Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 6, 1912, Page 3

ia OHASSET | IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE COHASSET, MINNESOTA, NOVEMBER 6, 1912 ” THE FRIENDLESS SPIDER. He's a Pretty Good Insect In Spite of His Looks and His Webs. Aside from snakes, there is probably wo living thing which can look to man- kind for friendship witb so little hope @s the spider, yet when the spider is fairly brought to trial it is rather bard to prove anything against him except bis appearance and a few cobwebs. Apart from furnishing an example of industry and patience from which we might well profit, the spider feeds exclusively upou freshly killed insects, ‘all of them being of the kind denounc- ed by sanitary authoritiés, the house- fly being its favorite quarry. As the actual! destruction of a few hundred housetlies means that several hundred thousand that would other- wise bave spent gay lives in transmit- ting typhoid and other diseases will not come into existence and as almost any spider should be able to account for as many as 300 in the course of a summer, to say nothing of stray mos- quitoes and black gnats, we surely owe him something more than a flap with a slipper when we happen to catch him out of his hole. ‘A spider can bite, of course, but he Beldom does except in self defense, and even then the bite is not much worse than would have been received from any one of the several hundred Mosquitoes he has probably dined | upon or will, if let alone. In the light ef present scientific knowledge the story of the spider and the fiy that was invited into the pretty parlor does not cause such a surge of sympathy for the fly as it once did —Harper’s Weekly. SHE LIKED TO BORROW. Give Her a Fair Chance, Too, and She Was Willing to Pay Back. Day by day as Mrs. Worth’s house- bold and kitchen furniture and grocer- fes slowly disuppeared she saw that | the moment approached when a final ptand must be made. One morning when Jimmy, son of the borrower, ap- peared at the back door with the state ment, “Ma wants the wash boiler,” Mrs. Worth determined to act. “You tell your ma that when she brings back what she has already bor- Towed I will lend her the boiler.” In a little while Jimmy reappeared. “Ma wants to know what she has borrowed.” “There are a quart of flour,” began Mrs. Worth, “a peck of potatoes, a cup- fol of sugar, a can of coffee, a half pound of lard, some onions and butter and spices, the screwdriver, the hatch- et, a pair of scissors’—she paused, rec- ollecting—“three spools of thread, a paper of needles and”— But Jimmy was gone. Presently he Fapped on the back door again. “Ma says for you to write ’em down. I forgot some of ’em.” Mrs. Worth sat down with pencil and patiently made an alphabetical list of gli the arficles she could remember. Jimmy took the list and disappeared. ‘A balf hour later he once more ap- peared at the back door and announced: “Ma says if you'll lend her the wash boiler to carry them in she'll bring ’em bome.”—Youth’s Companion. Geographies to Blame. ‘ Ask any hundred English men, wo- men or children what is the name of the capital of Russia and every one of them will reply, “St. Petersburg.” It may be a small matter, but in point of fact the proper name is “Petersburg.” The English are the only folk who in- gist upon the “Saint.” The city was founded by Peter the Great and is pamed after him. It is quite true that Peter was one of the most extraordi- mary men that ever filled a throne, but | mo one would have been more astound- ed than himself at being dubbed a saint. He neither lived nor died in the odor of sanctity, and it is hard to find out how it became the English fashion to miscall the splendid town he found- ed.—London Mail. — SENERAL R. M. NEWPORT DEAD Prominent St. Paul Man Expires at Greenwich, Conn. General R. M. Newport, prominent im the early days of St. Paul, died a few days ago at Greenwich, Conn., after a sudden attack of pneumonia. His death came quickly and unexpect- ed, although he had been in poor bealth for several years. General Newport had spent the greater part of the last two years in the East in an effort to regain his health. General Newport was seventy-five years old. He was a graduate of Mari- etta (O.) college and the Union Theo- logical seminary, New York city. He enlisted in the Civil war from his na- tive state, Ohio, and served with dis- tinction until its close. His captain’s commission was signed by Abraham Lincoln. He rose rapidly from a cap- tain to a brevet brigadier general. OFFICER SHOOTS PRISONER $t. Paul Policeman Drops Italian Try- ing to Escape. Suffering from a bullet wound in- fiicted by the gun of a patrolman from whom he was attempting to escape, Batista Micheroli is in a critical con- | dition at the St. Paul city hospital. Micheroli was arrested by Patrol- man A. -Kreszkowski. According to the officer’s story he had taken Mich- eroli from a saloon several times and entreated with him to go home. Finally Kreszkowski arrested him and called Central station. At this juncture the prisoner made a dash for liberty. Kreszkowski fired three times and the prisoner dropped. It was not, however, until he was in a cell at Central station, on a charge of drunk- enness and disorderly conduct, that it was discovered that he had been hit. | FARMER SLAIN NEAR DULUTH Sheriff Meining Arrests a Farmhand on Suspicion, Matt Kemp, forty-eight years old, a farmer, was found dead near Du- | luth with a deep knife wound in his left arm. One of the arteries was cut and he bled to death. Hugo Pyggo, farmhand working near Kemp's farm, has been arrested by Sheriff Meining on suspicion. At the autopsy it was found that the point of \the knife was broken off in Kemp’s arm. A knife about seven inches long, with the point missing, was found in Pyggo’s possession when ar- Tested. Veteran Engineer Dead. | Larry Goven, veteran railroad engi- meer of Winona, whose acquaintance extended from one end of the Minne- sota and Dakota division of the Nortia- western road to the other, is dead at Winona of pneumonia. He was sixty | years old and began railroading when twenty. FATHER JOHN RUSSELL DEAD |Founder of the Prohibition Party | Paases Away. | Detroit, Nov. 5.—Father John Rus- | sell, founder of the Prohibition party jand the oldest Methodist preacher in |the Detroit conference, is dead at the jhome of his daughter in this city. He | | Was born in Livingston county, New | York, in 1822. | Father Russell co-operated with | most of the leading temperance organ- ‘izations during his life, such as the Sons of Temperance and the Good Templars, and was twice at the head of the Order of Good Templars of the World. He wrote the first articles and made ithe first public speeches in favor of | the organization of an independent po- |Hitical party on the issue of prohibi- jtion. He wrote the call for the first | mationa! convention at which the party |was organized in Chicago and was the party’s first candidate for the vice | Presidency in 1872. ! Dew Fancy Work for Winter Evenings A large assortment of things in fancy work are arriving for the winter evenings’ work. Pretty and inexpensive things for dainty Christmas gifts, including Cushion Tops, Aprons, Towels, Gowns, Corset Covers and Ribbon Novel- ties. Call and look them over. Call and See the Dew Chiffon and Net Weilings. Mrs. MW. W. Fletcher Minnesota jacted quickly. A BIG BANK VAULT How Its Doors Were Opened by a Message From the Sea. THE MAGIC OF AN AEROGRAM. A Dilemma From Which a Great Fi- nancial Institution Extricated Itself In Double Quick Time by a Rapid Exchange of Wireless Dispatches. To the ordinary layman, too busy or too indifferent to bother bis head with | scientific matters, wireless telegraphy | is somewhat of a mystery. In a gen- eral way he knows that by it messages are flashed through the air over oceans and mountains. but he does not realize to what an extent and in what varied roles the aerial magic plays its parts in daily life. In “The Wireless Man” the author, Francis A. Collins, uar- rates an instance in which aerograms averted a possible financial mishap. He writes: “A secret. even a very big one, may be intrusted to the wireless man and flung halfway across the Atlantic with complete safety. There was the case, for instance, of the president of a great New York bank who sailed for Europe without leaving the combina- tion of the locks of the vaults. As a rule, the combination is a single word, and the secret is known only to two or three. In this case, by an oversight, there was no one left ashore who knew the key. The money and securities of the bank were very safely locked away, and hours of work would be required to force the locks of the safe deposit vaults. “The bank president’s steamer had sailed at 6 o’clock of a summer's morn- ing to catch a favorable tide. and when the bank’s officials tried to open the vaults at about 9 o'clock the steamer carrying the secret was up- ward of two hours at sea. A hasty examination showed that there was but one way to open the vaults, short of breaking into them, and that was by getting the code from the presi dent, serenely unconscious of the trou- bles ashore. To delay opening the vaults would, of course, be a very seri- ous matter. If the piles of money were not ready behind the barred windows promptly at 10, the fact would be known within a few mitiutes through- out the financial section. A serious run on a bank has been started for a less cause. “In the old days, before the cable, the secret could not have been gained in less than two or three weeks at best, or until a message had reached the president by mail and returned across the Atlantic. The cable alone would | have cut the delay in two by catching the traveler on his arrival on the other side. Meanwhile the bank officials. hastily summoned to a conference. had The wireless stations had been notified. and a message ex plaining the situation was flashed from the top of a high building in New York and from the Sea Gate and Nantucket stations. All this was the work of less than ten minutes. “Now the combination word used to, lock up these millions in gold, currency and securities is, of course, not a piece of information to be flashed broadcast along the Atlantic coast. It would be known to scores of people, even if the stations receiving guarded the secret with the utmost care. The officials therefore impressed upon the president the importance of sending his message in the private code used by the bank in its important cables. As the hour for opening the bank approached the offi- cials waited with an impatience which may be imagined. “The wireless message was handed to the bank president as he sat at breakfast well out to sea. It was now | exactly 9:16. There was a sudden va- cancy at that particular table. After one glance at the aerogram the presi- dent, realizing the situation to the last detail, rushed madly for his stateroom to search for his code book. A few mo- ments later a dignified elderly gentle man rushed into the wireless booth, de- manding at any cost that his message be given the right of way. He got it. “An aerogram expressed in an unin- telligible cipher was soon being flashed with the full power of the apparatus. The wireless stations along the coast had been ordered to expedite the mes- gage in every way and were waiting anxiously for it. It was read by two stations on the Long Island coast and repeated hurriedly to New York. A few minutes later the clerk at the telephone in the bank was carefully writing out the strange jumble of letters and trans- lating them into intelligible English. The clock pointed to twenty minutes to 10, the bank’s opening hour, when the great steel door swung noiselessly open on its hinges and the day was saved.” He Was Precise. “The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth,” is the motto of police witnesses at Ystrad. “Did you see him coming through the door?” asked a socilitor in court. “No, sir; through the doorway,” answered the police precision in the box.—London Globe. : BABIES UNDER THE SPOUT. In Simia They Water the Youngsters te Keep Them Quiet. The native mothers in the neighbor- hood of Simla, in India, have a curious practice of putting their babies’ heads under a spout of water in order to send the youngsters to sleep and to keep them quiet. When a new cart yoad was made some years ago in the jocality mentioned there was a halting place, where rows of such children might be seen in a grove close to the Toad. The water of a hill spring was so adjusted as to furnish a series of lit- tle spouts, each about the thickness of one’s little finger. Opposite each Spout was a kind of earth pillow and a little trough to carry away the wa- ter. Each child was so laid that one of the water spouts played on the top of its head, and the water then ran off into the trough. An English official testifies that the Process was most successful. There Rever were such quiet and untrouble- some babies as those under the spouts. The people were unanimous in assert- ing that the water did the children no harm, but that, on the contrary, it benefited and invigorated them. In fact, they seemed to think that a child not subjected to this process must Brow up soft brained and of little ac- count.—Harper’s Weekly. ORIGIN OF CINDERELLA. The Dainty Footed Damsel Who Be- came a King’s Wife. It has been said. “Not one girl in a thousand knows the origin of the friend of her childhood, Cinderella.” Her real name was Rhodope, and she was a beautiful Egyptian maiden who lived 670 years before the com- mon era and during the reign of one of the twelve kings of Egypt. One clear stream near her home, leaving her shoes, which were very small, ly- ing on a_ bank An eagle, passing above, caught ht of the little san- dals and, mistaking them for a tooth- some tidbit, pounced down and car- ried off one in his beak. The bird unwittingly played the part of fairy godmother, for, flying over Memphis, where the king was dis- pensing justice, it let the shoe fall di- ‘rectly at the king’s feet. Its size, beauty and daintiness immediately at- tracted the royal eye, and the king de- termined to know the wearer. of so cunning a shoe. Messengers were sent through all the kingdom in search of the. foot that it would fit. Rhodope was finally dis- covered. the shoe placed on her foot, and she was carried in triumph to Memphis, where she became the queen of King Psammeticus. Chesterfield’s Love Letter. A famous love letter. cautious and elever, is that written in 1661 by Philip, ear! of Chesterfield, to Lady Russell: “Madam—The dullness of this last cold season doth afford nothing that is new to divert you; only here is a re- port that | fain would know the truth | of, which is that | am extremely in Jove with you. Pray let me know if it be true or no, since | am certain that no one but yourself can rightly inform me, for if you intend to use me favora- bly and do think | am in love with you I most certainly am so, but if you intend to receive me coldly anti do not believe that I am in love | also am sure that | am not. Therefore let me entreat you to put me out of a doubt which makes the greatest concern of “Dear madam, your most obedient faithful servant, “CHESTERFIELD.” Art Is Long Distance. } bis house, closed the door with unusual {care and descended the steps. In his hand was a satchel containing bis paints and brushes and a change of socks. At the gate he met a bright eyed, ‘ragged little boy carrying a basket filled with scarlet strawberries, purple dewberries, crimson radishes, pale young onions, verdant spinach and glis- tening lettuce from a huckster’s wagon | near. “Vegetables?” the boy asked. ries?” “No,” past. to paint water color studies of pic- turesque peasant children.” And he ran for the boat—Newark News. “Ber- replied the artist, brushing New York’s First Sidewalk, laid by a woman. Mrs. Samuel Pro- Yoost, about 1716. She was an import- er and merchant and laid the sidewalk for the convenience of her customers. She had importuned the authorities to |do it, but they refused, saying it was \impossible. After her object lesson paving and curbing gradually came in, but for some time her sidewalk was so famous that people journeyed even from Philadelphia to see it. Tombstone Inscriptions. Three of the commonest tombstone inscriptions are “In the midst of life we are in death,” “His end was peace,” “He tempers the wind to the shorn The sentiment of each is com- but none lamb.” forting and consolatory, day Rhodope ventured to bathe in a | An American artist walked out of | “IT am on my way to sunny Italy | The first sidewalk in New York was | OU cannot farm without a wagon any more than you can keep house without astove. You work your wagon oftener and harder than anything else on the farm. Buy a wagon that lasts longer than the aver- age. It is an easy thing todo, even thoughall wagons which are painted alike may look alike. The difference in wagons is underneath the paint. 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