evening Mr. Jobson brought home a violin and piano collection, in two sections, The collection was made up almost entirely of such choice clas- sics as “Champagne Charley,” “Not for Joe,” “Up in a Balloon,” “Maggie May,” “Silvery Waves,” “Down in a Coal Mine,” “Elfin Waltz,” “Ten Thou- sand Miles Away,” and other concer- tos of the sort that were popular in the days of Mr. Jobson’s youth. “Just you practice up the piano ac- companiments,” said Mr. Jobson to Mrs. Jobson, handing her the piano part of the classic collection, “and I'll go into training in the spare room up in the attic for a few weeks, and when I get into form we'll play these things together and make the neigh- bors jealous.” For about three weeks Mr. Jobson repaired to the attic room immediately after dinner, closed the door tight, got out his $55 Cremona and performed thereon until nearly midnight. He put a mute on the strings to drown the ef- fect of his practicing, but for all that the callous world will never know what Mrs. Jobson suffered. Mr. Joh- son ignored the sharps and flats alto- gether in his practicing, and as for time, he was probably of the opinion that time was made for slaves. Mrs. Jobson dreaded the hour when Mr. IN FRONT OF THE JOBSON MAN: | SION. Jobson should demand her to accom- pany him on the piano. It came one evening last week, ‘when Mr. Jobson brought his cigar store Cremona downstairs from the attic, opened up the collapsible music stand and announced to Mrs. Jobson that the concert would begin by a rendition of Mendelssohn’s “Spring Song,” by the famous and notorious Jobson family, who had. played before crowned heads, bunco steerers, porch climbers, ete., ete. Here the veil had better be drawn. They hadn’t been playing Mendels- sohn’s “Spring Song” more than two and one-half minutes before the gang of small boys began to assemble in front of the Jobson homestead and to indulge in cat-calls. Mr. Jobson didn’t hear the tumult before his door | at first. He was too busy telling Mrs. Jobson that she didn't know any more about playing pia~xo accompaniments than she did about glass blowing, that | she was all out. of time, etc., ete. When the crowd in front of the Jobson man- sion had increased to about a hundred and odd, however, Mr. Jobson couldn’t help but hear the delighted yells and shrieks and cat-calls that came in through the wide-open front windows. He stopped abruptly, laid down his violin, went to one of the windows and looked out, pulled down the cur- tains and then walked back and re- garded Mrs. Jobson, who still sat on the piano stool looking miserable and depressed, with an expression of aw- ful calm. “Madam,” said he, trying to impale Mrs. Jobson with his gaze, “this is the parting of the ways. It had to come some time, but I have been endeavor- ing to stall it off as long as possible. There is a lot that I could say with regard to this job you have put up on me, but I content myself with one simple question, which I desire you to answer me truthfully: How much per head did you pay these howling hoodlums and ruffians in front of my door to come here and insult me and heap vituperation andscorn upon me?” --Washington Star. - Increased Cotton Crop in Egyrt. Under British rule the cotton crop of Egypt has doubled. and now amounts to over 500,CC0,000 — a TO USE ELECTRICITY. Suspension Railroad Being Con- structed in Germany. Sonsul Writes That He Understands It Is the First Railroad of Kind Ever Used for Carrying of Passengers, Ae At Barmen, Germany, an electric suspension rallway is being construct- ed. When completed-it will consist of a double-railed line eight miles long | with 18 stations. It is being con- structed according to a single over- | head railway system of the Langen | patent. In a report to the state de- (Soceens on this subject Consul jouchsein says: “This is, I under- oe the first suspension railway for the conveyance of passengers that has been built. The road commences at Barmen-Rittershausen and follows the River Kupper through the thickly | populated cities of Barmen and Elber feld. “Beyond Elberfeld the line extends toward the west as far as Vohwinkel, leaving the river at Sonnborn and run- ning over the public highway to Voh- winkel. The marginal gradient is 4.5 | per cent. All gradients and curves are | ¥o arranged as to avoid a decrease of speed in the main lines. The iron framework over the river is supported by buttress piers of ironwork inclined toward each other; but in the public highways the structure is supported by vertical iron columns which - re- quire no more space than lantern posts. “The cars are suspended on two ro- tary bogies, 26 feet in length. Each truck, or bogie, has two axles, be- tween which an electromoter of 36 horse-power at 500 volts is arranged. The frame surrounds the rail carrier in such a manner that the wheels can- not slip off in case a fitting breaks or there is some other mishap. The cur- rent is fed by a contact shoe from a rail, “The speed will be regulated in the same manner as in electric street cars. The traveling speed is supposed to be 25 miles per hour. It takes only from ten to fifteen seconds to start; so that, in spite of the 18 stations of the road, an average speed of 18% miles per hour will be maintained. Each car holds 50 passengers and is divided {nto first and second-class and smok- ing compartments. “The number of cars in the makeup of a train is not limited, but at first | each train will consist of one or two cars only, although the station plat- | forms are so arranged thet a four-car train can receive and unload passen- gers. The speed of the trains is not dependent on the number of cars, as each car has its own motor.” A PROMISING OUTLOOK. Big Business Certain for the Tehaun« tepee Railroad Now Under Con- struction in Mexico. Work is now going on in the re construction of the Tehuantepec rail- road across the narrowest part of Mexico and gives assurance that the road will be as solid and of as per- manent a character as the Vera Crua railroad. As the Tehuantepec road will have a maximum grade of half per cent. compensated, it will be in a position to handle any traffic that can be secured on very economical terms. At present the Panama rail- road handles 300,000 tons of freight per annum, 60 per cent, of which is destined for or arises at ports north of Panama, The bulk of this nat- urally belongs to Tehuantepec. In ad- dition, however, the road will capture a large volume of the traffic at pres- ent carried by railroads to the Pa- cific coast from the Mississippi valley and it is confidently anticipated that this railroad will be doing as large a trade as the Panama within five years from its opening. The distance from Coatzacoalcos to San Francisco via Salina Cruz is 100 miles less than the distance from New Orleans to San Francisco via the Southern Pacific, and the distance across the gulf from New Orleans to Uoatzacoalcos is only 800 miles, and within a very few years there will be daily service boats.be- tween the two ports. AGED LOVERS WED. | They Renew Youthful Vows After @ Separation of Over Halfa Century. A wedding of romantic interest oc curred at Rushville, Ind., the other evening in which the happy couple, now well along in years, were sweet- hearts 55 years ago in Rush county. The groom, William D. Westerfield, a wealthy farmer of Manila, Rush county, is 74 years of age and the bride, Mrs. Helen J. Conway, of New York city, who came to Rushville to wed the lover of her girlhood days, js 72, but a well-preserved and good- looking woman. The ceremony was performed by Justice Poe. | William D, Westerfield and Helen Thomas were schoolmates in Walker township 65 years ago. Their childish acquaintance ripened into love and they grew to be sweethearts as the years advanced. In the spring of 1848 they expected to marry, but un- foreseen circumstances crossed their path of happiness and caused them to drift apart. Afterward both were ma: Mrs. Conway’s husband died two years ago and Mr. Westerfield’s wife passed away one year ago. Anticipated Pasteur. There was unveiled at La Teste de Buch, France, the other day, a statue of Dr. Jean Hameau, the obscure med- ical practioner, who, in 1836 published a study on viruses, in which he partly enticipated the discoveries of Pasteur. SEEMED GE ate oe ea ee IOI IK a a * = 2N. A. PASONAULT 3 wreveeeeceee ‘ PROPRIETOR A * . = ¢ Pioneer : = Barber : * = ‘ Shep 2 : Your Patronage Sol = = LELAND AVENUE. = Seen SSeseeaSeeRaes W. E. MARTIN, MANAGER Itasca Lanp Co. PINE AND FARMING LANDS Bought and Sold. SETTLERS LOCATED. Choice Farming Lands for Sate on Long Time and Easy Terms GRAND RAPIDS, - - MINN A. B. CLAIR, Register of Deeds of Itasca County Mineral, Pine ana Farming Lands Pine Stumpage Bought. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE. GRAyD RAPIDS. Itasca County Abstract Office KREMER &« KING, Proprietors. ABSTRACTS, REAL ESTATEL, ‘FIRE INSURANCE, Conveyances Dr Taxes Paid for Non-I GRAND RAPIDS, - - W. E. NEAL, Dealer in Pine and Farming Lands. The tinest List of Agricultural and Grazing Lands in the County. The Most Excellent Sites for Mane facturing Enterprises. Prospective Settlers Located. Corres_ondence Solicited. Grand Rapids, - - Express Line L. W. HUNTLEY, Manager. Package Delivery a Specialty WOOD FOR SALE Leave Orders at Ponti’s Confectionery Store or Kremer& King’sO ftice. * Sd