Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 25, 1905, Page 4

tines A, Sot Ra eB retts WHY INDIANS pees Pubilshed Every Saturday. By E. C. KILEY. wo DULLARS A YRAR IN ADVANCE Matered in the Postodice at Grand Rapts Minnesota, a8 Second-Class Latter, HOT DRINKS FOR SUMMER. Doctor Considers Imporiant Subject in the Matter of Diet. A medical practitioner has drawn attention in the London Chronicle to a very important subject fn the mat- ter of diet. He points out that the stoker grilling in the stekehole of a Red sea liner and the explorer among the ice floes of the frozen North—pro- vided they are healthy men—have identical temperatures. The automat- fe heat- regulating mechanism in tho | no matter what the thermom- y register outside, sees that y is kept at a normal tempera: re of about 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit order to assist this wonderfull proc- ess in extremes of weather, it is necessary to consider the subject of food, and one of the most important ftems of food in hot weather is water. Water, as the writer points out, is a food, and it should be taken in sum- mer weather as a regular article of r ‘ never washed it at all, but left it until diet. The habit of drinking iced wa- ter is discountenanced, and the ice cream {s barred as the most fruitful cause if innumerable dyspepsias. Bet- ter than cold drinks are hot drinks, and tea with a slice of lemon is rec. ommended as the most cooling drink 4p hot weather. VARIOUS KINDS OF DAYS. Word Said to Have No Fea! Meaning Without Defining Adjective. Five kinds of day are recognized, and it has been said that the word “day” has no real meaning without an adjective defining what kind of @ day is meant. There is a civil day, the stronomical day, the apparent solar way, the mean solar day, and the sid- ereal day. The civil day begins at the midnight preceding mean noon, and consists of twenty-four hours counted after twelve o’clock; the astronomical day begins twelve hours after the civil day, or at the mean noon of the cor- responding civil day. These hours are reckoned from 0 to 24. It will be ssen, therefore, that while 10nr. 12min., January 1st astronomical time, is also 10hr. 12min. January 1st civil time, yet 22hr. 12min., January Ist as- tronomical time, is also 10hr. 12min. a. m., Jenuary 2nd civil time. There are many anomalies growing out of this use of the clvil day, and there are many arguments in favor of using the astronomical day. It is one ef the reforms which undoubted!y will come some time. The Old-Time “Nanna.” A writer in a recent number of tke Queen expresses the opinion (which is shared by many other people) that children are not one whit better brought up by the smart, white- frocked, certificated nurses so much sought after nowadays than they were by the comfortable “Nanna” of the days gone by. The old nurse still holds a place in the hearts of the men and women who knew her loving care when they were children, and tiey will never forget her ‘treats’ that used to delight their hearts. “Best of all,’ says & woman, “was lantern tea, when all the lights were put out, and the nursery was illuminated by penny tin lanterns, containing colored can- dies, which cast weird shadows cn the solemn faces round the festive boum” It 1s of no use running; to set cut detimes is the main point—La Fon taine. He who hus imagination without Yearning has wings and no feet. {| Joubert. A woman's head is always influenc- @4 by her heart; but a man’s heart by Ris head.—Lady Blessington. ¥outh will never live to age un jess they keep themselves in health with exercise and in heart with joy fulness.—Sir Philip Sidney. OUR OWN PHILOSOPHER. Any girl who induces a yorng man to propose begs the question. ‘When a man gets full it is a gooa time to take his bust measure. If a man amounts to anything he Goeen’t have to boast of his arfcestors, Truth lies at the bottom of a well, but the angler never goes there to fish. It makes a woman heartsick every | time she hag to cut a valuable piece of face. " What a nice old world this would be ¥f everybody were as polite as politica). eandidetas! Alcohol in Ancient Times. Considering the possible influence of alcohol upon human evolution, Dr. Harry civilizations as those of Babylon and Egypt may date back 30,000 years and that agriculture by migratory tribes may extend back 30,000 years more, but concludes that the use of alcohol &@s a beverage has not been hnown more than 10,000 years. He finds no teason to believe that, as was sug- gested some years ago, the discovery of fermented liquor gave the first civ- flizing quickening to the brain of the .° man. Campbell assumes that such ; Apache Relates Legend Which Ac- counts for His People’s Custom. Once an old Apache Indian, when asked the question why his people painted their faces, told this little le- gend: “Long ago, when men were weak and animais were big and strong, & chief of the red men who lived in these mountains went out to get a deer, for his people were hungry. “After walking all day he saw a deer and shot at it, but the arrow was turned aside and wounded a mountain Hon, which was also after the deer. When the lion felt the sting 6f the arrow he jumped up and bound- ed atter the man, who ran for his life. “He was almost exhausted and, when he feit his strength giving way, he fell to the ground, calling on the big bear, who, you know, fs the grand- father of men, to save him. “The big bear heard the call and saw that to save the man he had to act quickly, so he scratched his foot and sprinkled his blood over the man. “Now, you must know that no ani- mai will eat of the bear or taste of his blood. So when the lion reached the man he smelled the blood and turned away, but as he did so his foot scraped the face of the man, leaving the marks of his claws on the blood- smeared face. “When the man found that he was uninjured he was so thankful that he left the blood dry on his face and it peeled off. “Where the claws of the lion scraped it off there were marks that turned brown in the sun, and where the blood stayed on it was lighter. Now all men paint their faces that way with blood and scrape it off in streaks when they hunt or go to war.” ARSENIC TO POISON TREES. Simple Matter to Get Rid of Unwel- come Foliage. A gardener discovered the fact re cently that trees are often Sent to an untimely death by poison, usually ar- senic. The reason for this does not appear until one hears the man’s ex- planation. Suppose a man has rented a house which has too much shade, the law will not allow him to have one or more of the trees cut down without the consent or the owner. As it often happens that tenants snd landlords hold different views on the subject of shade the trees remain as f bone of contention. It is then that the gardener is called to administer a dose of poison, for when ‘a tree is dead the tenant may have it removed. Five cents’ worth of arsenic is suf- ficient to kill a large tree. A hole is made in the trunk, the arsenic drop- ped in, and nature does the rest. It never fails. Mammy’s Good-By. (in the South negro farm hands go to their labors long before the rising of the gun, and do not return to their homes and children until the twilight shadows gather.) Kinky a haid, stickin’ out o° bed. , how mammy hate to leab de chile; Brig ten shiny eye, lak de star so high, Twit nkle at ‘'e mammy 1 de while; Better shet ‘em Ught, ‘eaze, afore de light. ‘Fore de sun am riz—afore de dawn— Mammy got to go: got to tak’ de hoe, Rassel wid de cotting en de corn. But she com‘n’ back to her baby black; Mammy’s comin‘, w'en de sun am_ sot Meet ‘er at de do’, mammy comin’ sho’, Den she'll put de ‘taters in de pot, Den de lil chap. ine’ ammy’s lap, Res’ ‘e haid en hear her sof'ly sing. Shet yo’ shiny eye: baby. doan yo’ ery, Mammy got to leab de lil’ t'ing. —Ltppincott’s. Slightly in Error. Sir Henry Howorth, the well-known archaeologist and historian, was din- ing out and found himself sitting next to a young lady, who immediately at- tacked him by saying:. “Oh, Sir Hen- ry, | am so glad to have met you, for I want your advice about a dog of mine.” “My dear young‘ lady,” quoth. sir Henry, “I know nothing about dogs.” “Oh, yes, you do. I have been told that you have written a book on *‘Mongrels’ and mine isn’t a really well-bred dog.” Sir Henry smiled, for Le is a great Asiatic authority and had written cn “Mongols,” not mongrels. Ock Splits a Rock. A wonderful freak of nature is: an oak tree in the far West, which has grown up from a sapling into a wide- spreading, handsome tree, through a rock of flint stone, splitting the mas- sive rock by the tremendous pressure o: its vigorous growth. No one living knows how long nature has been as- sisting this oak in its work of stone- crushing. The oldest people in the neighborhood recall the tree in their childhood, and experts in forestry say that it must be fully 200 years old. Feeding Hungry School Children. In Brussels every school child is medically examined once every ten days. Its eyes, teeth, ears, and gen- eral physical condition are over- hauled. If it looks weak and puny: they give it doses of codliver oil or some suitable tonic. At midday it gets a substantial meal, thanks to private benevolence assisted by com- munal funds, and the greatest car. is taken to see that no child goes ill-shod, ill-clad, or ill-fed. Queer Police Force. The policemen in Hayti are paid by results. They get capitation fees for all the arrests they make, As they come from the worst class of the pop- ulation and are under no discipline, it follows that a man is very liable to be arrested in Hayti unless he is willing to pay the policeman more than the caiptation fee. As this fee iv only 15 cents, the price of freedom Je not probibitiva WILES OF THE VAMPIRE. : ARCH ENEMY OF MILTON. ja Sey Never Awakes its Victim Whilé It | Spite of One Man Embittered Whole Draws the Blood. Night brought us to the miserable peon village of Palencia, says a writer, and as we could get no ac- commcdation. in the cane cabins we were obliged to sleep in our ham- imocks, The place swarmed with mosqul- toes, and while Tipe-Chico slept scundly I arose and built a fire in whose smoke I passed the night. But if Tipe was immune to the plague of mosquitees he did not escape a more serious pest. When I met him in the morning his great toe was still bleed- Ing and his hammock was stained with clotted blood. | Nobody in Yucatan could explain to me how the vampire manages to drav such a large quantity of blood—from six to ten ounces—while its victim all the time remains in a profound sleep. I have never heard of any one waking while the vampire bled him; indeed, so gently does this nocturnal surgeon draw blood that the patient by some mysterious process is lulled into a profound sleep. The vampire measures about two feet from wing tip to wing tip, has very sharp teeth, not unlike those of a rat, and attacks sleeping animals as well as human beings. If he in flicty a wound with his teeth, one would think that the pain would cause the person who is bled to awake, but it does not. MOSE WAS LOSING MONEY. Got Tired of Foolishness About Hurt- ing His Feelings. Daniel J. Sully, the cotton king, made a trip throwgh the south, and when he came back he told a story of an old negro ‘who had been work- ing for a cotton planter time out of mind. One morning he came te his employer and said: “l’se gwinter quit, boss.” “What's the matter, Mose?” “Well, sah, yer manager, Mistah Winter, ain’t kicked me in de last free mumfs.” “I ordered him not to kick you any more. I don’t want anything like that around my place. I don’t want any one to hurt your feelings, Mose.” “Ef I don’ git any more kicks I’se goin’ to quit. Ebery time Mistah Win- ter used ter kick and cuff me when he wuz mad he always git ‘shamed of hisself and gimme a quarter: I'se done los’ enuff money a’ready wid dis heah foolishness "bout hurtin’ ma feelin’s.’—Saturday Evening Post. Ages of Fish. The limits of fish life are not known. But it seems pretty certaia that, as the salmon shows astonisk- ing variations and _ possibiiities of growth, so other fish may live to con- siderable ages, even in captivity. Some striped bass have beea living for ten years in an aquarium, and according to Country Life the electric eels are among the oldest piscine in- habitants of the reptile house at tLe Zoo, where one of them has been for more than fifteen years. Cases of carp which lived to be a century old are | repeatedly quoted, and he would be a bold person who would deny to a whale the possibility of living to be a@ couple of centuries old. Prison Without Walls. Rerresa, a convict prison in Call- fornia, is unique in the fact that it possesses ro wall. The grounds are studded with nineteen guard posts, which are built of stone and wood, and resemble a system of lighthouses. They are built on salient points of observation, and are fitted with Gat- ling machine-guns, Winchester rifles and shot-guns. These posts are from forty feet to sixty feet high, and are placed various distances apart, aver- aging 300 yards. No convict is allow- ed to pass between the posts unless he has permission or is accompanied by an officer or guard. Just a Boy’s Dog. No siree, that dog won't bite, Not a bit 0’ danger! What's hix breed? Shore I don’t know; Jest a “boy's dog,” stranger. No St. Bernard—yet last year, Time the snow wis deepest, ged a little shaver home Where ihe hill was steepest. Ain't a bulldog, but you bet *Twouldn’t do to scoff bim. Fastened on a tramp one time— Couldn't pry him off him. Not a pointer—jest the same, When it all is over, t Ain’t a better critter round Startin’ up the plover. Sell him? Say, there ain’t his price, - Not in all the nation! Jest a “boy’s dog’’; that’s his breed— Finest in creation. —McLandbureh Wilson, ees A Hint About the Teeth. Once a week the teeth should be cleaned with the finest pumic stone, Take a little of the very finely pow- dered pumice, and place it on the tooth. brush, says the Chicago Daily News. Brush the teeth lightly, and -remember that while pumice is good ia its way, it will take off the enamel if used too vigorously. “Just how much of the pumice to use is a ques- tion of judgment, but women who lightly touch the teeth with it once a week, are never in need of having the teeth cleaned at the dentist’s. Scottish Deer-Stalking. In Scotland the growth of deer- stalking within the Jast century has been very remarkable. At the time of Waterloo there were only five for- ests north of the Tweed; in 1888 the number had grown to 111; and now it has passed the 150 mark. And an excellent source of profit these forests are to their owners, seeing that every year they put something like £500,- 200 sterlin~ irtn t ©” pockets. he inquired, Life ef Great Poet. “Milton’s life was embittered by the contemptible spite of one Salmas- ius,” writes Marie Corelli in the Strand Magazine. “Salmasius was the author of the ‘Defensio Regi,’ or ‘Defense of Kings,’ a poor piece of work jong ago forgotten, and he was the procurer of foul libel against the author ef ‘Paradise Lost.’ What small claim he has to the world’s memory arises merely from his vie iousness, for not only did he make use of the lowest tool to aid him in conspiring against Milton’s reputation, but he spread the grossest lies broad: ! east, even accusing the poet of hay- ing a hideous personal appearance—‘a puny piece of man; a homunculus; a dwarf deprived of the human figure; | a contemptible pedagogue.’ When the despicable slanderer learned the fact that Milton, so far from answering to this description, was of a pleasing aad attractive appearance, he immediatly changed his tactics and began to at- tack his moral character—which, as even Milton’s bitterest political ene- mies knew, was austerely above the very. shadow of suspicion. said that the poet’s overzealousness in answering the calumnies of Salmasius cost him his eyesight.” BOTH WON AND LOST. Ruse of French Husband That Was Effective, but Costly. Mme. Bouvet, the wife cf a Paris shopkeeper, who recently left him, received the following letter: “If you will not come and see me alive, you will, perhaps, come and see my corpse, for by the time you receive this letter I shall have committed suicide.” She hastened to her husband’s house, and on breaking open the door saw a body still swinging to and fro. “Oh, my peor Edward!” she sobbed. “I have kilied him, and I am a wretch- ed woman.” At that moment her hus- band rushed cat of the kitchen ex- claiming, “No, you have not killed me, but you will if you do not come back at once.” The body was found to be a skillfully made dummy, which had been arranged by the artful husband. He wes, nevertheless, arrested on the charge of hoaxing a public official, as Mme. Bouvet was accompanied by a police magistrate. Ballad of the Beach. The long sea rollers whitene: Surged with their end! Then broke like armies Upon the shingly shore. Rolling our feet before Theirsspume upon the sand Where, in those days of yore, We twain sat hand in hand! The lithe, soft fingers tightened And. at the touch, once more The wide horizon brightened With promise that it bore: What visions. dreams galore, What airy casiles planned, Old memories restore: We twain sat hand in hand! ar, hiened The chaperon had lightened Her dreary watching sore; So, while the tide wave heightened, The evening slowly wore, The sun's last were o'er The ocean and the land, ’ And night began to lower. get We twain sat hand in hand. 4s nes! Go ballad. Before my lady stend! My heart again implore— We twain sat hand in hand! —New Orieans’ Times-Democrat to her door, Thought He Was Arrested. In his young days, when the late John Coleman was an architect’: as- sistant, but already had aspirations toward the drama, he obtained throuzh a chance business connection an in- troduction to Charles Mathews. - Be- fore the interview a little incident took place which throws a striking light upon the public favorite’s pre- carious position. Mathews had just handed his wife from her carriage It was | Striking one or two notes is all the musician need. do, to be impressed with the wonderful tone of : pe . o DTU Patented acoustic principles of con- struction, are,the chief cause, but, after all, it is the results—the piano with its beautiful tone and great power that are of real interest. Geo. F. Kremer. Opposit Post Office. ' A full line of McKinley 15 CENT SHEET MUSIC Always in Stock. Grand Prix, Paris, 1990. The Grand Prize, St. Louis, 1984. De Pachmana_ uses the Baldwin piano exclusively. SAY, PA, “WHY Eas TO RPS rec. DON’T You wear | \?? oR HURT i THE MENOMINEE SEAMLESS? that. He made a bull’s eye when he spoke. We make shoes which put the corn- Sensibie boy, cure dealers on theranxious seat. We cure corns by fitung the The way to cure corns is to prevent their growth in the first place. The Menomince Seamless Union Made Shoe is easy-to- feet scientifically. best BT STS TE PSLS TUS TLSL iP" SPSTE TS OTSEL OS wear, e1sy-to-buy, easy-to-sell, “I nee we For Sale Ry Tid a |p53 ; tJ. 8. KURTZWAN =< “The Shoe Man GUARANTEED TO OUTWEAR Grand Rapics - Minnesota | ANY SHOE ON THE MARKET SSP ESSSSTSSSSSSSSG FS MSPSS HC SSENSSGRENELESCS & pe Se j Pioneer Meat Market, THOMAS FINNEGAN, Prop. Fish, Game Poultry. etc. <i SLSPHLSLSLSSELS: Fresh and | 4 Salt | Meats Si ANY OF OUR REGULAR CUSTOMERS AND THEY WILE TEDL YOU THAT BAR VE 5 ATS ( ® BS see AKE KEPT § S2Sl ae Butter, Eggs, Cheese and Canned Goods ODD FELLOWS’ BUILDING, LELAND AVENUE., ; GRAND RAPIDS. % SLSSSVWSVSLSVSVCSE and was entering the Haymarkct, | SESSSSSSSLSSISLSSSVS> SPSCHWSL SL SLSLSLCSL 1 SPSLSLS VSS SLSS wher the young man came up. “His back was turned to me, so, approach- ing timidly, I touched him upon the arm,” says Coleman in teiling of the incident. “Turning round like a shot, ‘At whose suit?’”. Animals in Winter Quarters. Many animals, like squirrels, dor- mice and hamsters, lay up supplies of food in their winter quarters, on which they feed during waking inter- yals in the torpor, so that the fast is by no means so prolonged or so con- tinuous. They are, however, yet other animals, such as bats among mam- ! mals, frogs and toads among amphilr fans, and the west African lung fish among fishes, which apparently neither put on fat nor lay up a store of food during their period of torpor; which in the case of all of them ts unusually prolonged. Coins Fortune from Pennies. One man who contrcls the pubiic slot machines at the resorts on Coney Island makes a profit of more than $600 a week. That is net. profit. He has more than $28,000 invested ia his plant. One of the best posted slot machine mén the other day estimated that, exclusive of the gambling ma- chines, which flourish in the West, more than half a million pennies are dropped into slot machines every day, while on a holiday a million would be nearer the mark. Longevity of Forest Trees. Information gathered by the Ger- man forestry commission assigns to’ ‘the pine tree 700 years as a maxi- mum length of life, 425 years to the silver fir, 275 to the larch, 245 to the red beech, 210 to the aspen, 200 to the birch, 170 to the ash, 145 to the elder, and 130 to the elm. The heart uf the oak begins to rot at about the age of 300 years. Of the hoily it is stid there is a specimen aged 410 years in exist- emee pez Aschefenburg, in Germany. ———— Manufactured at Urend Rapids by J F. FREESTONE & CO. eee The most substan- tial and ~~ ecomic building m-teria ver placed on the market, For the erection of Business and Residence, Buildings, Sidwalks, Ornamenal Fencing, Chim- neys, Etc. : i 4 3 : 3 . 3 Investigate and Be Convinced. 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