Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 12, 1905, Page 10

YEAR FOR NIAGARA IMMENSE VOLUME OF WATER DIVERTED FROM FALLS, Commercial Enterprises are Making Heavy Drains on This Fa..ious Show- Place—Its Tremendcus Electrical Power the Inducement. Niagara Falls, August 7:—The volume of water being ‘diverted from the historic Niagara Falls is reaching such proportions that the people of the State are trying to pass laws which will prevent the possibil- ity of a practical wiping out of this sublime natural spectacle. Water sufficient to develop nearly five hundred thousand horse-power continuously, twenty-four hours per day, for industrial purposes, is now being taken from the river above the Falls, and further developments re- quiring more water are conteriplated. Probably the largest user of the electricity produced by the waters of the mighty river is the concern which by the five or six thousand. degree heat of the electric furnace brings lime and coke into unwilling union, thereby producing what is known as Calcium Carbide. Dry calcium carbide is lifeless as so much broken rock, but in contact with water it springs into activity and begets abundantly the gas Acetylene. The light resulting from the: ignition of acetylene is the nearest approach to sunlight known, These facts, though of compara- tively recent discovery, wére soon seized by men with an eye to the com- mercial possibilities and to-day cal- cium carbide is being shipped every- where and used for dispelling dark- ness in buildings of all descriptions. from the ordinary barn of the farmer to the country villa of the wealthy, as well as for lighting the streets of a large number of towns. Acetylene can be easily and cheaply instailed, and the manufacture and sale of acetylene generators has become a business of recognized standing, has assumed large proportions and is steadily growing. LI HUNG CHANG’S TREES. Those He Planted at Grant’s Tomb in 1897 Did Not Thrive. The trees planted on the lawn at the north side of Grant’s tomb in May, 1897, by Li Hung Chang have not thrived as they should. Ever since the trees were planted the souvenir hunt- ers have been plucking twigs from them, preventing their growth to a great degree. It is no uncommon thing to see a couple of women approach the trees, glance furtively around and then snatch twigs from the trees and put them quickly out of sight. It has al- ways been expected that the park de- purtment, which controls the surround- ings of the tomb, would place a railing around the trees, but it has never been done. When Gen. Grant planted trees at Tokio, Japan, not only where they protected by a railing, but a guard of soldiers was kept constantly on duty around them.—New York Sun. BERRIES FOR RHEUMATISM. Despite the Tradition, Some Say That They Are Curative. That “strawberries are injurious to rheumatic persons” is as old a tradi- tion as that tomatoes (love apples) are conducive to love. But against science no tradition is safe. It is now asseried that strawberries are really the “real thing’ in food for rheumat- ies. Linnaeus, it is said, kept himself free from rheumatism by eating straw berries. Fonienelli, another naturalist, attributed his longevity to strawber. ries. He resorted to them as a m cine and would frequently say: ‘If 1 can but reach the season of strawber- Borheave is said to have classed the strawberry with the principal red fruit remedies, containing iron as well as phosphorous, salt, sulphur and sugar, It has long been a tradition that the chief demand for horse chestnuts has come from persons who believe in their efficacy as a cure for rheumatism, or at least a palliative in rheumatic affections. Strawberries have hereto- fore been barred, but if they now have all the merits claimed for them, or indeed any of the merits, the bars will be down and stay down permanently. BABY’S INSTINCT Shows He Knew What Food to Stick To. Forwarding a photo of a splendidly handsome and healthy young boy, a happy mother writes from an Ohio town: “The enclosed picture shows my 4- year-old Grape-Nuts boy. “Since he was two years old he has eaten nothing but Grape-Nuts. He demands and gets this fod. three times a day. This may seem rather unusual, but he does not care for any- thing else after he has eaten his Grape-Nuts, which he uses with milk or cream, and then he is through with his meal. Even on Thanksgiving day he refused turkey and all the good things that make up that great din- ner, and ate his dish of Grape-Nuts and cream with the best results and none of the evil¢ that the other fool- ish members of the family experi- enced. “He is never sick, has a beautiful complexion, and is considered a very handsome boy. May the Postum Com- pany prosper and long continue to fur- nish their wholesome food!” Name given by Postum Co, Battle Creek, Mich. “There’s a reason. Read the little book, “The Road to Wellville, in ev- ery pkg. ¢ * Wi ( ith Men of In Laurence Hutton’s “Talks in a Library” he tells of a dinner he gave to Sir Henry Irving: ‘An. unexpected guest at that dinner was Mr. Clemens. He would certainly have been invited had \his presence in the city been known. He had arrived from Hart- ford late in the afternoon, had discov- ered from the gossip at the club that the Huttons were having ‘a rather un- usual dinner party,’ was told, who were to be present, and decided that it was too good a thing to lose. So he dressed burriedly, walked in without ceremony just as the feast began, drew up a chair by the side of his hostess, helped himself to her oysters and for the rest of the evening was the life of the par- ty, one enthusiastic admirer of his con- fessing, over the coffee and cigars, that he would give half he possessed if he were intimate enough with Mark Twain to have him drop in at his house in the same delightfully original and Mark Twainy manner.” Hutton and Edwin Booth were the closest of friends. Hutton possessed one of the best collections in exist- ence of death masks, and it was while Booth was examining this that a most impressive incident occurred. Says Hutton: “I shall never forget the first time he saw the Lincoln mask. He asked, innocently enough, whose it was. And when I told him, my heart for a moment ceasing to beat, he rose Prominence romine from his seat, took it in his hands and looked at it for a long time without a word. What it meant to him we can imagine. The whole awful, awful bus- iness came back to him. The mad dead brother; the martyred, murdered president. Still, without a word, he put it back in its place, and it seemed to me as he did so that he kissed it with his fingers. I have seen him in that room look at it silently over his pipe many and many,a time. But he never touched it or spoke of it again, even to me. What he thought of it heaven only knows.” Hutton tells as follows of meeting Rudyard Kipling at a luncheon given to the latter by Richard Watson Gil- der: “Another engagement made me late, and I entered the room as the party was breaking up. I was intro- duced to Mr. Kipling, with whom I ex- changed the traditional few formal words, and we drifted apart; but a moment or two afterward he placed himself on the arm of a chair in which I was sitting and said: ‘I didn’t real- ize, Hutton, when I met you a moment ago who you were. Dear old Wolcott Balestier, your friend and mine, tried so hard and so many times to bring us together in London and elsewhere, and now he is gone, and I can’t under- stand it all. He died so suddenly and so far away; we had so much to say to each other, and now I have got to wait so long before I can say it.’” Immortal John Paul Jones As thistledown, light and impotent, Compared with our navy now, The wind tossed Ranger, with John Paul Jones, ‘The soul of her, helm to bow. Drifting o’er ocean’s meadows green, Skimming its hills so high— “But we will blossom,” swore Jones, I ween, “Into thistles, by and by!” (Pause and ponder—’twas John Paul Jones Planted the seed that grew) Into the very knives that mowed His downlike canvas flew. See at Whitehaven the flames leap red; At Belfast Lough the Diake’s men dead; The Bon Homme Richard off Flambor- ough Head. “Have you struck?” they cry from the Serapis. From a sinking vessel made to foe Was ever a braver retort than this: “Surrendered” Jones thundered. ‘*Surren- dered? No! Iam just garni 3 to fight!” Brave deeds were done that night! But seed of sea or earth To bloom and grow Must be laid low To rise to greater worth. The Ranger's guns long ceased to roar, The Bon Homme Richard fights no more. ‘The brain That ruled the main Became dust again In an unmarked grave Beyond the wave; But his soul, that ne’er Feared to do or dare, It slept not there, But Jose in our navy everywhere! His prophecy Fulfilled we see. ri As_a field of thistles fr Grown terrible in might! And to-day, From far aw: Out of the past, With home bound pennant from the mast Flung to the gales, The hero sails. Mid ee cane leap and the smoke cloud rolled From saluting cannon manifold Ancient vessels we behold; From England's coasts They sail as ghosts. From France's shore They glide once more— Friend and foe Of the long ago— In honor of John Paul Jones Appearing on the sea. He sails thus, after many a year, To prove his provhecy. —Howard Clinton Dickinson, in New York Sun. Lamentable Want. of Tact Mrs. Calliper looked aggrieved as she seated herself opposite her hus- band at the dinner table, and knowing what was expected of him, he inquired if she had enjoyed the afternoon. “No, I can’t say I have,” Mrs. Cal- liper admitted in a weary tone, “and all for the want of a little tact. Now, I'll tell you what happened. The dressmaker wasn’t ready for me when I got there, wouldn't be for nearly an hour, so I happened to remember that Mrs. James, on whom I've never called, though she’s often asked me in times past, lived two blocks away. I said I'd go there and return. “Well, it was a little early fora call perhaps, only about half past 1, but I explained the whole thing to her. I said, ‘Here I was, Mrs. James, with an hour on my hands and so near you, and how much better than to make <n extra trip for the call.’ “Well, of course, any one with a Visiting Grave of Hutton’s “Literary Landmarks of London” was largély a labor of love, and was the result of years of hard work. Mr. Hutton gives this example of the difficulties that stood in his way: “Another Sunday afternoon I devoted to pious pilgrimage to the | graye of Charles Lamb at Edmonton. As usual, nobody at Edmonton knew anything. The churchyard is not a} small one, and it is entirely filled. The sexton and the grave digger and a few persons wandering about could give me no information. Most of them had never heard of Mr. Lamb; and I could { not find the sacred spot. Naturally I | applied to the rector; and, as he left the vestry door after service, leaning | on the arm of a pretty young woman, | I approached him, raised my hat and | asked, politely, if he could tell me where Charles and Mary Lamb were resting. Really, he could not say! | And I, forgetting the day, the place! Were Stealing particle of tact would have pretended to be glad to see me whether it was perfectly convenient or not, but do you know, she just said, ‘I’m sorry, Mrs. Calliper, but it is just the hour of the children’s Tuncheon, and 1 shall have to ask you to excuse me, though I'd be very glad to have you rest here.’ “As if I needed any rest! I rese im- mediately, of course, and started away, but I did say with a great deal of dignity that I couldn’t tell when I should be able to come again. I gave her another chance, but all she said was that she was ‘sorry it happened | so. “All the way home I’ve been think- ing how few people there are who have had the benefit of such home training as I had as a girl, and I’ve been trying to make allowance for that woman; but when I think of the hour I spent in the dressmaker’s stuf- fy waiting room, it certainly is hard work.”’—-Youth’s Companion. “Blia’ and his sacred office, cursed that rec- tor for his criminal ignorance. “Great heavens!’ I said. ‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself. In your care have been placed the ashes of one of the foremost men in the whole history of English letters. And you don’t know where they are! They have made your churchyard and your parish distinguished all the world over, I have come 3,000 miles to visit Charles Lamb’s grave, and you, the rector of the church, don’t know where |’ fé is! You ought to be heartily ashamed of yourself.’ And I turned upon my heel and left him standing there, speechless and confounded.” Haljf an hour after the above inci- dent aecurred, and while -iutton was groping around the graveyard in the twilight, the rector came to him, hat | in hand, apologized most humbly for his ignorance (which he had corrected in the meantime) and conducted him to the grave of the immortal Elia. Second Base The late Samuel Colcord Bartlett, | when president of Dartmouth college, | was not exactly enthusiastic over ath- | letics, but was, nevertheless, often | pretty well informed when the stu- dents thought him indifferent. At the time when the following inci- dent is said to have occurred, the baseball team was composed of hard hitting but rather slow and clumsy players, who had lost several close games at home by slow and stupid base running. One night, the president, nervous and tired, finding himself unable to sleep, quietly drew on his clothes and started for a short walk across the campus, in the hope of quieting his nerves. Now it happened that about the same time a couple of students who had been assisting a classmate in celebrating his birthday started to re- turn to their rooms. The old campus was used as a ball ground, and the sight of the three bases, gleaming white in the moon- light, suggested to one of the happy | youths the brilliant idea of “stealing” second base and‘carrying it home. They succeeded in detaching it, and were pursuing a triumphant though tortuous course across the campus, when who should appear but “Old Prex.” There was no escape. The old gentleman sternly accosted them and demanded what they were doing. “W—w—well, sir, to t—tell the truth,” stammered they, “we were stealing second base.” President Bartlett bowed with courtly grace, gave a preliminary barking cough and exclaimed: “Ah, gentlemen, pardon me. I—br —br— didn’t know there was any- body in college who could steal see- ond base. Br—br— Good night, gen- tlemen.” 4 ‘Wo SLEEP For MOTHER. Baby Covered With Sores and Scales ould Not Tell What She » Looked Like—Marvelous rs Cure by Cuticura. “At four months old my baby’s face and body were so covered with sores and “large scales you could not tell what she looked like. No child ever had @worse case. Her face was being eatem away, and even her finger nails fell off. It itched so she could not sleep, and for many weary nights we could: -Bet no rest. At last we got Cutioura Soap and Ointment. The sores began to heal at once and she could sleep at night, and in one month she Had not one sore on her face or body.—Mrs. Mary Sanders, 709 Spring St., Camden, N. J.” ple Seika as inno Sa aah Volunteers and Their Teeth. » Some of the tests proposed verge upon the grotesque. The idea of elim- inating every man whose teeth do not satisfy an exacting dentist might also have been borrowed from Gideon. One is accustomed to the idea that an army marches on its stomach; it has been reserved for Mr. Arnold Forster to discover that it fights with its teeth— Manchester Guardian. Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease A powder. It rests the feet. Cures Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. At all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cents. Accept no substitute. Sample mailed FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Preferable, Casey—Let’s take wan more dhrink and thin we’ll all go home. Costigan—N-no, mon! Let’s take two more dhrinks and forget that we hoy homes.—Town Topics. Opens Her Eyes. “Mamma, does a girl have to get married to learn what love means?” “No; when she gets married she learns what it doesn’t mean.’—Hous- ton Post. HEAVES CAN BE CURED. ‘We have a guaranteed cure for HEAVES, COUGHS and COLDS. Guaranteed to cure or money refunded. ‘One package by mail, 60e; 12 pkgs. by express with Tyiten guarantee to cure. 68.00. ‘Wilbur Stock Food Co., 113 2d Street, Milwaukee, Wis, That’s the Main Thing. Lawyer— You can’t bring against that man. Client—Why not? Lawyer—No action will lie. Client—But my witnesses FITS peraseveecares Fasererverormaeee ‘nervousness HEE @2,00 trisi bottle aud erection, Ld 8s Ach Street, suit will — Kew B. . Kung, Philadelphia, Pa A woman may be as old as she looks but she isn’t always as young as she thinks she looks. A man may be as good as his word and still be no good. No one with regu- lar bowels and healthy stomach can contract dis- ease. A person with Constipation and Stomach Trouble is always the first to succumb to Sun Stroke, Heat Debility and Prostration. Cholera, Colic and Diarrhea are more fatal in Hot Weather because vitality is lower—they are the direct result of Constipation. It is a mistake to suddenly check diarrhea, the danger is Blood Poison. A physic is also dangerous as it weakens the patient and reduces vitality. Treat the cause with Mull’s Grape Tonic. Constipation and its attending ills are caused by decaying or dying bowels and intestines—Mull's Grape Tonic revives and strengthens the Bowels so that they are enabled to act naturally and eject the poison from the system, everybody should take it during hot weather. It wards off disease, builds up the system and purifies the blood. Typhoid Fever and Appendicitis are unknown in families where Mull’s TONIO OO., 148 Third Ave., Rock Isiand, Ill. 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My Stomach and Liver were deranged and I suffered with inward piles, the pains of which would at times raise me off my chair. Ispent much money with various doc- tors and medicines to no avail. “Soon after I started Mull’s Grape Tonic my bowels began to move regularly—the pain left me and my general health built up rapidly. “| heartily recommend it as an absolute cure to which I am a living witness.” Until Mull’s Grape Tonic was put on the American market there was no cure for Constipation. Let us send you a bottle free to-day toshow you that it will do all we claim. Good for Ailing Children and Nursing Mothers. Give full address and write plainly. The $1.00 The genuine has a date and PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Reported by Lothrop & Johnson, patent lawyers, 911 and 912 Pioneer Press building, St. Paul, Minn.: Charles Cox, Carlton, Minn., manufacturing brick, ete.; Eli Forrester, Bonesteel, S. D., garment supporter; Harry Her- rick, Owatonna, Minn., self-indexing ledger; Jesse Holmes, Butte, Mont., dam; Raymond Kimball, Millbank, S. D., governor for engines; William Moran, Hopkins, Minn., return flue boiler; Charles Nebinger, St. Paul, Minn., combined tea and coffee pot. Just So. Reporter—I understand that one ot your guests committed suicide by hanging himself out of a third story window? Lodging House Keeper—Well, there was such a roomer in the air for a while. Truths that_Strike Home Your grocer is honest and—if he cares to do so—can tell you that he knows very little about the bulk coffee he Sells you. How can he know, where it originally came from, how it was blended—or with what —or when roasted? If you buy your coffee loose by the pound, how can you expect purity and uniform quality? LION COFFEE, wc veaver oF ALL PACKAGE COFFEES, is of necessity uniform in quality, strength and flavor. 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Senti- War is the first thought, peace the last. PIMPLES ACHES To treat Pimples and Blackheads, Red, Rough, Oily Complexions, gently smear the face with Cuti- cura Ointment, the great Skin Cure, but do not rub. Wash off the Ointment in five minutes with Cuticura Soap and hot water, and bathe freely for some minutes. Repeat morning and evening. At | other times use Cuticura Soap for bathing the face as often as agree- able. No other Skin Soap so pure, So sweet, so speedily effective. Cuticura Soap combines delicate medicinal and emol- Hient properties derived from Cuticura, the great Skin Cure, with the purest of cleansing ingredients and the most refreshing of flower odors. ‘Two Soaps in one at one price —nainely, a Medicinal ‘and Tollet' Soap for 5c. otter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Props., Boston. ag Mailed Free, “Ilow to Preserve, Purify, and Beautify.” ‘| TOILET | ANTISEPTIC: FOR WOMEN troubled with ills peculiar to their sex, used as a douche is marvelous cessful. Thoroughly cleanses, kills disease germs. stops discharges, heals inflammation and loca} soreness. Paxtine is in powder form to be dissolved in pore water, and is far more Cleansing, healing, germicidal and economical than liquid antiseptics for a TOILET AND WOMEN’S SPECIAL USES For sale at druggists, 50 cents a box. Trial Box and Book of instructions Free, ‘The R. Paxton ComPANY © BOSTON, Mase. Thompson’s Eye Water If aMicted with { sore eyes, use When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. | N W N U —NO. 32— 1905 MINNEAPOLIS, ESTABLISHED 1879 Woodward & Co., Grain Commission, ™. ORDERS FOR FUTURE DELIVERY EXECUTED IN ALL MARKETS,