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3 * enpugh toé bes! _to send~ home * at Hgmburg», The ri apids MeratdeIReview Pubilshed Every Saturday. By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A es Entered in the Postoffice at Grand Rapids Minnesota, as Second-Class Matter “HOW HE SHOWED JUDGMENT. Successful Man Realized Inability to Make Accurate Forecast. This trom a man of success: “My business requires as much decision es picking winners on a racetrack or buying stocks in Wall street. I mean that judgment is required: I have to figure out in my own mind in my own way what to do’ in oréer to accom- plish a certain purpose, Long ago I recognized fully that only 7 per cent of the human race is successful in following its own judgment. Just think: Out of 100 good men, of aver age brains, 93 go wrong jn following their judgment and 7 go right. Well, I agreed with myself that I should be one of the 93, so, after diligently working out a plan of action and cast- ing my vote one way, I always did the opposite. If7I, figure out to-day * that steel_is going down I buy some “3 of it, ceéppering my judgment. . way I have achieved success th’ »f some may seem marvelous. I am com- In that to plimented on my judgment, whereas * in truth I am coppering myself every nment of my life.” That’s where he shows judgment.—New York Press. HE HAD'USED MORE. Soldier, Explains ‘Lack of Soap to Dis- comfited Sergeant. It was kit inspection, and the dif- ferent companies of the battalion were standing with their kits on the ground in front of*them: The, sergeant-major was making the. examination,” when his eagle ‘eye detected the absence of soap inthe kit of Private Flinn, and he- demanded what exeuse the man Tiad to give. «“Plaze, > sort, - it’s « all used,” said r¥isheuted the sergeant-ma- ay, the first cake of soap 1 jor. had served mé for: my kit lasted me three years while you are not-a, year in the sae so How do You account fog, thy ¥Fithn’s: eye, pad the faintest, suspi- cion oft a’twinke, ashe replied: “Plaze;! sorr; I wash every day.” And-the sergeant-major walked on, while the entire.company” *“grinned.— London Tit-Bits. Worship of the Bear. The curious “hairy Ainus”, of; north- ern Japan hold the bear in extreme sanctity.’ y catch: the’ bear young and bring: up on milk, a nurse be- ing deputed to him. Then’ he, is} trans- ferred to a scase.atid when he is old | ain, on the day of sac- rifice, the whole age turns out | armed with bows and cage is opered. andeve p fatal s the bear to pardon the vio- him, ri ‘ chief pr Jence dor the now d Offeriggs. {the bear Crown Cwns Valuable Lands. Amorg the great -fround landlords in London the.crowmr#is- 6né “of the greatest, owning properties in-various parts of the capital: ‘Yieldit 4 thi ground rents » £460,000 per annum. Fifteen years ago the estates produced’ £250,- * 000 orly; but, many leases have fallen ‘in within that time, and the increased “~yents have been exacted for renewal fines or for new leases. The Carlton hotel is a striking instance of the in- creased velue of ground in London. Formerly the. site on which*the hote? stands was held for the crown for a ground rent of £763 per annum; now | £4,200 yearly has to be paid: Pe Ny Se ALS OR ta, ea cy Strawberries Grown by Gas. The remarkable gas “electroid,” for which its inverter, Prof. Rychnowski, wi claims that it'can be condensed into ¥ereenich- Dlue balls, which are elastic Ciike India rubber, would apparently ‘pe the very thirg for automobile tires. be gas is self-lumincus, and lamps ‘ould, \there‘ore, be unr sary. at Might, while in its ¢ rays \vegeta: fion - sprouje sur To n winter, through cow beens onducted*on cagesdin, tho- hold, then beca “to fll with azgaseoas wibstance. was cépcluded the cages a on deck, and ab to be dead. ‘e, bre Fe: * Prof. Mommserm a:sRhitosopher. Prof. Mommsen* the sorian, whose flowing © white a few days ago he wai the more rqpent acti .remarkea whimsically: “It isyall over _ with my beans eon This NEFEC YE ® IN ADVANCE A © hold. of the “ship | When this ught theyrafs : uit re aN Will in future be oe inatpeiGetman navy andon the fe Girma steamshiplines: German _his- locks, * caught fire 4t a gas. getein’ his \iprary s ago, is, 85. years olg,, but has lost li#fle of his ditysical and none. of his mental activitvulTwenty “years | Imost cremated when the valuable lilrary in his house at Char, lottenburg-Wyas destr gee Dyséfifiesd In” nt his face was catches the - somewhat Scaled and the pro‘essor , VERY UGLY WHEN DRUNK. _ A FEAT OF MEMoRY. : Wonderful Accomplishment to Which the Mind Was Trained. Some light is thrown on the possi- bilities of memory culture by an inter- esting recital contained in the auto- Qualification Not Absolutely Essential to a Minister. A preacher in Topeka, Kan., tells this story relative to another member of “the cloth,” and inferentially the tale must be true: diography of Robert © Houdin,, the “A church at Anadarko was consid-| famous conjurer, He taught his son ering the merits of a pastor who had | to glance at, say, a shop window and applied for the pastorate. The deac-| to memorize accurately, as in a brain ons had been told that a lawyer of the | picture, the window’s contents. Then town had known the pastor intimate- | he would ask him to describe the con- ly. They Went to him and asked for | tents, checking and correcting him as a statement of the qualifications of | he went on. .On+one occasion Houdin the candidate. ‘Yes, I know Brother | | was commanded to the Tuileries to very well,’ said the lawyer. ‘I| give a performance before the French went to college with him, and I at- | court. As he passed through an ante-. tended his church after he ,entered | room to the salcn he bade his son to the ministry. He is scholarly, able | note the arrangement of the rooms and eloquent and I am sure you will and,the contents of the bookcases. like him.’ lawyer and were going away when he! ment Houdin astonished his audience called to them in consequence of an by giving what he called a -“second- afterthought, ‘I dcn’t know as_ it, sight” test.. Declating his unfamil- makes any difference,’ said he apolo-| iarity with the Tuilieries,. Houdin, getically, ‘but perhaps I should tell | blindfolding his son, asked hinr ‘to you that he’s as ugly as h—1l when | send his gaze through ‘the wall of the he’s drunk.’” room to the chamber beyond, to'de- scribe the arrangement of the cham- ber and to read the titles of the vol- cumes on the shelves of the’ bédkcases. This feat the young lad: accomplished, to the astonishment of the court. A LITTLE TOO PREVIOUS. Boy’s Parting Shot at the. Professor Was Ill-Timed. In a public school in the northwest section it is the custom for the super- vising “principal to receive _ “Good morning” and “Good afternoon”, from the pupils on entering and leaving the| % Newspaper Headlines. . school. It was rather repulsive for Capt. Edgar S. Dow ‘of New ‘Haven; | one boy, who evaded the custom as to whom was given-the honor of pilpt- often as possible. neon he saluted the principal’ with New Haven harbor on his ‘visit, ‘to the startling farewell, “Go to the dev- Connecticut's metropolis Jast far, is, il, professor,’ and ran out of the an entertaining old salt, whoican - ake school. The professor. became very | ways go a story-tellef one better. Ap- angry over the affair, and thought | propos of the humorous “mistakes that”: over several plans of punishment to | printers make, the captain lately told mete out on the following Monday morring. Monday morning came, and with it the boy, who sat on a bench outside the class room. When the professor appeared, he began to cry, and loudly explained: or, don’t expel me; we were going to move away-from here on Friday, and now we ain't.” It is needléss to say he. was not “expelled.—Philadelphia Ledger. MUST HAVE BEEN A SHOCK. Remarkable Effect of “Change: of | “Years: ago,” he deciared, “I u: take a New York paper that prit its shipping news on he .same* pag | with the obituaries, find the captions excHanged, ang. a long list of respectable*name: under the marine headiig; Through Hell Gate Yesterday.” A Promising Chimpanzee. A chimpanzee taken .- to. lately from the United States is said”) ta be on the point of talking. “It-al- | ready makes guttural: sounds. which Modern Scarecrows. So many cases of troublesome short circuiting -of electric wires have oc- curred’ recently by owls, crows, hawks, ‘eagles, ete., lighting on.the wires that the Electrical Review sug- gests the expedient of putting scare- crows on the tops of the poles. The ; electrical inventors have found ways | deaf-mutes said that a slight operation. to head off most of the technical trou-| upon one of the ligaments of “the bles of electric distribution, byt these | tongue would enable the animal=-to pranks of animals are more, difficult | speak. At that’ time the: chimpanzee'* to prevent. When a bird or cat makes.'.was under, contract. But it, w il ‘prab- a bridge between twa highly. charged ably_ now ,be taken to caine for the: wires it is instantly eremated by the,: ; operation, It can-even: now use a types. current, but .this is small isfaction | cwriter-+ ‘and. play the. piano... But ‘the for the daniage and scare atthe cen-! professions ai gussaromnet es tal tral, station that this sudden short ctr. a ing, himpanzee, zm i “| 1ént diving," « event i abge iafolkerss* its dog can do as much as that. When it a German doctor who had to’ dd ‘wit f in a, m | kned place his haird Wei fall his | unresi like the cover of a-comie paper, you . sntas§ feeling in ian “Wag, for coppers; , while* e givey only oie. P rformance: at‘?Mont-, m smiles,all the .time’* martre.-.It was*p d_in,total« sdark- ness; voices «of, differ drt’ timbre speaks gisyer**Who is in a room not y feet away, and that the young man dogesn’t’Conte there just for the tun’ of playing with her brother. thing. Paris had ever heard befgre. lights in ‘the middle: ofthe act, and a half-dozen commonplace. Montmartre * Religious Zeal Too Strong. John Newdick, a citizen of Kokomo, Ind., is of a strongly religious turn, put Mrs. Newdick is a trifle uhregen- erate.* The other evening John an- nounced family prayers, but at that | moment it Was inconvenient for his | SgayRME SES FF re EL wife to attend, as her hands were “in The Iriskm n and the Sun. the dough.” John was already on his | An Irishman who had just landed in knees, but he arose and thrashed his’ New York from his’ home in Ireland irreligicus © spou ter which he was Sstroiling around the city, taking concluded his devotional exercises in the sights. In the course of his with all due reverence. Mrs..Newdick walk he came across B.ttery park, had him up before a magistrate next and. seeing..a«bench unoccupied near morning and nis excess of zeal cost the water front, sat down. -It was costs.—Exchange. | just about sunset when the Celt took | his seat in the park «nd as he gazed | across the water at Governor's sitting on wooden chairs, all of them grinning over the misadventure. - Af- ter that Jules Bois gave up the stage in despair. Cause for Alarm. | . i island J. M. Fitzsimmons of the big guas at that place boomed announcing sunset. Now, this noise court tokd a good of his experiences in was ney, to the I to a polkcema man, aiid he s n_ who was pagsing a ne ‘oil ; many years ago. They ,.. a : hs | were W cr a “strike,” and Pan BARGE J tre ve € day, and, as the... he r. the’ Celt, “the fire: was ‘ built. 4 ‘d in Ire struck _ irom to a height of a stream of + 3 cold, as rela: Cleaned by Machine. er is a Swedish inventor 3, who has construgi- h takes he¥ti yr oe Mapes ata Me Meek igade, scrapes. afk thei * ‘ton.’ off their heads, splits; cleans “ yqr hear that’ lecture $9 which it » [+ was « staipd jhat thd" fact _that Adam | Weonin hae inside and Aout. | aftivda on earth,befpre Eve indicated that men should assume “a and The hine does all this automatitally, cubed pen Cee sa te herrings’ -per ane our. ne of tl ig‘ floating’ herrin; precedence over women? pea “factories which go out fro} ‘otaneke wa¥ ithe - somewhat, Jey; reply. sn te the herring banks is tobe ‘equipped | it absurd? It sinthlY shows that’ ‘stam with this astonishing. apparatus, was expected, to get thé’ garden in which ought to effec’ a-revolution in shave*for ‘Eve's comfort, .just-as the 45, price of bloaters. modern . many getssHp in the morning | anué fights the” fire. "— Washington ; Star: American Gene: * Better. Than the isbesockies enumerates. gifts: and‘ “beg .« Patsing thesAcademy of Music one pyplic*purposés which-were -matinees day, I met a friend avers came operative or were comiléted.in out. “What is the matter,” I ‘ edj | the United ;States to thexathount, of f ts ~ the} fandyy that; tit ma nér stat@or municipal appropriations: mar! d.%,dowh ; Among these excluded contributions ene Seated “over $18.3 TIVE — The deacons thanked the | Then at: the:close of the entertain-~ One Friday’-after- ing President Roosevelt's yacht in os wnidal ‘form, desired and the judge sent the following of his own observ: jongs'Pitts tox one?" ‘and “after a dew minutes’ consul- ey tation” You canimaginé “verdht? asked the jndge. “ “Oh, profess-| the shock it gave me me morning td“ re; printed ahdge. And. thé ciebk read, “We, your assed... fird. agree to disagree. f |. it England | i its attendants can understand. But.a i was shown at the Buffalo exposition, sai | may..safely ‘Say that the howling boy »ing*sdlemily, a dialogue “that quite transcended in. mystic. realism any-tt: much, lower tb- ay than it was last, Pee no’ ‘sae very sure aboot }, Unluckily for Bois, some envious rival... bribed the gas: man’’to: turn on the || singers of both sexes were discovered { | they ,come from’ ’the:net,.sorts them | | into the four sizes recognized ‘by the i scales, cuts | sit} Under the title, “Gifts - a Be- quests,” Appleton’s Anniial Cyclopedia |* * for de, be- “play bad?” erates ut it more than: $85,000,000, This Hist dées” is t sppteipyte yinere rise ig liter not include, amounts less than. $5,000 *aliye a with women. You see, , nor , denominational contributions” for- it’s the name—Ninety and Ning: that’ equéatidnal or benevolent purposes, ie ststhe' bar-», are those to the American*board of.) d THE QUESTION OF SHAPE. New York Writer Says the World Is Mad on the Subject. The world is gone mad on strength and shape, says “Tip”. in the New York Press. Magazines and newspa- pers are alive with advertisements of methcds of acquiring the muscle of fercules, the arms of Venus, the neck of Juno, the bust of Vesta, the waist of Josephine, the hips of Diana, the legs of Cleopatra. Minerva is for the moment inthe background. No hope for wisdom now! Women are dis- played in impossible positions and ad- vised to repeat certain poses. Mrs. Cutex asked Mrs. Butex, “How do you keep your front so flat, my dear?” Mrs. Butex replied: “Oh, I am under instructions. Thirty times in the mérning and thirty times in the even- (‘ing T pick up each foot in my hands | and toiich the toe ‘to the tip of my | ear.- You can haye no idea how mtch ‘it has- reduced my. front, certainly several inches and some pounds.” “Do you stand up and do that?” “Necessarily; stand on one foot while ‘the other is in the. air.” “Merciful heavens!” “AGREED ON. THEIR VERDICT. spony’ ‘Had Made Up Their Minds, ++ and So Affirmed. “At Fort. Scott (Kan.) the other day a, jury in_the District court returned: a yerdi t! finding a certain accused person guilty ,of larceny. The verdict “Ha ‘hot..beén prepared in the tech- ¥ back to ‘make the necessary .gorrettions, The jury was gone for half an hour; and when it returned it _brought* wm. a verdict acquitting the " prisopers® But: a verdict even more vas” perpetrated by a jury at se was a criminal jury filéd into the box from “YIave you agreed upon a “We have,” foreman, passing it read,’ said the Ate: ri sagnect ° ‘the’ over, “Tho clérk: W 4 are Worn, Only, Twice. Pht ‘Scandinavian bridegroom pre- spatst to ‘his hetrotaed a prayer-book dtmany’ ‘other gifts, which ‘usually iB inglude’: ri goose. she, in turn, gives im... especially” in Sweden, a snirt, and thig heninvarfably’ ears on his wed- 1 ae Afterwards: lie puts it. aWay, in, no giraimst nces will he wear while. alivé.”: Bat he wears it in “hfs graye, gmiF there are Swedes who eatbestly ag ve not only in the resurrection ot thes body, but in the 1 ritaile: ‘resurregtiqnyof he betrothal My rig jofsstich husbands have-never™ ee ‘oken .any of ‘taeir, m~kriage vows. (Tlie yedish widowe st destroy ae 1, evexoi Inie-seUond 3 jarriage the |. ‘shirt base his’ firs#’ e var gure. etibeteer Sh speed Winners, ac- t at is perhaps | nar eaire doetor wa: athens iy" a dangerous Se Where a | Segten= itis! was engaged: On calling | fin he foréRoon he saidto'Donald: “I | hope. youreimdaster’s temperature is | night.” © that,” Teplled.t the butler, “for he dee’d tale nioyn ing,” * Worth Watching. A treasury, official was fortiinate enough the otlier day to get half a ton of coal. The precious fuel was depos- ited on his sidewalk late in the after- noon and a colored man agreed to put it away for a quarter. When he had firished the job the man presented a bill for 35 cents. “Why, I thought you | said a quarter,” said the officeholder. “A quarter for putting it in, but 10 cents extra to pay a man to watch it. You see, if some one had taken a cou- ple of handfuls you would have lost at least half a dollar."—New York World. The Sleepy Hour of Night. A head-on collision between two freight trains on the, Southern Pacific in California we due to the careless- | ness of-tte engineer’ of cup*.of ‘the who-glent’at bis po: @ paid | the férfeit with his he Sou cmpary ‘ht count of: men suc singito-si¢ep’ be- | 3 and 4 in the morning. + This | | time at ch ‘the, aceitient | 1 ed. oce It isthe sleepy pour that | affé8ts mien’ more thai any other ve | the day or night. -.& : eo 3 “Hove to Achieve-Sueéess. worked, perhaps for. years}-on small | salaries, «suddenly, jumping, as if by magic, ‘into high and responsible’ posi tions. Why? a few dollars a week, they” were pay: ing themselves vastly more in the fine quality of .neir work, in*the ‘enthusi- asm, deté:mination and high purpose they brcught to their tasks, a: a” in | A Puzzled Youngster. ‘SMamma,” said a little a “when’ marzied?”” “Way, Lawréne,” |, an- swengd the¥mother, ‘what’ do you. mean?, Dilgland. is a country.. ‘Fhey- -eowtd ‘ni i6 + fe ste ate ete ee ee a ae as ee aE Oftem:wé see bright boys who have | Simply because; whité |" their “employers were paying, them bit DULUTH, SOUTH SHORE 8 ATLANTIZ SHANA Lee sheer NORTHWEST increased <insight into bustneas neth- : were George ‘Washington an (epsiand + , Washington was a man and. 4) $< Now as to Your Winter Suits and Overcoat. > 1 have the goods that will please you, styles that are superb, and that’s all I need announce _-+the hundreds. of suits worn in Grand Rapids to-day attest: to my skill as a “Fitter Call and see J ohnson, The Tailor, Whose Prices are Always Right. > a se Wake WA, memes a Hotel Gladstone A. 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