Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 6, 1906, Page 4

STATE FIREMEN GO TO LESUEUR Bemidji Department Selects Three Delegates at Their Meeting Last Evening. At the regular meeting of the fire department last evening Earle Geil, John Doran and E. H. Cornwall were selected as dele- gates to the state convention which is to be held at LeSueur next Tuesday and Wednesday, June 12 and 13. It is the intention of the dele- gation from here to work to se: cure the state firemen’s conven- tion for Bemidji for the year 1909. SLEEP ON SIDEWALK ALL NIGHT TO FILE ON LAND Crookston, Minn.,, June 6 — Eighteen people slept on the side- walk all night to be in time for filing on a township of land that was opened here today for settle- ment in the United States land office. The land was among the choicest in Kittson county and anumber of contests will be in- stituted on ground of prior set- tlement, One woman was among those who held f.heu' place all night. MUSICAL BY THE LADIES GUILD Interesting Program to Be Given Afternoon of Thursday, June 7. The Ladies Guild of St. Bar- tholomew’s mission will givea pianola musical Thursday after- noon, June 7, at the home of Mrs. W. A. McDonald. They will be assisted by local taient | and an excellent program has been prepared, as follows: l’hllopemm Wall T Bouquet de Lindy (Two ‘~u~n) IS “Ponpies”—A J Do Not. < Tagheth -Votteler Verdi ck De Plano Duet—Norwegian b reig Misses Rose Dickinson and Belle Larson Solo—Love's Years A\re Brave und Long.. Miss Rose Dickin Solo—The M sago of the Jtoso. Engelmann ade Olson 2\ BEMIDI ) SPECIAL Sold and guar- anteed by B Geo. T. Baker & Co. Located in City Drug Store G. N. PLANS ON A BIG OUTLAY Crooks{on to Benefit by Expendi- ture of $150,000 in Im- provements. Plans were received by the offi- cials of the Great Northern Rail- road at this place this- morning which will mean the expenditure of between $125,000 and 150,000 in Crookston this summer. The plans call for a double track from the Red Lake River bridge to the extreme east end of the yards in South Crookston, and is the biggest piece of work which the G. N. has done there for years. The plans also ca.ll for an ex- tension of the yards in South Crookston to the extent of a thousand feet of track which will be added to every side track in the big yards. It also means that a lot of new switches will have to be added throughout the yatds to conform to the new condition. A new track will also be run from [the operator’s office in the yards in South Crookston to the main line which runs south somewhere be- low the junction of the main south line and the Halstad branch. No extention will be made to the round house at pres- ent but a_large addition will be added to the transfer sheds, CASES CONSOLIDATED. Packing Concerns on Trial for Receiv ing Rebates. Kansas City, June 6.—The cases of the Armour, Swift, Cudahy and Nelson Morris Packing companies, indicted last December for alleged violations of the interstate commerce law in receiv- ing concessions from the Chicago, Bur- lington- and Quiney Railway eompany in rates on shipments to New York for export, were called in. the United States district court here during the day. - By mutual agreement it was agreed to consolidate the cases. Later in the day Judge McPherson agreed to the attorneys presenting the cases to the jury on a statement ol facts. No witnesses will be exam ined. As the statement was not signed the court adjourned the cases till Thursday, when the statement will be read and the case given to tha jury after brief arg\lments Eighteenth Century Life. These brief extracts from the letters of Elizabeth Montagu, the *“queen of the bluestockings,” throws a curious light on eighteenth century life in Eng- land. She was suffering from a swell- ed lip. Promptly the great Dr. Mead preseribed a blister to her back. She writes: “I am better than I was; but, my mouth not being yet perfectly re- duced, I have got a fresh blister upon my back. Well may it bend with such a weight of calamities. I have sent for my bathing cloathes and on Sunday night shall take a souze. I think it a pleasant remedy.” Apparently in 1741 a lady could not take a bath even on Sunday night and in the privacy of her chamber without her “bathing i1 gloathes.” Mrs. Montagu writes again: | “My lip is not entirely reduced, though I have been blistered twice, once blood- ed, and have five times taken physic, ’huve lived upon chicken and white imeats and drank nothing but water. 'I have suffered great disappointment 1about the warm bath which I am ad- vised to try, for the bathing tubs are 0 out of order that we have not yet !Ibeen able to make them hold water.” “‘Mediterranean of Alaska. Special round Liviogston, Butte. Helel and California Points, Yellowstone America’’—and [ $60 | Round trip From Bemidji to Pacific Northwest “See America First” Summer Rates one-third lower than usual. Visit I the Columbia River Region. See Puget Sound— visit Scenic trip rates o Springdale, na, Anaconda, Missoula, Spokane, Eastern Washington, British Columbia until Sept. 15, 1906. Ask about them. An opportunity en route to visit National Park via the Gardiner Gateway Send six cents to A. M. Cleland, Gen. Pass. Agt,, St. Paul, Minn., for “WONDERLAND 1906.” “He Had Already (Ht.” SICKNESS PARTS | STATE ELECTION IN OREGON] =t xoow’s"vesiora Kansas town HAPPY FAMILY Parents at Poor Farm., Two Little Boys Sent to State School. A pathetic case of the break- ing up of a family was made pub- lic in probate court yesterday afternoon when Judge Clark sent two little boys, Stephen and Roger Gaffney of Blackduck, to the state school at Owatonna. The father and mother are both too sick to work, the ane being a victim of consumption and the other of heart trouble, and with their four children have been charges at the county poor farm for the last two months. Stephen is 7 years old, Roger 5, and Mae and Gracie are 8 years and one year and ten months respectively. The authorities decided that the pobr farm was no place for them, and the two boys were committed to the state school. Mae has al- ready found a home with a charitable family in Crookston, while the youngest child, who is an invalid, will remain with the parents for the present. The Clyde at Glasgow. There are magnificent harbors in the old world which have been dug out of shallow sloughs and sluggish ditches. The Elbe at Hamburg is a narrow and insignificant stream compared with the great rivers of this western world. Yet for some score of miles down the Elbe from Hamburg to the sea this river's shores are lined with the sea- going craft of all the maritime nations of the world. Where Glasgow is situ- ated, on the Clyde, that stream was once what is known in America as “a creek.” Yet the Clyde has been dredg- ed out until today the leviathans of peace and war, the great sea monsters of the transatlantic lines, the creations of the great captains of the shipbuild- ing industry, are built and launched there month after mouth, year after year.-So narrow Is the Clyde at Glas- gow that these ships, some of them five and six hundred feet in length, cannot be launched head to the stream, as is the custom, but are launched broadside on for fear they should run their bows into the opposite bank.— Argonaut. A Bride of Morocco. Says an observer of conditions in modern Morocco: “The wife is bought in Morocco today, and the sum paid is agreed upon between her father and the would be husband. Sometimes a cow may be sufficient to procure a bride, at other times many cattle and several dollars are necessary for her purchase. The bride Is, of course, dressed in suitable costume, but the most interesting part of her toilet to a stranger is the decoration of henna. The henna, pounded and mixed with lemon juice, is sometimes painted di- rectly on to her face, arms, hands and legs. At other times a stencil pattern it put on her flesh and the perforated holes filled up with the henna. By the time this is completed she is tattooed with a dark design. Society women in more enlightened countries who wear Jace blouses in a hot summer sun often find their arms and neck burned into a pattern which has much the same ef fect as the henna tattoo on the poor lit tle Moorish maid.” How the Burro Eats Thistles, The Rocky mountain: burro, one of the most sagacious of animals, seeks the thistle as a favorite food, and the pungent spines with which it protects its leaves at every angle are doubtless a recognition on Its part of this fond- ness of grazing animals for it. Few experiences of frontler life are more amusing than to watch the donkey’s attack upon a large bull thistle. He walks about it, seeking for a favorable opening, projects his lip gingerly against Its spines and jerks back as he feels its pricks. He surveys it pensive- ly for a moment or two and then slow- ly raises his foot and strikes it, paus- ing to watch the effect of the blow. He then perhaps strikes it from the other silde and watches again. The blows become rapid, and at length it is broken down and thoroughly trampled, after which it is consumed to the last vestige.—Country Life In America. A Homiletical Repeater. “It was In a small German congrega- tlon that I heard a preacher who when he had completed his Introduction and first point said, ‘I have come to the second head” A man rose, rubbed his eyes, folded his arms across his breast and appeared ready for that head. ‘When It was finished he had-overcome the drowsiness and sat down. During the elucidation of the third head three other men stood up. At the close of his sermon the preacher found all his peo- ple asleep. As he stopped they all look- ed up and seemed greatly relieved. But the good man said, ‘You have slept all through the sermon, and as this is a sermon you all ought to hear I will be- gin it anew.’ "—Hecclesiastical Review. The Face. Nature has laid out ail her art in beautifying the face. She has touch- ed it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes, lining it at each side with curi- ous organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties 1in the most agreeable light.—Addison. A banquet was given at Budapesi, Hungary, Thursday night in honor of ‘William J. Bryan. Speeches laudatory of American freedom and virility were delivered by Count Albert’ Apponyi, minister of worship, and Francis Kos- suth, commerce minister. it e oo REPUBLICANS NAME CONGRESS- MEI_‘{ AND SENATOR BUT LOSE ON GOVERNORSHIP. Portland, Ore, June 6.—The elec- ton returns are still so incomplete as te make impossible a definite state- ment of the result of the state elec- tion, but the indications point to the re-election of Governor George E. Chamberlain, Democrat, over Dr. James Withycombe, the nominee of the Republican party. The nomination and practical elec- tion of Jonathan Bourne, Republican, to the United States senate over John M. Gearin, Democrat, present incum- bent, seems assured.” The complete re- turns so far received give Bourne a -good lead over his opponent. In the race for representative from the First district W. C. Hawley, Re publican, is far ahead of C. V. Galla- ‘way, Democrat. In the Second -district W. G. Ellis, Republican, has apparently over ‘whelmingly defeated J. H. Graham, the Democratic nominee. BOUTH DAKOTA REPUBLICANS. Convention to Name State Officers Meets at Sioux Falls. Sloux Falls, S. D., June 6.—The Re- publican state convention was called to order at 12:08 by Chairman Crane of the state committee. Invocation was by Rev. G. G. Notson of Plerre. The official call of the convention was read by S. Y. Warner of the state committee. Hon. E. C. Erickson of Elk Point, the insurgent candidate, was elected temporary chairman and was warmly greeted when he assumed the chair. J. W. Cone of Minnehaha was selected temporary secretary. Chairman Erickson was authorized to appoint committees on credentials, rules and order of business, resolu- tions and permanent organization and at 1 o’clock the convention took a re- cess of one hour to give the chairman an opportunity to select the commit- tees. BEHEADED BY EXPLOSION. Fatal Result of Ignition of Large Quan- tity of Vitroil. New York, June 6.—An explosion, said to have been of carboys of vitroil, ‘wrecked a freight car which had taken fire at the Pennsylvania railroad yard at Jersey City. Charles Gordon, a freight clerk, was beheaded by a mis- sile from the explosion, which crashed through the side of the car near where he was standing. Another missile grazed the head of Captain Roger Doyle of the fire department. BLOODY FIGHT Tribesmen in Battle With Russian Troops. Odessa, June 6.—A dispatch from Sukhum reports several serious - col lisions between , government troops and Abkhasians. There were 100 cas- ualties, 27 soldiers being killed or wounded. The troops are now sack- ‘ing. the Abkhasian villages wholesale, the tribesmen fleeing to the hills. Ab- khasia is an unruly district of Trans- caucasia on the shore of the Black sea, north of Batoum. IN ABKHASIA. Stevens Tells of Conversion. ‘Washington, June 6.—The house committee on interstate and foreign commerce heard Chief Engineer Ste- vens of the isthmian canal commission regarding engineering problems on the isthmus of Panama. Mr. Stevens gave in detail the reasons of his-conversion from a sea level advocate to a lock canal enthusiast. Jewelers Protect Patrons. “The general public is not.aware of the carefully worked out system by which the large jewelry houses con- tinue to protect their splendid wares long after these have been sold and passed out of their hands,” said a de- tective, discussing daring modern bur- | glaries. “Mostlargeestablishmentsdeal- ing in precious metals and gems have a carefully organized and very efficlent detective system, which makes it easy for a patron to recover stolen goods without charge and with little or no de- lay in the institution of the search. In the safes of these large jewel houses are minute descriptions of every plece of valuable jewelry which goes out from the establishment. Each plece is numbered too. When the gems are missed the patron telephones the shop in which the articles were purchased. At once a special detective, thoroughly acquainted with the business in hand and armed with a detailed. description of the jewelry, is hurried to the scene of actlon. This is without expense to the client.”—New York Press. A Wonderful Grasshopper. The number of astonishing and often absurd blunders perpetrated by trans- lators is without limit. The first man to translate Cooper’s novel “The Spy” into French made numerous errors, among which are these: When the translator came to the word “Locusts,” which was the name of the Whartons’ residence In the story, he turned to his dictionary and found the rendering of the word to be “Les Sauterelles” (the grasshoppers). He was a trifle puz- zled later when he came to the passage in which a dragoon was represented as tying his hotse to one of the locusts on the lawn. He had never been In Amer- ica; but, taking it for granted that the grasshoppers of that country must be of tremendous size, he solemnly in- formed his readers that the trooper fastened his horse by the bridle to a grasshopper which was standing near ‘the door of the house. Wwanted o Be in Time. A wealthy Parisian, tired of support: ing his nephew, determined to get him married off and.settled. He called upon a matrimonial-agent and looked over his album- of candidates for hus- bands. To his horror he found the pic- ture of his own pretty young wife. He reproached her -and demanded an explanation. . “I do not deny It,” sha sald, “but it was last year, when, as you know, fleanest, you had been given up by ail the doctors.” where the rules of etiquette are purely upon a logical basis,” said & man from the short grass countty the other day. “The daughter of the hotel keeper at whose hostelry I was llving was to be married. I received an luvitation. At .| about 11 eo'clock in the evening. the ‘wedding supper was spread. An old lady came down the table side, passing reached my plate she skipped me and began again with the next man. The old lady bad seen me eating my sup- per as usual at 6 o’clock. “‘You’ve et, she said as she gave me the go by. Things began to look dubious for me. Then an old man came along with more fcod. He also had seen me eating at the usual even- ing hour. He shied around me with a look of surprise that I should be at the foed rack agaln and said, “Why, you've 3 “Bverybody Lad been ‘saving up’ for the occasion so that they might eat like heroes at that et feast. The fact that I had not bee:l ssing any meals nearly ostracized me in that happy gathering.”—Kansas City Times. The Fate of Citlen. Bome ancient cities have disappear- ed. The archaeologist digs through the sands of the desert, the accumulations of vegetable mold and the debris of human habitation in a search for the palaces of great kings, the markets of wealthy traders and the homes of a once numerous people. The massacres of ancient warfare may explain some of these dead and buried cities. The inability of people in early history to deal with the sanitary problems of a. congested population may have been a contributing cause to their destruction. Cities may have died because their people could not live. But in most cases a change In the routes of com- merce will be found to have diverted the stream of nourishment from a city and left it to die of starvation. Yet the Eternal City and Athens, Byzan- tium, Jerusalem, Antioch and Dam: cus illustrate the tenacity of muni pal vitality, even though a long suc- cession of centuries brings great changes in the methods and subjects and courses of traffic—Philadelphia Record. Herbert Spencer. A queer instance of the working of Herbert Spencer's mind is mentioned |- by the two sisters in whose household he lived. He came to the table one day absorbed in thinking about some pho- tographs of the nebulae he had just recelved: “As he rose from his chair he stood for a minute gazing with gleaming eyes into the distance, and then muttered in a disjointed fashion, as if half to him- self, words to this effect: “Thirty mil- llons of suns, each probably having its own system, and supposing them each to be the size of a pin’s head they are i fifty miles apart! What does it all! mean? And then, without a pause | and only a change of voice, ‘The fluff still comes it of that cushion, you- know,” as with a wave of his small, thin hand toward it he passed rapidly out of the room, leaving us both be- wildered by the quickness with which his mind worked.” Jammed Fingers. Few people have escaped jammed fingers, and as the pain caused when the finger Is jammed in a door is ex- cruciating in the extreme for the first few minutes it is well to know of som» means of relief. The finger should be plunged into water as hot as can pos- sibly be borne. This application of hot water causes the nail to expand and soften, and the blood pouring out beneath it has more room to flow. Thus the pain is lessened. The finger should then be wrapped in a bread and water poultice. A jammed finger should nev- er be neglected, as it may lead to mor- tification of the bone if it has been badly crushed, and amputation of the finger must follow. Jammed toes are usually caused through the falling of heavy weights and should be treated In the same way as a jammed finger. New York’s First Sidewalk. The first sidewalk in New York was laid by a woman, Mrs. Samuel Pro- voost, 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. 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