Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 22, 1905, Page 4

as | —_———_-+ Published Every Saturday, — ee By E. C. KILEY. LIFO DOLLARS A Satered in the Postoflice at Grand Itapid Minnesota, ag Second-Class Matter, mane 3 H@ OFF OLD =22. Simple Calisthenic Exercise That WII] Do Much. A famous French genéral, when asked how it was that he had such an erect carriage, replied that it was because he bent over and touched the floor with his fingers thirty times 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 abdominal muscles, which re sult in portal congestion. This por- tal congestion interferes with stom- ach digestion and with the action of the liver. The poison-destroying pow- er of tho liver is lessened, autointoxi- cation results, and arteriosclerosis and old age cume on at a much earlier day. But by keeping the spine flexi- ble and the abdominal muscles strong and taut the portal circulation is kept free and old age is held off.—Good Health. ——— . Certain Weather Indications. Distant sound heard distinctly fore odes 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 grass are an indication of fair weather. Animal life seems, aecording to the popular notion, to have peculiar warnings regarding the weather changes. Some of these are explain- able by natural causes. It is a fact recognized by all intelligent stock- men that cattle have an intimation of an approaching storm some hours be fore it is visible to the human eye. There is a certain restlessness which the cowboy has learned to interpret at once. All 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 shirking from attending to the disagreeable, seemingly unimportant, or difficult, task. A mother dreads to punish her child. She can’t bear the scene it will cause, and she lets the small er- ror go uncorrected until it grows 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- on your heart as the summer dews fall upon vineyards. What if it is nothing but a kind word to a schoal- boy erying in the street? Jt 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 @ 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? Look inward through the depths of thine own soul, Art thou sound is it with thee? and whole? Does narrow search show thee no earth- ly istain? Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead. Will rise in majesty to méet thine own; Then pechal thou see it gleam in many How Then ay pure light around thy path be d, shed, And thou’ wilt nevermore be sad and lone. —James Russell Lowell. Betrothed at Birth. In some parts of West Afriea 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 to they are quite happy and satisfied. As wives they are patterns of obedi- ence, and the marriages usually turn out successes. WONDERS OF THE OCEAN. 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. S. Harwood in Harper’s Magazine. “In the Atlantic ocean the vast Saragasso sea, containing three millions of square miles of surface—a great marine prairie as large as the whole of the United States exclusive of Alaska and dependent islands—af- fords vegetable food for uncountable enimals, which, in their due time, die ind are precipitated to the depths, their bodies in turn to be eaten by the -nimals which live far below all veg- etation. So it is throughout the whole ocean; animal life is constantly falling frem 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 translucent in form—so to put it—hav-- ing no special organs of nutrition, but taking in their nourishment through the walls of their bodies, appropriat- 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 matertals.”” ~ }eommcedation in the cane cabins we YEAR IN ADVANCE; were obliged to sleep in our ham- Never Awakea its Victim While It . Draws the ‘Blood. Night brought us to the miserable -peon village of Palencia, says a writer, and as we could get no ac- wocks. The place swarmed with mosqui- toes, and while Tipe-Chico slept suundly I arose and built a fire in whose smoke I passed the night. But if Tipe was immune to the plague of mosquitoes he did not escape a more serious pest. When I met him in the morning pis 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 draw 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 blbod 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 through 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 to his employer and said: “I’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. 1 den’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 been living for ten years in an aquarium, and according to Country Life the electric eels are among tke oldest piscine in- habitants of tae reptile house at tke | 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 Cali- 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 maa by an officer or guard. dust a Boy’s Dog. No siree, that dog won't bite, Not a bit 0’ danger! What's his breed? Shore 1 don’t knos; Jest a “boy's dog,” stranger. No St. Bernarg—yet last year, ‘Time the sndw was deepest, Dragged a little shaver home Where the hill was steepest, Ain’t a bulldog, ut you bet "Twouldn't do to scoff him. Fastened on a tramp one time— Couldn’t pry him off him. ti as F i When it all {5 over. t Ain’t a better critter round Startin’ up the plover. Not a pointer—jest the same, Sell him? Say, there ain't his price, Not in all the ni tion! Jest a “boy’s dog"; that's his breed— Finest in creation. —McLandburgh Wilson, 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 mutich 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 ia need of having the teeth cleaned at the ited _ Scottish Deer-Stalking. In Scotland, the growth of deer- stalking within the last 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 154 mark. And an exceilent source of profit these forests are to their owners, seeing that every year they put something like £500,- | 000 sterling inty te el pockets. a | granted for 99 or 999 years. | One “Might Run in Families. Gen, James A. Wilson. told the fol- lowing story of Washington Irving, which he had from the latter’s lips: “During a prolonged stay in Eng- land,” began Mr. Irving, “I was one day walking in the country with a friend when a violent thunderstorm burst upon us. We stopped under a large tree, and while standing there [ was reminded of the fact that a brother of mine who had taken shel- ter under an oak on the banks of the Hudson was struck by lightning. I mentioned the incident. The face of my friend took on a look of consterna- tion. He ran out into the pouring rain, and when I shouted to him to come back hc answered: “No, sire-ee! That kind of death probably runs in your family. I'll take my chances out in the open instead of by your side!’ “And he did,” added the hermit of “Sunnyside” with a smile that woul] have opened oysters.—Pittsburg Dis- patch. NINE A MYSTICAL NUMBER. Many Superstitions Connected With Three Times Three. Nine is a mystical number. A cat is said to have nine lives; there are nine crowns in heraldry; possessicn is “nine points of the law,” and the whip for punishing evildoers has nin» tails, the super: m being that a flogging by a trinity of trinities would be sacred and more efficacious. In or- der to see the. fairies, mortals are di- rected to put nine grains of wheat or a four-leaf clover. Tpe hydra had nine heads, and leases are frequently Milton, in “Paradise Lost,” says: “The gates of hell are thrico threefold—three folds adamantine, three folds iron and three folds adamantine rock. They bave nine folds, nine plates and nir linings. out of heaven nine days they fell.” The nine of diamonds was consid- ered the curse of Scotland, and to sce nine magpies in the land of cakes is considered as bad as to sce the de’ll his ane sel’. Laughter and World!y Success. “Speaking of laughter, I have often wondered if the laughing man and the laughing woman really get along bet- ter in the world than the man and woman who do not laugh, laugh at all merely amusing thing,” s man. “I do not know, I am sure. course, you will find that men anil women of both types probably in your own acquaintance have becn able to get along fairly well in the world. Laughter is no deubt good capital in @ great many instances. It is equally true that the grim face, the sour look, I may say, has often proved a valu- able asset. The which would seem to indicate that there is a time to laugh and a time rot to laugh.”—New Or- leans Times-Democrat. grin at som Question of Economy. Elmer was the oldest child of an al- ready somewhat aun esting while rapidly g family, and yet Elmer was cnly a little boy. pair of twins had marked an epoch in the family history betweer Elmer’s birth and that of a little baby sister, which he was invited to go in aud see before she was honored with a name, or was big enough, in Wimer's j) estimation, to be designated as any- thing more than just “it.” Asked by his mother what ke thought of the dear little creature, Elmer looked at the mite very attentively for a time, and then answered, like the young economist that he was: “W’y, mama, it’s nice, of course; it’s real nice. But do you think we needed it?”—Lip- incctt’s Magazine. . Dreamin’ by the Fire. Reta eee the fire, whilst Molly’s stirrin’ I dream “the old drcams over in Recol- . lection town, Outside I hear the winter—sce the railin’ + 0° the snow— But I'm. with the cld-time sweethearts * that loved me long ago! The first sweet flowers she gave me—the loved, fair place I see; She leaned an’ Kissed the violets, as she pinned ‘em on for me! The pe paths and pleasant—the ae val ye oad ere, |, we listened to thi wil vhippoorwills! ig the fire—ah, well! I'm gittin’ Too iG to be a dreamer—to r he rest gs! ae e lights an’ shadows ‘round me 1 friends from old. times ‘seem -"° The are docs the talkin’’an’ I'listen an Castor Oil fer Mummies. M. Berthelot; secretary of the Louvre museum, believes that he has discovered the secret of the agent used in embalming in ancient Egypt. After a laborious examination of the sarcophagi of the: fifth and sixta dynasties, which date back as far as 3500 B. C., M. Berthelot has come to the decision that the oil employed was simply’ castor oil, such as is still used in Egypt, which has undergone some oxidation, but retained during j the long period its preservative quali- ties—London Telegraph. A Misapplied Petition. Not long since the choir in one of the fashionable churches of the South rendered a long and difficult anthem— one with many frills and furbelows. The goo@ minister sat patiently through it, but when the anthem was finished he arose and, to the amuse- ment of both congregation and choir, began his prayer in deeply earnest tones, saying, “O Lord, we thank Thee that we are still alive!”—Lippin- cott’s. When the angels were cast | or if they | | ‘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 animals were big and strong, a chief of the red men who lived in these mountains went cut to get a deer, for his people were hungry. “After walking all day he saw a éeer 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 s#ing | of the arrow he jumped up and bound- | ed after the man, who ran for his life. | “He was almiost exhausted and, | when he felt his strength giving way, he fell to the ground, calling on the big bear, who, you know, is the grand- father of men, to save him. | “Yhe big bear heard the call and | saw that to e the man he had to act quickly, so he scratched his t | and sprinkled his blocd the man. | “Now, you must know that ro 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 eee scraped the face of the man, 1 the marks cf his claws on the sea | 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 marxs that turned brown in the sun, and where the-blocd stayed on it was lighter. | Now all men paint their faces way with blood and scrape it off in streaks when they hunt or go to war.” ARSENIC TO POISON TRE Es. | Cimple Mattcr to Get Rid of Unwel- | come Foliage. en sent to an n, usually ar- } cently that trees are o untimely death by po’ senic. The reason for this does not appear until one rs the man’s ex- planation. Su a house which has 9 much shade, ntention. It-is then that the gardener is called to administer | a dose of pois 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. © bone of co 79 We cure corns by fitting the the Jaw will not allow him to heve !@ © ae . y beac bh one cr more of tho trees cut ¢own g feet scientifically, The best without the consent or the owner. As % way to cure corns is to prevent it often happ' that tenants snd % heir growth in the first place. landlords hold ¢ ferent s on the:| 9 lhe M aS Se subject of e the trees remain as , & mmenomince eamless % co SE SLSTSLVS' Mammy's Seed By. (In the South neg: bors long bef gatber.) K ed be haid, etter e m vem tight, un am riz—afore de dawn— | got to go: got to tak’ de hoe, el wid de cotting en de corn. o her baby black; | de sun am sot; comin’ in de pot, Shet yo’ shiny eye: Mammy got to leab a 1 i Lippincott’ 8. Slightly in Error. Sir Henry Howorth, the well-known vchaeologist and histo: was din- ing out and found hin to a young lady, who tacked him by sey! ry, Iam so glad to have met you, for | I want your adv e about a dog of | dogs.” “ Oh, yes ‘f told thet you have written a beok on | ‘Mongrels’ and mine isn't a well-bred dog.” Sir Henry s ie isa great Asiatic aut! written cn “Mong Ock Splits a Rock. iE A wonderful freak of na’ ozk tree in the far West, grown up from spreading, 1 rock of fii sive ro endcus pr i 4 ‘| if o: its Vv No one living t knows how lozg nature has been as- sisting this oak in its work of stonc- erushing. The oldest peeple in the neighborhood recall the tree in their childhood, and experts in forestry say that it must be fully 200 years old. Feeding Hungry Schcel Children. | In Brussels every school child is medically examined once every ten j 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 cars is taken to see that no child goes ill-shod, ill-clad, or ul-fed. Queer Pclice Force. The policemen in Hayti are paid by restlts. They get capitation fees for ali the arrests they make. As they come from the worst class of the pop- ulation and are under no discipline, it follows *hat a man is very liable to be arrested in Hayti unless he is willing to p2y the policemen more than the cai;1aticn fee. 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