Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 27, 1906, Page 1

Vor, XIII.—No, 31 \ ANNUAL BARGAIN SALE! Gents’ Furnishings Ladies’ Furnishings. Underwear. Dress Goods. Flannellettes. Ladies’ Skirts. Ladies’ and Misses’ Coats. et ‘Ladies’ Laces. Embroideries. Ribbons. Shoes. Knit Goods. Shawls. Remnants—all kinds. Wrappers. The above and many other items are included in this sale, and we can assure you that there are to be found real and actual bargains in the entire list. An inspection will certainly convince you, ONE WEEK MORE. AS PALI ASO I Sr ALAAS AAS AAS RAS PASAY For Health’s Sake Your culinary department must be properly equipped with sanitary cooking uten- sils, Enameled Tea Kettles and Sauce Pans are the best and cheapest in the end. ‘They wear longer and are the only pertect ves- sels for cooking purposes. We have a large stock of them just opened up. Prices are reason— able, as they are on everything else we sell, Call and look them over, WJ& HD POWERS Pioneer Meat Market THOMAS FINNEGAN, Prop. Fresh and Salt Meats We Carry Onty the Best that Can be Had. Our Special Brands of CANNED GOODS are the best offered to the public. Poultry. Game, Etc. Butter. Eggs. Cheese. SSLTELSLSOLESES THOS. FINNEGAN “nti nes | ON NI The Itasca Mercantile Company. The Palace Restaurant DAVE CHAMBERS, Proprietor, When you can’t get what you want to eat at Dave Chambers’ “Palace Res- taurant” it’s because the markets don’t keep it. The Sunday Dinner Is always prepared with the idea of pleasing pat- rons who remember the good ,things at home on Feastdays....... DAVE CHAMBERS, Prop. Leland Ave., Grand Rapids. LANDS. tien’ a a Fen Mg tase, "Seon {50 free tel oF Minassase oh full list of lands and desesiptions of northern Minnesota. PAD nid to &5 peracre. Easy terms, Will exchange clear lands for mortgaged or foreclosed Farms and Lands Send in full descriptions of your ree fard- erty. Will pay cash for Pine ‘and timber: lands. Want good retail agents in all parts of the northwest. 2 W. D. Washburn, Jr. 201 Guarantee Bid’g, Minneapolis, Minn, 3 N., SATURDAY, JANUARY - . Versions of Origin of Famous - Phrase. phrase “under the rose” had its in .the wars between the En- houses of Lancaster and York. parties respectively swore by the or the white rose, and these op- emblems were displayed as of two taverns, one of which | by the side of and the other op- renin the Parliament House, in old yee Yard, Westminster. Here the retainers. and servants of the noble pen attached to the Duke of York Henry VI used to meet. Here as disturbances were frequent, leagures, either of defense or annoy- ance, were taken, and every trans- action was said to be done “under the. rose;" by which expression the most profound secrecy was implied. Ac to others, the term originated in the fable of Cupid giving the rose to Harpocrates, the god of silence, as @ bribe to prevent him betraying the amourg of Venus, and was hence adopted as the emblem of silence. The Tose was for this reafon frequently sculptured on the ceilings of drinking and feasting rooms, as a warning to e, gugats that what was said in mo- e f conviviality should not be Tepeated; from which, what was in- tended tp be kept secret was said to me “upder the ros.” Roses were ted as rx:ents from the Pope. Ip 1526 they were placed over cqnfesajopals as the symbols of si- Ignce. Hence, according to some, the origin of the phrase. men and LEFT THE MEETING. WHY @HE Aunt t's Reasons Not Connected with Theology. In the little Baptist chapel in the picturegque town of Eastport, Me. many years ago, the minister request- eq all pergons present not members of the chureh to retire at the close of the meeting, Good qi Aunt L,, who had reached the age of fourscore, and who was one of its mogt respected members, arose to leave. “It doea.not apply to you, Auat L.,” said the minister. is “That fs not the reason I am going, dear,” she responded; “I have a pain in my stomach.”—Boaton Herald. ‘Milltons ‘Saved by Anesthetics. There is no guessing how many thousands of lives were lost before the days of anesthesia merely be cause the pain of the operation nec- essary to save them was too great to be Borne. Anesthesia predates asepsis fy thirty years, and so belongs to agother period in the history of sur- gery, but it is so fundamental to all the wonders that surgery is now work- ing that its discovery is an inevitable part of amy account of surgery’s won- derful achievements. Modern sur- gery is not only painless and germ- less; it ts also bloodless. A patient can be opemed and his stomach en out, and yet hardly lose more blood than if he had accidentally cut his finger. Feat of a Greek Scholar. ft may safely be said that c» feat of translation in amy age has never equalled that achieved by Prof. Jebb dn tendering Browning's “Abt Vogler” into Greek verse. This fine soliloquy of the musician is less obscure, no doubt, thas many other of its author's productions, but it abounds in imagery and in turns of thought which even an Engiishman-finds i¢ mot very easy tte follow and of which he could hardly fhave conceived it possible that any Greek equivaients should exist. Yet they 4id exist, for Jebb found them, though ft may be doubted whether any other Greek scholar living would have been equally successful im his search. —Loréon Pelegraph. ‘The Champion Mean Man. “Talkin’ about mean men,” said the one who was expected to beat the first story, “I thimk Sile Hatcher was about the meanest man I ever knew. He Was a0 mean that he painted his house frogs and white every two months just beeamse 2 meighbor of his that he dida't ike had weak eyes and couldn't hardly staad the glare. But he done @ meaner thing tham that one time. ‘When his wife died the pallbearers fbumped a comer of the coffin against the door as they were carryin’ it out and bracked one of the panels. Well, sir, blamed if he didn’t want them to pay for havin’ a new panel put in!” giving the lesson on nature study, “of a@ little creature that wriggles about in the earth and sometimes comes (@ the top through a tiny hole.” A small boy én a pinafore put up his hand joy- ously. “Well?” queried the teacher. “A worm,” said the small boy. “Yes,” said the teacher; “now think of an other Mittie creature that wriggies about in the earth and comes # the top through a small hole.” Up whea the joyous hand again. “Well?” asked theteacher. “Another worm” shouted Tommy in triumph. the Herald-Review for any— Try thing in job priating.— , a TIVE PAGE 297, 1906. ima “UNDER THE Rose.” [NO OCCASION YO WASTE TIME. pee Nature Had Already Dene a Remark- ably Good Job. : The Irishman bas homor, but when comes to réal merriment the always ready One night an auto shop whom liquor Every question from the condition of the workingmen came in for a lurid if not lucid criticism. Finally the color question came mind and in less than ten minutes was solved with the facility of the | true reformer. it is 5 Atsthis point some small boys armed with a bottle of seltzer began opera- lions, and by that time the profanity of the speaker had reached a high de- gree of efficiency. All this time a negro had sat calmly indifferent to the curses heaped upon him, answering with broad grins. At last the speaker turned, saying: “You want to make a fool out of me?” The darky replied in the character- istic drawl: “Oh, Lawd, no, sah; na- ture did. dat.” CONFUSION IM DRAMATIC CLUB. Only One Point on Which the Actors Were Agreed. In the old days im the town of Lit- tleton, Mass., there used to be # dra- matic club, which included many prominent men. Once a play was be- ing given in whic’ Judge Bellows, a courtly gentleman of the old school, and a certain Dr. Sanger were in the cast. In the middle of the play all forgot their parts. The prompter had lost his place, and the players were in despair. The audience began to gig- gle, and the players looked appesling- ly at once another At the end, at the very denoument of the play, Judge Bellows was sup- posed to exclaim, “I know not ~hat to say.” In his confused state of mind this Hine happened to come to him, and he gasped: “I know not what to eay!” And Dr. Sanger, small and peppery, snapped: “Well, I'll be hanged if I do.” Whence the Name “Tiger.” It is reported that2when the prihce of Wales shot.a tiger in India awhile speed. In so doing the tiger was da ing its best ito live up to the name of its kind. Tigers are so called because of the swiftness of their movement, especially in springing upon prey, “tighri” being the old Persian word for an arrow. Hence it comes about that the beast and the River Tigris have the same mame. There is no direct connection between them, but in both cases their swiftness was the characteristic that imjessed the early mame givers. The tigers name is thus, perhaps, nearly as superior in nobility to the hyena’s, as the one beast is to the other, since “hyena” ig merely Greek for “sow.” Ingenious Plea Made by Rascal. “Nobody {s worried nowadays by the fact that the twelfth month of the year ig called the tenth—December,” says a writer, “and po doubt even the anelent Romans soon got used to the anomaly when the new year was shifted baek from March to January, though the old names of the months were retained. But there was gone of them who made ipgenious use of, it— Licinius, a rasgally procurator at Lyons under Augustus. He insisted on having certain mopthly payments made fourteen times a year, arguing, when December came round, that, as it was the tenth month of the year, and there ought t@ be twelve, there must be two more to be accounted for.” New Light on Ballooning. In a French School the boys were asked to write on the invention of balloons. “Balloons were invented,” wrote one, “by the Brothers Montgo!- fier, who were papermakers.. They took a large balloon and filled it with paper. They then set light to the paper and the balloon went up.” An- other boy wrote: “When the aero stats—such being the name given to men who ride ‘n balloons—wish to come down, they fetch some sand and gravel and put it in the balloon.” A third boy informed his examiners that “the aeronaut places himself within the batloon, the basket being used for provisions.” Nature's Panoramic Display. A marvelous display of atmospheric reflection peculiar to the Alps was wit- nessed the other day by passengers in the Parigs-Frankfort express. Shortly after feaving Metz a wonderful pano- rama developed in the horizon on the westerg side. The sun seemed to light up the whole Alpine chain, the great mass of Moat Blanc stood out clearly marked, #8 g¢iges covered with snow and ts ¢laelers reflecting the sun- beams. At ope moment the lake of Geneva wag visible, its water tinged a | greenish blue. The mirage faded only at sunset, as the train neared Faulque- mont. It had Jasted about twenty mia- utes. Sabsceibe far the Herald-Review. 'Fwo Donvars’a YEAR. GOOD DONE BY ‘THE CHILDLESS. peueeauels . Many Examples of Uneeifish Lives of Bachelors and Virgins. _ girl babies are drowned like superfile ous kittens,.and others in which it fs not uncommon for the daughters in the large ‘families of the -poor to be sold by their parents into lives of prostitution. a, On the other hand; thé pages ‘of hi- tory are filled with examples of the’ devoted lives of childless men and women who have worked unselfishly for the good of their kind. Bachelors’ and virgins have been the saints of the world, and the childless ate the philanthropists, the founders of éol- leges, hospitals, art collections, an libraries, the philosophers, the great writers, leaders and thinkers of thé race. Plato, Joan of Arc; Sdvonsrola; George Washington, David Hume, Locke, Spinoza, Thomas Carlyle; Flor-" ence Nightingale, Ruskin an lerbert~ Spencer are only a few of the great- names in this ¢lass. An interesting* volume could be written on the indebt-~ edness of the world to childless men* and women. The pattern of civic vir- ture with twelve unkempt children’ and a jaded, careworn wife has been‘ held up for our admiration long enough. Without decrying matrimony we may now speak a good word for” the respectable. celibate-——New York* Medical Journal. BOVE OF PEACE-;TOOK - FLIGHT. Time Mot Sipe for. Even Declaration * of. -a-- Truce. - The Inte Judge Hill. of Sandwich, M. H.. used to tell the following: story? There were (twe ‘oid mon. living ‘in Gheroih county whe lead ‘been "bitter enemies for many years: As theyedrs + roiled. by, ‘time had a softenfrg-efteet** onione:of them, and he took océasten to doaigenersus tling for his’ ériémy! Fillédindiththe conseiotsress of hat ing. déne’ a Kindness to his tod*he* called¢on:hite’ and related’ the Yircitil+- stances;.and added: “‘Aftér. all*Mri'. Blankj Iam nottthe worst: mditfn‘the’ world, amr?” Mr. Blank’ sat! fi gloomy’ Bilenee-dut ing theenarrat{ve, and! thaii, “lodikt surlily atthftir; replied:: “¥du" thy hot’ ‘be the wwrst mam’ ever wat, ‘but you are the worst that I' ever‘ ait’ ‘The whitd wigssof peas Were noti+ } there that titihe:-: Lovecend the Fan, © Probably tht‘ first Burdpean wAVHeX” to use fans wate thé! Psithguese*per- haps introdwem bytedrehants from their trade wtetapani hidugh we find! mention of titi Raving ‘them in wee fourteenth centa¥y\' 4In ‘France the in-~ ventary of CuB@eRy*¥, ‘at the end of the same cent?" Hvetitions a foldimg. ivory fan. Doubtiedif the wiofed: Cathe erine de Medic! >with her knowledge of and love of thefuxuries of Italy, in- troduced fans to hen sisters in France. The meny wives o Tiézity VIII of Eng- land, and their court7ifd@lés,-were used: , to holding fans, and Quésur#tizabeth .. bad as many as twentytevenainvher elaborate wardrobe. Fansigrewxinto general use about this timé'in Italy, France and Spain. A regular°eode of signals were arranged, soviadies and « their admirers were able tdicatzy: onx: ; a regular flirtation. iS Few Achievements Impossible. The men and women at the summit ~ reached thefr positions seldom by.a pull, but nearly always by their push. When Daniel Webster was speaking at.. Bunker Hill, the crowd pressed toward the platform, endangering those seated thereon, and Webster seeing their ~ peri], shouted to the people, “Keep back.” “It is impossible,” cried some one in the crowd. The orator exclaim- ed, “Nothing is impossible at Bunker Hill.” And few things are impossible to pérseyering and invincibly deter. mined American men and women. Like the postage stamp—stick till you get there—New York Press. He Was Bad Marksman. A Man oenee possessed a valuable sporting dog whieh was extremely elever in the retrieving of dead and wounded game. - It had, in fact, never been known to lose a bird when brought down by the gun. The owner, however, was a remarkably bad shot and one day, on firing both barrels hastily at a rabbit which ran unexpect- ediy across his path, he heard a mourn- ful howi. The next moment his dog appeared earrying a black object in his mouth and laid it carefully at his master’s feet. Tie animal had re. trieyed his own tail—London Globe. O'’Brien’s Favorite Boyhood Nook. Of his boyhood days William O’Bri- en writes: “My favorite eyrie was on one ef the topmost branches of a ‘Molly’ tree, the highest in our gar- den. Here 1 eould bask by the hour upon my gently shaking couch, amidst the apply blossoms or the green fruit. The thirst for reading was one of the grand correctives of this John-o’- dreams propensity. Many of the bookg that have most influenced my life pre- sent themselves to me, as it were, in a binding of apple leaves, with the spacious library of open sky, and frag- rant orchard trees spreading around. Herald-Review for Job Printiog,