Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 19, 1904, Page 8

~ JAVANESE WEED OF VALUE. Sts Fibers Make the Best Kind of Mattress Known. Every year Amsterdam receives nearly 1,000 pounds’ weight of a curi- ous and interesting vegetable known Java and in the trade as kapok. It s a sort of yellow wadding which nature uses as a covering for the seeds of certain trees in the Malac- eas. Its fibers being very nonresist- ing, it has been found impossible to spin or weave it, but it gives excel- lent results for bedding, making a mattress delightfully soft if It is ex- »osed to the sun before being used. It s exceedingly light and buoyant, ia this respect greatly surpassing cork, as it will support in the water thirty- five times its own weight. The tree whence it is derived (Eriodendron) “rows rapidly, and in the second year is twelve to fifteen feet high, but it dees not fruit abundantly until the fourth year. Like the cettop plant it bestrows two gifts on man, the special wadding mentioned, which lines the husk, and the oil extracted from the seeds, which is used especi- ally in the Chinese markets. The threads of the soft fiber taken from the pods are light yellow, rather silky only about an inch in length. ey are made into an inch in length. TENNIS PLAYING IN JAPAN, Native Wemen Have Taken Cordially to the Game. Japanese women, for all their pret- y listlessness of carriage and man- are beginning to take an inter- est in athletie sports. An American woman tells how she played tennis in Japan with native women. ‘It is wonderful how agile they she said, “and it certainly is a extraordinary sight to see them g in the regular Japanese dress, pretty soft silk robe so associated reclining ease, and the thick sandals, ou can’t imagine the effect of sunlight on the sheen and gor- hues of the silken dress. Of the’serve and return of the nds the gayly costumed little into the prettiest of posturing. y look like flowers lightly blow- bout the court. The thick-soled sandals are not to run in. Indeed, I was assur- they were most comfortable for the of the Japanese ladies [| set up a strong enough game to with their husbands, who en- ed the imported game immensely.” A Ballade of the True Poet. erg! who follow the seas of song, rs brave on an ocean wide, vay with hearts so stron, ven fair on the farther side; your course with dauntless itly breasting the foam and gale, . tying not for the storms that who shall stand if the poets fail? f the voyage be wild and long, ocean that foaring gulfs, di- shoals where the dark rocks ful islands to hope denied, ichest hearts betide, bravest souls assail? ugh your sorrows be multi shall stand if the poets fail? balks and blows that wrong, sses that hinder, the cuts that nows that to guile belong; art be grieved and the untly all outride! for cowards who quake and whose hearts abide, s d if the poets fafl? thers! whose faith ts 4 lamp and Mid times that question ang tongues that rail i not ye, though the world de- ho shall stand if the poets fail? —O. C. Aur er in Boston Pilot. “Glamer,” By the way, i wonder what the oets fancy the word “glamor” means? With one accord they use it as if it ignified something in external nature appealing very pleasantly to the sense of sight. “I walked in a glamor of gold and of golden leaves,” says one of them in a magazine. The word ‘glamor” is obsolete in the voeabu- y of ordinary mortals, but the die- tionaries tell us that it denoted some sort of defect of vision, causing the victim to see things differently from the reality, probably glaucoma er oph- thalmia, which in primitive times was ascribed to witehery. This was point- ed out long ago, but the periodical bards go on using, or misusing, the word in the same old way.—Roches- jer Post-Expre Baby Was Well Packed. Mr. Pett Ridge told an excellent baby story at the ladies’ summer din- ner of the New Vagabonds’ club. A jady and her little daughter were walking through Grosvenor square, when they came to a portion of a road strewn with straw. “What’s that ior ma?” said the child, to which the mother replied: ‘The lady who lives in that house, my dear, has had a little baby girl sent her.” The child walked along for a few yards, and then turning back and nodding at the straw, said: “Awfully well packed, ma.”—St. James’ Gazette. New Brand of Whisky, A policeman took a prisoner into a station the other night and stood him up before the desk, The prisoner be- gan to duck and dodge and try to es- gape from some imaginary thing which he was elearly afraid. The sergeant took one look at him and grunted: “Been drinking biograph whisky,” he remarked briefly. “Bio- graph ‘whisky,” said the reporter. “What's that?” “Don’t you know?” aid the sergeant. “It’s the kind you take three drinks of and then begin “9 sec things movg.”--New York Sun, of | Te Sor ooee a one Class of Creatures That Has but : Brief ,Existence. Is it worth: while to develop for years in the mud to emerge at last to- day in all the glory of wings and en- tomological finery, to dance a turn -: | the sunlight, wed, become parents of a multitudinous family, ‘then die, all within an hour? “Hereabouts Ys the reign of the ephemera,” writer. the water they dance around your head in countless swarms. While you | have smoked a pipe and made a score or so of casts the fly has crawled from the mud, shorn itself of the robe which served as_ protection j its love dance, its eggs in myriads are deposited*in the water and the fly itself is dead. Some one will come along and collect millions of those eggs, and you will use them for fish- ing. The corpses of the flies will lie so thick upon the ground that the husbandman might use them for a fertilizer. The eggs which escape the vender of bait will turn to larvae, which at the end of three years’ pro- bation will themselves tread a meas- ure in the afr and die at the end of sixty minutes of true existence.” HER MONEY ALWAYS NEW. German Woman Used Hot Iron With Good Effect. One of the tellers of a prominent gavings bank was discussing some peculiarities of his business. “We get money over the counter in every imaginable condition,” he remarked. “Most cf the time notes are handed to us in a dirty, crumpled state that | makes difficult handling, but there is one depositor who always brings bills in an immaculaie condition. This is an old German woman. The bank notes she hands in are as crisp as if they had just left the treasury. It used to puzzle me to account for the crispness of the old notes she brought along—notes that by appearance had been in use long enough to ake them as limp as rags. So one day I remarked about it, and found, to my surprise, that the old lady carefully ironed all her bank notes. Ske ex- plained that she liked to have new money, and pressing with a hot iron made all the old bills like new. I thought her fad somewhat fociish at first, but later it occurred to me thet it would be a good thing if people It would kill any germs.”—Philadel- phia Record. * Love Afloat. How tenderly the west folds in the Gay— Like a fond lover with a crimson cheek; We two would bid its beauty with us . stay, AS promise of life’s beauty that we seek. Tocether, gliding o'er the sunset’s wake, Floating as on her voice,.as glad she sings, We hang’ between two heavens on the jake, And. listening, I forget all meaner things. There, in the prow, she sits, whom first I knew, Just blushing into modest maidenhood, Attained to woman's sweetest. And love grew Within me, and the world and all was good. Awhile in silence deep do we commune, And not in words of sentences obscure: When, each to each, our heartstrings are in tune, Our thought-transference the meaning sure, gives Eye glances meet. as birds in upper air, A flash—a, flutter, and two hearts are stirred; Mere speech of love is reticent and rare, But, all the more sweet rapture when ‘tis heard. So we, and love, upon the silent lake, See all before a hopeful. joyous dream; O, may that dream continue when we wake To real life, upon its rushing stream! Anecdote of Wellington. A little over ninety two years ago the guns at Salamanca in Spain were roaring, not to be stilled until the road was clear for Wellington to march to Madrid. The “iron duke” was very busy completing arrangements for the impending battle and had not thought about breakfast! His dutiful staff had denied themselves in order to keep him company. At last they got some- thing spread on the ground behind a farmyard wall. Wellington rode in and they tucked the leg of a chicken into one of his fists and a chunk of bread into another. He munched as he sat in the saddle. Suddenly he set spurs to his horse, ealled on them to follow, threw his leg of chicken over his shoulder and galloped as if for dear life. He had sighted the French gt a gap in the hills. Chinese Bank in New York. There are a number of prosperous Chinese bankers in different cities in the United States, but they have ak vays located in the Chinese colonies. Within a month several of these Mon- golian financiers have commenced to spread out in several sections‘of the New York financial district. Now one of them has opened up a banking es- tablishment in Wall! street itself. A few days ago a brass sign covered Wall street. It is the first sign of a Chinese banking firm to appear in Wall street. Big Mirror. The hotel Savoy in New York plumes itself upon the possession of the largest mirror in-the world. Only two steamships on the ocean—one of them the Friesland, in which it was carried—have room in their holds to stow away such a large package. It is a little more than 13 feet square and fs nearly half an inch thick. To get this perfect plate five different glasses had to be cast. It was made at the St. Gabian glassworks in Paris, end <9 far its chef d’oeuvre in that & dire: » with hieroglyphics was hung up at 1 says a. “As you cast your line into against the moisture; it has danced ’ everywhere ironed their bank notes. | | Old Australian settlers are fond of ‘White Cockade” was originally a Ja- i to 75 degrees, while an egg a month ; Think purely—make i quarrels that arose directly from com- “The White Cockade” Played Before is Americans in 1775. It is the ‘old music, after all, that puts the life into marching feet, for it carries the traditions of marching in its melodies. One of the oldest of the tunes was “The White Cockade.” This is a historical melody to Amer- icans, though many Americans may not be aware of the fact. It was the tune to which the farmers who fired the shot heard round the world marched when they determined to force the passage of the bridge at Concord. Possibly it was the only tune which the drummer aad fifer of Capt. Isaac Davis’ company knew, but the fact that it was played is histo- rical. The popularity of the tune is proof that a melody made for one par- ty is recognized as good by all if it has the quality of being singable. “The cobite tune, but it made a good. march for the descendants of the English Puritans, April 19, 1775, when Capt. Davis made his musicians strike up. As they were the first american force that ever advanced to battle as Amer- icans, “The White Cockade” is the old- est melody of the American army.— Boston Transcript. SIMPLE TEST FCR EGGS. Method Used in Germany faid to Be Infmtible. A new and simple method for test- ing eggs is published in German pa- pers. It is based upon the fact that the air chamber in the flat end of the egg increases with age. If the egg is placed in a saturated solution of com- mon salt it will show an increasing inclination to float with the long axis vertical. A scale is attached to the vessel containing the salt solution so that the inclination of.the floating egg: toward the horizontal can be meas- ured. In this way the age of the egg can be determined almost to a day. A fresh egg lies in a horizonta! posi- tion at the bottom of the vessel; an egg from three to five cays old shows an elevation of the flat end so ‘vat its long axis forms an angle of 20 de- grees. With an cgg cight days old the angle increases to 45 degrees; with an eggs fourteen days old to 60 de grees, and with one three weeks old old floats ec, upcn the pointed end. To My Soul. Me soul, thou art a cljmbing vine root is in the sod. ake the best ideals thine And learn to be a god! The golden rod of higher thought Points out the highest way. The mountain peak has ever caught The first smile of the day. thine own the} things Great souls have understood, And lo! thou, too, wilt put on wings To reach the greatest good. Uplift a brother from the ground, Stoop ashen lips to kiss, And with a single sudden ‘bound Achieve vicarious bliss. Forgive all evil. none d The effort onward roll: The mighty ego thrust e, That stumbling block of souls, The mantle of unselfish love Throw o'er another's sin— A latch is lifted far above; A heart has entered in. My soul, thou art a climbing vine, Whose root is in the sod. But make the best ideals thine, And thou wilt be a god. —Margaret Hunt. Most Fertile Cause of War. A famous French political economist drew up a statistical table some time ago on this very question, and the analysis showed that nine-tenths of the world’s wars have grown out of No fewer than fifty- five wars were elassified as civil; for- ty-one were wars of succession of Crown claims; thirty under the pre- tense of helping allies; twenty-eight were religious wars; twenty-four were wars of retaliation; twenty-two were for commercial rivalry; and eight on points of honor. mercial disputes. Changes in National Features. Whether we look at portrait gal- leries, like Hampton court, or turn over illustration in old books, it is evident that some physiognomical change has been taking place.. The stout, plethoric, muscular, ruddy-facel man of stolid expression is becoming exceptional, and his place is being tak- en by a thinner, more alert, active type. The modern face is more keen, leaner and of less coarse mould than those of the older pioneers who laid the foundation of their country’s greatness.—Aspects of Social Evola- tion. New Filter for Impure Water. MM. Miquez and Mouchet have de- vised a new filter for impure or sus- pected waters from lakes, rivers and springs. The water is directed over a layer of fine sand, a meter thick, with gravel underneath, The solid particles and bacteria in the water are filtered out by the upper layers of the fine sand, and the water escapes freely from the gravel underneath. The authors consider it well suited for the supply of pure alimentary water. —London Globe. | More Stoical Than Red Indians. No red Indians were ever more cal- lous to pain that the aborigines of Australia. In, their tribal fights, which still occur frequently, the severest wounds are treated with indifference. telling a famous story of a tribal chief who. walked sixty miles with a spear sticking clear through his body before he could get help to pull it out. They iagist that the story is true. We wish to tell you about the merits of our Hardware aud Harness Depertmenits, Etc. | a a It will stand a lot of praising, but we would prefer to have “you come and see. We never handled better good than we have in stock at present, and our prices, take them all through were never so low. , Garland Stoves ITave you ever used one? If you have, then you know they are the best, We haye all styles to show you. Air Tight Heaters, Coal and Wood Burners, Self Feed Coal Stoves. etc. Our Small ‘Ware and Shelf Hardware is always kept in condition to meet your wants. Harness, Light or Heavy Lead or Pole Harness Agee Collars Blankets Sweatpads Robes Whips Trimmings, Etc. 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