Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 3, 1906, Page 5

Brana ce Published Every Saturday. By E. C. KILEY. YEAR IN ADVANCE D9 DOLLARS A Entered in the PostofMice at Grand Rapid Minnesota, as Second-Class Matter, GOOD DONE BY THE CHILDLESS. | Many Examples of Unselfish Lives of Bachelors and Virgins. There are parts of the world where girl tabies are drowned like superfiu- ous kittens, and others in which it is not uncommon for the Gaughters in the large families of the peor to be sold by their parents into lives of stitution. On the other hand, the pages of his- tory ave filled with examples of the oted lives of childless men and* n who have worked unselfishly zood of their kind. Bachelors have been the saints of and the childless are the > founders of col- collections, and phers, the great saders and thinkers of the to, Joan of Are, Savonarola, i on, David Hume, Thomas Carlyle, Flor- Ruskin and Herbert y a few of the great res jin An interesting could be written on the indebt- for and the wor are on of the world to childless men womén. The pattern of civic vir- with twelve unkempt children’: ied, careworn wife has been admiration long ng matrimony ‘d for York for our Without decr:; now speak a good wor nle celibate—New nal. DOVE OF PEACE TOOK FLIGHT. Time Not Ripe for Ev2n Declaration of a Truce. | The late Judge Hill of Sandwichyd N. H., uged to tell the following stor. a re were two oid men living in county who iad been bitter s for many years. As the years rolled by, time had, a softening effect on one of them, to do a generous thing for his enemy. Filled with the consciousness of hav- | neg ¢ a kindn to his ‘foe, he a him and re : ances, and added: Iam not the worst man in the m 1?” & Mr. Blank sat in gloomy silenee gur- the narrative, and then, looking at him, repl “You may not aan ever was, but you » white wings of peace were not Love and the Fan. Probably the first European women were the Portuguese, per- by merchants from the an, though we find mention of their having them in the fourteenth century. In France the in- ' y of Charles V, at the end of | be mentions a folding Doubtless the wicked Cath- Medici, with her knowledge e of the luxuries of Italy, in- iced fans to ber sisters in France. ny wives of Ilenry VIII of Eng- nd their court ladies, were used to holéing fans, and Queen Elizabeth meny as twer ven in her e wardrobe. ans grew into about this time in” Italy, land * Didn't Know the Lady. Mrs. Clancy—Yis, Mrs. Muggins, Pat and Oi part to mate no more. Oi wint to the hospital to ax afther him. “Oi want to see me husband,” sez Oi; “the man tuat got blowed up.” “‘Yez can’t,” sez the docther—‘“he’s unther the ‘nflooonce of Ann Esthetics.” “Oi know the lady,” sez Oi, mighty ed loike; “but if me lawful yodded husband can act loike that wein he’s at death’s AooE Agel have a Fresh Air the First dati Nededtty. if yo ish to keep healthy and well, ye plenty of fresh air; don’t think will-catch cold by it; on the con- it will do you good, and fit you your work. Always sleep with a dow open at night, it will not harm ., the fresh air will make your sleep der, but at the same time you nave sufficient light clothing on bed to keep you from catching — eee M. E, Church Services. at 10: thool.. » League orth League . eaching day Aid Society meets every Wed- y afternoon. ul invitation is extended to all. New York and Return, $37.80 Account of Merchant’s association , meetings the Duluth, South sre & Atlantic railway will sell New York and return at qFebruary gth to 14, in- ind March 6. Return limit , days from date of issue. Sleep- car reservations at 430 Spalding vlock, Duluth.” A. J. Perrin, Gen’! Agt. s to and he teok occasien | + quick opponent.—Forum. MENTAL REACTION. Whe Mind’s Quickness of Operation and How It Is Measured. Let a dozen or twenty persons take hold of hands in a ring. Each is to press the hand of his right hand neigh- bor as soon as he receives a pressure from the left. One person starts the pressure going’and at the same instant observes the position of the second hand of a watch. The pressure passes all around the circle, and when it ar- rives at the originator he notes how many seconds were required for the given number of persons in succession to receive an impression and make up their minds to act in response. The total time is then divided by the num- ber of persons. This is a crude illus- tration of the reaction time which we measure with great accuracy on single persons. As the mental portion of the reaction time becomes more complicated the time becomes longer. For example, the processes of mental discrimination and choice require times of their own. The way we get these “higher” mental processes can be illustrated in a sim- ple way. A person placed in a quiet room is to tap a telegraph key every time he sees a red light, which can be produced at the will of the experi- menter in the recording room. The in- | terval of time between the actual ap- pearance of the light and the moment the key is tapped is accurately meas- ured. For awhile nothing but the red light is used, this to obtain the simple reaction time. Then red and yellow lights are turned on in irregular suc- cession. The person has now to dis- criminate between two colors and to choose between action and nonaction. | The increase of time required over the simple reaction time gives the dis- crimination time for two colors. In an- other set of experiments three colors are used, then four colors. As the discrim- ination and choice become more com- plicated more time is required. The importance of rapid and accurate reaction and discrimination is evident. Astronomers’ have @iffieulty in record- ing the moment at which a star passes a line in the telescope. The sports- men must pull the trigger at just the proper moment. The football player, | the fencer and the boxer are trained |-in rapidity of discrimination and reac- tion. It is very evident that a player -or-a pugilist who takes a long time for discrimination, choice and volition will give a decided advantage to a DISRAELI’S MAXIMS. Every one loves power, even if he does not know what to do with it. Alw have distinguished friends. Never have fools for friends. They are of no use. To govern men you must either excel them in their accomplishments or de- spise them. To rule men we must be men. Our “wisdom must be concealed under folly and our constancy under caprice. Next to knowing when to seize an op- portunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an ad- vantage. The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the key- stone of human progress. Talk to women as much as you can. This is the way to gain fluency, be- cause you need not care what you say and had better not be sensible. They Didn’t Play. A monster political parade was held in Philadelphia during one of the cam- paigns. It was headed by a band of thirty-five discoursing stirring march- ing tunes. . The leader of the band had contracted in advance to supply that many players, but when he came to count noses he found eight missing. It did not take him long to decide what to do. After some hustling he secured eight men, not one of- whom could play a note of music, and decked them out in the regulation band. uniform. He placed instrunmrents and music in their hands and paraded the full number. “Did they play?” was asked. “Yes,” said the band leader, “but not music. I put a cork in each of the eight instru- ments.” Sensible. That was both a kind and a wise man who, when about to marry for the sec- ond time, settled $10,000 upon his un- married daughter. “I should like to have her go on living at home,” he said, “but who can tell whether she and her stepmother will be harmonious and quite happy together? She shall feel that she is free to go or stay.” The consequence was mutally happy rela- tions, since both women knew there was no dependence or necessity for them to live in closer relations than might prove agreeable. The Dominant Air, As through an opera runs the rhythm of one dominant air, so through men’s lives there rings a dominant note, soft in youth, strong in manhood and soft again in old age. But it is always there, and, whether soft in the gentler periods or strong amid the noise of the peri- helion, it dominates always and gives its tone to the whole life. © His Happiest Hour. He—Do you Yemember the night I asked you to marry me? She—Yes, dear. He—For a whole hour we sat there and not a word did you speak. Ah, that was the happiest hour of my life!—Translated For Tales From Echo | de Paris. Pain Through Ignorance, All our misery, all our pain, is trace- able to ignorance and misuse of our forces. Eniightenment is the sover- eign cure alike for physical and moral ills.—Horatio W. Dresser. ed | you understand what that means? John- “HEADLESS, YET ALIVE. Insects That Continue to Exist After Decapitation, Must persons of an observing turn of mind are aware of the fact that there are several species of insects that will continue to live without seeming incon- venience for some time after decapita- tion, exact knowledge on the length of time which the various species of in- sects would survive such mutilation being somewhat vague. Professor Conestrini once undertook a series of experiments with a view of determining that and other facts in re- lation to the wonderful vitality of such | creatures. In eact case the head was | smoothly removed with a pair of thin bladed ferceps, and when spontaneous movements of the wings and legs ceas- ed he enployed sundry irritating de- vices, such as pricking, squeezing and blowing tobacco smoke over the insect. As a result of these eXperiments he as- certained that members of the beetle. family at once showed signs of suffer- ing, while such as ants, bees, wasps, ete., remained for hours unaffected. Some which seemed stunned from the effects of the operation recovered after a time and continued to live and enjoy | a headless existence for several days. | Butterflies and moths seemed but little | affected by the guillotining process, and the common flies (dipterff) appeared to regard the operation as a huge joke. “The common house fly,” said the ex- | perimenter, “appeared to be in full pos- session of his senses (rather paradox- ical, when in all probability the ca- nary had swallowed head, sense and all) thirty-six hours after being oper- | ated upon.” t The bodies of some species of butter- flies survived as long as eighteen days | after the head had been removed, but | the head itself seldom showed signs of | life longer than six hours after decap\- | tation. In the general summary of these huge experiments we are inform- ed that the last signs of life were man- ifested either in the middle or last pair of legs and that the myriopods showed | great tenacity of life “and appeared wholly indifferent to the loss of their heads.” A FAMOUS MONSTER. An Old Time Wonder That Had an Eye In Its Knee. In the writings of both Licetus and Zahn may be found descriptions and illustrations of a monster born at Ra- venna, Italy, in the year 1511 or 1512, the exact date being somewhat uncer- | tain. This monster had a body and shoulders like those of a young woman. | There was but one leg, gradually ta- pering from the hips down and termi- nating in an immense scaled claw, like | that of a turkey buzzard. There were four toes, each tipped with a bony nail, three of them pointing to the left and one to the right. The creature had wings in place of arms and always held them in an erect position, as though ready to take flight at the slightest provocation. From the hips to the single knee the flesh was coy- ered with large, well arranged feath- ers. From the knee joint to the foot the leg was scaled, like that of the com- mon barnyard fowl, the spot where the feathers left off and the scales com- menced being-marked with a large lid- less eye, which seemed to be altogether Incapable of voluntary motion. The neck, head and general outlines of the face were those of a woman, but the ears were large and set very low, al- most on the neck. The head was covered with a queer mixture of scales, feathers and hair, but the oddity of the whole “upper story” was a pointed horn, which rose just in the edge of the hair on the cen- ter of the forehead. This horn was three Inches in length, and, according to Zahn, “even a farmer would have mistaken {t for the horn of a two-year- | old heifer had !t been removed and | shown to him.” The old time wonder mongers all give pictures and descriptions of this “horn- ed Italian monster,” but none tells how long it lived or what was done with. the body after death. 1 The Changing Tides, The most approved theory among sci- entists as to the cause of the rise and fall of the tide is that the moon is the dominating cause through its differen- tial attraction upon the opposite sides | of the earth, drawing the nearer water away from the earth under the moon for the production of high water large and in like manner drawing the earth away from the opposite waters for the production of high water small. The smaller tidal effect of the sun’s at- traction becomes noticeable mainly as modifying the lunar tide, increasing it in the spring tides and decreasing it at neaps and further modifying it in the priming and lagging of the tides. _ Death Warning. Oliver Wendell Holmes reeorded his protest against the custom of telling a person who does not actually. ask to know that he cannot recover. As that loving observer of mankind asserted, so must every one who knows whereof he speaks assert that people almost al- ways come to understand that recovery is impossible. It is rarely needful to tell any one that this is the case. When nature gives the warning death appears to be as little feared as sleep. An [vil Communieation. Teacher—BHvil communications cor- rupt good manners. Now, Johnny, can ny—Yes’m. For instance, pa got a com- munication from ma’s dressmaker this morning, and it made him use bad lan- guage. Misfortunes are moral bitters which frequently restore the healthy tone to the mind after it has been cloyed and stricken by prosperity. zx ‘Goring. any war; said parties are he Washes: — Men in reat state to travel, post signs, advertise and leave samples of our goods. Salary $75 per month; $3 per day for expenses. Kuhlman Co., Dept. S, Chicago. Contest Notice. ment of the Interior—United States agit Office. Duluth, Minn.. Jan. 13, 1906. A sufficient conte: ee affidavit_ having filed in this office by Peter H. Hube testant, against Homestead Entry No. made March 1. 1905, fo ship 62 north, rang Forsythe. contestes, that the sald William J. 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