Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 3, 1906, Page 7

' hich DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH (Consuelo Vanderbilt) and her first born son. i The duchess and her husband have §ust signed articles of separation. The duchess pays $100,000 a year to get rid of her ill-natured English duke. MRS. RUSSELL SAGE, 'Who recently made generous gifts of money to her old servants. GEORGE von LENGERKE MEYER, Ambassador to St. Petersburg, who will be postmaster general. PRINCESS VICTORIA OF WALES, Because of her devotion to her chil- dren, is called an “old-fashioned” mother, : . OSCAR SOLOMON STRAUS, Who will become secretary of com- merce and labor. MAJ. GEN. GREELEY, Whose report on the relief operations of the army at San Francisco has just been made public. COL. W. H. PARKER, State’s attorney of Lawrence county, South Dakota, who is candidate for congress on Republican ticket. India’s Sacred Fire. The sacred fires of India have not all extinguished. The most ancient still exists was consecrated elve centuries ago, in commemora- of the voyage made by the Parsees en they emigrated from Persia to dia. The fire is fed five times every nty-four hours with sandal wood and other fragrant material, combined with very dry fuel. ‘es apt to think themselves long on FRE ENE C2 le who are short on sense are tor?” tient and diagnosed his case as stom- ach ache—I only learned the following day that he was rich enough to have appendicitis.” “ . band to view a villa for sale).— Oh, how beautiful—how - beautiful! magnificent view makes me perfectly speechless! : ~~ ""A Bad One. ~ “Did you ever make a mistake, doc- “Yes, once—I was called in by a pa- Just the Thing. Mrs, Crabb (on a visit with her hus- The TN buy | GROWTH OF STOCK TRADING, \Carge Operations of Ten Years Ago Are Pewy Deals Now. “Until last week we had an un- broken run of million-share days, ex- tepting Saturdays, for five months,” said an old Wall street broker. ‘That ls a big change from the old way of floing things. And by the ‘old way’ 1 jon’t mean to go back before the Civil War. Ten years is along time in Wall street. Speculators of to-day would turn up their noses at the ‘heavy trad- Ing’—so-called—prior to 1865. In those flays a brokerage concern that had a customer who swung a_ thousand shares had a client that was much to be desired. His account was one for which the average broker would give wine suppers and theatre parties to get hold of. Now the thousand-share customer is a small fish in a big pond. “There are traders on the floor of the Exchange—men like C, B. MacDonald, Harry Content and a dozen others— who will ‘turn over’ a block of fifteen or twenty thousand shares for ‘av eighth.’ This makes business active and swells the total of shares done in a day. Moreover these operations, which are conducted merely for a ‘scalp’ are frequently mistaken by the tapeworms for a real ‘move,’ and thus the little trader who ordinarily would keep out of the market gets in—and frequently gets shorn. “The operations of ten years ago really seem laughable. Why, I can re- member when the Street used to get excited over a speculative combat be- tween New York and Chicago. New York would be ‘bull’ on the market and Chicago would be ‘bearing’ it. Operations were a matter of local pride and. there was just about the same interest in trading as there would be over the result of ball games be- tween the Giants and Anson’s Colts. “Strange as it may be seem, the change has been brought about largely by Chicago—or the operations of the so-called Western crowd. Yes, humili- ating <s it may be for the New Yor ers to confess it, John W. Gates and h following have done more to put stock market’operations on a scale of magni- tude than J. Pierpont Morgan, the Rockefellers and Rogerses and all the other big fellows, with the possible exception of Keene, put together. “Yt is all the result of ‘easy money.’ John W. Gates and the coterie with which his name is associated made money so easily that they hesitated no more to risk it than the bookmaker who, after a successful day at the track, goes into a gambling house and bucks the faro bank. Not much more than ten years before he left Chi- eago John W. had been peddling barb wire fences. When he came to New York he had made millions in the Illinois Steel Company, later in the American Steel & Wire, and to swell his fortune still further he made an advantageous deal with the United States Steel Corporation. He is game —nothing small in the way of a plunger —and he and his crowd made things hum when they hit Wall street. On more than one cccasion they have jumped into a quiet market and turned things upside down by the purchase of 100,000 shares of one stock in a single day. if you don’t think such opera- tions have an effect on prices and sen- timent just watch the ticker while the buying is going on. “Of course. the Gates buyin,; is not s considered ‘good buying,’ but just the same it has set s new pace for Wall street, and the magnitude of the trading has thrown into the shade the ‘big’ operations of 2 decade ago.”— New Ycrk Press. cr hr et pn cr cr Cs pT sh SSMS Stig Sn Unio scunInOR LG ooaies worsens eno nhs el Niel ihe eS aS Ss a DSA Poor Pay For Industry. In Europe many kinds of manufact- uring are conducted in households. Jong ago an exhibition of wares produced in this manner was opened in Berlin. The articles shown were all of German origin. One of the Ameri- can consuls in Germany says in regard to the display that everything which one naturally connects with a great fair is strikingly absent. The products of tenement and sweatshop, small piecework evolved by the needy, are laid bare to the public. Each exhibit is ticketed, setting forth the pay for piece, time employed in making, and the profit per hour. If the object itself does not particularly attract the atten- tion of the visitor, the descriptive tag certainly app tohim. A few exam- ples may be given: A boy’s suit of clothes, three pieces, made for about seventeen cents; artistic wooden cruci- fixes, carved at less than two cents an hour; 144 toy menagerie animals for eleven cents; putting up 1000 needles for less than one cent for the lot: tmounting hooks and eyes on 360 carc: with twenty-four pair on each, xilto- pether 17,280 pieces, for twenty-eight cents, and an extreme case is that of a bit of lace from Plauen worked at the tate of about one-quarter of a cent au hour. Progress and poverty are no- where more abruptly contrasted than in this pitiful display, Expressions of ‘amazement and sympathy, manifested by the highest -classes of society, are echoed throughout the German press. This would seem to beat even Chinese cheap labor!—New York Tribune. Bishops With Big Feet. Bishop McVickar, of Rhode Island, a man of great physical proportions, once visited Japan with Dr. Phillips Brooks, who fell but little behind him in height and breadth. To the diminutive Japs the two stalwart American clergymen were sources of unending wonder. “We did not mind ordinary tribute to our size,” says the Bishop, “but the wonder which the size of our feét elicited wag hardly flattering. In entering a Jap- anese house you are supposed to leav Your shoes outside, and never did Dr. Brooks and I come out but we foun an admiring and wondering crow either measuring our shoes or gazing in admiration. They were | HAD TO USE A CANE? Weakened Kidneys Made an Elwood, Ind., Man’s Back Give Out. R. A. Pugh, transfer business, 2020 North B. street, Elwood, Ind., says: “Kidney trouble kept me laid up for a long time, and when I was able to be up I had to use a cane. I had terrible back- aches and pain in the shoulders. The kidney secretions were dark colored. After doctoring in vain, I began using Doan’s Kidney Pills. Three boxes cured me entirely, and I am glad to reéommend them.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. The Better Fourth. Husband (crossly)—“Why do you have all our bills presented once a week instead of on the 1st?” Wife—‘Because you told me not to have them large.” i A Good Record. Out of all the external remedies on the market we doubt if there is one that has the record of that world- renowned porous plaster—Allcock’s. It has now been in use for sixty years, and still continues to be as popular as ever in doing its great work of re lieving our pains and aches. It is the remedy we all need when suffer- ing from any ache or pain resulting from taking cold or overstrain. Allcock’s Plasters are sold by Drug- gists all over the world. Unprepared. Adam Zawfox—Have you named the new baby at your house? Job Sturky (with a resentful sniff) —Yes; but we haven’t found a name for his twin sister yet. Do You Own a Hand Separator? If so, where are you selling your cream? Have you looked into our method of paying cash for every ean and giving liberal pre- miums besides? Write us. R. E. COBB, St. Paul, Minn. No man worships the divine better than he who works for this poor old human. Short Days Coming. : This makes no difference to the farmer with a Fairbanks-Morse Gasoline Engi He can do-all his grinding and still liesure hours. Ask for free catalog ST-175. FAIRBANKS, MORSE & CO., St. Paul. Nothing makes a man feel more im- portant than his ability to answer the questions of a small boy. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces in- flammation allays pain,cures wind colic. 5c a bottle. When the pure food law gets its work in it won’t seem like the same old free lunch. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES cost but 10 cents per package and color more goods faster and brighter colors. We are to be what we are to-day. His Lordship’s Amidship. Ambassador Choate tells a story of the bishop of Rochester, England, the divine who was so fond of cricket that he used to play the game with an expert local team. It appears that one day when the bishop was batting the bowler pitched very wide. “Please keep the ball in the par- ish!” commanded the bishop, testi: The next ball the bowler sent in caught the right reverend gentleman full in the waistband, whereupon the bowler observed: “I think that’s somewhere ‘about the diccese, my lord.” . Sign of Age. “It used to worry me when the bar- ber informed me that my hair was getting a little thin om top.’” “But you got used to it, eh?” “No. Now it worries me because he doesn’t mention it. I must be getting old.” . If you snore all yours. the pleasure is ~ Peculiarly Fitted. - “Snappy was just telling me he was determined to go to London and re- side there hereafter.” “Yes, he thinks that’s just the place for him.” “Why?” “Well, he was discovered that he can wear a monocle without twist- ing his face all out of shape.” Promotes Digestion. Cheerful- ness and Rest.Contains neither Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. Nor NARCOTIC. 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Waar Joy [HEY Baine ToFveryHome | as with joyous hearts and smiling faces they romp and play—when in health—and how conducive to health the games in which they indulge, the outdoor life they enjoy, the cleanly, regular habits they should be taught to form and the wholesome How tenderly their health should be preserved, not by constant medication, but by careful avoidance of every medicine of an injuri- ous or objectionable nature, and if at any time a remedial agent is required, to assist nature, only those of known excellence should be used; remedies which are pure and wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, like the pleasant laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. come into general favor in many millions of well informed families, whose estimate of its quality and excellence is based upon personal knowledge and use. Syrup of Figs has also met with the approval of physicians generally, because they know it is wholesome, simple and gentle in its action. ble physicians as to the medicinal principles of Syrup of Figs, obtained, by an original method, from. certain planis- known to them to act most beneficially and presented in an agreeable syrup in which the wholesome Californian blue figs are used to promote the pleasant taste; therefore it is nota secret remedy and hence we are free to refer to all well informed physicians, who do not approve of patent medicines and never favor indiscriminate self-medication. Please to remember and teach your children also that the genuine Syrup of Figs always has the full name of the Company—California Fig Syrup Co.—plainly printed on the front of every package and that it is for sale in bottles of one size only. If any dealer offers any other than the regular Fifty cent size, or having printed thereon the name of any other company, do not accept it. the genuine you will not get its beneficial effects. Every family should always have a bottle on hand, as it is equally beneficial for the parents and the children, whenever a laxative remedy is required. Syrup of Figs has We inform all reputa- If you fail to get ESTABLISHED 1879. "Te gmicted witht Thompson's Eye Water Se RRP PEAR IOS, Weak Ree ae When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. : 44— 1906.