Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 27, 1905, Page 4

Sra ay Review Published Every Saturday. By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered in the Postofice at Grand Raptr Minnesota, #8 Seeond-Class Matter, Curiosity of Birds. Birds. however wary, are curious, and will approach a strange object at the risk of their lives, as wild-fowl shooters know. A singular instance of euriosity is now reported of a goose in a small village of the Duchy of Baden. When the “garde-champetre” rang his bell and read his decrees to the assembled peasants, a white and black goose, eccentric by its. intelli- gence, perhaps a goose of genius, left the flock and planted itself before him, and listened with lofty and solemn stare peculiar to’ geese, human or otherwise. When the crier moved on ‘he goose followed, and only returned to its companions after the round was made. It continued this attention for some months.—London Globe. Cotton Growing in Paraguay. Cotton has been cultivated in Para- guay for many years, but hitherto lit- tle or no attempt has been made: to export it. In the last year, however, considerable interest has been mani- fested in this product by cotton deal- ers and experts who have visited tite country. Samples forwarded to the United Kingdom have met with con- siderable approval, and one shipment to Manchester was pronounced “very good standard quality.” Paraguayan cotton is said to resemble the Egypt+ | san variety. Besides the white varie- ty, there is also a colored cotton. The prices obtained for Paraguayan cot- ton in Europe are 5d a pound for the white variety and 6d for the red.— Lendon Engineer. High on the Hills. High on ae hills the great winds strong- ly blow; The crisp, dry grasses shiver to and fro; A fleck of white, a drifting, wind-blown boat. Sails overhead; tmmeasurably remote. ‘The blue, haze-hidden valleys -lie below, ‘Che far-heard, lonely. cawing of a crow ‘Thins pinto silence. Ghostly still, and slow, The long Cloud-shadows softly float High on the hills. Ulimitably far the blue skies go; ‘The world-wide, wind-swept spaces wider grow; A pulse of mighty meaning thrills the threat Of echoing silence with a soundless note; Eternity draws nearer than we know, High on the hills. The Quinine Cure for Drunkenness. It is claimed that drunkenness can be cured in from one week to one month’s time by using the following mixture: quill-red Peruvian bark and soak it in one pint of diluted alcohol. Strain and evaporate it down to half a pint. For the first two days give a teaspoon- ful every three hours. If this quantity causes headache diminish the dose. The third day reduce amount to half a teaspoonful; the next day give fif- teen drops, the next ten and then five, THEY HAD MET BEFORE. Business Man’s Introduction Decidedly Humorous. most curious break I ever said a young business man the other ¢ ‘was at my club. I was in the I ng with a man who was in my class at college and whom I knew intimately. As we were sit- ing there in walked another member We “The made,” of the club whom we both knew. both greeted him. Then the conver sation continued, only three were in it instead of two. Suddenly it oc- rred to me that perhaps my two friends had not been introduced. ‘Beg pardon,’ I said; ‘I suppose you men know each other. Mr. S——, Mr. T They laughed, but they grave- ly shook hands and said they were ac- quainted, and all that sort of thing, and then they looked at me and laughed again, only harder than be- fore. Then it all dawned on me. The newcomer bore a fairly strong resem- blance to another man whom also I knew well at college, and I had as- sumed, not having looked at him close- ly. that he was this man. But he wasn't, after all, and the man I had introduced him to was his own brother.” THE BIRD WE WORSHIP. American Eagle Furnishes Wonderful Example of Constancy. In the discussion of the marriage question it has sometimes been denied that the birds of the air are monoga- mous. But the bird of birds, and the one that we most cherish as the em blem of the glorious American repub- lic, certainly is. The American eagle never mates but once, and lives with that one mate till he or she dies. If left a widower —even a young widower—the bald- headed eagle never mates again. He remains alone and disconsolate near the home he once shared with his former mate, and no other eagle can ever tempt him to forsake it or share it with another. Divorce is unknown with the Ameri- can eagle. He took her for better or for worse, and death alene separated them. With him it is, once a widow- er, always a widower. It is singular that his example is so seldom quoted. — Nee SRRINEI Pulverize one pound of fresh, * A SCP TO “CERBERUS, pion Like Human. Beings. the portals of the infernal regions, stopped to admire their famous canine guardian. “Fire dog!” he said. “Bully dog! If two heads are better than one, what about a hundred? Bet he’d have tak- en a blue ribbon at a dog show.” Whereupon Cerberus wagged his tail enthusiastically. “Fine tail! Magnificent tail! But it cant wag this dog! Some people told me he was built out of proportion in the matter of heads—ought to have leg> and tails to match. But I think he’s just right.” Cerberus emitted a hundred simul- | taneous deep, low growls of satisfac- tion; at least one seemed to come from every head. Then he stretched out each of his heads in succession to be patted and finally held up his paw to shake hands. The dog fancier passed on. “Stupid brute!” he said. “He’d rath- i The dog fancier, having approached | Guardian of Infernal Regions Very Apache Relates ‘Legend switen Ac counts for Hts People’s Custom. Once an old Apache Indian, when asked the question why his people painted their faces, told this little le _ gend: ‘ er have flattery than a bone. But I’ve ; seen lots of men who are “uilt just the | same way.” DISTINCT VALUE OF POISE. Means Collecting and Balancing of the Vital Forces. | Poise must nat be confounded with pose. It is not an attitude or an af- fectation, as so many women seem to think in disregarding it, says Har- per’s Razar. tion. The arrow is poised for flight. Otherwise it cannot be almed to the mark. wasting energy in unaimed effort. The ; eleverer, the more energetic, a woman | is, the more she needs correct poise. | And few women are born with it. | while many have yet the alphabet of ! it to learn when they, come of age. | The exclamation point, in conversa- tion or life, betrays emotional lack of balance and waste sf energy. Poise reserves itself for the right occasion, and emphasizes important things with- out need of exclamation. words, it saves its owner from unnec- for necessary ones. Unless one have | an aim im life, poise is never really at- tained. It is not mere repose. It is | the collecting and balancing of one’s forces. Seeking the Large Life. The habit which many women have formed and from which they apparent- ly da not attempt to secure freedom, of devoting une larger portion of their time and thoughts to the trivial things of life, robs them of the capac- ity of enjoying or assimilating much which would add to intellectual growth, says a writer in Maaam. The woman who sees nothing from day to day but the four walls of her abiding place often quite naturally becomes narrow in‘her thoughts. She even lacks the incentive to commune with great minds through reading. But in- terest in that which best serves hu- manity should not be limited by the lines of sex. ties open she is quick to place herself in touch with all the active forces which make fcr the betterment cf mankind. Origin of the “Cocktail.” There has been much curiosity as to the origin of the name “cocktail.” At last some one has come fi--vard with an answer to this question wich may be pure invention or truth, but at any rate sounds plausible. In the early days, when doctors used stren- uous methods and medicines in the cure of disease, there was a habit among them of treating certain dis- eases of the throat with a pleasant liquid, which was applied by the tip of a long feather plucked from a cock’s tail. In course of time this still retaining its old name. In the course of its evolution the gargle gained most of the present ingredi- ents—spirits, sugar, bitters and so on —till it became the beverage of to- day. The Beauty of Repose. Sitting and rising may be motions of ease and grace or suggest the ma- neuvers of a seal. To fall into a seat with a thump and spill all over it is not pretty, nor is it.necessary. The woman who takes a seat in this way clutches wildly at anything in reach whe she attempts to rise, and strug- gies awkwardly to her feet. Contro! of the muscles’ will prevent all this, and the heaviest woman may get up and down with some degree of grace and ease with a little care and prac- tice. Boy Weather. It’s boy-time when it freezes. It’s boy-time when it snow The youngster is the one whose Iot Is happiest when it. snows. It’s rough on rheumatism, And it seriously annoys The dignity of grown folks, But it’s pretty good for boys. It's just another instance, When nature makes it plain, That in the mighty scheme of things There's nothing made in vain. So let's forget our sorrows, In a fellow-being's joys, The weather's hard on grown folks, But it’s pretty good for boys. —Washington Evening Star. Bony Ornaments. A farmer near Sunderland, Eng- land, has erected a gateway, the front entrance to his yard, which is com- posed of bones of various kinds, all | of which belonged to favorite animals of his stock. His fondness for these relics is evidenced iff other parts of his dwelling, the name on the front of the residential portion being mark- ed out with knuckle-bones; pairs of | white horns and silver-mounted hoofs. fare the chief ornaments fp the rooms. It is really a prepara- , Poise saves 2 woman from * In other | essary words or acts, and prepares her | As woman’s opportuni- ; “Long ago, when men were weak and animals were big. and strong, a ehief 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 eeer and shot at it, but the arrow was turned aside and wounded a mountain lion, which was also after the deer. When the lion felt the sting of the arrow he jumped up and bound- ed after the man, who ran for his life. “He was almost exhausted and, when he felt his strength giving way, he fell te the ground, calling on the big bear, who, yau know, is the grand- father of men, to save him. “The big bear heard the call and act quickly, so he seratched 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. Sa 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 never washed it at all, but left it until | 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. 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 and landlords hold different views. on the subject of shade the trees remain as 2 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 retuin to their homes anv children until the twilight shadows | gather.) Kinky IH’ haid, stickin’ out 0° bed, Lor’, how mammy hate to leab de chile; Bright en shiny eye, lak de star so high, Twinkle at 'e mammy all de while; Bae shet ‘em tight, ’eaze, afore de light, ‘Fore dé sum am riz—afore de dawn— Mammy got to go: got to tak’ de hoe, Rassel wid de cotting en de corn. But she comin’ 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, in e’ ammy’s lap, Res’ 'e haid en hear her sof'ly sing. Shet yo" shiny eye: baby, doan yo’ cry, Mammy got to leab de lil’ t'ing. ippincott'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, I am so glad to have met you, for ‘I want your advice about a dog of remedy came to he used as a gargle, | “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 vell-bred dog.” Sir Henry smiled, for Le is a great Asiatic authority and had written on “Mongols,” not mongrels. mine.” Qak Splits a Rock. A wonderful freak of nature is an Suppose a man has rented ; | whole of the United States exclusive | asked how it was that he had such | translucent in form—so to put it—hay- saw that to save the man he had to | ing no special organs of nutrition, but H H | the walls of their bodies, appropriat- | Simple Calisthenic Exercise That Will | and taut the portal circulation is kept _men that cattle have an intimation of | | from attending to the disagreeapic, WONDERS OF THE OCEAN. $ 2 iL ea Nature’s Perfect Arrangement for Preservation of Fish Life. “Naturally the fish of the deep por tions are-carnivorous, no vegetable life being found below 200 fathoms,” writes W. 8. Harwood in Harper's Magazine. “In the Atlantic ocean the vast Saragasso séa, containing three millions of square miles of surface—a great marine prairie as large as the of Alaska and dependent islands—af- fords vegétable food _for uncountable animals, which, in their due time, die and are precipitated to the depths, their bodies in turn to be eaten by the animals which live far below all veg- etation. So it is throughout the whole ocean; animal life is constantly falling from the surface waters for the sup port of the animal life of the abyss. A very large number of the deep sea animals are exceedingly tenuous or taking in their nourishment through ing from the water the food which suits them. Some of them have a bony structure, a skeleton, which they form also from the water, silica and carbonate of lime being the chief skeleton-forming materials.” WARDING OFF OLD AGE. ¢ en aE Do Much. = A famous French general, when an erect carriage, replied that it was because he bent over and touched the floor with his fingers thirty nes every day. If he had acquired rigid- ity of the spine so that he could not do that, he would have had with it weak abdomina: muscles, which re sult in portal congestion. This por tal congestion intesieres with stom- ach digestion and wit the action of the liver. The poison-destroying pow- | er of the liver is lessened, autointoxi- cation results, and arteriosclerosis and old age come on at a much earlier day. .But by keeping the spine flexi- | ble and the abdominal muscles strong free and old age is held off.—Good Health. be Certain Weather Indications. | Distant sound heard distinetly fore- { bodes no good weather. If the sun | “draws up water” it will rain. The | pitcher sweating and the teakettle boiling dry also indicate rain. Cob- | webs thickly spread upon the i toeeal| are an indication of fair wea Animal life seems, according to e | popular notion, to have pecu! r | warnings regarding the weather changes. Some of these are ¢: able by natural causes. It is a fact | recognized by all intelligent stock an approaching storm some hours be fore it is visible to the human eye. There is a certain restlessness whieh | the cowboy has learned to interpret at once. | A!l Positions Have Drawbacks. Every position in the world has its | drawbacks, every line of work has its | disagreeable side, and failure many | times can be traced to this shir’ seemingly unimportant, er ene it { pall er- grows | cftild. She can’t bear the s will cause, and she lets the s ror go uncorrected until it great. An employer thinks it mean and small to speak to his help about be ing on time; and so the few moments are lost each day, other leaks are not stopped, and his business is ruined. Evening Thought. The little things which you may do | for those about you will fall back up- oak tree in the far West, which has | grown up from a sapling into a wide- spreading, handsome tree, through a | Look inward through the depths of th 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-elad, or ill-fed. Queer Police Force. fi 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 policemen more than the caiptation fee. As this fee iv only 15 cents, the price of freedom 1s not prohibitive | the summer, of digging the dry river on your heart as the summer dews fall upon vineyards. What if it is nothing but a kind word to a school- boy crying in the street? It dries his tears and the aching heart grows light and glad again. Who knows what a cloud of darkness one kind word may dispel? Wear a smile and make others happy. There is no joy so great as that which springs from a kind act or a pleasant deed.— Woman’s Life. How Is It With Thee? own soul. How is it with thee? and whole? Does narrow search show thce no earth- ly stain? Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never de: Will rise in majesty to meet thine o Then ee thou see it gleam in many Art thou sound Then oa” pure light around thy path be shed, | And thou wilt nevermore be sad and lone. —James Russell Lowell Betrothed at Birth. In some parts of West Africa the girls have long engagements. On the | day of their birth they are betrothed to a baby boy a trifle older than them- selves, and at the age of twenty they are married. The girls know of no other way of getting a husband, and so they are quite happy and satisfied. As wives they are patterns of obedi- ence, and the marriagés usually turn out successes. ———_——_ Digging for Fish. The natives of certain parts of In- dia are in the habit every year, in panks for fish, which they dig out by hundreds, just as they would pota- toes. The mud lumps are broken open, and the fish, perhaps 8-in. or 10-in. long, will always be found alive, and often frisky, as if just removed from its supposedly native element— the water. ‘ s. The listener needs no technical knowledge to. be ¢harmed by the tone of o Baldwin The crowded: houses that received De Pachmann every- where on his recent tone-triumph tour is ample evidence of this. Geo. F. Kremer FURNITURE Carpets Rugs and Wali Paper, etc. Grand Prix, Paris, 1900. The Grand Prize, St. Louis, 1904. De Pachmann uses the Baldwin piano exclusively. SLSLSISS 8° SSa4 __ SVS SVSS 2 VSSSVWSESVESICSS WHOS HVS MOL SLSe* NO SEAN ga He FEC SAY, PA, WHY DON’T YOU WEAR THE MENOMINEE SEAMLESS? ooo vs é Sensibie boy, that. He made a bull’s eye when he spoke. We make shoes which put the corn- cure dealers on theranxions seat. We cure corns by fitting the feet scientifically. The best way to cure corns is to prevent heir growth in the first place. The Menomince Seamless Union Made Shoe 1s easy-to- wear, eisy-to-buy, easy-to-se}l, Pen For Sale Ry J. §. KURIZMAN, ecee = 8 ‘ j The Shoe Man GUARANTEED TO OUT-WEAR ¢ Grend Rapids - Minnesoa ANY SHOE ON THE MARKET % SPSL SISVSLWSLVSLSl SLES 58S! SLSPSCSLSLSLSLSS SLISVSS SLGS "¢ SWSETBSVSLSVSVSVSISVSVSVSLESS K SVSISVOVOVSS Sse pre eer Mea Market, THOMAS FINNEGAN, Prop. Fish, Game bs oi nl etc \ HE VERY I ni Butter, Eggs, Cheese and Canned Goods ODD FELLOWS’ BUILDING, LELAND AVENUE., GRAND RAPIDS. i SLSLSLSISVSVSLSFSVOSX GLSVHBSE GOST SPSLSS HF SWGLSLS7SS sees Fresh and | [Sate Meats | SPSCSPO PEP STSFe> pr eSRneresere 7 uilding Blocks Manufactured at Grand Rapids by JF, FREESTONE & CO. {Concret The most substan- tial and building n ver placed on market, oer ecomic materia ¢ the For the erection of Business an! 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