Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 4, 1903, Page 6

Grant Raysts Weraie'MReview - Published Every Saturday. ‘By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YE R IN ADVANCE Butered, in_ t) "Miniate, Ske Postotiive xt Grand Rapids @ Seennd-Claes Matter Se me WITH THE SAGES. “Sr Uiberality consists rather’ in giving. sensonably thane much.—Cicero. Peopld- seldom. ixyprove when they heremno model but'themselves ‘to: copy aftor—-Goldsmith. Nobleness of character is. nothing elaesWut steady eve of good and steady scorn of evil.—Epictetus. Our character is.but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil wo have made through life— Gsikic He who will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for ethers’ good, is a poor frozen churl.— Jeanna Baillie. ‘That alone can be called true refine ment which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.—Coleridge. Remember that life is neither pain ner pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in irit’ of se¥* sacrifice—De Tocque- ville. No true man can live a halt life when he has genuinely learned at it is only a half life. The other half— he higher half—must haunt him.— iiips Brooks. Life is no idle dream, but a solemn reality, based on and encompassed by nity. Find out your work, and and to it; the night cometh when no nan, can work.—Carlyle. ‘Thoughts of virtue lead to virtuous actions; acts of virtue ripen into hab- ts; and the goodly and permanent re- sult is the formation or establishment of @ virtuous character.—Chalmers. luxperience serves to prove that the werth and strength of a state depend far Jess upon the form of its institu- vious than upon the character of its tien’, for the nation is only the aggre- sate of the individual conditions, and civilization itself is but.a question of personal -inrprovereent..—— Samuel Suites SOME POSTSCRIPTS. THe word “pen” means a feather, and is from the Latin penna, a wing. ‘Tortoise shell, however old, can be kept bright by polishing it occasionally with rouge powder. it. is claimed that you can drive nails into hard wood without bending them if you dip. them first in lard. German farms occupy nearly 1,000,- 900 acres in Central America on which vver 20,000,000 coffee trees are planted. A dollar loaned for a hundred years gud compounded at 24 per cent will amount in that time to $2,551,799,404. ‘the oldest statue of the world is of the sheik,of an Egyptian village. It is believed to be not less than 6,000 years old. Steam power is almost an impossi- bility in Southern China, fuel being ; one of the most expensive Chinese luxuries. ‘the asseSs2d value of real estate in ihe State-of New York, according to the board of equalization, is $5,169,- 808,070 Key. Dr. W. D. Parr of Kokomo, ‘ind,, bas oficiated, at 105 church dedi- cations, which is thought to be the world’s record. At Plinitz, near Dresden, is the larg- est Camelia in Europe. It is 160 years old, about fifty feet high and hag 40,- 000-blossoms each season, ALL SORTS. An edtly erop—the small boy's first | hair-eut. With sonte 5-cent cigars you get at least six scents. M4 ' ho eight-day clock is = hard worker aoa chronic striker. 2 Gom@imes it is his lic-abilities that inereas® g man’s assets. “Much of the charity that begins at whome is too feeble to get next door. -Any small boy in his first pair of ire feels sorry for his mot! The skin-dicep beauty of the rhin-' the first example of p inting, so to that was ney: to -oceros” isn’t calculated to make him vain. ‘When it comes to a question of stay- , ing..qualities the undertaker can lay the pugilist out. If it is true that the gocd die young it. is up to the oldest inhabitant to offer an explanation. A cynic is a man whose diszppoint- ment is due to the fact that the world was made without his advice. Ti sometimes happens that a man puts both money and confidence in a benk—and later draws out his confi- ence 4 Kansas man boasts of running the only strictly third-class hotel in the country. It is "p to other landlords inGignantly to deny this assertion. CAREFULLY THOUGHT OUT. Me who, gains time gains a good friend. One must suffer in order to tolerate the sufferirgs of others. The menager of an opera company is Justified in putting on alrs. A cat has nine lives—and at least eight of them are devoted to vocal culture. a ast Consider the man who is always on time—-and the time he wastes in wait- ing for cther men. A man may be reasonably sure his friends will not forget him as long as Bs owes them money, A SPANIARD IN CONGRESS. | 4 Kow Mexican Delegate Who Spoke ‘ No English. Forty-six years ago there sat in the House of Representatives of the Unit- ed States, and introduced measures for its consideration, a man who had no knowledge of the English language, gays a Washington writer. He neither understood it nor spoke it. He was, moreover, an educated Spaniard, and was sald to be a Catholic priest. This man of foreign tongue only had suc- -eeeded- Richard H. Weightman, who served. during the previoue Congress. He held his.seat by virtue of the vote | of’ his: constituents, the favorable re- port’of a committee of Congress upon @ contest made against him, and the approval,of that report by vote of the House. He-was the sole representative in the House of a portion of the United States but little less in area than twice that of New England. He went into his seat, as has been said, on a contest that ended favorably to him, He went out of it after an election on a contest sition in the House, and the manifert led to reveated attempts by his friends to provide him with an intcrpreter upon the floor of the House. The first effort contemplated that this should he done at public expense. Later it was sought to provide that some one to in- merely to come within the doors of the legislative chamber. The first effort failed through adecision of the speak- er that the resolution offered was nota privileged one. The other failed from the lack of a two-thirds vote in favor of suspending the rules to permit the introduction of a resolution. I have given above in a general way ‘the congressional history of Senor VYose Manuel Gallegos, delegate from New Mexico in the Thirty-third Con- gress of the United States, as gathered from the Congressional Globe, the House journal and the House reports of committees. FROM A KING’S DEATHBED. of the Times of George II, There is a pretty little village called St. Osyth in Essex, Eng., close to Clac- | ton-on-Sea. ‘The altar cloth and cush- ions of the pulpit in its parish church | were made from the counterpane and the velvet hangings of the bed in | which George II died. In the royal household there is an that was decided against him. His po- | disadvantage of it to his constituents | terpret for him might be permitted | (itar Cloth of St. Osyth’s a Reminder | 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- | biography of Robert Houdin, the | famous conjurer. He taught his son to glance at, say, a shop window and | to memorize accurately, as in a brain | picture, the window’s eontents. Then | he would.ask him to describe the con- | tents, checking. and correcting. him as | he-went on. On-one occasion: Houdin was: commanded to the Tuileries to give:.a performance before the French ‘court. As he passed through an ante- ‘room to the salon he bade his son to note the arrangement of the rooms and the contents. of the bookcases. Then at the close of the entertain- ment. Houdin astonished his audience by giving what he called a “second- sight” test. Declaring his unfamil- ‘farity with the Tuilieries, Houdin, blindfolding his son, asked him to send his gaze through the well of the |rcom to the chamber beyond, to de- | scribe the arrangement of the cham- ber and to read the titles of the vol- | umes on the shelves of the bookcases. | This feat the young lad accomplished, | to the astonishment of the court. | MUST HAVE BEEN A SHOCK. Remarkable Effect of Change of | Newspaper Headlines. Capt. Edgar S. Dow of New Haven, to whom was given the honor of pilot- | ing President Rcosevelt’s yacht into ; New Haven harbor on his visit’ to Connecticut’s metropolis last fall, is an entertaining old salt, who can al- | ways go a story-teller one beiter. Ap- propos of the humorous mistakes that printers make, the captain lately told the following of his own observation: “Years ago,” he deciared, “I used to take a New York paper that printed its shipping news on the same page | with the obituaries. You can imagine | the shock it gave me one morning to | find the captions exchanged, and a | long list of respectable names printed under the marine heading, “Passed Through Hell Gate Yesterday.” A Promising Chimpanzee. | A chimpanzee taken to England | | lately. from the United States is said | te be on the pcint of talking. It al- ‘ready makes guttural sounds which its attendants can understand. But a | dog can do as much as that. When it was shown at the Buffalo exposition | ored man to whom he is much attach- | ed. The negro, by virtue of long servi- _ tude, has come to assume considerable office called “groom of the stole,” filled a German doctor who had to do with by a peer if the reigning sovereign is deaf-mutes said that a slight operation a king, and styled “mistress of the upon one of the ligaments of the robes” and filled by a noblewoman if tongue would enable the- animal. to the sovereign is a queen. ‘There is a salary of $2,500 a year at- tached to the office, and, as a per- quisite}-the holder of it at the demise pot the erewn receives the furniture of the beichamber in which the king or queen dies. The groom of the stole | when George II died was the earl of | Rochford, who had the furniture of ‘the room in which the monarch passed |away removed to his residence at St ‘Osyth, and presented the rich trap- pings of the royal deathbed to the par- {ish church. Fat Treasuries: Some say that the amount of money ‘In the United States Treasury at the time of the Secretary’s latest report— $545,876,305—is not oniy the largest in the history of our treasury, but the largest on record for any nation, says the New York Press. Such is not the case. Some eighicen months after the , Franco-Prussian war the Bank pf | France had in its vault no less than 8,000,000,000 frances ($600,009,000) in gold, the bigs t of gold the ,werld kas ey most €t acr- 'ainary thing In tion with this ; Was that France had paid to Ge jabout a year or s vieus 5,009 cs ($1,000.009,000) as a war in | tional debt ab: 900,000 frances. (The Commune yed property worth 800,000,000 francs mm April ant May, 1871. Just think cf the recuper- jative powers of France to have more | than hal* her war indemnity back io | her pocketbook in a year and a half, !and through trade, too! ! = i | The First Newspapers. As it is io Germany that, we owe , country is due the credit of publish-. ; tag the first regularly issued newspa- ‘per. This was the Frankfurter Zeij- _ tung, and it appeared first in 1613. Thia | publication is still in existence. It was followed the year after by the Nieuwe Tidjinghen, a Dutch produe- ; tion, printed at Antwerp, says a Lon- don paper. The frst English newspa- per was the Weekly News from Italy, ’ Germany, etc., published in London ja | 1622. The Gazette de France (Paris, 1631), and others foliowed. The Lou- don Gazette was the ‘irst regularly is- sued English newspaper that survives , to the present day. It appeared in 1665, ‘and the earliest numbers were pub- lished at Oxford, where the court at ‘ that time was temporarily established. Difference Hetween Artists. Down at Greenport, L. I, late last fall two New York painters whom it were cruelty to name ynder the®cir- cunmistances, who had lingered about their summer haunts to get some duck shooting, were taking an afternoun at sketching to secure some notes of ma- | Speak. At that time the chimpanzee | was under contract. But it will prob- | ably now be taken to Germany for the |, | operation. It can even now use a type writer and play the piano. But these professions are overcrowded. A talk- | ing chimpanzee would make an excel i lent living; even though, like many | other talkers, it’ said nothing worth | hearing. x Turned On the Light. i | The man Calve is reported to have | Selected for her first husband and see | ond love is Jules Bois, an interesting | writer on occult topics. His one-act play, “The Devil in Darkness,” was given only one performance at Mont- martre. It was played in total dark- | ness, voices of different timbre speak- ing solemnly a dialogue that quite | trenscended in mystic realism any: thing Paris had ev heard before. Unluckily for Bois, some envious rival } bribed the gas man to turn on the hghts in the middle of the act, anda half-dozen. commonplace Montmartre singers of both sexes were discovered sitting on wooden chairs, all of them grinning over the mis: mture. Af- ter that Jules Bois gave up the stage in despair. ‘ The Irishm n and the Sun. An Irishman who had just landed in | New York from his home in Ireland | was stroiling around the city, taking in the sights. In the cours. of his walk he came across B.ttery park, | and seeirg a bench unoccupied near the water frort, sat down. It was just about curset when*the Celt. took his seat in the park «nd as he gazed across the water at Governor's island the big guas at that place boomed, ! announcing sunset. Now, this noise Irishman, and he said to a policeman who was passing by: “Phat’s thot ucice fur?” “Aw, it’s the sun goin’ down,” r plied the cfiicer. “Begobs.” remarked the. Celt, “the sun nivir went down thot hard in Ire land.”-——Philadelplia Bulletin. Herring Cleaned by Machine. Very clever is a Sy ish inventor named Ekenberg, who has construct- | ed a machine which takes herrings as they come frcm the net, sorts them into the four sizes recognized by the trade, scrapes eff their scales, cuts oft their heads, splits, cleans and washes them inside and out. The machine dees all this automatically, and turns cut 20,000 herrings per heur. One of the big floating herring factaries which go out from Goteberg tc the herring banks is to be equipped with this astonishing apparatus, which ought to effec’ a revolution in the price of blcaters. American Generosity. Under the title, “Gifts and Be quests,” Appletcn’s Annual Cyclopedia ‘ enumerates gifts and bequests for | | foundirg of Chicago. Resolutions were | ne and nautical details among the \ public purposes which were made, be- shipping in the harbor. A village sign came operative or were completed in painter saw them and came up and tke United States to the amount of j ‘watched them. Presently he spoke. more than $85,000,000. This list does “IT suppose you fellows studied years mot.include amounts less than $5,000 to get to do that,” he sald. for denominational contributions for | They allowed tuat he was right, He educatioual or benevolent purposes. | pendered a moment, criticaliy, then: nor state or municipal appropriations, | “Mipe come Batchral te ma” quoth Among these excluded contributions be are those to the American board of { ‘tteular brand cf literature. HAD NO. MONEY 78 BURN. : } * in j How John D. Rockefeller Cured Em y ploye of Smoking. “I worked for John D. Rockefeller once,” said a well-known landscape gardener of this city. “Otie morning I was out in the grounds doing some. work among the plants and flowers, and as I worked I smoked. Pretty soon the old man strolled out that way and when he came up to where I was, said in a quiet way: ‘I never had any money to burn.’ I)didn’t tumble for a second, and he stood there looking at | me> ‘I have managed to-put away a few dollars,’ he contiaued, ‘but I never had any money to burn. It came to me all at once what. he meant and I threw the cigar.away. Next morning when he came around there I wasn’t smoking. He came up with a smile on his face ard said: ‘Well, the stove isn’t going to-day.’”—Columbus (0.) State Journal. TOO EARNEST IN HIS WORK, Old Colored Man’s Humorous Warn- ing to His Employer. A southern member of Congress who lives in a Washington hotel has for his personal attendant an old col- authority over his employer. The Congressman was visited by ‘some friends the other evening the host offering them a drink of whisky, say- ing he was about to take one himself, hoping to break up a cold. The party took three or four drinks, and the jug was about to be passed again, wnen the negro servant made things very embarrassing to the host by saying: “Deed, sah, you said you was a-takin’ this yer whisky to break up a cold. *Pears like they was tryin’ to break up a hull winter.” S®eVSVSBeSes ‘Now as to Your Winter Suits and Overcoat (4 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. ; Hotel Gladscas A. FE. WILDER,¢Prop. “ FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT. Sample Room and Livery in Connection Special Attention Given to Transient Trade. Headquarters for Lumbermen. GRAND RAPIDS. fy SSS SSS SELES CSRS CSS B Ss One-half Block From Depot. ee Wants State to F€ed Legisiators. Reprcsentative Louis J. Tichacek of St. Louis will introduce a bill ‘in the legislature provicing that the state shall furnish its legislaters with rooms and Leard during their stay in Jefferson city. Mr. Tichacek says he is tired of rabbit pie and tough beef- steak and that as things are now a man who lives in decent shape during the legislative session can hardly meet his expenses. He wants the legislature to appropriate $50,000 for the establishment of a hotel, which could be used by members during the session and by state officials at other |! times. “if the boarding house fails to supply stan- dard grub the state can be held re- sponsible.” “Then,” says he, Chicago’s Centennial. The Chicago Historical society, tnrough its executive committee, has expressed in favor of the commemor- | ation and celebration on Aug. 1, 1903, as the centennia! anniversary of the adopted in wkich the committee calls attention to the fact that the date chosen marks the p: e of one hun- dred years since the Federal troops, commanded by Lieut. Swearingen, es- tablished Ft. Dearborn at the mouth of the Chicago river and laid the foun- dation of Chicago. The occasion, in the opinion of the committee, marks the real beginning of the ’s his- tory, rather than the arrival of John Kinzie, as has been suggested. | ! | ANGE AE ae Sh ae ab ae ake ate ate ae at ate as ate ate ate ats ake ote ate ate ae age ate ate ate ate he ate aE a ate aE (ESS Se aE AES ke kA AE Ee ae ea ae a Ea eS a a a EE a. EA ese oe ee ae ae eae ae eg a RE TE a Mountaineer’s Harsh Judgment. Bishop Coleman of Dclaware goes on a tramp through the mountains of West Virginia every summer and, of course, has many odd experiences, Last sux r, clad in old and dust- covered cicthes, he entered an inn where several mountaineers ing. One of them with chara: hespitality invited him to drimk, but the bishop courteously de- chned. “Do you eat hay?” native. “Why, no, my frien the stranger wonderingly,” : said the mountaineer with sccrn, don’t think you are fit company for man or be2st. Come, boys, let’s take something. Friends Thought Him Dead. Ex-Cc: man Outhwaite of Ohio bas been visiting Washington and was surprised to find that nearly every- bedy thought him dead. A Joseph H. Outhwaite of Chio died recently, and newspapers generally announced that it was the foymer member of con- gress who had? departed the land of the living. “Fifty times during the past ten days,” said Mr. Outhwaite, “I have seen a startled’lock come into the eyes of acquaintances when I met them. ‘Great Scott, ma , they will; exclaim, ‘I thought you were dead.’” Paid Bricesmaids. t wedding held in New no fewer than fifteen bridesm: o were all punctually. paid. Besides the beautiful CROSS: 9 given by the bride’s father, they each received $25 for appearing in the wed- ding train. some of the young ladies! receive as much as $100 for -ne “office of honor,” while one woman, who is much sought after for her beauty, has’ appeared as bridesmaid at more than 200 weddings, and has in a short time amassed quite a little fortune, besides receiving many costly presents. Atar York there Novels Read by Statesmen. Serator Platt of Connecticut hap- pened into a heuse committee rcom and found Congressman Metcalfe of California reading. “A novel?” quer- fed the Yankee gravely. “Yes.” “Say, |; Metcalfe, do you like detective stories —the one with villians in ‘em?” The Californian showed him the title page of the book he had been perusing. It was aregular “Old Sleuth” affair. “So do I,” said Platt, and then the two gtatesmen began to discuss this par 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 sézes, all colors, and all prices. We also carry a full line of Ptasterers’ Material, such as Lime, Brick, Hair, « Cement and Wall Plaster. Call on at the Lumber Office, or ’Phone No. 9. eR ea ee a a a a a ae Sea gee eat ORO Ee Go A Faverite Resort ments and where may be seen avd heard one argest phonographs in the world is at JNO. OREILY?S Sample Room The Northern. 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