Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 30, 1905, Page 10

IN ST. PETERSBURG PRISON desperate effort to force the prison. — “We could see! 'the soldiers’ faces distinctly from ‘behind our barred windows, and one day we could stand it no more; we opened the windows and spoke to them. Leaning on the eold iron frames young girls har- angued the soldiers, imploring them not to fire on the people, but to join the cause of freedom. Things that could be ‘hardly’said outside a prison were heard here, and the prison au- thorities did not dare to repress us. The next day we recommenced our propaganda and kept it up every day. “Early one morning we were told by the ward mistress to prepare our lug- gage, for we were to go out of prison. In the office, while getting back our books and our money, we were told that an amnesty was ordered by his majesty. Then they released us. A red banner was waved by one of the girls the very moment she crossed the prison threshold, a banner that she had sewn in great secret in her cell and concealed under her cloak while crossing the yard, The new life be- rms!’ and we thought of the inno-| gan with the waving of that sacred ent blood that might be shed in the symbol.” ney ““WISHING TREE” WELL NAMED The ‘wishing tree’ in front of the | the tree and the park watchman told v 2 house at Washington afforded | me she was a regular ‘wisher.’ AS me more fun than any other one thing | She was leaving the tree I asked her said a globe trotter, “though what she had wished for and she tolé : ; sti me that she could not tell what it was is packed Tull of eae for until a certain time had elapsed. I had read of He bieish pacye Going out to the street, she picked up 3 een eer’ ser and ibe ene a fine lamp, which had evidently fall- one ast tht ae 7 aaeen iB oe en from an automobile, and then, in my arriv 1 there. The tree itself isa reply to my question, she said: ‘I f chestnut and is located in La | yisheq for an automobile, but I reckon oS ae immediately £0 7 ne I didn’t wish hard enough, for I only of Clark Mills’ equestrian statue got a lamp.’ sii is “I spent an hour about the tree s ‘wishing tree’ has even more | with my friend Hall Caine, who tells ‘ories told about it than the one in | me that he intends to introduce it in liyde Park in London. The habitues | pis next book, for which he is now of the uare, as Lafayette park is making the studies. An equally amus- called there, thoroughly believe in it. ing thing happened a few moments The negroes that I spoke to about it, | after. In going through the park nur irls and others, all agreed that | Caine had forgotten to pick up his um- could get anything they would | prella from one of the seats and he wish for if they wished hard enough. | nad given it up as lost. I thought ‘The wishers that I observed about the | that was a splendid opportunity to nerally stood under it and | try the merit of the tree and sug- pieced both hands about a lower limb, gested that he go under the tree and which is within convenient reach. wish for the recovery of his umbrella. Strangely enough, while I was | He had not got half his wish out when there I saw an illustration of its pow- | a gentleman passed up and handed er. I noticed a black woman go under ! him the missing umbrella.” USERS OF THE TELEPHONE Some of her recent experiences in 2 St. Petersburg prison are described by an educated Russian woman so- cialist as follows: “We had no pa- pers, but, although we were in prison cells away from the world, we knew almost all about the political events | of the day; our relatives who came | to see us managed to tell us news through the double iron frame, not- withstanding the eager eye of the in- spector. Electricity went out and told us about the general strike; we lack- ed milk and meat. One night we heard distinctly the-cheers and the songs of the procession passing be- fore the prison. But the most hor- ib} n that told us the plain truth were the soldiers stationed in the prison yard adjacent to the one which we used for our walks. Every even- ing. while the cries of our comrades n the streets came nearer and nearer oward the gray building of the prison, we saw the soldiers ranging them- selves before the street gate, and we heard the officer giving the order ‘To here,” Abundance of amusing as well as , phone proves helpful, and in ordinary tical proof of the approach of | medical practice the country mother h an era of universal telephony as | :aises the baby to the transmitter in implied in 20 per cent development | order that the physician in the village not hard to find, says F. W. Coburn | may determine whether or not the the Atlantic. ewspapers give | cough is croupy. publicity to all sorts of ingenious Concerts have been transmitted schemes for utilizing Mr. Bell's in- | more or less successfully over the wires, and Sunday morning preaching effectively conveyed. After a recent revival, in which scores of eager zvocations of the everyday world. | “seekers” had put in their requests Not only has it annihilated time |for prayers, the evangelist handed and space on the superficial earth, but | his secretary a list of names with the Norwegian fishermen drop into the | their telephone numbers and with the eceen depths a line with telephonic | instruction: “Just call up each one of hment by which the swish of the | these sisters and brothers to-morrow pproaching herring, codfish or mack | morning, and ask them how it goes erel is communicated to the anxious | with their souls. Tell them to keep listener above. on with their prayers and inform In some of the most delicate opera- | them that f am praying for them right tions of hospital surgery the tele- ! along.” GROWTH IN BANKING POWER vention in heretofore unheard-of-ways. instrument has come to be of tance in about all the vocations The ar With only a twentieth of the world’s ; city and the United States in general inhabitants, the United States has | has taken place within the easy rec- two-thirds ($14,000,000,000) of the | Ollection of thousands of persons who, world’s banking power (capital, sur- | in their various employments, are: plus, deposits and circulation). Our still actively at work. Contemplating ; 4 . | the vast expansion which has given endancy here has been obtained in | the United States a long lead over past two decades. Since 1890 the | 41)’ other countries in manufactures a strength has grown | and mining; which has placed Ameri- * cent, while that of the United | can products in every market on the has expanded 170 per cent, | globe; which has built up in this coun- that of New York city 200 per | try a railway system which comprises he $2,500,000,000 of the week- | two-fifths of that of the entire earth; clearings of | and which has increased the country’s which make | wealth from $500,000,000 in Wash- two- | ington’s days to $110,000,000,000 in and cent. Of y average of the bank the ninety-three cities report New York contributes thirds. New York city’s bank clear- | Roosevelt's, the American banker, ings average 25 per cent in excess of | using the words of Eneas, can say: London’s. “All of this I saw, and part of this I And the greater part of this stu- | was."—Dr. C. M. Harvey in Leslie’s pendous banking growth in New York MERELY MATTER OF DISTANCE e maternal grandparents the | Stafford Springs, another six-mile trip, late Armour brothers, the famous | but nine miles away from Westford! pork packers of Chicago, were born “Faithful Old Bill” was the title he in tford, Conn. Some years ago | had earned at home, by his absolute 4A. W. Armour of Kansas City made a | loyalty in “doing chores” around the special trip to Eastford to look up the | neighborhood, and in all his seventy history and graves of his ancestors. rs he had aspired to no other In the neighboring village of West- | life. jerd he found an aged man who had After questioning “Old Bill” for a personally known his grandparents, | long time, Mr. Armour suddenly said j and could give him much information | to him: ‘Well, you’ve always lived of value. | around here, haven’t you?” The aged informant was indeed an | “Oh, no,” was the prompt résponse, exemplar of he ple life,” as in | with an emphasis that showed a sur- his seventy ye: of life up to that | vey of distances much more real than time his onl. journeys beyond the | any casual thought Mr. Armour him-! confines of his native village had been | self might have entertained at the! p on foot to Chaplin, six miles | moment as to his own distance from! stant, and one memorable “ride on | Kansas City; “Oh, no; I was born an’ the cars” from West Willington to | raised over two mile from here!” | Weekly. THE PATHOS OF CONTENT | In_vain for him the mountain's call In vain for him the river’s flow; ' His bursting granary was all | He knew or ever cared to know. | No_ thrill of Nature’s awe he felt, No ties with worlds to his allied; A stranger to his kin he dwelt— A stranger to his land he died. To eastward of his little world, Melting afar against the blue, nt mists along their summits curled, ne dreamy Catskills rose to view. A time had they lured in vain His steps to climb their broad ascent; His eyes were on his waving grain, He rested with his herds content. What Jarger life htyond his ken, What joys his svlitude forewent! The hopes and fears of migheier men An_heir of poor Van Winkle’s sleep, He never knew Van Winkle’s pride ‘To venture up the rugged steep | For glimpses of the other side. | Beyond that lofty barricade | thought, The queenly Hudson flowed apace, | Or scared to fellowship with kings, Yet never nad his eves essayed | Sank back into itself, untaught, } Ne’er broke the calm of his content. The mind that might have molded To gaze upon her lovely face, For lack of will to ‘spread its wings. —R. fT. Weyburn, in Four-Track News. A Heavy Load to Carry. Along with dyspepsia comes nervous- ness and (ete ill-health. Why? Be- cause a disordered stomach does not per- mit the food to be properly digested, and its products assimilated by the system. The blood is charged with poisons which come from this disordered digestion, and in turn the nerves are not fed on good, jood, and we see symptoms of nerv- ousness, sleeplessness and general break- down. It is not head work. nor over phy- sical exertion that does it, but poor stom- ach work. With ‘poor. thin body is not protected against the attack of germs of grip. bronchitis and consump- tion. “Fortify the ‘body at once with Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery —a rare combination of native medicinal roots without a particle of alcohol or dangerous habit-forming drugs, A little book of extracts, from promi- nent medical authorities extolling every inated contained in Dr. Pierce’s Golded Medical Discovery will be mailed free to any address on request by postal card or letter. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Many years of active practice convinced Dr. Pierce of the value of many native roots as medicinal agents and he went to great expense, both in time and in money, to perfect his own peculiar processes for rendering them both efficient and safe for tonic, alterative and rebuilding agents. The enormous popularity of “Golden Medical Discovery” is due both to its scientific pomnganelag and to the actual medicinal value of its ingredients. The publication of the names of the ingredi- ents on the wrapper of every bottle sold, gives full assurance of its non-alcoholic character and removes all objection to the use of an unknown or secret remedy. It is not a patent medicine nor a secret one either, This fact puts it in a class all by itself, bearing as it does upon every bottle wrapper The Badge of Honesty, in the full list of its ingredients. The “Golden Medical Discovery ” cur weak stomach, indigestion, or dyspepsia, torpid liver and biliousness, ulceration of stomach and bowles and atarrhal af- fections no matter what parts or organs may be affected with it. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the original little liver pills, first put up 40 years ago. They regulate and invigorate, stomach, liver and bowels. Much imitated but never equaled. Sugar-coated and easy to take as candy. One to three a dose. Look Up When Speaking. “I don’t talk half as much as you do,” said the preacher to the lawyer, “yet your voice holds out twice as long as mine. Why is it?” The lawyer said he couldn't tell. “The difference in the position of your head when you are talking ex- plains it,” said the elocutionist. “A preacher looks down upon his con- gregation, a lawyer looks up at the judge. That drooping of the head cramps the vocal chords and makes the preacher’s voice more difficult to preserve than that of any other pro- fessional man.”—New York Press. Facts About Marriage Rite. The historical facts concerning marriage as an institution are prob- ably only vaguely known to the ma- jority of people, most of whom would doubtless be surprised to learn that the institution, as we know it to-day, is less than 500 years old. Histories of the marriage ceremony show that it was not solemnized in church as a religious rite until the time of Pope Innocent IIE, A. D. 1192, and was not considered a sacrament until 1442.— Harper’s Weekly. He Doesn’t Curse Now. Washington, Kans., Dec. 25 (Spe- cial)—Jesse E. Mitchellisa telephone lineman, and also a well known resi- dent here. Everybody acquainted with Mr. Mitchell knows that he was a man who held very positive views about Patent Medicine. Hear what he says now: “I used to curse all kinds of Patent Medicines, for they never’did me any good, but Dodd’s Kidney Pills have caused me to change my mind. Fo twelve years I suffered from Kidney Trouble. There was a hurting acro my back that made it positive agony | n in a stooping to stoop, and as I a position nearly all day, you can imag- ine how I suffered. After a day’s worl that any man would think nothing of. I would be tired and worn out. In fact, Iwas always tired. I began us ing Dodd’s Kidney Pills and after taking four boxes I feel like a new | man, I am as fresh at night as when I begin work in the morning. I have no pain in my back now and I am stronger than ever.” mind his own business is because he has no business or no mind. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the guras, reduces in- fammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. '25ca bottle. That to be witty at the expense of somebody else is positive cruelty. The Keeley Cure Cures the Craving The victim of the disease of Alcohol- ism may be painfully conscious of the wretchedness and ruin his addic- Weakness of Will Power lood the | i | The usual reason why a man can't | | UNSIGHTLY BALD SPOT. Caused by Sores on Neck—Merciless Itching for Two Years Made Him Wild—Another Cure by Cuticura. “For two years my neck was cov- ered with sores, the humor spreading to my hair, which fell out, leaving an unsightly bald spot, and the soreness, inflammation and merciless itching made me wild. Friends advised Cuti- cura Soap and Ointment, and after a few applications the torment subsided, to my great joy. The sores soon dis- appeared, and my hair grew again, as thick and healthy as ever. I shall always recommend Cuticura. (Signed) York City.” For the Rural Reader. A few years ago, while I was living in Lebanon, N. H., there was a certain Mr. Bagley there who was noted for trying to use big words, and also for getting his remarks somewhat twist- ed. On a certain occasion he had been at a farmers’ meeting at Hano- ver and, while returning, one of his neighbors drove up behind him and the conversation turned on crops. “His neighbor asked: “How is your hay crop this season?” Bagley replied: “Well, my hay crop is rather short, but I shali get my cows through the winter all right, for I shall have two solos full of muci- lage.”—Boston Herald. WE CAN turn your farm into cash. Write for our plan. We have the way that wins. Great Northern Land Co., Nos. 526-527 Manhattan Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Mention paper. His Natural Error. “Why are you reading that old pat- ent office report?” “Patent office report?” “That’s what.” “Dang it all. I hadn’t looked at the title. Picked it up and got interested. I thought it was something by Henry James.—Houston Chronicle. The Pe-ru-na Almanac Homes. The Peruna Lucky Day Almanac has become a fixture in over eight million homes. It can be obtained from all druggists free. Be sure to in- quire early. The 1906 Almanac is al- ready published, and the supply will soon be exhausted. Do not put it off. Get one to-day. in 8,000,000 High. Citiman—I read somewhere — that Melba appeared at a swell musicale recently and got $1,000 for one song. Subbubs—Ah! ! understand now what my wife meant when she said she got that last bonnet of hers for a mere song.—Philadelphia Press. Ask Your Druggist for Allen’s Foot-Ease, “I tried ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE recent- ly and have just bought another supply. It has cured my corns, and the hot, burning and itching sensation in my feet which was almost unbearable, and I would not be with- out it now.” —Mrs. W. J. Walker, Camden, N. J.” Sold by all Druggists, 260, Impressed Him. “Blank bas just been showing me his new auto. Fine machine, isn’t it?” “Yes. What do you think is its strongest feature?” “The odor.”—Detroit. Free Press. ‘Ss AND CONSIDER THE That in addressing Mrs. Pinkham you H. J. Spalding, 104 W. 104th St., New | ®7€ confiding your private ills to a woman —a woman whose experience with wo- man’s diseases covers a great many years. You can talk freely toa woman when it is revolting to relate your private troubles toa man—besides @ man does not under- stand—simply because he is a man. Many women suffer in silence and drift aloug* from bad to worse, knowing full well that they ought to have immediate assistance, but modesty impels them toshrink from exposing them- selves to the questions and probably examinations of even their family physician. It is Mrs. Pinkham’s Standing Invi Pinkham at Lynn, Mass. All lette woman can freely talk of her private i confidence between Mrs. Pinkham and t of America which has never been broke has to draw from, it is more than pos that will help your case. ingin return e: Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. Following we publish two let- ters from a woman who accep- ted this invitation. Note the result. First letter. “ Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— “*For eight years I have suffered something terrible every month with my periods. ‘The pains are excruciating and I can hardly stand them. My doctor says I have ovarian and wounb trouble, and I must go through an op- eration if I want to get well, Ido not want to submit to it if I can possibly help it. Please tell me what to do. Ihope you can relieve me."-Mrs. Mary Dimmick, 59th and EK, Cepito) Sts., Benning P.O., Washington,D.C. Second ietter. * Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— “ After following carefully your advice, and taking Lydia E, Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, 1 am very anxious to send you my testimonial, that others may know their | -walueand what you have done for me. Literary Encouragement. First Humorist—Does your wif laugh at your jokes? Second Humot! smiles pityingly—Somerville Journal. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES, Itching, Bind, Bleeding, Protruding Piles. Drage uthorized to’ refund money if PAZO [ fails to cure in6 to 14 days. 50c, Some women will find heaven a very dismal place if it has no shop win- dows. Piso’s Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and iungs.—W. O. EnpsLey, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. The whiteness of a golf ball wears off almost as rapidly as the novelty of being a father. ‘OP! WOMEN, ALL-IMPORTANT Without money or price you can consult a woman whose knowledge from actual experience is great. Women suffering from any form of female weak- | Mess are invited to promptly communicate with Mrs, opened, read and answered by women only. A woman; thus has been established the eternal of the vast volume of experience which she ible that she has gained the very knowledge She asks noth- pt your good-will,and her advice has relieved thousands. Surely any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if she does not take advantage of this generous offer of assistance. — Lydia E. 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If afficted with | sore eyes. use ( ‘Thompson's Eye Water When Answering Advertisements, Kindly Mention This Paper. —NO. 52— 1905 N W N U tion is bringing upon himself, his family and friends, and ofttimes upon innocent little ones whom he is bound by every consideration of duty and parental affection to cherish and protect, and he may again and again put forth his most heroic efforts to reform, but his disease is too absolutely overpowering to be conquered by resolutions, howso- The will power he would exer- ever sacred their circumstance. cise if he could is no longer supreme. Alcoholic stimulants have so congested the delicate nerve cells that they cannot respond to the performance of their functional duties. The Keeley Cure re- stores the nerve cells to their norma! condition, and thus ‘Cures the Craving.” For Particulars Address......... | ONLY ONE CENUINE KEELEY INSTITUTE IN MINNESOTA. MINNEAPOLIS KEELEY INSTITUTE, PRICE, -— 25 Cts. At. Call for ANTI-GRIPINE IS GUARANTEED TO CURE GRIP, BAD COLD, HEADACHE AND WEURALGIA. Iwon’t sell Anti!-Gripine to a dealer who won't Guarantes your MONEW BACK IF }'T DON’T OURE. &.W. Diemer, 7. D., Manulacturer,Springfield, Mo. For Liquor Morphine Tobacco Law Offic of James R. Bennett, Jr. Words cannot express my gratitude to Dr. Keeley for his Ten years and six months ago I a treatment at the Minneapolis Keeley Institute, for a 4 ment for inebriety. St. Cloud, Minn., June 27, 1903. q wonderful treat ed myself of his sease which nearly wrecked my life; and never for one moment during-all this time have I ever had the least desire for alcoholic drink of any sort. I was the seventh per- son from this city to take the treatment, and since then over sixty have done so and are all living witnesses of t I cannot understand how any one can any do is prima facie evidence that they have not investigated it. he efficacy of the treatment. longer doubt this treatment and that It is un- fortunate that “fake” institutes (pretended cures) have sprung into exist- ence hére and there, to filch money from the pockets of the poor dru giving them nothing in return but bitter ing I could say in praise of the Keeley Treatment would be too (Signed) Very truly yours, kards, ‘oth- : disappointment and chagrin. JAMES R. BENN NO SICKNESS OR SUFFERING 621 Tenth Street South, Minneapolis, Minn. ESTABLISHED 1879. | MINNEAPOLIS. WOODWARD & CO., GRAIN COMMISSION. ORDERS FOR FUTURE DELIVERY EXECUTED IN ALL MARKETS. DULUTH.