The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-07
With the Long Bo.D
-':Eye Nature's walks. shoot folly as II fies."
Winsome German Lad Who Tipped the Astonished
+, Hay Scales to the Tune of 525 Pounds-story Of
the Weightiest Man in Europe Who Died Recently
at Willenberg. ~ i~E -' n

w TILLENBERG, East Prussia, is in mourning for
M Herr Hans Fromm, proprietor of hotel there.
w Herr Fromm had not seen his own heels for
years. He had the distinction of being the heaviest
mani Europe for whenever he stepped the scale it
Immediately ran up to 525 pounds and remained there
A man weighing 200 pounds is considered plump, but
you would have to double him and add twenty-five
pounds to reach Herr Fronm embonpoint. Fromm
stood five feet eight and onehalf inches in his socks,
and measured seventytwo inches the chest, by
seventy-nne inches around the waist. He always
Joyed magnificent appetite and was of a very happy
disposition, altho owing to his bulk locomotion
became troublesome to him and he seldom left the
house.
Physicians tells us that the human body, at least
90 per cent of it, is made up of water but we cannot
refrain from the suspicion in Herr Fromms that
there little beer thrown in.
Herr Fromm had ncnations in favor Of
planning. The solid earth good enough for him.
It is lucky that we do not carry bulk into the
next world otherwise the big innkeeper's first at
tempts to use wings might have been the of
much innocent merrimen along the celestial grand
stands
Our talkative old friend H. H. Rogers unbosomed
himself quite freely the Standard Oil matter after
young Garfield and the president had warmed Ida
Tarbell's soprano thunder and served it up to de-
lighted and astonished country on silver platter.
49,
The Fargo Forum recently accepted the following
advertisement:
''Wanted--Bids from competent physicians for per-
forming an operation for appendicitis. The patient
is strong man. 80 years old, five feet ten inches tall
weighs liS pounds IS tOrty-tWO inches around the
waist Outside ineision need not be four to five
inches and need not be five six inches in depth
Further plans and specifications furnished applica
tiOn'' "''
there is why the price of operations to
sumers should not be materially reduced
Attention has recently been called in the Open
Court to little known Chinese book, far untrans-
lated, called "Yin Chih Wen,'' '*The Tract of
Heavens Quiet Way.' The word ''yin'' means Gin
secret either in the of ''unheeded' 'sun-
ostentatious' 1t also conveys the idea of anything
possessed with deeper meaning anything mysteri-
Gus; and the two words together yin chh denote the
quiet way of heaven which works out the ends of
divine dispensation, invsbly yet unfalingy, to the
awe and establishment of every sapient observer A
modern hymn says:
God moves in mysterious way
: His wonders to perform
The edition of the Open Court says that if he had
to translate these lines into Chinese he might render
the words "a mysterious way'' very appropriately
by yin chin
It is an old maxim of the traditional wisdom Of
China that these quiet ways of heaven should be mi
tated by AS heaven lets it's shine upon good
and evil without discrimination and also without ex-
pectng reward or advantages so man should do good
to his fellows perform acts of reettude of Justice and
OF mercy, show benevoence and kindness toward all
tives without hope Of reward and without desire for
praise. The man who thus initiates 'Heaven IS quiet
way'' in unosentatiously realizing the ideal of
heavenly goodness IS truly VlrtuOus, and so Yin Chh
has also come to denote condition which may be
characterized as and translated by ''secret virtue -
reminding us Of the Injunction not to let right
hand know what the left hand is doing.
commentator Yin Chih says:
The human soul is most intelligent and it's essen
tial nature is ntrinscaly good. All our moral rela
lions and daily actions have their why they
should be so. When heaven above created beings it
mysteriousy endowed them with something to guide
(ting) them, and this something appears when the
people practice goodness Indeed it is the guiding
(tlnG) OF loo
an opportunity to do what is good If you really prac
tice it g. e., the good) in your heart it is neces
sary that others should know of it, for there
thing IN the unseen which fully regulates and de
termnes (ting) your affairs.'
The Chinese people whose highest ideal is Heaven 5
transformations Way we do not admit to land tn.
we are willing to sell them goods The Chinese
do not all live up to this Way as we do not live W
to our highest religious ideals But there is something
IN the mind of the race to give it the tremendou!