Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 22, 1905, Page 5

| | | | By E. C. ‘KILEY. | a x 5 IFO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE sen neem oon Satered in the Postoffice at Grand Itapid Minnesota, ag Second-Class Matter, SSS eee — iG OFF OLD 222. WARS Simple Calisthenic Exercise That Will 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 abdomina!: 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 the 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, according 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 ehild. She can’t bear the scene it, will cause, and she lets the small er- xor go uncorrected until it grows great. An employer thinks it mean and small to speak to his help about be- ing on timé; 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? 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 @ 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, is it with thee? Art thou sound 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 meet thine own; Then wilt thou see it gleam in many How eyes, ‘Then will pure light around thy path be shed, And faa wilt nevermore be sad and e. i sis —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 so they are quite happy and satisfied. As wives they are patterns of obedi- ence, and the marriages usually turn ‘out successes. ere 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 animals which live far below all veg- etation, So it is throughout the whole ocean; animal Jife 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 translucent in form—so to put it—hav-- an 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 materlats.” i of Palencia, a commcdation in the cane cabins we anneldh The place swarmed with mosqui- toes, and while Tipe-Chico slept soundly 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 dravv 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 |, fest 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: “T’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 ot fish life are not known. But it seems pretty certain 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 beén 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 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 no wall. The grounds are studded with nineteen guard pests, 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 rifies 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. a Just a Boy’s Dog. No siree, that do, 4 dee won't bite, Not a bit o’ da What's his breed? Jest a “boy's dog,” No St. Berna: ‘Time the siéw was deepest, © Dragged a little shaver home - Where the hill was steepest, Ain’t a bulldog, “but you bet *"Twouldn’t do to scoff him. Fastened on a tramp one time— Couldn't pry him off him. Shore 1 don’t knos ; stranger. yet last year, Not a pointer—jest the same, When it all is over, t Ain’t a better critter round Startin’ up the plover. Bell him? Say, Bene} ain't his price, tion Jest a “boy's d that’s his breed— Finest in. creatio! eLandburgh 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 footk, 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 Ppakicekd 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 150 mark. And an excelent sdurce of profit these forests are to their owners, seeing that every | year they put something like £500,- 00° sterline Set pocrert, were obliged to sleep in our ham lowing | ‘stony of Wi which he had from the latte “Dur goa prolonged stay in. Eng: land,” began Mr. Irving, “T 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 1 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. 1 mentioned the incident. The face of | my friend took en a look of consterna- tion. He ran ont’ into the pouriag rain, and when I shouted to him to come back hc answered: “‘No, sire-ce! 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 would have opened oysters.—Pittsburg Dis- pateh. 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 heraidry; possessicn is “nine points of the law,” and the whip for punishing evildoers has nin» tails, the superstition 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 on a four-leaf clover. e hydra had nine heads, and leases are frequently granted for 99 or 999 years, Milton, in “Paradise Lost,” says: “The gates of hell are. thrico threefold—three folds adamantine, three folds iron and three folds adamantine rock. They have nine folds, nine plates and nine | linings. When the angels were :cast | out of heaven nine days they fell.” The nine of diamonds was consid- ered the curse of Scotland, and to see nine magpies in the land of cakes is considered as bad as to sce the de’ll his ane sel’. GEE Pei Ta Seti . Laughter and Worldly Success. “Speaking of laughter, I have often wondered if the laughing man and the laughing woman feally get along bet- ter in the world than tho man and woman who do not laugh, or if thoy laugh at all merely grin at some amusing thing,” said the observant man. “I do not know, I am sure, Of course, you will find that men and 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 a@ great many instances. It is equally true that the grim face, the sour look, I may say, has often proved a yalu- able asset. The which would seem to indicate that there is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh.’—New Or. leans Times-Democrat. Question of Economy. Elmer was the oldest child of an al- ready somewhat aumerous and inter- esting while rapidly increasing family, and yet Eimer was cnly a little boy. One 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 | & name, or was big enough, in Wimer's 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. Settin’ by the fire, whilst Molly’s stirrin’ roun’ I dream the old drcams over in Recol- jection town, Outside I hear the winter—sce the railin’ + 9’ the snow— But I’m. with the old-time Sweethearts, ‘that loved me long ago! The first sweet flowers she gave me—the loved, fair place I see; She one an’ kissed the violets, as she pinned ‘em on for me! The peaceful paths and pleasant—the valleys an’ the hills, Where, hand-in-hand, we listened to the wild, sweet whippoorwills! Settin’ by the fire—ah, well! I'm gittin’ Too det to be a dreamer—t i; tose Ot May: = : r—to reap the e lights an’ shadows ‘round iriends from old times seem ue The rap pave the talkin’ an’ I listen an’ —Atlanta Constitution. Castor Oil for 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 8500 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 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 et tones, saying, “O Lord, we thank 1S chuaea arta re cott’ “these mountains went cut to get a d the question wee his deonte painted their faces, told this little le- gend: ' “Long ago, when men were weak and animais were big and strong, a ehief of the red men who lived in deer, for his people were hungry. “After walking all day he saw a ceer and shot at it, but the errow was turned aside and wounded a mountain lion, which was also after the deer, When the licn felt the s#mg ef 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 to the ground, calling on the big bear, who, you know, is the grand- father of men, to save him. “The big bear heard the call and | saw that to seve 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 es he did so his foot | scraped the face of the man, leaving i> the marks cf 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 if 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 that way with blood and scrape it off in streaks when they hunt cr go to war.” ARSENIC TO POISON TREES. €imple Mattcr to Get Rid cf 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 agman has rented a house which has too much shade. the Jaw will not allow him to have } one er more of the trees cut cown without the consent or the owner. As | it often happ that tenants snd | landlords hold different ws 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. LSVSLSTSSS! GTe* S8SSGSSLSTS™: Mammy's Cood-By. (in the South negro farm their wrs long before the Kinky ll’ hatd, stickin’ out o° bed. Lor’, how mammy hate to leab de chile; ri en shiny eye, lak de star so high, ‘winkle at 'e mammy all de while; Better shet ’em tight, "caze, afore de light, ‘Fore de sun am riz—afore di wn— Mammy got to go: got to tak’ de hoe, Rassel wid de cotting en de corn. But she comin’ back to her baby 3 | Mammy’s comin’ w'en de sun am sot; a Beet t de do’, y comin’ sko’, Den. it yt de 't in de pot, Den de lil chap. in e* 5 Res’ 'e haid en G: fShet yo’ shiny eye; baby. Mammy got to cep de lil’ = Lippincott’ ‘8. 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 seying: h, Sir Hen- ry, Iam 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 de. I have mca d told that you have written a beok on ‘Mongrels’ and mine isn’t a y-ell-bred dog.” Sir Henry smiled, toe | ie is a great Asiatic author written cn “Mongols,” not moxgrels. ) =——1) Ock Splits a Rock. A wonderful freak of nature is an o2k tree in the far West, which has | grown up from a s2p: into a wide- spreading, handsome tree, throug! zh a rock of flint stcne, splitting the mas- sive rock by the 2endcus pressure oz its‘vigcrous 5) 4, No one living knows, how long nature has been as- sisting this oak in its work of stone- erushing. 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 Scheel 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 cai. 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 restlts. 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 cai; tatien fee. As this fee iv only 15 cents. the price of freedom 3s not vePt PON ‘{ EreGANGE EXCELLANGE IF YOU TRAVEL VIA THE Great Northern Railway “The Comfortable Way” Tothe Louis & Clark Exposition. Send 2cents for handsomely illustrated booklet ‘A Camera Journey to the LOUIS & CLARK EXPOSITION” to ‘ded Hulett Minn. 8 The Herald-Review For Up-to-date Printing Re Yeats BGS GVST SP at ‘SAY, PA, WHY DON’T YOU WEAR THE MENOMINEE SEAMLESS? He made We make shoes which put the corn- Senstbie boy. that, a bull’s eye when he spoke. cure dealers on thecanxious seat, SUSY HF SVSLSVSLS SS We cure corns by fitting the The best way to cure corns is to feet scientifically. prevent heir growth in the first place. 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