Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 7, 1903, Page 5

ts: By E. C. KILEY. ly WO DOLLARS 4. YE R IN ADVANCE eo Ratored in the Postofiice ab Grand Rapids Minnesota, as Second-Class Matter HOW HE SHOWED JUDGMENT. Successful ‘Man Realized Inability to "lake Accurate Forecast. This trom a man of success: “My business requires as much decision as 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 order 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 in following their judgment and 7 go right. Well, agreed with mysclf that I should be e@ of the 93, so, after dillgently ss working out a plan of action and cast- ing my vote one way, I always did the opposite. If I figure out to-day that steel is going down I buy some ef it, coppering my judgment. In that way I have achieved success th to some may seem marvelous. I an: com- plimented on my judgment, whereas in truth I'am coppering myself every moment of my life.” That’s-where he shows fudgment.—New k 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 in the kit of Private Flinn, and he demanded what excuse the man had to give. “Plaze, sort, Flinn. “Used!” shouted the sergeant-ma- jor. “Why, the first cake of soap 1 had served me for my kit lasted me three years, while you are not a year 4n the ranks yet. How do you account for that?” Flinn’s eye had the faintest suspi- elon of a twinkle, as,he replied: “Plage, sorr, I wash every day.” And the sergeant-major walked on, while the entire company grinned.— ‘London Tit-Bits. it’s all used,” said ‘Worship of the Bear. The curious “hairy Aifus” of north- ern Japan hold the bear in extreme sanctity. They catch the bear young and bring him up on milk, a nurse be- ing députed to him. Then he is trans- ferred to a cage, and when he is old enough to be slain, on the day of sac- rifice the whole village turns out armed with bows and arrows, the cage is opened and every one strives to send home the fatal shaft. The chief prays the bear to pardon the vio- Jence done him, requests benefits from “the now deified carcass and presents offerings. They then behead and skin the bear and begin an orgy which lasts several days. Crown Owns Valuable Lands. Among the great ground landlords in London the crown is one of the greatest, owning properties in various | parts of the capital yielding in ground rents £460,000 per annum. Fifteen years ago the estates produced £250,- 000 only; but many leases have fallen in within that time, and the increased rents: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 hotel stands was held for the crown for a ground rent of £763 per annum; now £4,200 yearly has to be paid. e ‘Strawberries Grown by Gas. The remarkable gas “electroid,” for | which its inventor, Prof. Rychnowski, claims that it can be condensed into greenish-bluo balls, which are elastic like India rubber, would apparently tie- the very thing for automobile tires. The gas is self-luminous, and lamps would, therefore, be unnecessary at night, while in its genial rays vegeta- tion sprouts surprisingly. To run through country lanes in winter, leav- ing ripe strawberries on the banks in one’s wake, would be a pleasing ex- perience. The automobilist would be welcome everywhere. Rat Killer. Prof. Koch of Germany has discov- | ered a successful method for the de- | struction of rats which frequent the holds of ships. An experiment has been conducted on board the Bulgaria at Hamburg. The rats were placed in eages in the hold. An apparatus was then used to fill the hold of the ship with a gaseous substance. When this was concluded the cages were brought on deck, and all the rats were found to be dead. The new system will in future be used in the German navy andon the bigGerman steamship lines. Prof. Mommsen a Philosopher. Prof. Mommsen, the German his-; locks get in his library years old, but has lost little of his physical and none of his mental activity. Twenty years ago he was almost cremated when the ‘valuablo library in his house at Char- yttenburg was destroyed by fire. In the more recent accident his face was somewhat scorched and the professor “It is all over torlan, whose flowing white eaught fire at a gas a few days ago, is & remarked whimsically: _ with my beauty.” ‘Peras-Review addresses at the dinner which Secre- of the military affairs committee. Congressman Cannon was present, but body else had talked. Then he was called upon and said the occasion re- minded him of a revival meeting he once attended in Illinois. “A lot of deacons and other hefty persons ad- dressed the assemblage and then a reformed gambler was called upon to testify,’ continued Mr. Cannon, “and this is what he said: ‘Brethren and sisters, I have sat here and listened to the great men tell of their experi- ences, The elder has spoken and the minister and the deacon and now you call on me, only a poor ninkum- slinkum.’ That’s me,” said “Uncle Joe,” sitting down. HOW THE PROFESSIONS DIFFER. Comparison Made Between Clergymen and Actors. ‘ Hall Caine is a great admirer of the theater. He holds the actor’s art in the highest esteem. On his recent visit to America he met at a matinee a New York clergyman, and the latter, apropos of an attempted comparison of the church and stage, said: “Actors speak of imaginary things, and affect their hearers as though they spoke of real things. Clergymen speak of real things, and their congregations are no more affected than if they were imaginary.” Hall Caine smiled. “Well, don’t you know why that is?” he said. “Actors speak of things imaginary as though they were real, and clergymen speak of things real as though they were imaginary.” Protection for Animals. Mimicry among butterflies, moths and,other insects would be comic were it not a matter of lite or death. Not a few moths have at the hinder ends of their wings a black mark and two or more tails resembling the horns of their own heads. A veteran in warfare not seldom has these por- tions missing—a proof of the value in baving saved his life. Thus the liz- ard’s brittle tail, which, first attract- ing the enemy, comes off at his touch, lets his would-be prey escape. When at bay crabs distract the enemy by throwing off their claws and lob- sters do the trick yet more neatly by , seizing the enemy with a claw and then throwing off limb and enemy. Thus the bushy tail of the squirrel is | accounted for—there is a chance of escaping the enemy minus a mouth- ful of fur. University Loses Much Money. John B. Stetson, a wealthy manu- facturer of Philadelphia, has cut from his will all provisions for the univer- sity at Deland, Fla., which bears his name. This step followed the action of the board of trustees in exonerat- ing the president’ of the institution, Dr, John F. Forbes, whoso conduct had been under investigation. “I cer- tainly shall not aid the university longer under its present manage- ; ment,” Mr. Stetson is quoted as say- ing. “I changed my will hurriedly as soon as the action of the trustees was taken for fear that 1 might die before the clauses providing for the John B. Stetson university were cut out.” A Call for Action. A New England senator’s fair con- stituent, with a pension claim, is re- ported to have written to him in the following fashion: “This beautiful government, for which my husband gave his health and for which we lost our home, requires a good wife and mother months and years to keep swearing an@™swearing to even her marriage and other things too numer- ous to mention. I wish the whole pen- sion department was obliged to go, as I do, without their overcoats or decent underclothes. I wish I held the reins to.keep their rightful pay from them ; son.” { A Millionaire’s Extravagance. Pedro Alvarado, the Mexican silver millionaire, was a poor miner, work- ing for 50 cents a day, when he dis- covered the rich ledge which has given him a fortune of $50,000,000. It is be lieved that the Palmillo mine, which he owns, will double this fortune in a few years. A week or so ago his wife decided that she needed the service of a dentist, so the Alvarado family traveled from Parral, their home, to thirty persons in all. They and their belongings took up a dozen cars | Piss Sa Ancient Deed of No Value. Representative Kehoe, of Kentucky is the possessor of a very ancient deed, which a constituent in the blue grass state has forwarded to him. is written on sheepskin, datea in 1762, | and, as far as the lawyers of the house who have seen it can judge, it is in. perfect condition and Jegal 1orm. Mr. Kehoe’s constituent is anxious to know whether this deed for a large tract of land in Pennsylvania near Lancaster is of any value, but the Pennsylvania legal lights o the house | say that it is not. A Lady With Pink Teeth. The newest “turn” in Parisian music balls will shortly be the appearance of a lady with pink teeth. She is a native of Canton, but born, of. French parents. Her teeth, which are perfect, are of a semi-transparent substance resembling pale-colored coral. tist who has examined them say that they will never decay. They are hard |as diamonds, and the latter gems are the only material with which a mark ean be made on their surface. tary Root recently gave to members | he escaped Mr. Root’s eye until every- | until they were purple as any old dam- | Chiduahua in a special train, some} It | A den- | Victory at New Orleans Wiped Account of Hotelkeeper. In an address delivered at Salisbury, N. C., on “Jackson’s Day” (Jan. 8), Mr. J. P. Caldwell, the editor of the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer, related a story of Andrew Jackson that has, so | far as we know, never before been printed. “While he-lived at Salisbury,” says Mr. Caldwell, “Jackson once at- tended court at Rockford, then the county seat of Surry, and left without paying his bit, which was duly charged up against him on the hotel register, which seems to have been the hotel ledger of that time, and so stcod for many years. When the news of the victory of the 8th of January, 1815, was received in this then remote section, the old landlord turned back ‘the leaves of the register, took his pen and wicte under the account against Andrew Jackson, ‘Settled in full by the battle of New Orleans.’” + HEN’S TIME NO OBJECT. Why Incubator Salesman Failed to Impress Uncle Harvey. A shrewd old farmer named Uncle Harvey was approached by a bright, breezy young man who was selling in- cubators. The Green Bag, which tells the story, says that the salesman gave Uncle Harvey the usual eloquent arguments. There was not anotier such incubator to be found, the prices were remarkably low, and so on. Uncle Harvey did not respond? The young man talked himself out and~ made no impression. Finally, he said, “You don’t seem to appreciate these incubators.” “No,” said Untle Harvey. “But just think of the time they will save!” Uncle Harvey gave him one cold look and sa‘d. “What do you sup- pose I care for.a_ hen’s time?”— Youth’s Companion. Latest Fashionable Extravagance. Mrs. Gouverne"r Kortright has | roused the envy of all others in the , New York “450” by importing a car- | Tlage which is of absclutely new de- _8ign and general construction. The | eclor scheme is dark maroon, with spokes of delicately pencilei yellow. Instead, however of nickel plated trappings or silver, as some persons Aiave, the victoria is trimmed with burnished copper and the maroon col- or sv, sestion is r_intained with this fashionable new metal. The clock in the victoria is mounted in copper, and. another innovation is the copper book- ; case, where printed guides and en- gagement lists may be carefully tucked away. Other improvements, as mirrors, are also mounted in cop- per. Young Actor’s Neat Answer. Beerboim Tree, the London actor, has rather a pompus manner, which is calculated to ruffle the temper of other people at times. An actor from the provinces called upon him recent- ly, hoping t6 get an opportunity to show his worth on the metropolitan stage. Oh, I could not possibly give you a part,” said the great’ manager, “but I dare say I could arrange to let you walk on with the crowd in the last act.” The young aspirant flushed with indignation, but holding himself well in hand replied pleasantly: “My dear Mr. Tree, I really don’t think I have heard anything quite so funny from you since your Hamlet.” it Pays to Advertise. A pocket purse containing quite a | sum of money was lost by Thomas | Banks a couple of weeks ago and no- tices were placed in the postoffice apd { , other buildings, but without results. | ; Mr. Banks then placed an ad in the Argus, and darned if his dog didn’t go out in the back yard and dig up the purse with the contents in good con- dition. Of course the dog cannot read, but he heard the family reading the item and thus furnished another evi- | dence that it pays to advertise in the Argus. Mr. Banks is $40 ahead and | we will steal the dog at the first op- | portunity-Antwerp (O.) Argus. North Carolina’s New Senator. Lee S. Overman, the new senator | from North Carolira, is 49 years old. He is a lawyer of ability, a native of | salisbury, and in 1874 graduated from | Trinity college, North Carolina. He | was private secretary to Gov. Vance }and has been a member of the state 'house of representatives five times, ‘having been speaker once. In 1895 |he was the Democratic candidate to |sueceed Senator Vance. In 1900 he was the state Democratic presidential ‘elector. He is of winning personality, of commanding presence and a skilled parliamentarian. To Rid Ships of Rats. Prof. Koch has discovered a success- | ful method for the destruction of rats which frequent the holds of ships. An experiment has been conducted on board the Bulgaria at Hamburg. The !rats were placed in cages in the hold. Ap apparatus was then used to fill the hold of the ship with a gaseous sub- stance. When this was concluded the cages were brought on deck and all rats. were found to be dead. A new sys- | tem will in futur. be used in the Ger- | man navy and also in the big German | steamship lines. Journalist’s Happy Phrase. | Corgressman Littlefield of Maine ; was assuring some Washington cor- | responcents that journalistic talent is jot confined to the national capital. “Why, I khow of a reporter,” he said, “who was describing the wreck of a ; vessel on the Maine coast. This was one of the sentences: ‘At this mo- jment a giant wave swept over the | doomed craft and six poor sailors bit | the dust.’ Any of you fellows ever jbeat that?” The corréspondents said fn chorus: “I bope not.” ‘ “WIFE AN ORATOR. Representative-clect James Kennedy. of Youngstown, Ohio, has ingratiated himself in the last few days with the House coterie. He is a story teller and reproducer of dialect. ‘There is always an extra seat for a man of that caliber who wanders near the cloakroom precincts. Here is a dia- logue he recounts between two Ohio citizens, who had remained out late and were staggering home together in the early morning: First Citizen—Wahat will your wife say when she shees you coming home (hic) at yis unearthly hour? Second Citizen—Oh, not much (hic). My _wife don’t talk, but she thinks a great deal (hic). How about your wife? First Citizen—My wife. Ah, ha! ieee She’s an orator.—Washington st. WIFE OF MANY COLORS. Boston Journal Sees Advantages in Such a Possession. The Lady Chameleon is attracting attention in Paris. She is a young Roumanian, Marga Cerous by name, whose coloring is determined by her emotions. Anxiety turns her green; she is pink when joyful; violet wien afraid and black when angry. The Boston Journal can see how such a woman would be a never-failing joy as a wife. Her husband would never be in doubt as to the precise nature of her mental condition. And then there might come a mildly polygamous feel- ing to a husband having a white wife, a colored wife and a red wife on dif- ferent days. “Yet Miss Cerbus will, no doubt, marry a man that is color blind, and therefore unappreciative; such is the irony of life.” Lord Roberts’ Magnificent Sword. A citizen who has just returned from a trip in Europe says that the sword presented to Admiral Dewey is a@ beauty, but that in the matter of downright gorgeousness it is rather @ poor. second to that given to Lord Roberts by the city of Portsmouth re- cently. .The American, who has ex- amined both weapons, says that the one owned by the little English sol- dier is probably the costliest thing of its kind in the world. The hand-made blade is of English steel inscribed with all the engagements in which Lord Roberts has taken part. The grip is of gold and carved ivory, the guard of solid gold ornamented with rubies, dia- mands and sapphires, and the scab- bard is splendidly decorted. Tomb of Jeremy Bentham. In University college, London, is a singular object that is preserved care- fully in a remote gallery inside a glass case, which, again, is contained in a huge wooden cupboard, the doors of which are locked and the keys in safe custody. The relic which is thus so zealously guarded is described in some notes on the history of the college as the “skeleton” of Jeremy Bentham, “clad in the garments in which he lived,” while his head only is stated to havé been ‘mummified.” It has always been understood that Bentham’s body was embalmed, and in that case it cannot be his mere skeleton which is reposing there un- der lock and key. John Kelly’s Son a Broker. John, Jerome Kelly, son of the late John Kelly, who was leader of Tam- many Hall next before Croker, be- came a member of the New York | Stock exchange a few days ago and was initiated with a degree of vio- lence which bore testimony to his pop- ularity. The members daubed his face with paint and made him dance as Indians dance in geography pictures. The reason they hazed him that way was because his father was a politi- cal Indian and because Mr. Kelly ex- pects to do whatever brokerage busi- ness there is to be done for the Tam- many Indians of this day. Out of the Age. Maximilian was an anachronism. He belonged to the age of knight-errantry. For himself immolation was attractive in comparison with cowardice and meanness. The very motive which impelied him to embrace that ill starred mission was noble and unsel- fish. ‘Those who fought against the empire he sought to establish on American soil always honored and esteemed the man, There was none among the true soldiers of Mexico who | did not respect his memory, and no attempt to blot that pure scutcheon will escape rebuke while one of them survives.—Washington Post. Offictal’s Unique Signature. j | Through the retirement of Col. An- j drew N. Damrell, which took place re‘ cently, army engineer corps will lose the most remarkable signature known in the service. His name as appended to official papers was simply a series of absolutely undecipherable remarkably plain. The colonel, .a Massachusetts man, entered West Point in 1860 and has a creditable ca- reer. He has had charge of many im- portant river and harbor projects. Senator Hoar Finds Treasure. Senator Hoar heard the other day that an old lady in reduced circum- stanees had a fine portrait of “Daniel Webster. The senator, who owns the largest and finest collection of Web- steriana in the country; hurried to the address given and shortiy owned the painting, which is from the brush of Chester Harding, well known in art circles sixty years ago. He thinks it is one of the finest portraits of Web- ster in existence. marks, | though his handwriting otherwise is | the records of the regular | } uits 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 of Man.” Call and see Johnson, The Tailor, Whose Prices are Always Right. > Nees esas. isa Maal a) PRUE Vt | Hotel Gladstone A. E. WILDER,¢Prop. PRR aad 407 FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT. ==, PRE hari Sample Room and Livery in Connection. cnacly , Special Attention Given to Transient Trade. Headquarters for Lumbermen. GRAND RAPIDS. One: half Block From Depot. LPO 0° Well, Well! Here We Are Again! ; With a pull line of Windows and Doors. We have the most complete line west of Duluth. We also have a large line of Screen Doors and Windows, all sizes, t all colors, and. all prices. 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