Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 5, 1901, Page 3

cae! tomer — } { } The Toadstools. Five little white heads peeped out of the mould When the dew was damp and the night was cold; And they crowded their way through the soil with pride, “Hurrah! We're going to be mush- rooms,” they cried. But the sun came up and the sun shone down, And the little white heads were with- ered and brown, -Long were their faces, their pride had a fall— They were nothing but toadstools af- ter all. —Walter Learned, in Christian Reg- ister. The Enchanted Lake. Little Miss Rosy Posy was a good little girl, as all little girls should be and she was very, very fond of fairy stories. She had always longed to meet some real fairies and have some real adventures, like those in the fairy tales. As she was so good, it was only natural that she should have her wish gratified, and one evening in early fall she was surprised to wake up. and find a cute little gnome stand- ing at the foot of her bed.” ‘Hello, Rosy,” said the “don’t you want to come and with the fairies?” Rosy was too frightened to speak at first, but the gnome told her not to be afraid and come with him. The first thing she knew she was flying through space, over the housetops, and to her surprise, she was now clad in her warmest winter clothes, with a big feather boa around her neck and a fuzzy wuzzy muff to keep her hands warm. Soon they came to the enchanted Jake in Fairy Land. Rosy found that she now had on some pretty curved skates and the little gnome also wore a pair. “Come with me,” he said, and they skated off merrily over the vast lake. There were great wide trees all round the shores, and a great big sil- ver moon shone through them with a beautiful light, making the ice shine and shine again. The ice was perfect- ly smooth and seemed to give wings to the swiftly gliding skates. After a while they met a funny lit- tle clown. The gnome, whose by the way, was Deif troduced the little clown to Rosy. The clown was called Flyaway. Flyaway, Delfo and Rosy skated off together, and soon they met two joll. bears, Grizzly and Frizzly, who wer ng themselves greatly on their Every now and then they would stop and laugh as if at some joke, and soon ail five were laughing heartily, they did not know why. A band of light-winged and light- footed fairies came out from behind the trees and skated in fancy ci and figures around Rosy. “Ring around a Ro: gnome; skate they cried in glee, and skated faster and faster, un- til Rosy could hardly see them. Then they disappeared suddenly, and this made Grizzly and Frizzly laugh harder than ever. They skated on and on and came to the mouth of a beautiful frozen river, which shone like diamonds in the moonlight. They skated up this river until they came to the Enchanted Ice Palace of the Fairy Queen. The pal- ace glittered with icicles and was the prettiest thing Rosy had ever seen. She was presented to the Fairy Queen and had a long talk with her. The queen told her that if she kept on be- ing good she would aiways be happy, end Rosy found out what the fairy said was really. true. After the Rosy was shown all through | the palace. Then Delfo and Flyawayskated back to the lake with her and Grizzly and Frizzly skated along with them. “Now, Rosy,” said Delfo, “it is near morning and if you stay here till dawn you will vanish. So you must go* back home. And I am sorry to say that you can visit Fairyland only once in your life, unless the Fairy Queen wills it otherwise.” Rosy was sorry to go, and Deifo, Flyaway and the two bears were sor- ry to have to say good-bye to her. Delfo took her to the woods and show- ed her where her home was, not far away. She quickly got there, but when she woke up the next morning she could not see the Enchanted Lake anywhere, but hopes every day that the Fairy Queen will call her again to see Grizzly, Frizzly, Flyaway and Delfo.—James A. Wales in New York Herald. A School Garden. Many German school boys and girls, besides learning reading, writing and arithmetic, ave regular classes in cabbages and potatoes. Sometimes on ‘Wednesday afternoons, and sometimes on Friday, whole classes of neatly dressed, yellow-haired children may be seen marching through the streets with their teachar at the head of the procession, on their way to the schco! garden. Many German cities, but es- pecially Leipsic and Plauen, in - Sax- ony, have set aside a plot of land not far from the schools, where all sorts of vegetables and plants are grown. ‘These afternoons spent in gardening are really the best kind of vacations, and the boysand girls enjoy them name, | afterward that | hugely. Here they learn how to trans- plant trees, how to sow all kinds of different seeds, why the cabbage is first cousin to the cauliflower—for with the gardening they are taught | botany—when turnips should be pull- ed and how to tell when a melon is | ripe. Not only do they have useful | vegetables in these gardens, but weeds | are also planted, each variety being | Properly labeled, so that every boy | will know its name. Then there are | poison ivy and other poisonoys plants | in a plot by themselves and each pu- | pil learns to recognize them, so that he | may avoid them in the woods. At the chool garden in Leipsig there is also |a beautiful little pond full of water | plants of many varieties, with a pa- | vilion near at hand, where the boys | and girls may find a shelter if a show- | er comes up. It is a wonderfully inter- | esting sight on a bright afternoon to ee this Leipzig garden swarming with children, some picking strawber- | ries, with the teacher explaining what | strawberries really are botanically, how they put out runners and how they should be transplanted, cultivat- ed and protected in .winter. And | Sometimes, though these German boys are wonderfully well behaved, a straw- berry sips into a small mouth. Others | may be seen catching cabbage cater- pillars, others hoeing and raking. All this not only brings vigor and inter- est to the pupils, but it inspires them | to start little gardens a home, where they take the greaiesi interest in put- ting their learning into practice. Ger- man children have only four weeks va- cation in summer,although they have | two weeks at Christmas, two at Eas- ter, and a fall vacation of two weeks in October. So that these school gar- dens help to give them more outdoor life. Every two weeks the gardener has a circular printed and distributed telling what plants are in bloom, what fruits are ripe, and so on, so that every child may see them, in this way learning botany by actual observation on the ground. This is the more nec- cssary because German city children have very little opportunity of seeing how the wild plants grow, as mest of the forests and fields which are uninhabited are posted with notices forbidding any one to enter. The school gardens are open all day long, | and every day but Sundays and holi- | days, and they are very carefully at- | tended by skilled gardeners, so that | they may be models of perfection for ; the children to follow. A Rattlesnake. Trap. | Rattlesnakes were the most danger- | ous wild animals with which the early ; settlers of New Jersey had to contend. | They were very numerous, and their | bite, if not treated properly at once, | was generally fatal. In “Stories from | American History’ F. R. Stockton | cites an incident which gives an idea |of the abundance of rattlers in the In a quarry, from which the work- men were engaged in getting out stone for the foundations of Princeton col- lege, a crack in the rocks was discov- ered, which led downward to a large cavity; and in this cave were found about twenty bushels of rattlesnake bones. There was no reason to be- lieve that this was a snake cemetery, | to which the creatures retired when they supposed they ,were approaching the end of their days; but it was, without doubt, a great rattlesnake trap. The winding, narrow passage leading to it must have been very ai tractive to a snake seeking reti | quarters in which to take its long win- ter nap. Although the cave at the bot- jtom of the great crack was easy | enough to get into, it was so arranged that it was difficult, if not impossible, | for a snake to get out of it, especially | in the spring, when these creatures are very thin and weak, having been nour- ishéd all wintes by their own fat. Thus year after year the rattlesnakes must have gone down into that cavity, without knowing that they could never get out again.—Youths’ Companion. Way to Make Fudge. First be sure that it isn’t going to bother any one to have you in the kitchen. Unless mother or cook is more than willing to have you try this recipe, the fudge may not turn out well, Friday evening or a stormy Saturday afternoon is conducive to good fudge making. Butter two tin or agate pie plates. Take a saucepan Which will hold about three quarts. Put in the saucepan, before you put it on the stove, three even cups of granu- lated sugar, one cup of sweet milk, a piece of butter the size of an egg and two squares of unsweetened chocolate. It is not necessary to grate the choco- late. Two heaping teaspoons of cocoa will do in place of the chocolate. Stir this mixture all together, and put it on over a moderate fire. Stir it occasion- ally, especially after it begins to boil. Boil it ten minutes from the time when it first boils up hard. It will then have begun to sugar around the edge of the saucepan. Take it off the stove, add a scant half teaspoon of vanila, and stir briskly for about two minutes, then pour it out on the buttered plates. Be very careful not to stir it so long that it stiffens before it is poured out, nor so short a time that it will not be creamy. The fudge proper is never hard nor brittle, but it will melt in the mouth. aa Sun Dial. ‘Among the Montagnias Indians a crude form of:sun-dial is used in hunt- ing, to let the squaws, who follow their lords and masters, know whether they may “take it easy” or “hurry up,” for they might fare badly if they lagged behind when the hunters, their hus- bands, were reddy for supper. And so the men, when hunting, erect in the snow a stick at some well knowf place and draw the’exact line of the stick’s shadow in the snow before going on. When the women arrive there with their pots and other cooking utensils, they note the new line of «the shadow, and by observing the angle which it forms with the line already drawn 1 the snow, they can tell how far ahead their husbands ar MR. AYERS NOT DEAD. Very Much Alive-and Out With 2 Letter Telling How He Was Saved. Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 29.—(Spe- cial.)—Few who know how ill Mr. A. E. Ayers of this city has been with Bright's Disease and Diabetes ever ex- pected he could live. Four doctors gave him but three or four days to live. He recovered through the prompt and centinued use of a well known remedy, and has given the following letter for publication. It is dated at Bath, N. Y., where M 's now resides. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home, Bath, N. Y. Dodds Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y.: Dear Sirs—I wish to tell you what Dodd's Kidney Pills have done for me. As far as I am concerned, they are the best in the world, for they not only saved my life, but they have given me new life and hope. I lived in Minneap- olis for forty-nine years, and am well known there by many people. I suf- fered severely wth Bright's Disease and Diabetes. Four well-known physicians gave me up to die. In fact, they gave me only three or four days, at the longest, to live. I had spent nearly ev~ erything I had in the effort to save my life, but. seeing an advertisement ot Dodd's Kidney Pills, I scraped what ‘was nearly my last half-dollar, sent to the drug store and bcught a box. I had very little hope of anything ever doing me any good, as, from what the four doctors had told me it was now a mat- ter of hours with me. I commenced to take the Pills, and from the very first they helped me. I took in all about forty boxes. I doubtless, did not need so many, but I wanted to make sure, and, after all, $20 is a small amount of money to remove the sentence of death and save one’s life. I have since recommended Dodd's Kidney Pills to hundreds of people, and I have yet to hear of the first one that did not find them all that you claim for them. I can remember of two people to whom I had recommended Dodd’s Kidney Pills, and who afterwards said to me that they received no benefit. I asked to see their Pill boxes, and be- hold, instead of Dodd’s Kidney Pills, it was ——'s Kidney Pills, an imita- tion of the genuine Dodd's, and not the real thing at all that they had been using. I gave each of them an empty pill box that Dodd's Kidney Pills had been put up in, so that they could make no more mistakes, and they afterwards came to me and told me that they had bought and used the genuine Dodd’s Pills, and were cured. I still continue to use the Pills off and on, and would not be without them if they were $50 a box. I think that every old gentleman in the world would be healthier and better if he would take one after each meal. t wish I could think of words strong enough to express to you my gratitude for what your Medicine has done for me. It is not often, I suppose, that a man who is staring death right in the face, is permitted to live and tell of the means which saved him, and as that is my position, my heart is overwhelmed with thankfulness to God for His mer- cy to me in permitting me to see the advertisement of Dodd’s Kidney Pills, when it seemed that I was beyond all earthy power to save, that I cannot ex- press my real feelings. If any one doubts the statement I have made, they may write to me, and I will try to prove to them that all I have said in this letter is true, and more than true. There are hundreds of people in Minneapolis who know all about my case and the way Dodd’s Kidney Pills pulled me through, when I had been given up by the four doc- tors of Bright’s Disease and Diabetes, and had practically lost all hope. You are at liberty to publish this testimonial which I give you from the bottom of my heart, and I sincerely wish that I could find the right words to express my feelings of gratitude to you and to Dodd's Kidney Pills, for my restoration to life and health- (Signed) A. E. AYERS. Late of Minneapolis, now at Soldiers’ and Sailors’. Home, Bath, N. Y. < Mr. Ayers is only one of thousands of aged gentlemen who say that their lives have been prolonged and their declining years made worth living by the use of Dodd's Kidney Pills. Some One Would Like It. “I don’t like Muggins’ face,” said Twynn to Triplet. ‘‘He hasn’t a pleas- ing ccuntenance.” ‘But an auctioneer would like it,” said Triplett.” “How so?” ees “It is a countenance forbidding.”— Detroit Free Press. You Can Get Allen’s Foot-Ease Free. Write to-day to Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y., for a FREE sample of Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder. It cures sweating, damp, swollen, aching feet. Makes new or tight shoes easy. 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It will, however, be known as the century of invention and discovery, and among some of the great- est of these, we can truthfully mention Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, the cele- brated ‘remedy for all ailments arising from a weak or disordered stomach, such as dyspepsia, indigestion, flatulency, con- stipation and biliousness. Not Extremely Binding. This morning Pound Officer Tait had occasion to rope in a fine Jersey cow, which had escaped from her owner's lot and was roaming the streets at will. This action evoked the following let- ter from the owner: “Chief Richards—Old Friend: The pound man hauled my cow into court this morning for prowling. As it is her first offense, please have her let off with as light a fine as possible. CG." W. Davia.” And underneath the letter referred to the chief scribbled the following in- Struction to the pound man: “Release the old cow ferred to on her own, recognizance.""—Memphis Scimtar, TO CURE A COLD IM ONE DAY. Take Laxavivik BROMO QUININE TABLETS. All ists refund the money if it fails to cure. "s signature is on the box. 25c. How He Borrowed. Sympathetic Visitor (to Prisoner)— My good man, what brought you here? Faceticus Prisoner—Borrowing mon- ey. “But they don’t put people in prison for borrowing money.” “I know; but I had to knock the man down three or four times before he would lend it to me.”—Chicago Journal. Some articles must be describe: White's Yucatan needs no descriptio: it’s the real thing. A Society Ornament. “Marie, doesn’t young Noodletop do anything but stare when he calls to} spend the evening?” “Oh, yes, Louise; anapolis Journal. he yawns.”’—Indi- Thirty minutes is all the time re- quired to dye with PUTNAM FADE- LESS DYES. Miss Towson—I think Mr. Yorkrode’s talk is simply killing. Miss Waverly—He sure! murders his Englis: Baltimore American. There Ix a Class of People Who are injured by the use of coffee. | Recently.there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over one-fourth as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cents and 25 cents per package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O. A Mistake in Diet. “You seem to be suffering?” marked the parrot. “Only a little indigestion,” replied the ostrich, carelessly. “I thought thos last railroad spikes were wrought iro: but I find they were steel.’’—Detrei Free Press. re- Piso’s Cure is the best medicine we ever used, for all affections of the throat and lungs.—Wat. O. ExpsiEy. Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900, Musical Criticism. “Do you think there’s any money in Orphanback* music?” “I don’t know. 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I suffered with hot flushes, and fainting spells. I was afraid to go on the street, my head and back troubled me so. I was en- tirely cured by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.”— Mrs. JENNIE aos 5010 Keyser St., Germantown, N every county of the civilized world the Sisters of the Good Shepherd | are known. ot only do they minister tothespiritual and intellectual needs of the charges committed to their care, but they also minister to their bodily needs. = With so many children to take care of and toprotect fromclimate and disease. these wise and prudent Sisters have found Peruna a never-failing safeguard. Columbus, O., July 10, 1900. 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Des Moines. lowa, will on request- explain ail about the Gladiator Gold-Mining com, pany; extremely interesting: write me. Not Wholly a Misfortune. The Widow—Yes, Henry’s death is a great loss to me, but I’m thankful for one thing. He died before he could get his patent perfected. Sympathizing Friend—Pardon me. The Widow—You don’t understand? Why, in that case, you know, all the money he had would have gone sooner or later.—Boston Transcript. PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Mike Feierer, Sleepy Eye, Minn., draft-evéner; Michael J. Foley, Clo- quet, Minn., end-bearing for rolls; An- drew E. Gagnon, Minneapolis, Minn., knotter for binder: Hans J. Hanson, Hansorville, Minn., computing ma- chine; Gustave A. Olson, Lerdal, Minn., hay-sling; Edwin E. Thomas, Minne- apolis, Minn., band saw mill; John Webster, Triumph, Minn., leather- punching machine; Clarence O. White, Minneapolis, Minn., gasoline engine. 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