Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 17, 1900, Page 5

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The HersidRoview Does Good Printing | “Oh, that’s ROYAL ETIQUETTE. {Ip Spain No Subject Is Ever Permitted { to Touch the Person of | a King. | | Old world privilege and restriction reign supreme in Spain, where there Is a law that no subject shall touch the person of the king or queen, says ‘the New York Mail and Express. The present king of Spain nearly suffered a severe fall from this rule in his childhood. An aunt of his made him a present of a swing. When he used it ,for the first time the motion fright- ened him, and he began to cry. Where- ‘upon a lackey lifted him quiekly out of it and so, no doubt, preserved him from falling. The breach of etiquette, however, was fla- grant and dreadful. The queen obliged to punish it by ‘dismissing the man from his post. At ‘the same time she showed her real ‘feelings on the subject by appointing ‘him immediately to another and bet- | ter place in the royal household. In another case a queen of Spain } owing to this peculiar rule. She had been thrown when out riding, and, her | foot catching in the stirrup, she was dragged. Her escort would not,risk interference, and she would have been dashed to pieces but for the heroic in- ‘terposition of a young man who stopped the horse and released her from her dangerous position. As soon as they saw she was safe her escort turned to arrest the traitor who dared to touch the queen’s foot, but he was not to be seen. Knowing well the penalty he had incurred, he made off | at once, fled for his life and did not stop until he had crossed the frontier, | | REASONS FOR REFUSING. Capricious Women Who Preferred No Lovers to Those They Had Accepted. | j | | A young woman of Birmingham, England, became betrothed last sum- ‘mer to a young solicitor, preliminaries | were arranged and the fond couple | only awaited the arrival home of the ridegroom’s father from a lengthy sojourn in America to be made one. |In due course he came, but when the ride beheld one who, while he would have easily qualified for “fat. man” \at a fair, asserted that in his.son he once again beheld himself in youth, | she refused to fulfill her promise, and | now seeks a lover to whom the future | does not threaten such ample propor tions. Some years since a lady was en- gaged to a gentleman who bore the | name and was a relation of a certain allant soldier, who, a month previous ‘to the date appointed for the cere- imony, while on service abroad had | | the misfortune to meet with a severe everse. No sooner did the news come to hand than the lady, a member of | | whose family had been wounded in | the disastrous action, declined, unless jhe should promise to change his | name, to become his wife. To this caprice the gentleman refused to sub- HIS FIRST FIRE ASSIGNMENT. | Phe Nxeuse Given by a New Reporter for Neglecting His Duty. “Say, hustle down to the stockyards tright away,” said the city editor to the new reporter, says the Chicago Chronicle. “There’s a fire down there. It may turn into something big, but | even if it doesn’t we want a good lit- tle story on it anyhow.” The new reporter shot out of the door, with perspiration starting at | every pore. The fire did not turn cut to be a great conflagration, so no more reporters were sent down to the yards to take care of it. The city editor depended upon his new man for the story. But for some unaccount- able reason the reporter failed to re- | turn to the office and the paper had to go to press without the account of | the fire. The next day about noon the new man strolled leisurely into the office entirely unprepared for the thunder- storm that broke over his head as soon as the city editor caught sight of him. ~ “Say, what the dickens is the mat- | ter with you anyhow?” said the edit- or. “Why didn’t you write up that fire that I told you to?” “Why,” gasped the youth, “there wasn't any use to write it up, every- body was there and saw it.” ENEW ALL ADOUT GUNS. “Piet” Joubert Astonished All Hear- ers, Inclading Krupp the | Famous Himself, An American weman tells of a visit she and some friends paid tg the | Krupp gun works at Essen, Germany, years ago, and of encountering Peter Joubert before he thought of going to South Africa. The woman was the guest of the American ambassadcr and his wife, and at the works they were met by Krupp himself, In mak- ing their tour of the arsenal they were joined by a man who followed through each department, and in 8 few moments responded to a casual question about guns from one of the party. Once having spoken he launched forth into such detailed de- scriptions of their manufacture that Krupp, who had hitherto been talk- ing, kept still and simply followed as one of the auditors. The man accom panied the party, explaining as he went, until the tour had been made, Then he bowed and retired. t “Who is that man who knows sq rauch about guns?” demanded one of the party. + é Pete Joibert,” reglied one of the off | interstaté commerce commission that | much more drastic than ours. | appliances the board will make rules ; Paris correspondent of the New York | are a source of profound regret, as tomers, monsieur.” i FOR SAVING OF LIFE British “Law Enacted Requiring Safety Railroad Appliances. Thought to Be More Drastic Than That of the United States—Board of Trade to Enforce the Measure. Information has been received by the | on July 30 of the present year the Brit- ish act for the better prevention of ac- | cidents on railways received the assent of the queen and became a law. The board of trade, one of the depart- ments of the general government, isin- | vested with extensive power, and is charged with the carrying out of the | provisions of the safety appliance law. More authority is given the board of | trade in this respect than the United | States statutes gives the interstate | commerce commission, and in many re- | spects the English law is considered | | If, after a reasonable time, the rail- | way companies of Great Britain fail to | obviate the dangers by use of safety requiring the use of plants or appli- ances as it may consider best calculated to reduce the danger to persons em- ployed, or the disuse of any plant or appliances shown to involve danger. | Penalties are provided for noncompli- | ance with any rules prescribed by the board. The ratio of lives lost to the and uncoupling cars in England is not } less than one to three hundred. This | percentage, as is shown by the reports | of the interstate commerce commis- | sion, is as great as existed in this coun- | try in 1893, where at present the ratiap| has been reduced to one man killed | out of 600 engaged in coupling and un- | coupling cars. | It is believed that the action of the | United States government in the mat- | ter of safety appliances has been large- | ly instrumental in bringing about the enactment of the British law. A CURIOUS ORDER.. i French Army Officer in Official State- ment Declares Suicide Is De- eertion and a Crime, A curious order of the day has been issued by Col. Clamorgan, of the Sec- | ond regiment of marines, says the Herald. It runs as follows: “A soldier of the regiment commit- ted suicide some days ago at Ker- huon. A sergeant committed suicide this morning in barracks, “It is better that their names should ; not be mentioned. These two deaths | would be the desertion or crime of a comrage. “Suicide for a soldier is desertion. It is flight toward a country from which nobody returns. 4 “Suicide is a crime. It is the aban- donment of one’s post and flight be- | fore the enemy. 3 “For this reason it is a painful but a just custom that military honors | are not rendered to a suicide. | | “A soldier who believes in God and | who loves his country would have no temptation to commit suicide. Let us therefore be true believers and patri- ots in order that a noble hope may sustain us during life, and that all of us, sons of France and soldiers first | of all, may know how to keep our! blood for the defense of the father- land.” BRITISH BOOKKEEPING BAD. | Some English Rozds Found to Be Paying Dividends They Do 4 Not Harn. English investors have such bad luck with American railways that they think a good while nowadays before making any purchase over sea. They have sold a very large part of their American railway holdings for prices far below what they paid for them. ‘They Gon’t speak in the kindliest terms of the methods of finance followed by American boarcs of directors, These English investors who have been so badly bitten by their Ameri- can investments have pointed scorn- fully to the Yankee system of railway bookkeeping and contrasted it with the conservative, straightforward methods of English railway manage- | ment, but a new light has been thrown | on the English railway bookkeeping by some probing of their half-yearly re- | turns. The gist of the matteristhe railways stand no higher in EnglanG than in America. English railways are now paying dividendy they don’t earn, while American \railways are earning divi- dends they don’t pay. English direct- ors are drawing upon the future, while Americans are paying up for the past. All Languages Spoken, Visitors to the Paris exposition may have noticed over one of the restaurants the inscription: “Ici on parle toutes les langues.” Those who are famitiar with the results obtained in French | restaurants where “Anglais” is spoken | will naturally be rather skeptical about | this comprehensive claim to speak all | the languages urder the sun, says the London Chronicle. A visitor recently remarked to the manager: “You must have a great many interpreters here.” “Not one,” was the reply. “Who, then, speaks all the languages?” “The cus- Shocking. A man who will eat oysters and wear a straw hat at the same time has no right, says the Chicago Times-Herald, to expect to be honored by his chil- dren. — Mushrooms in Austria. In Austria ron vie | United States, as he had not complied | was entitled to return. | nical violation of law, Assistant Secre- | mit him to return to his home. | ficer to get a free ride to San Fran- | man lard in regard to smell, taste and | ashore, mushrooms are grown in | QUEER CASE OF CHINAMAR. Lan B. Dew Barred Out of This Couns try, Although an Amer- iean Citizen. © A peculiar question has arisen in the case of a Chinaman, Lan B. Dew, a resident of Staunton, Va. Dew had | been in this country about 18 years, had accumulated considerable prop- erty in the Virginia town and was well regarded by the citizens there. Some time ago he took out natural- ization papers and supposed himself a citizen of the United States. He decided later to visit his home in China, and made application to the state department for a passport, which was sent him, the officials not recognizing his nationality by his name, With the passport in his pos- session Dew sailed away, and in course of time returned by way of Canada. At Montreal he was in- formed by the United States Chinese inspectors that he could not enter the with the law by taking with him an official certificate showing that he | Dew’s wife and children are still at | Staunton, and while his admissfon in- | to the United States would be a tech- tary Taylor has ordered the United States inspectors in Canada to per- His ease will be passed upon by the offi- | cials here. The cases of nine other Chinamen} of Jacksonville, Fla. have been| | brought to the attention of the de-| | number of men employed in coupling | partment. They had been residents | ef Jacksonville nine years and had} accumulated consideraixe property in| the laundry business. Some days ago a! United States marshal arrested them | on the ground that they were illegal-} ly in this country. The Chinamen| said their certificates had been lost,! and as they could not produce them they were thrown in jail. Many cit-| izens of Jacksonville have protested} against the action of the marshal. The department has had a number ‘of cases recently of Chinese being ar- rested without sufficient cause, and in some cases it is thought the arrests were made to enable the arresting of- cisco and return in case they were or- dered deported. These suspected cases will be very carefully looked in- to hereafter by the Washington au- thorities. IS FOUND FAULTLESS. Consul at Frankfort Writes That Ger- man Analysis of American Lard Proves It an Excellent Article. “The agrarians and some butchers of Germany are trying to create a popular prejudice against the con- sumption of American meats and par- ticularly of American lard,” writes Consul General Guenther from Frank-! fort. “The report of the board ot! chemical examiners o2 the city of Ulm (charged with the examination of adi- pose substances or fettwaaren) is of interest in this connection. The re- port covers the examinations of the Jast two years, and after stating that] the customs authorities are required | to take samples of all large shipments of foreign butter, cheese, margarine, and hog’s lard, and have them exam- ined, it says: ‘Samples of American) lard are often received, taken from} shipments amounting to several hun- dreds of pounds. A thorough chem- ical examination shows that Ameri- ean lard is not only the same as Ger- consistency but that it frequently ex- eels in dazzling white color. Among the several samples received there| was none to be objected to; the qual ity was faultless.’ ” sai PUT MEN TO SHAME. Young Woman Jumps from Trestle to River and Saves Little Girl While Timid Men Look On. “1¢ that child is to be saved, some one must jump after her, and quickly.” Not,a man was brave enough to accept the challenge. Miss Lizzie Evans, the speaker, hesitated only long enough | to make sure that if the child was to be saved she must save her. Then the girl sprang from a trolley car into the Del- aware river near Camden, N. J., seized Ethel Frazer, who was drowning, and kept the girl’s head above water until both were rescued. Miss Evans was on an open car. At the end of the seat before her sat! Ethel Frazer, six years old, and next to | Ethel her mother. As the car was whizzing over a trestle Ethel leaned far out. The car jolted; the child was pitched into the river. Mrs. Frazer, shrieking, jumped to her feet. The car was stopped. The child arose, helplessly striking out her little arms. Some men on the car rushed to the rear patform, and, cutting the rope | of the trolley pole, threw the rope to the little one. The child sank again. Then came the ery of Miss Evans, who was poised on the running beard | on the side of the car. She waited an instant. Taking off a fine new hat she wore, she deliberately put it on the car} seat and then jumped. j Miss Evans is a good swimmer. A! few strong strokes and she grabbed) little Ethel as the child reappeared. Two men ashore, alarmed by the shouts of those on the car, had jumped into| @ boat and were pulling with all their might toward the struggling girl. These men, arriving most opportunely, quickly drew Miss Evans and little Ethel into the boat. They were rowed When Ethel’s mother reached them she first embraced her daughter and then hugged the dripping Miss Evans, “Not a word,” said that plucky young woman, too glad. The little one’s allright now, isn’t she?” Then Miss Evans turned to her friends and coolly asked: 3 pi 33 ee Ba ee a A age ah Re Re ate ae ag ae te eae eats eae ae RE St REAR SSIES ROIIOIOK aR aE N. A. PASONAULT : PROPRIETOR Pioneer Barber Shop_® Your Patronage Solicited. LELAND AVENUE. 6 aR RESIS ate ate a ae a ae a te ea eae aa a sf ae a a eA a RK A td W. E. MARTIN, MANAGER TIrasca Lannp Co. PINE AND FARMING LANDS Boag!:t and Sold. SETTLERS LOCATED. 1 Choice Fa wle on Long Is for ay ‘Ter GRAND RAPIDS, > ~ MINN A. B. CLAIR, erof Deeds of Itasca County Mineral Pine ana Farming Lands Pine-Stumpage Bought. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE. GRAyD BRAPIDS. 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