Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 7, 1906, Page 1

—atiae "4 - { | v i ! 1 1 £ | 0oy L g0 Bemidji VOLUME 4. NUMBER 68 BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1906. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. TEN CENTS PER WEEK The Name Tuxedo, The Tuxedo coat got its name from the fashionable colony at Tuxedo, and the original name of the place was Duck Cedar. Lots of the old natives Still eall it Duck Cedar. George Tida- bech, one of the original settlers of the country, named the place. The lake The Interfcr of the Enrth. A frequent remark is that mankind dwells on a thin crust encircling a earthquake shocks. Much virtne In was then much smaller than it Is now | rhetoric, It the purpose is to elevate and was simply known as the fish|the hair and induce cold thrills and poud. One day old Tidabech and his | gooseflesh. The Internal five of the sons had gone there to shoot game. | earth Is an Inference and, in any large The ducks were very plentiful; numer-’ sense, historically harmless It true. ous cedar trees were growing out of | tne rocks along the shore, “Let us give this place a name,” the old mau. Cedar.” 8o Duck Cedar it was and coutinued to be for many years until the name was changed to Tuxedo. Persons who worry over cosmic prob- lems might also keep awake of nights said j over the palpable truth that the earth “Let us call it Duck | moves through space without any visi- ble meauns of support. On the planet are the plain marks of epochs of ice as well as of lntense heat. Sclentists agree that glacial ages will come agaln, but geology teaches that they Mark Twain on Advertising. are gradual and of limited extent geo- Mark Twain in the midst of a pane- | graphically. — St. Louls Globe-Demo- gyric on advertising told a remarkable | erat. story. - “There was & man,” he said, “back Microscopie Writing. Towa way who was so pleased with an| Thackeray could write the Lords Prayer on a sixpence, which is the size of a dime, but it is now possible to write the prayer on a surface so 1ismall that one grain of sand would could, glving barrels away, stuffing my hide it completely. Microscopists sell :ogs]ml Ihey would eat no more, 1 still | coples of the Lord's Prayer written In ad last fall about 20 tons of big, julcy, oirdl ; fine flavored apples left on my hands. 18 circle only th inserted an ad, | of an Inch in diameter. advertisement in the local paper that he wrote the following testimonial let ter to the editor: “Mr. Editor: Sir—After selling all To read the that T wa 1i a barrel of | prayer it Is ne ary to use a lens pleked fruit, freight nce by | magnifylng 500 times. Writing so In- me, to any one who would apply, there credibly small means of levers six feet long. Thes» levers are so adjusted that the motion is gradually lessened as it travels along them till, when it reaches the _— delicate end, armed with a minute dia- Strength of the Opea Sky. mond pen that rests on a glass surface, “What great deed was ever done in- It ea the pen to register on the doors?" w Emerson Hough in the ! glass writing so small as to be invisi- Reader, ing of the | ble—New Orleans Times-Democrat. earth In ait, in scicnce, in romance, was ever conceived brought forth within walls? Pathos grows there, and emall t dy and bitterness and pes- simism, but not great tragedy, nor the vast and useful pessimism which up- lifts human nature and humanity. “The joyous, hopeful, optim things, the large and cheerful motive belng, of course, no charge for the ] You will hardly credit It, but that little forty cent ad. cleared out my whote s of apples, and I could have dispo: five times the quantity on the terms." same A Tune or a Joke, “Was that a bonafide piece that Ethelinda was playing?” asked Mr. Cumrox. “Certainly,” answered his wife. “That ‘was a selection irom Wagner.” 5 “Well, any doubts in company, but half the are found beneath the sky. The In- | tme I caw't tell whether Ethelinda is dians say that the babe born in the | PIAYINE a tune or a practical joke.”— wind will be chief, and that might we! | Washington Star. be so. What strong blood ever grew Indoors? What great drama of the | |, Ouly Thldls Go; ages w ever played there? What ‘Does that young Featherhead play poker?” asked Robinson of a mutual acquaintance, “No,” was the reply, “but he thinks that he does, and we are careful not to undeceive him."—Cingnnati Tribune. duel on the stair ever equaled the bat- tle unaer the trees? “Science may delve, lamp-wise, but what great things, cven of science. came wholly from within walls? Elee- tricity, navigation by the stars—the things which have really conquered the world—dld these appear to man as he | studied at some table side? No. The great and sweet things of knowledge came from the naked stars. Guilty and troublous wisdom may have hous- | Ing, concealment, and so make a con- fession that it is evil, but before guilty Eden knowledge was out of doors.” ! A Retort Courteons. Student—There must be some mis- take In my exa mmmnnh marking. I don’'t th:t « \hsolute zero. Professor her do 1, but it is the lowest mark I am allowed to give.-- New York Times. Consciousness of error is to a certain extent a consciousness of understand Ing, and correction of error is.the plain- est proof ol energy and mastery.—Lan- der. A Clerieal Pun. A complaint was brought before an eminent English bishop that a clergy. i e man In his diocese wearing an Costty. bt Lanitng, Oxford master’s hood when, in fact, he | A JOBRDY—\What! Only married a year bad no such degree. “I call it, my | 300 Yet¥ou are so downcast? Wally— lord,” sald the complainant, “wearing &b, my ‘,]"' ® follow, 1 never Imusineg a lie on his back” “We need not usn| L4t & wife would prove such a costly quite 50 strong a word, Mr. Smith. | article. Johuny—Yes, a wifc is a cost- the bishop replied in his blandest man. | I¥ article, thats true, but then you ner. “Call it a false hood.” must X:(‘mnmb(‘x' that she lasts a man a precious long time. the five-hundredth part j Is accomplished by : of course I wouldn't express | The Whirling of a Bullet. ° Bullets from the thirty caliber rifies molten mass and that the journey ot | of the United States army whirl with life is practically on a fire ball incased | great rapidity. The rifiing glves one In a traglle shell that has cooled and | Fevolution of the bullet about its axis that, as It cools further, contracts with | in ten inches. At the muzzle the ve- locity of the bullet is 2,300 feet a second, which means 2,760 turns a sec- ond, assuming that the bullet does not strip In the rifling. The circumference of the bullet is .942 inch, which glves a peripheral veloclty of 2,600 Inches each second, or 13,000 feet a minute. The Solution. The bankruptcy court can boast some delightfully nalve rejoinders. “How, slr, 18 It possible,” angrily demanded the opposing counsel of the bankrupt, “to live In the luxurious style you have affected on $200 a year?” The witness replied, with an air of justifiable pride, that that “was a problem to which he had devoted considerable time in the interests of social economy, and the results of his humble efforts were now before the court.” Suggestive, “Gee whiz!” said George for the twentieth time. “It makes me mad every time I think of the $10 I lost today. I actually feel as If I'd like to have somebody kick me.” “By the way, George,” said the dear girl dreamily, “don’t you think youw'd better speak to-father this evening?'— Philadelphia Press. Leather Breeches. A hundred and fifty years ago the farm hands and house servants of England were clothed in leather. A good palir of leather breeches was said to pass from father to son as an heir- loom. Then a boy went to school as well protected as an armored cruiser. The author of “Didisburye in the '45"” offers some observations upon these articles of common wear: The test of a good pair was to try if they would stand upright of themselves when no- body was in them. If they would do 80 they were good, strong stuff and likely to last for many years. My father remembered a prentice lad com- Ing to his father, whose fond mother had provided him with such a pair, and they were the means of a “vast of fun” in a game that is unknown in these days—that is, for the boys to set the breeches upright and then jump into them without touchiag them with the hands. It was probably a pair of such leather breeches that the Windsor boy was wearing when George IIL asked him if he did not know that the man before him was the king. “Yes,” said the boy. “Then why don't you go on youx knees, and you might kiss the king's hand,” said the king. "~ “Because T'd snoil my-bresches.” Jumpers of the Sen. Many of the inhabitants of the sea are good jumpers and some have be- come famous. Among them shou'd be mentloned the tarpon or silver kiag, a Luge fish with scales that gleam like silver. In the Paclfic waters the tuna, an ally of the horse mackerel, is noted for its leaps. Sometimes a school sweeps up the coast, and the powerful fish, often weighing 800 pounds, are seen in the air in every direction. They dart like an arrow, turn gracefully five or six feet in the air and come down, keeping the water for acres in a foam, and, if not the greatest, they are cer- tainly the most graceful of the jump- ers of the sea. and fit. values we have in all lines of shoes. We have just unpack- ed a shipment of Hea- therbloom underskirts made by the New York Skirt Co. We can show with every purchase. Buy that new pair of shoes for the Fourth of July and buy a Hanan and you will be satisfied with quality, style A look at our window will convince you of the the latest things and the best values from 3 1o $6 Your price is our price on summer goods, Lawns, Dimitys, Voiles Mulls and white goods at cost. BOY'S SUITS: Some Very good things in boys wearing apparel Sa.tlsfa.ctlon guaranteed E. H. WINTER & CO., BEMIDJI PHONE 30. e Uonduetor’s Mistake. A conductor on the 8t. Louls and Buburban ralroad had such a good run of business Sunday afternoon that he had dificulty In keeping himself sup- plled with small change. Many pas- sengers who patronized his car handed him dollars and bills of larger denomt- nations in payment of thelr fares. The conductor, however, managed to get along fairly well until a woman carry- lng a tiny Infant boarded his car. When he approached the woman for her fare she handed him a five dollar bill. “Is that the smallest you have, mad- am?"’ querled the conductor, fearing another stringency in change. The woman looked at the conductor. and then at her baby and made this surprising reply, “Yes; I have been married only twelve months,” —8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. Men, Women and Fact. Tact has always been considered the “With a woman’s tact,” is one of the stock phrases of the novelist. But a writer in one of the American magazines— and his view is upheld by an English magazine which quotes him—upsets peculiar attribute of woman. this tradition by declaring that men are more often tactful ithan women. Men, speak—when It is wise to withhold even a look—and that 18 why a medi- ocre man will succeed: when even a clever woman will fail;-why men are greater in diplomacy, in all things thai require finesse. Still it is a question ‘whether men really succeed better In diplomacy. What about the woman ‘who is the “power behind the throne?” How the Daisy Was Named. little flower. —New York Press. The Guillotin The machine employed in French public executions has the reputation of being the Invention of Dr. Guillotin, but the machine was used long before the doctor had seen one. All he did for this means of death as_ being pain- less, and In consequence some oue, un- happily for - the doctor’s * humanity, named the machine after him. The guillotine was really prepared by a German mechanic named Schmidt un der the direction of Dr. Antounine Louis and hence at first was called a “lou- ison” or “louisette’” And here it may not be out of place to mention the cognate error that Guil- lotin was its first victim. He nearly became a victim of the revolution, but he escaped, and after the ending of his political career he resumed his duties as a physician and became one of the founders of the Academy of Medicine in Paris. ‘He died May 26, 1814, aged seventy-six, but the French revolution dled twenty years earlier. The first man executed by the guillotine was a highwayman, who died in 1792. The Wrists. In spite of the fact that doctors al ‘ways take the pulse of a patient from the wrist few persons kiow what im- portant parts of the body the wrists are and how much may be accomplish- ed by treatment of them. When one has fainted water should be applied to the wrists as freely as to the face and temples. In cases of gevere illness doctors frequently order the wrists to be bathed with milk and with beef tea. Athletes learn that the wrists must be kept cool in summer and warm in win- ter. You all know the relief experi- enced from removing a tight glove, es: pecially when you are overheated. The relief comes not from the hands being uncovered, but from the wrists being unconfined and kept cool. Incomes In Great Britain. If one is earning an income of £1,000 a year he Is among the financial “up- per ten thousand” in the United King- dom—in fact, there are not 9,000 (ac- year. All the persons in Great Britain and Ireland who have an income of £10,000 a year and over could stand comfortably in a fairly large drawing room twenty-one feet square, while all who have incomes of £1,000 or over could be accommodated In a back garden thirty yards wide and sixty ‘yards in length.—London Standard. Atmospheric and Water Pressurs. The earth’s surface is the plane of demarcation for atmospheric and wa- ter pressure. The barometer Indicates Increased pressure as we go down in mines and decreased pressure in ae- cending In the air. Water also In- creases in pressure as directly as the distance beneath the surface of the sea. The atmosphere has' no known difference In composition at the great- est heights observed. It Is. its light- ness or rarity that affects the lungs at great helghts. ¥ Hegular Ontrichen. “This, ladies and gentlemen,” unld the guide, “Is a real theatrical chop- house, Youw will notice the signs. on the wall, ‘Watch your bat’ and ‘Keep #n eye on your umbrella.’” “Grent gooscberries!’ exclaimed the old farmer |n' the party. “I often heard tnll ‘thnt these hem actor folks e sembled. it 1s submitted, are swift to know when to speak and when not to Of all the flowers of: the field the daisy. is the most appropriately named. Probably not one person in a hundred understands the significance of this Huwdreds and hundreds of years ago it got Its namé, and in all parts of the world the name means the same thing. The nature lover who named the daisy had in his study of the wild flower observed that It opened 1ts eye with the opening of the day and closed it with the setting of the sun. | 8o with the simplicity of the true artist he called it the eye'of the day, the days- eye or, as we spell It today, the daisy. ‘was to publicly. encourage a preference cording to the income tax records) who are as well or better off than £1,000 a |- you never went to see the first night’s Too Rainy For a Wedding. In Sutton a generation ago lived a man named Marsh. He decided after due conslderation to marry a goung lady in an adjoining town. The day was set, preparations were made for the wedding and the guests were as- ‘The appointed hour arrived, and the bridegroom did not appear. Another hour of walting, and still he tarried. The young lady’s father be- came impatient. “I'm going to hunt bim up,” he said. A half hour's drive brought him to the Marsh home. “Where Is Frank?” he demanded, “He went down cellar to pick over some potatoes, seeing it's so rainy,” was the response. “What do you mean by not coming to the wedding?” demanded the irate prospective father-in-law of the tardy bridegroom. “It rains so hard I thought you wouldn’t have the wedding,” Marsh re- plled, “but I'll ix up and ride back with you, seelng everybody’s there.”—= Boston Herald. Haeckel Visiting Darwin. ‘When the carriage drew .up before. Darwin’s house, with its ivy and shadowy elms, the great scientist step- ped out of the shade of the creeper covered porch to meet me. He had a tall and venerable appearance, with the broad shoulders of an Atlas that bore a world of thought; a Jove-like forehead as we see in Goethe, with a lofty and broad vault deeply furrowed by the plow of intellectuz]l work. The tender and friendly eyes were over- shadowed by the great roof of the prominent brows. The gentle mouth was framed in a long silvery white beard. The noble expression of the whole face, the easy and soft voice. the slow and careful pronunciation, the natural and simple tenor of his conversation, took my heart by storm In the first hour that we talked to- gether, just as his great work had taken my intelligence by storm at the first reading. I seemed to have before me a venerable sage of ancient Greece, a Socrates or an Aristotle—Described by Haeckel. A Snake That Swallows Eggs. ‘The hydraci yeti is a native of South Africa, and, taken all around, he is a curiosity in the reptile line. Unlike the regulation snake, he has no teeth in his mouth, but has a full set of grinders in his stomach. These dental wonders grow from the center of each vertebra. They pass through the walls of the stomach, and are each crowned with enamel. Hydraci is the champion egg sucker, and the teeth in the stomach appear to “e nature’s provision for breaking the shell of the ege without running the risk of losing the precious contents. When the egg lands in the stomach and the serpent’s instinct tells it that everything s all right, the ad- dominal walls contract, and the egg is crushed against the long row of verte- bral teeth. State Flags. Most of our stites have flags, some of them very peculiar ones. These are carried as the state colors of the mili- tia regiments. Our own is too familiar to need description. “The white stand- ard of -Massachusetts” has been seen In the forefront of many battles. New York displays a buff flag, and the state banner of Maryland bears on a ground of blazing yellow the arms and motto of the Calverts. The heraldic design is 80 disposed as to give Maryland’s flag, seen at a distance, somewhat the sem- blance of a gorgeous crazy quilt, al- though we suppose to the Marylanders it is more suggestive of the pictur esqueness of a royal standard.—Boston Transcript. . . 8o Far Off. “My sympathies,” says a writer in the Boston Transcript, “were always with an old lady who lived way down in the Maine woods. One day a sports- man-came to the door of her little cabin to ask for a glass of milk. As he drank the refreshing: beverage they exchanged confidences. When In re- sponse to her inquiry he told her that he came from New York city she com- miserated with him, saying, ‘Laws, sir 1t must be hard for you living so fur off!” Warning to Bearded Men. “It 1s well that old men should wear beards,” said a physician, “for when one becomes old one should be spared the exertion of dally shaving. But I would like to. Issue a warning to all beard wearers. I would like to shout “‘Keep your beards dry!’ in a voice loud enough to be heard around the world. Were those words hecded many cases of sore throat, cold and influenza would be avoided, and many deaths ‘would be indefinitely put off. So many men with beards negiect when they wash their faces to wipe their beards dry! A beard a foot long demands a lot of toweling. It should be toweled after every wash a good five minutes. Otherwise it is damp. The owner goes about with this damp thing upon his delicate-and sensitive throat. Then, If he takes tonsilitis or influenza, he blames the American climate. There are too mary damp beards among us. Too many men, washing their faces three or four times a day, have their beards damp and clammy a good three bours daily.”—New York Press. Maine's Female Warrior. - During the war between the states when It became necessary to draft men for the army a recruiting officer, Parker Mears by name, went to an Island off the coast of Mafne called Loud’s island. It claimed to be a plan- tation. As the boat neared the shore a tall, brawny female, the mother of sev- eral stalwart sons, appeared on the rocks and as the officer set foot op shore sternly demanded his business. “After men for Uncle Sam,” he an- swered. She immediately began to pelt him with big, hard potatoes, and they came 80 fast and furiously that he was obliged to flee to the boat and row away as fast as possible. Mr. Mears, when a little excited, stuttered badly. Relating the experience, he ended with, “G-g-give her po-po-po-po-tatoese-nough a-a-and sh-sh-she’ll t-t-t-take RI-Ri- Richmond.”—Boston Herald. Earthquakes. No prediction can be made safely as to future earthquakes in any particular region. If any conjecture is warrant- ed, it is merely that regions which are known to have contracted the earth- “quake habit are, on the whole, more likely to quake in the future than are regions which have long been free from seismic disturbances. No part of the continent seems less likely to be shak- en than the Mississippi basin. Yet there were disastrous earthquakes about the mouth of the Ohio river in 1811-13. Regions covered with thick layers of clay, sand, gravel, glacial drift. etc., like much of the basin of the upper Missis- slppi, are less likely to suffer severely than those where solid rock comes to the surface, for the loose material acts as a cushion to deaden the vibrations ‘which come to the surface from the solld rock below.—The World 'r\ndfy’ Feminine Distinctions. “I would rather marry a sugar mag- nate than be the wife of a coal presi- dent.” “Even if the coal president had more money ?” Love’s Young Dream. She was walting for him at the door when he returned home from business, and he clasped her in his arms. The honeymoon was over, and they had been just three weeks In their new flat. Her delicious dinners had not yet proved all that he had hoped for, but he was good natured about it be- cause their servant was little more than a girl. The bride was looking after the cooking herself. “Ob, Dick,” she said as she took his hat, coat and bundle of newspapers, “I've had such a delightful day! Flor- ence has been here, and she was de- lighted with our cozy corner, as she called it. Then we went out shopping together, and I've the loveliest"— “Yes, yes, dear,” he said, “but you can tell me all about it at dinner. I'm a little hungrier than usual tonight, and—why, what’s the matter?” “Dick,” she tremblingly sald, “I've”— “There, never mind, dear, if you have gpent a little more money than you should have done. We'll make It up somehow.” “But, Dick, I've let the girl out for the evening, and”"— “Oh, never mind the gIrL we'll wait on ourselves, and I'll help you to wash the dishes. There now.” “But, Dick, dear, I’ve been s0 busy I've forgotten the dinner.” — Loudon Tit-Bits. The Nazarcth of Today. Nazareth, where Jasus spent his boy- hood, calls to mind ¢ picture of a hazy, half mystical village of the far east. The Palestine of today Is & network of rallroads nnd telexraph wires. Mod- ern hotels with elevators and bell boys now occupy sacred places of history. Cafes stand where once the hosts of Israel fought, contending with char- iots and horsemen. The awkward cam- el back is transplanted by the compart- ment car. One would look in vain for the hospitable villager standing at the door of his humble flat 100fed home. Tall, slanting roofed buildings predom- inate, with fresh red ti.es lmported from France. In a prominent place on the brow of a hill stands the English orphanage, which provides for the ed- ucation of the orphans of Palestine. English and Arabic are taught here as well as housekeeping and needlework. A telegraph station, with an Armenian operator in citizen's dress, keeps Naza reth in touch with the world. Quieted the Barber. A distinguished senator from the | northwest strolled into the barber shop in the senate wing one day for & shave. The chairs were all occupled. The statesman, seeing this, started to go out, 'with the idea of returning a little later, dut the head barbér of the tonsorial parlor sought to detain the senator. He called after him in a rather strident tone: “You're the next, senator! The northwestern senator wheeled . about, assuming a sad siniie, placed hand over his fast pulsating heart as though the throbbing there pained him and said to the head barber. “Be good enough not to remind me 'umtnnyommermnmmhdp. I understand fully that I am tabbed, but permit me to enjoy what peace I “Yes. You see, sugar is more refined ;- may until the blow f: than coal.”—Baltimore American, Enjoyed It. “Look at that Boston girl at the pho- nograph. - She is actually smiling.” “Yes, she is listenlng to - Professor Beacon’s delightful dissertation on the . ‘Fungous Diseases That Attack the Larvae of the Brown Tail Moth?”— Cleveland Plain Dealer. ‘Wisdom. Wisdom mnever opens her doors to those who are not willing to pay the price of admission. There are no bar- And the occupants of ‘ the chairs chuckled under their soapy masks.— American Spectator. The Ostrich. Instead of being a stupid bird the ostrich is one of the wisest and most wary. About the dwellings of white settlers, who have neither the time nor the inclination to distarb him, he becomes so tame that he unconcern- edly mingles with the poultry and milk cows as if he, too, were domesticated. He is always fearful of men on horse- back, but is not ut all disturbed by the gains at her counters, no short cuts to | approach of people on foot unless they her goal. goods” Is her motto.—Success Maga- zlne. ‘Wanted Action, play with the Jones boy? Mother—No; he doesn’t go to church! Bobby—Well, can I go out and punch him in the nose for not going to church?—Boston Post. “Pay the price or leave the ; are followed by dogs. These he great- ly fears. On the plains he often asso- clates with the deer or the guanaco, and an alarm of any kind will send i them rushing away together. Bobby—Mother, can I go ont andi He—So your father asked you what you saw in me to admire? no; he asked me what I imagiasd I saw. ey A Joyous Sight. The master plumber had become rich and was going abroad for his health. On the voyage a school of whales was sighted, and the plumber. was seen to rub his hands in ecstasies. “Why is he so happy? asked a cu- rlous passenger. “He can't help it,”- whispered the captain. “He Imagines each spout is a burst water pipe to be repaired by him at his old rates.”—London Tele graph. - Squelched Again, '~ “Mm Peck, I have stood your bully- ragging just as long as I propose to do 80. I shall proceed to glve you a | plece of my mind.” “A plece of your mind, Henry Peck? A piece of your mind! Talk about ‘two bites of a cherry! "—Chicago News. The Eclipse of Art. - ‘Playwright (to friend)—I'm going to the theater tonight. Friend—I thought performance of your plays. Play: wright—I’m not going to see the play. T .am golng to see how many people are there. ' - i His Tender Way. “ghall 1 sing ‘Becnuse I Love ler" asked Mrs. Darley as lhe aeawd hor i self at the plano. “No,” replied Mr, Dlu-lay, wlm brute; f you love mie, don’t sin, A hot summer day—an | ice cold lemonade—a straw —and an “R & W” Outing Suit i ls Comfort pexsomfied. The "Sp-"—n «R & W’ two- b\mon single-breasted sack coat— MEN KEEP COOL! ‘We'll help you, going to close out our 2- dee outing suits, tan shoes and oxfords, just see the prices. Min's $500 Outing Suits $3.95 Men's $800 and $8.50 Outing Suits at— $5.50 Man’s $900 and $10.00 Outing Suits at— 7.50 Men’s $14.00 and $16.50 | Outing Suits at— $11.00 Men’s Tan Oxfords—All men’s tan oxfords, including J. 8. Nelson’s custom-fit and | she Racine make, ‘the $3.50 and ‘4 .00 oxfords, a pan—