Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 12, 1906, Page 1

“ The Bemidji : aily ane’ VOLUME 4. NUMP,%, BEMIDJ, MmNEsm{A. DAY, JUNE 12, 1906 —_— Highest Observatory In the World. The highest scientific station in the world belongs to Harvard. It stands on the summit of Mount Misti, an ex tinet voleano .near Arequipa, in south- ern Peru. The altitude of this station Is 19,300 feet. No one lives at the station. No one could live there. The air Is too rare and too cold. The bar- - ometer on the top of Misti often stands at fourteen inches. The thermometer often falls to 25 degrees below zero. Once a month an observer climbs up to the station to take the readings of the instruments. He is two days climbing up and two days climbing down. ‘ohn Underwood. tlesea, England, in 1733, left some over the green painted coffin, “Non” Omnis Moriar, on white marble. Another Story, An aged Scotch minister, about to marry for the fourth time, was ex- plaining his reason to an elder. “You see, I am an old man now, and I canna expect to be here verra lang. When the end comes I wad like to have some one to close my eyes.” The elder nod- ded and said, “Awell, meenister, I have had twa wives, and baith of them opened mine.”"—London New “Horace.” house to a cold repast had to sing glass before retiring at 8 p. m. ! of John Underwood.” - The Sistine Chapel, Rome. One Valuable Asset, “What's the matter with the man in the second story of this house? The doctor’s been coming here regularly for the past three month: “Oh, he’s the doctor’s best patient He doesn’t get well and he doesn't dle!”—TI'hiladelphia Inquirer. of frames for his paintings. marble screen. No one can say tainly who made it. Ensed His Conscience. “I have examined our public sub- seription boxes for years,” said an of- ficer of a charitable organization, “and in them I have found many queer things. The very queerest, though, was last year. On opening a box in a New York rallway station I found the gold settings of a necklace, a stomacher, a himself, Baccio Pontelli. od, who died at Whit- odd Instructions for his burial. His fortune of £6,000 went to- his sister, provided that no bell was tolled at his grave, no relative followed his coffin and vari- ous other arrangements were carried out. Six men only were invited and re- quested not.to come in “black,” who received 10 guineas each for their serv- ices. Service over, an arch was raised with 1733,” inseribed ‘The six men sang ; the last stanza of the Twentieth ode of the second book of Horace. The de- censed, who had been coffined fully dressed, had under his head Sanadow’s “Horace,” at his feet Bentley’s “Mil- ton,” in his right hand a Greek Testa- ment and In his left hand a small The six on repairing to his the Thirty-first ode and drink a cheerful This done, directed the will, “Think no more The chapel is a beautiful place In it- self by its simple and noble proportions as well as by the wonderful architec- tural decorations of the ceiling, con- " celved by Michael Angelo as a series Beautiful beyond deseription, too, is the exquisite cer- It was perhaps designed by the architect of the chapel There are a few such marvels of unknown hands in the world, and a sort of romance slings to them with an element of mys- tery that stirs the imagination in a dreamy way far more than the gilded onk tree in the arms of Sixtus IV. by R | which the name of Rovere is sym- - palr of earrings and five rings. They | bolized. Sixtus commanded, and the were magnificent settings, worth a | chapel was built. But who knows deal of money. I could not help won- | where Baccio Pontclli lies? Or been stolen. The settings were now glven to charity by the thief. The stones themselves would be recut and sold. Around this gift was a note, which said: “‘Sell for the sick. @qes as far as this.’” The More the Merrler, lady her weight in gold.” My consclence who dering what the stones, which had | shall find the grave where the hand Sy been roughly torn out of them, were; that carved the lovely marble screen like. These Jewels, of course, had| is lald at rest? “T want to introduce you to a youna very nice girl—and she's worth “Stout girl, I hope.”—London Tatler. DmG Gent’s Furnishings. A look at our window will convince you of the good values we are uffering at very low prices. Summer Goods. We have a large stock of lawns and are giving special prices on a number of patterns. LOOK 51¢ Ladies’ Summer Uader Garments. They are well made and of the best materials. Shoes and Oxfords. them in patent, colt, gunmetal and vici kid. A chance to compare them with other makes is all we ask to make asale. Remember we do not advertise all of our special bargains. statements. — | & Co. at our 5 cent lace counter. 10 cent and 12 cent values for k A shipment of Ladies’ oxfords just received. We have § An inspection of our counters will prove our § |E. H. Winter 01d’ Time Acting. The old time actor had pecullar and primitive views.as to elocution and its- uses. I remember a certain old friend of mine who, when he recited the open- ing speech in “Richard II1.” and arrived at the line, “In the deep bosom of the ocean buriid,” suggested the deep bos- om of the ocean by sending his volce into his boots. Yet these were fine actors, to whom certain young gentle- men who never saw them constantly refer. The methods of the stage have completely changed and with them the tastes of the people. The probability is that some of the old actors of only a few years ago would excite much merriment in their delineation of trag- edy. A very great tragedian of a past generation was wont in the tent scene in “Richard IIL” to hold a piece of soap in his mouth, so that, after the ap- pearance of the ghosts, the lather and froth might dribble down his chin, and he employed moreover a trick sword ‘which rattled hideously, and, what with his foam flecked face, his rolling eyes, his inarticulate groans and his rattling blade, the small boy in the gallery was scared into a frenzy of_vociferous delight!—Richard Mansfield in Atlantic. Proficient. ‘When western Iowa was newly set- tled the farmers in-an isolated section banded themselves together as a school district and proceeded to choose one of their number committeeman. A log schoolhouse was erected, and soon a young woman came that way seeking a chance to teach The committecinan was designated to ascertain her fitness, ‘When the time for the ordeal arrived the public official was at his wit's end He had been examined himself often enough, but that was when he was at. tending district school fifty years be- fore. The very thought of conducting an examination himself, and for a teacher at that, staggered him. He could not think of a question to ask. The young woman sat waiting, and the old man teetered nervously on his tiptoes. “Well, now, Miss Burden,” he said cautlously at last, “kin you say the alphabet back’ards?” Miss Burden could, and did. “Fine!” cried the committeeman. Just indorse your certificate.” wrote it thus: “Fully profeeshunt.” “pn He A Great St Forgery. The most colossal stamp forgery on record entailed the successful swin- dling of collectors throughout Europe in 1889. One day the French papers announced that King Marie I. of Se- dang, an island in the vicinity of Chi- na, was coming to Paris. As it hap- pened, this self created monarch was an ex-officer of the French navy, and his appearance in Paris created con- slderable sensation. As soon as his majesty had been duly “advertised” sets of seven different postage stamps marked “Sedang” and bearing three half moons appeared, and so great was the demand for them that in less than a month they realized 1,000 franes each. Not until the king and his min isters had reaped fat fortunes in this manner was It discovered that the whole thing was a hoax and the stamps consequently worthless, Some Slips of the Tongue. Never use the word “liable” when you mean “likely.”” Do not say, for instance, that “he is liable to come in at any moment.” “Liable” implies mis- fortune and means “exposed to,” “sub- Ject to,” “in danger of.” Why do most of us speak of “un- raveling a mystery?” Any good dic- tionary shows that “ravel” means ‘“to unweave.” You “ravel” a mystery, therefore, when you solve it. In “Ham- let” Shakespeare says: “Make you to ravel all this matter out.” If you and your friend Smith know a man called Jones, do not speak to Smith of “our mutual friend”—mean- ing Jones. Jones Is your common friend. If you are friendly to Smith and Smith is friendly to you, you and Smith are “mutual friends,” but that is the only sensd in which the term may be rightly used. ~ Died Standing. ) The incident of Ratisbon—a French officer, though mortally wounded, rides back to Napoleon, reports the capture of the city and then falls from his sad- dle dead—is paralleled by a story of Gettysburg. An officer of the Sixth ‘Wisconsin regiment walked up to Colo- nel Dawes, who was In command— Colonel Bragg was in Washington on crutches. The officer was very erect and very ‘pale. Dawes and Doubleday both thought he was coming with a re- port or to receive orders. But he was not. He had a favor to ask. “Colo- nel,” he said to Dawes, “will you tell the folks at home I died as a, man and a soldier should?” Then he unbuttoned his coat. His whole side was shot away. It was his last effort. He died standing. A Nose Tax. A “nose tax” was in the ninth cen- tury exacted by the Danes from the householders in Ireland. It was so called not because it was levied on noses, but from the fact that a failure to pay was punished by slitting the nose from tip to eyebrow. It was con- tinued during thirteen years, when the householders, objecting to this treat- ment of their nasal ornaments, rose in rebellion, massacred all the Danes In Ireland and put an end to the nose slitting. Quite a Difference, Employer—Young man, I hear that you bet on horse races. You are dis- charged. Youth—But my brother-in- law is a bookie. I have netted $600 on his tips this week.” Employer—Ahem— er—close the door, please. Young man, your salary is doubled. Consider your- self my confidential advlser.—London\ Tit-Bits. ‘Whenever ITI:‘:ve 4 ing at the st fortun California millionair lish writer, I have al no man becamea m early history of Calife earned his fortune b; had the courage to face an old Irishman' nai bringing home to my. ploneers had encount: me how he and a comp in a journey across th companion {njured had to cut it off wiil going forward throl traced woods to sez and for food, had to behind by the side people rafl- Some of the replied that naire in the who had aot risks he had remembered Bill Dunphy nion had fared ontinent. The ax and then, the dark un- for the trail ave his friend a stream and saw what the pion faced, and I felt such rewards, howe: of 1849 had they merited great, as for- estowed upon them, Linen Maik %e The rice plant contributes nothing to- ward the manufacture of rice cigarette papers but the nam Rice paper as bought by the cigdre Bgypt and Turkey i perfectly new trim: 1gs of linen and mostly comes from Haglish and French mills in Constantinople, Fumen and France, ) d Chinese rice paper is made from ‘hin slices. of the pith from the canes of a tree about five feet high. A sharp knife pares the pith into cylinders 0f uniform thiek- ness, which are th pressed out into so\galled rice paper By the way, Egyp! cigarettes con- tain no Egyptian ‘tpbaceo, for since 1890 the cultivatiot of the tobacco plant has been proHibited. It is for workmanship and ti;e curing of the leaf that the Cairemes are so justly celebrated, but the tobacco they im. port comes entirely ffom Turkey. ade from only Freaks of Language. While a delegation is a bunch of de- egates, an amputation is not a collec- tion of amputates ora precipitation a number of precipitates. A clothesline is a rope to hang clothes on, but hanging checks on a checkline would be both risky and eccentric. Horse cars are so called because they are drawn by horses, yet no amount of horse hauling could make the ordinary radish a horsemdish% Though an ice chesti is undeniably a chest for the retention of ice, no one would think of storing hair in a bhab trunk or zinc in a zinc one. ‘While life insurance provides an in- demnity against the going out of one's life, fite insurance dods not provide against one’s fires going out. Money pald to a ferryman Is ferriage, but money paild to a cabman is not cabbage.—Chicago News. A Quaint Oath. The judicial oath in the Isle of Man Is so quaint as to deserve printing. It runs thus: “By this book and the holy contents thereof and by the won- derful works that God hath miracu- lously wrought in heaven above and In the earth beneath in six days and seven nights I do swear that I will, without respect of favor or friendship, love or gain, consanguinity or affinity, envy or malice, execute the laws of this isle justly between our sovereign lord the king and his subjects within this isle, betwixt party and party, as indifferently as the herring’s backbone doth lie in the midst of the fish.” On the Slopes of Vesuvius. Despite the danger to which they are exposed from 80,000 to 100,000 people live upon the slopes of Vesuvius, be- sides the 500,000 inhabitants crowded into Naples. The reason Is that the fertility of the soil Is perennial, the peril only occasional. The voleanic ejecta are rich In alumina, silica, mag- nesia, lime, potash and Iron, which by their decomposition go to make splen- did land. Some of the best vines in Italy grow on the skirts of Vesuvius. 1£ the volcano were away not one-tenth of the many cultivators could subsist in the same area. An International Difference. In France.—The Girl's Father—And now, having settled.the financial mat- ters to our mutual satisfaction, I will speak to my daughter, and you may present yourself to her in the character of fiance. The Suitor—Monsieur is graciousness itself. In America.—The Girl—Papa, Harold and I are engaged and will be married. The Girl's Father—Well, I suppose it's all right. Does he look like any- body I know ?—Judge. Dandies of Pupua, Even the natives of Papua have their fne gentlemen, their dandies. To rank In this class the young man is com- pelled to lace his waist and to have a nose ornament of polished shell. But, as an explorer says, “very few young blades can afford to possess one, and accordingly it may be lent either for a consideration or as a very special fa- vor. The possessor of one of these or- naments could easily buy a wife for it, Bnd sometimes it Is paid as a tribal tribute by one should he have to pay blood money or be unable to give the statutory pig as atonement for a mur- der.” Papuan husbands, too, have a caleitrunt wives. A man named Gedon bad a shrewish helpmate whom he at- tempted to tame according te this method: “He would pick up a billet of | wood when she was halfway through a | tremendous scolding- and glve her a terrific blow over the back, Thereupon ensued pandemonium. The other men 1and women would gather round, jab- bering, but they would make no at- | begun - 8 an Eng-' The Clyde at Glasgow. There are magnificent harbors in the bld world which have been dug out of ghallow sloughs and sluggish ditches. The Elbe at Hamburg is a narrow and insignificant stfeam 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 wag once what is known in America as ‘‘a creek.” Yet the Clyde has been dredg- ed out until today the leviathans orf 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 month, 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, | primitive way of dealing with their re- i as is the custom, but are launched broadside on for fear they should run thelr bows into the opposite bank.— Argonaut, A Bride of Morocco. Bays an observer of conditions in modern Moroceo: “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 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 n unrolled ang? Stranger is the decoration of henna. The henna, pounded and mixed with lemon juice, is somstimes 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 lace 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 Mocrish 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 frontier life are more amusing than to watch the donkey's attack upon a large bull thistle. He walks about it, secking for a favorable opening, projects his lip gingerly agalnst its spines and jerks back as he feels its pricks. He surveys it pensive- 1y for a moment or two and then slow- Iy raises his foot and strikes it, paus- Ing to watch the effect of the biow. He then perhaps strikes it from the other side 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 Homfletiezl Repeater. “It was in a small German congrega- tion that T 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 preachér found all hig peo- ple asleep. As he stopped they all look- ed up and seemed greatly relleved. 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- gln it anew.’ "—Ecclesiastical Review. The Face. Nature has laid out all 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 curl- 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 In the most agreeable light—Addison, Pretty Thin, Landlady—How did you find your bed? Lodger—Well, I don’t think that the mattress will ever need to be oper- ated on for the removal of superfluous hair.—New York Press. bride, at other times many cattle and ; ™7 . iIntellectual Drinks. “Tei and coffee are drugs--drugs solely,” sald a chemist. “They stimu- late the brain, and the reaction from the stimulation is not perceptible; hence tea and coffee are excellent brain spurs. For a little while they do actually make us more intelligent | than we naturally are. That is why they are 80 popular. It is why we chemists call them fntellectual drinks. Alcohol, whether it be taken in the form of champagne or beer or whisky, is not an intellectual drink, but the opposite. From the beginning alcohol stupefies instead of enlivening the brain. But it makes us talk! If it were not en- livening how should it make us talk? Alas, alcohol makes us talk, but we say under its influence. the things we should not. Alcohol deadens the in- hibitory, the prohibitive centers of the brain. Tt stupefies the brain muscle, which knows what things should not be told, and hence, while drinking we talk; but, oh, the things we say, and, oh, how we blush in the cold gray light of the morning after to remember what we said!” “Tarry” Gould’s Long Crufse. “Tarry” Gould was. a well known character in and around Danvers years | ago, but very few knew what gave him the nickname of “Tarry.” He was very fond of telling about the long sea trip he enjoyed when a young man. It seems he thought he was tired living 1 ashore, so he went to Danversport and i shipped on a coasting schooner bound for Philadelphia. He used to say, in { telling bis story: “I did expect to en- Joy that trip so much. Well, we cast off from the wharf and started down river. When we got to Beverly bridge (a mile or so from the wharf) I made up my mind that I had got enough of it, and as we passed through the draw I climbed to the bridge and started for home, and, if you will believe me, 1 could not get a wink of sleep that uight until they threw water on the outside of my bedroom windows to’} make it seem I was aboard ship.”— Boston Herald. Seraps From the Sea, “There is often found at sea a life belt or some sort of a life preserver floating on the water that bears the name of the vessel to which it be- longed,” said a veteran sea captain. “As soon as it is reported there is at once a great amount of speculation on the part of those interested in the ship as to whether the vessel is safe or not. This increases to alarm if the ship is any way overdue. In most instances the preserver has been washed from the deck by a wave or has fallen over- board, and the alarm is entirely with- out foundation. I remember an in- stance in which my boat broke a erank shaft. We were eleven days overdue, and we were given up for lost because a raft that should have been fastened on the deck was washed overboard and picked up by a faster liner. I have sometimes thought it would be a good thing if these minor articles were not marked.” Talleyrand’s Thirteen Oaths, Talleyrand took thirteen oaths of fidelity—to Clement XIII. when he en- tered holy orders, to Clement XIV. when he became bishop of Autun, to Louis XVI. in 1789, to the kin and the constitution, to the directory in 1795, to the directory in 1796 as minister of foreign affairs, to the three consuls, to Bonaparte sole consul, to Napoleon em- peror, to Louis XVIIIL in 1814, to Louis XVIIL. at the second restoration in 1815, to Charles X. in 1824, to Louis Philippe in 1830. A Generous Cardinal. Cardinal Bonaparte was a grandson of Lucien Bonaparte. He was a very charitable man. During one of his ill- nesses a servant came to him and said that a poor person at the door begged for alms. “Give him what money you will find in my purse,” said the cardl- .nal. “There is no money, eminence. The silver spoons are all given away. We bave nothing left but pewter spoons.” “Well, bring him in and give him a good meal.” Disappointed In the Boy. “I don’t know what kind of figure that boy'll cut in life,” sald the old man, with a sigh. He’s gone an’ shat- tered all my hopes!” “Why, what’s he been a-doin’ of ?" “He’s been a-doin’ of nothin’,” was the reply, “cept writin’ poetry on barn doors when I had set my stakes to make a carpenter or a congressman out o’ him!”"—Atlanta Constitution. “MINNESOTA SQCIETY. TEN CENTS PER WEEK % He Had Alrendy “Et” “1 know n western Kansas town ‘where the rules of etiquette are purely, upon a logical basis,” said a man from the short grass country the other day. “The daughter of the hotel keeper at whose hostelry I was living was to be married. 1 received an lnvitation. At about 11 o'clock In the evening the ‘wedding supper was spread. An old lady came down the table side, passing the viands to the guests, When she reached my plate she skipped me and began again with the next man. The old lady had 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 dublous for me. Then an old man came along with more fcod. He also had seen me eating at the usual evens: ing hour. He shied around me with a look of surprise that I should be atthe feed rack again and said, ‘Why, you've ot’ “Everybody had been ‘saving up’ for, the occasion so that they might eat ke heroes at that wedc feast. The fact that I had not been . ing any meals nearly ostracized me in that happy gathering.”—IKansas City Times. The Fate of Citfes. 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 dled 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, Byzau- tlum, Jerusalem, Antioch and Damas- cus illustrate the tenacity of munjei- pal vitality, even though a long suc- cession of centuries brings great changes: in the methods and subjects and courses of trafic—Philadelphia Record. Herbert Spencer. A queer instance of the working of Herbert Spencer’s mind is mentionod by the two sisters in whose houschold he lived. He came to the table one day - absorbed in thinking about ‘some pho- tographs of the nebulae he had just received: “As he rose from his chalr he stood for a minute gazing with gleaming eyes into the distance, and- then’ muttered in a disjointed fashion, @s if half-to himn- gelf, 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 fifty miles apart! What does it all mean? Ard then, without a pause and only a change of voice, “The fluff still comes @t 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.” New Yorlk’s First Street Cleaner. The Dutch housewives of old New York, ever noted for their housekeep- Ing qualities, created the agitation which resulted m the appointment of the first public street cleaner In New York In 1692. He was Laurens Van der Speigle, a baker. His daughter married Rip Van Dam, who afterward became governor of New York, an il lustration of the democracy of that day. Happy Adam. The first monopolist was Adam. The first consumer was Adam. Therefore Adam had the unique and exquisite pleasure of raising the price of beef to the consumer and the equally great Ppleasure of kicking at the price put on it by the trust. Adam was the omly happy man—Detroit Times. The Cure. Anxious Parent—Doctor, my daugh- ler appears to be gging blind, and she Is about to be married. Doctor—Let her go right on with the wedding. If anything can open her eyes, marriage will. One More. “Now don’t ask any more questions. Little boys should not be inquisitive.” “What's inquisitive, pa?” tempt to stop the beating once it had ! o D GED gED SN WES AL ) ™ AN ‘_S_hirt Thote neat fitting, well-made shirt waists and shirt waist suits that you see on the street are made by the Du Brock factory. We are Bemidji agents. Waists