Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 1, 1906, Page 4

— DAYS SET APART FOR NEIGHBORS Bemidji Carnival to Have Black- duck, Walker and Cass Lake “Days.” COMMITTEE WORKING HARD ARRANGING FOR BIG SHOW NORTH COUNTRY FORPENDERGAST Score of Counties Favor Bemidii Man for Lieutenant Governor. 1f the north country has a de- ciding voice in the democratic Special Attention Will Be Paid to state convention to be held in Making Things Pleasant for Visitors. Minneapolis next September, Judge L. G. Pendergast of this city seems sure of landing the lieutenant governorship nomina- The Commercial club is work ' ion, ing diligently on the program for | the coming carnival and are get-| majority of northern 'counties ting matters into shape for the! will stand by him solidly. Al- expeditious handling of the event. It has been decided to set aside three days of the carnival, one for the citizens of Blackduck on Wednesday, August 15; Walker, Thursday, August 10, Cass Lake, Thursday, August 16; Cass Lake, Friday, August 17; and attractive programs will be prepared for the entertainment of the visitors from those towns on the dates mentioned, in addi tion to the free shows to be givin by the Cash Carnival company. It is expected that a baseball game will be played every after- noon during the carnival, and there will also be other games and races. The advertising matter for the show is being posted i neighbor- ing towns and there will un- doubtedly be a large crowd in the city eyery day of the car- nival. McGrath-0'Connor. Miss Julia McGrath was mar- ried to Daniel O’Connor at the St. Anthony chapel yesterday morning, Rev. John O’Dwyer officiating. Miss Bessie Harris acted as bridesmaid and J. O. Harris was best man. Mr. and Mrs, O’Connor will make their home in Bemidji, Both have many friends here and are deservedly popular. What You 'Ludin’ to? Crookston Times: Charles Rauch left Saturday evening for Bemidji, where he will remain for four or five days. He in- timated on his departure that it was possible that he would not return alone and friends are making a collection of old shoes and rice. Noted Educator Here. Professor Charles Bundy Wil- son and family of Iowa City, Iowa, arrived in the city last evening and will visit in this vicinity for several weeks. The professor intends to stop at the Jesterresort,on Lake Plantagnet, where he has rented a com- modious cottage. He is professor of German at the University of Iowa, and is also secretary of the central division of the Modern Language Association of Amer- ica, and has come up into the pine country to recuperate be- fore resuming his labors at the Iowa institution this fall. Has a Narrow Escape. John Marin had a ride yester- day that he will not soon forget. He was with his dray at the M. & 1. depot when the team made a quick turn, and the dray fellon its side. John got on the tongue of the wagon between the horses, where he was given a severe bumping until the rig was thrown against the sidewalk and Marin was thrown headforemost from the tongue to the ground. He had the presence of mind to grasp the bridles and stop the horses before they could trample on him. He narrowly escaped serious injury. Read the Daily Pioneer. From present indications the ready the judge has received word from the party leaders in cighteen or twenty couuties, a BY RESOLUTION M. E. Charch, in Quarterly Con- ference, Express Appreciation of His Services. The fourth quarterly confer- ence of the Methodist church was held at the church last even- ing, Dr. Dodds, the presiding elder, conducting the meeting. The reports from the various departments of the church were read and showed the work to be in good condition, Over $500 bas been raised for repairs and for paying off the church indebt- edness 1n part. The Ladies Aid and the Epworth League reports were good and showed these organizations to be in good work- ing condition. The church dur- ing the past year has made a net gain of t venty in membership. The pastor, Rev. Isaac Peart, was unanimously requested to return for another year. This being the last visit of Dr. Dodds, whose term as presiding elder HON. L. G. PENDERGAST few in the center of the state, but most of them in the northern half, giving him assurances of support in their respective strong-holds. Each letter pre- dicts that the county will send a Pendergast delegation to Minne- apolis. * The press in various parts of the state, especially in the coun- ties where the judge bas former- ly lived, has taken up the cry of Pendergast, a northern Minne- sota man, for second place, and the sentiment is growing, Naturally, Judge Pendergast is greatly pleased and encouraged by all these expressions. He is not over contident, however. The twin cities, he thinks, will have the deciding voice, and the suc- expires October 1, the following resolution was adopted by a ris- ing vote: “Whereas, Dr, Dodds is near- ing the end of his six-year term as presiding elder of the Crooks- ton district, Northern Minne- sota Conference, and this being his last official visit to us as pre- siding elder of said district; therefore, be it “Resolved, That we, members of the official board of the Be- midjiMethodistEpiscopal church, express our deep appreciation of his services among us and his work in general in this district, and if at the coming annual’ con ference a new district is formed, we earnestly desire that he be appointed to it as presiding elder.” At the close of the business session, a social session was held, which was enjoyed by all present. The ladies, not to be outdone in the work, and know- ing full well that a social session cessful candidate must win t.heir favor. The following from the Staples World and from the Wadena Pioneer-Journal are fair samples of the write-ups being given the local man by the outside press. Says the World: There is some talk of running L. G, Pendergast of Bemidji for lieutenant governor on the democratic ticket. It is hoped to strengthen the ticket by get- ting a candidate from the north- ern part of the state, in the vicin. ity of the republican nominee’s home. Todd county might be swung into the Democratic col- umn good and strong if Pender- gast was nominated, as he form- erly resided here, and most of the older settlers have a speak- ing acquaintance with him. Any one who wants to wager that we are a prophet ought to have no difficulty in finding plenty of takers. The Pioneer-Journal Says;— We notice eld friend, Judge L. G Pendergast of Bemidji, is being groomed for lieutenant governor on the democratic ticket. Judge Pendergast formerly lived at Eagle Bend and he used to be mixed up to quite an extent in district politics down this way. He is an old soldier, a good speaiter and a bright, though somewhat radical gentleman. Webb-Blood. William Blood and Miss Josephine Webb were united in the holy bonds of matrimony, last evening at 8:30, Judge L. G. Pendergast performing the cere- mony, at the residence of Nor- man Morrow. Mrs. Morrow acted as bridesmaid and D. E. Smith stood up as best man. Judge Pendergast had his cus- tomary dignity with him and kissed the bride with a resound- ing smack when he pronounced the couple man and wife, signs. EMBLEM GOODS We carry a large and comprehensive stock and manufacture original de- A large assortment of Elk teeth and Eagle claws in stock—we mount into charms, pins, sleeve buttons and lapel buttons. Designs drawn and estimates given. GEOQ. T. BAKER & C0 Manufacturing Jeweler. was not complete without re- freshments, looked after this part of the entertainment by serving ice cream and cake. Berry Pickers Busy. The blueberry season is at its l:eight and reports from various points in this vicinity indicate that the crop has been an average one. The woods are filled with berry pickers, and there are large quantities of the fruit being shipped from Deer River and Ball Club, about the average at Walker, but Cass Lake and Be- midji are not marketing as large shipments as last year. An Example of a Judicinl Mind. At a dinner attended by a score of well known lawyers recently the phrase “Judicial mind” was defined by illus- tration as follows: “I have searched far and wide for a satisfactory definl- tlon of the inevitable query raised when Judicial nominations are in sight,” said one of the lawyers. “On a Mississippi river steamboat some time ago I ob- . tained my only approximate answer. A southern colonel who employed the phrase yielded to my request for a definition and explained that on a cer- tain occasion a legal light of Missis- sippl was traveling in a river steamer when the boiler exploded. As the boat was passing the penitentiary at the time the force of the explosion deposit- ed the lawyer inside the walls of the establishment from which he had saved 80 many criminals. Being uninjured, a8 a clever lawyer would be under the circumstances, he applied to the ward- en for a release. The warden listened to the clrcumstances as he narrated them, but declined to release him, in- slsting that with the coming of prison- ers he had no concern, but for their departure he was responsible. He therefore compelled the lawyer to wait for a pardon from the governor. That 1s my notion of a judicial mind.”—New York Post. The Ball In Lawn Tennis, It is a curious fact that every bools written on lawn tennis cautions the player to keep his eyes on the ball at the moment of striking it, yet there are very few expert players who do so. A rifie shot looks at his target, a bowler looks at the pins, and a billiard player generally looks at the object ball, not the cue ball. I have found it next to impossible to carry in my mind, while moving rapidly to play a flying ball, the exact height of the net, the direction of the lines of my opponent’s court and his position, so that it has become second nature with me and with most other players to look up in the direction that the ball Is to go before it actually leaves the racket. It is principally be- cause the reverse of this Is necessary in golf that lawn tennis players have 8o much trouble In mastering the old Scotch game. From tennis habit they take thelr eyes off the ball too soon for golf success.—J. Parmly Paret in Coun- try Life In Amerlca. Athentian and Sarbarian, A westerner once wrote a letter to the late Mayor Prince stating that he was about to visit Boston and asking the mayor to tell him a good place to stop at. The mayor replied, “Just be- #ara tho ‘at! ¥_Boston Herald. TO BE ERECTED George Markham to Build Imme- diately on Ashes of Burned Structure. George Markham, with Phoe- nix-like activity, will erect one of the finesy coal warehouses in the entire northwest over the ashes of the recently destroyed warehouse, on the south side of the Great Northern tracks, wherein he lost several hundred tons of coal by fire two weeks ago. The building will be sixty feet long, eighteen feet wide, and the whole will be covered with pressed steel, making it fire- proof. The structure will be so lo- cated that there will be chutes on the track side, allowing coal to be dumped directly from the €ars into the top of the bins; and the south side will be so arranged that teams may back up to the platform and take coal directly from the bins into the wagons. Ben Erickson has the contract, the ground is being cleared, and Mr. Markham expects to have the warehouse ready for the reception of coal within ten days. The destroying element had no terrors for Geo~ge, and he is doing more busiuess than ever. Moon ment, Many people suppose that moonlight possesses great potency and has a won- derful influenee on or over animate and inanimate things on our planet. Such persons should remember that moonlight is only reflected sunlight and that the quality and quantity of the light thus reflected are not what is generally imagined. In fact, it is a truth which has often been demonstrat: ed by the speculative astronomers that it would take 618,000 full moons to afford an amount of light equal to that emitted by the sun, and, furthermore, there is only sky space for 75,000 such disks. Some heat comes from moon- light. However, it is in quantities so small that it cannot be measured by ordinary instruments. Flammarion says that the amount of heat emitted by a full moon while at its zenith can- not be more than one eighty-thou- sandth of the amount that the sun sup- plies when standing on the meridian on a favorable day in July. Such be- ing the case, it is really surprising that intelligent people should consider that the moon has such a wonderful “Influence” over terrestrial affairs. Lighting a Pipe. . A smoker who started to light his pipe on the street turned to his com- panion and said: “A man told me the other day how to light an ordinary match in a high wind. Let me show you.” There was a stiff breeze blowing. The demonstrator took from his pocket an envelope, struck a parlor match on a rail and shielded it inside of the en- velope, facing the wind as he did so. The mateh burned with hardly a flick- er, and the man who held it puffed on his pipe with great satisfaction. “That’s a trick worth knowing,” he remarked. “Here's another. Some- times you get a spark on top of your plpe which the most vigorous puffing fails to spread over the surface of the tobacco. 1In that case take a plece of paper of almost any kind and hold it down in the spark. This will spread the fire and give you the sort of light a plpe smd%er wants.” — Providence Journal. Well Upholstered Furniture, ‘When Pargdise Corner organized its woman’s club it was determined that everything should be done in the most businesslike way. “My husband makes 80 much fun of women’s meetings,” said one of the youngest members. “He says women never remember to say ‘Mrs. President’ or speak of ‘the chair’ or ‘the secretary’— that is, he says they are liable te forget at any time and mention names instead, bui I told him we shouldn’t, any of us. “Why, as I told him, we are so par tlcular that when we had that extra meeting at Miss Lowden’s, and it was so hot and Miss Ransom looked about baked in her new coat, Miss Lowden feels so strongly that we mustn’t ever run to carcless ways of specch that she said, ‘Wouldw’t it be wiser for the chair to remove its coat, though it is so awfully becoming to it? And it really did sound a little queer till you thought It aver.”—Youtl’s Companion. A Good Color, Negroes use the same phrases they hear whites use, often with amusing application. This conversation, over- heard in the streets of a southern city, is related in Lippincott’s Magazine: “Howdy, Mig’ Mandy? How Is you?’ called one dusky aunty to another. “Oh, I jes’ tollable, Mis’ Johnson. How you feelin’?” was the response. “Why, I's a-feelin’ mighty peart, I is,” con- fided Mrs. Johnson. “I suttenly does feel fine.” “Wellum, yo' sho' is look- in’ well,”” agreed her friend. “Yo’ col- or's 8o good.” Proxy Husbands In Turkey., ° Divorces are easy to obtain in Tur- key, and a husband and wife may re- marry three times. If they wish to marry a fourth time, the woman must go through the formality of marrying another man and then of being di- vorced. This custom has given rise to a curlous professlon—that of proxy husbands. Such /men are generally blind and have ‘no hesitancy in relin. quishing their brides for a money con- sideration. HONOR DR.DODDS \NEW WAREHOUSE | sncws oy uico slstion: ships which earthquakes hold to yari- ous natural phenomena there Is possl- bly one between the times of thelr oc- currence and of irregularities In the revolution of the world. For many years it has been observed that there are slight but Irregular changes In lati- tude, or, in other words, the axis of our earth does not always point in the same direction. The pole wanders about In a mean position, sometimes in a path that I8 nearly circular, while at others It appears to be exceedingly Irregular and' even retrograde. .The world top is not spinning truly, but it slightly wabbles. When the change In direction of its axis is sharp large earthquakes have been frequent. If a swiftly moving body Is, so to speak, compelled to turn a corner, that it should be subjected to strains which might result in ylelding Is easily con- celvable. Regarded from this point of view, the times at which strata In selsmic strain give way are to some extent governed by erratic movements In the rotatlon of our sphere. The earthquake and the wabble may, how- ever, be due to a common cause, and the question therefore Is one which re- quires closer examination.—John Milne fn National Review. A Good Horwe’s Color. A good horse cannot be a bad color, it Is said. It Is certain that Derby ‘winners are not drawn from certaln colors. Has a gray ever won the race, or a dun or a skewbald or a piebald? Has there ever been a thoroughbred of the latter type? Quite black thorough- breds are rare, white still more so, gray uncommon even among the less exalted of public performers. The “Stud Book” would not bear out these statements where colors uncommon on the race course are described. The ex- planation is, of course, that the horse Is there deseribed as he appeared as a foal. An owner of a bay thoroughbred looked up the “Stud Book” to find his purchase pictured as a chestnut and complained to the men of whom he bhad bought the horse. The former owner assured him that the descrip- tion was correct at the time it was en- tered. Other owners, less certain as to ‘what color may appear when the first coat has been cast, have before now made such singular entries as “gray, roan or chestnut.”—St. James' Gazette, Brought to Book at Last. Tibbie was a Scotch lass, hardwork- ing and comely. She ruled over a grateful and suppressed family of New Englanders for eight years, and then announced her intention of marrying within six weeks. “I suppose it is Rab whom you meat to marry, Tibble?” asked her nominal mistress, referring to a tall, mild faced young Scotchman who had spent more or less time in Tibbie’s spotless kitchen for the last three years. “It is,” announced Tibbie calmly. “Here he’s been coming and sitting wi’ me all these times and never a word o' merrying. So at long last I said to him, ‘If you've no mind to tak me, Rab, ye can jist say so, and I'll spend nae more on bright ribbons to sit up wi ye, but I'll tak’ my money to buy one of those talking machines that plays tunes, after I've paid for a strip o new oilcloth to cover the floor where you've worn out the old one, and then Tl tak’ my releegious books and settle down In quiet.” “Rabble was so concerned at my drear prospects and the thoughts o my savings he sald he would ha’e me whenever I got ready.” Shooting Down the Alps on Skees. The quest for a moral is provoked by a long list of skeelng accidents in the Alps, In itself the exercise can hardly be considered more- perilous than skat- ing, though the proportion of sprained ankles and twisted tendons Is higher, but when the skeer skees a distance from his base and ventuces upon un- familiar ground there aure at least three ways in_which calamity Is liable to befall him® On a glacier he may break through the snow bridge which he is trying to shoot and be burled in a crevasse. On the hillside he may skee violently down asteep place and, un- able to arrest his pace, end by skeeing over a precipice. Almost anywhere, unless he knows the signs, he may skee In the tracks of an avalanche and be overwhelmed. Examples of each of these several kinds of disaster have lately been presented, and each of the disasters conveys a warning of which amateur skeers, whose name nowadays is legion, would do well to take a daratal nata —Vandon Geanhin The Porcupinc's Quills. The spines are very loosely attached to the porcuplne, and they are very sharp—as sharp as a needle at the outer end. At almost the slightest touch they penetrate the nose of a dog or the clothing or flesh of a person touching the porcupine and stick there, coming away from the animal without any pull being required. The facility in catching hold with one end and let- ting go with the oiber has soinctiinos caused people to think that the spine: had been thrown at them. The outer end of the spines, for zome distance down, Is covered with small barbs These barbs cause a spine once imbed: ded in a living animal to keep working farther In with every movement of the muscles, so that it is not a pleasant thing to get stuck full of ther, Inmease. “What's the differcace between vl slon and sight?” “See those two girls etreet?” “Yos. “Well, the pretty one I would call a vision of loveliness, but the other one —she’s a sight”--Cleveland = Plair Dealer. across the Correet. The New Waltress—Shall I say “Din ner Is served” or “Dinner Is ready,” ma'am? Mistress—If that cook doesn’t do any better, just say “Diuncr Is #poiled."—Harper's Dazar. Nerve, “You don't even dress me decently,” she cried. “I'm going home to papa,” “All right,” replied Doolits. “You might sny to him also that I need a new sult myself."” " mare Stella~He .told me I looked sweet enough to eat, < Bella—He doubtlcss meant yon ‘were A “Turner” sizcs, Very few Loudon deillers Indeed are competent to judge Turner's works— that s, without a certified history. A i lady acquaintance of mine had a large | pleture in her house which she had al- | ways regarded as a Turner, and, desir- | ing to sell it, she offered It to five or slx of the leading dealers, but not one | of them would buy it at any price, as- serting that Turner never saw it and | .that it was nothing like his work, and ; soon. A few months afterward a doec- ument turned up among her family pa- ‘ pers showing that the picture had been } speclally painted by Turner for her } husband’s father, and In a week she had sold the work for £2,250. The av- erage dealer 1s almost frightened to | touch a Turuer, and you seldom or nev- er see one exposed for sale In the gal- leries,—Chambers’ Journal. { | Our Foolish Alphabet, I Why, think of it! We've not even a | reputable alphabet. The letters are all | tangled up. J is J when it isn’t Y, and more than half the time Y is doing : duty for U, § Is sometimes Z, G is J, ! and poor C Is always either S or K. ' We've got four distinet ways to ex- | press the N sound—gn, pn, kn and n; ! four ways to write the terminal sylla- | ble “er”—er, ar, or and ir; five ways to ' sound the letters “ough”—uff, awf, ow, | 00 and o. And there are no rules. Each of the myriad cases must be sep- arately hammered into a student’s head. And this Is work for babes!— Mary Bronson Hartt in Woman’s Home Companion. Color and Aroma of Coftee. There are two things which people tmagine are guides to the goodness of coffee which are really of no conse- quence whatever. They are the color of the decoction and the aroma of the coffee when ground or .as it escapes from the pot in drawing. The color is due almost entirely to the roasting. This 1s true also of tea. The finest coffees and teas, when properly roast- ed and prepared, to give out their finest flavors will color the water but little. The real essences which give the flavor have practically no color. Mixed. A professor at one of the Australian universities recently informed his class that “the darkest hour in the day is in the middle of the night at 3 o’clock in the morning.” On another occasion the same professor made his apology for | the intricacies of a statement by add- Ing, “I can’t give you an easier expla- nation without making it more diffi- cult.” To Make It Tender. “Waiter!” called the customer in the restaurant where an orchestra was playing. “Yes, sah.” “Kindly tell the leader of the vrches- tra to play something sad asd low while I dine. I want to see if it won’t have a softening influence on this steak.”—Mil'vaukee Sentinel. His Ambition. Father—My son, do you know that most of the rich men of today began poor? Small Son—Yes, sir. - Father— And yet, instead of saving your pen- nies, you spend them. Small Son— Yes, sir. When I start out I want to heain noor o A Forest of Glants, It s almost impossible for one who has scen ouly the eastern or Rocky mountain forests to imagine the woods of the Pacific coast. Pictures of the big trees are as common as postage stamps, but the most wonderful thing about the big trees is that they are scarcely bigger than the rest of the fof- est. The Pacific coast bears only a tenth of our woodland, but nearly hal{ of our timber. An average acre in the Rocky mountain forest yields one to two thousand %oard feet of lumber; {n the southern forest, three to four thou- sand; in the northern forest, four to six thousand. An average acre on the Pacific coast yields fifteen to twen‘y thousand. Telescope the southern and Rocky mountain forests, toss the north- ern on top of them and stuil the cen- tral into the chinks, and, acre for acre, the Pacific forest will outweigh them all.—American Magazine. Stains on Books. Ink stains may be removed from a book by applying with a camel's hair pencil a'small quantity of oxalic acid diluted with water and then using blot- ting paper. Two applications will re- move all traces of the ink. To remove grease spots lay powdered pipeclay each side of the spot and press with an iron as hot as the paper will bear without scorching. Sometimes grease spots may be removed from paper or cloth by laying a piece of blotting pa- per on them and then pressing the blot- ting paper with a hot iron. The heat melts the grease, and the blotting pa- per absorbs it. An Experiment. Suburbanite (to visitor)—Oh, how are you? Come right in! Don’t mind the dog. Visitor—But won’t he bite? Sub- urbanite—That’s just what I want to see. I only bought that watchdog this morning.—Paris Rire, Beveral large cod are kept in one of the tanks of the Amsterdam aquarium, necessarily near the surface and there- fore exposed to a strong light from above. Now, the cod, though not a deep sea fish, Is not a surface swim- mer and Jives at depths where the sun- light must be very much modified by passage through the water. It lives in what to us would be semidarkness. Ev- ery one of these cod exposed to the strong light is suffering from an ex- traordinary hypertrophy of the eye. The whole organ has become over- grown, as if in the effort to adjust it- self to the use of more light rays It had become overequipped and then useless, The cod, in fact, are blind. The most interesting feature in this change is the extraordinary rapldity with which in- creased supply of light rays has over- developed the organ for its use. It has taken place not by slow degrees from individual to Individual, but in a course of time to be measured by months and In every individual in the tank. If this example is a measure of the rapid- ity with which such changes take place among fishes, the adaptation of those creatures which have migrated from the shallow waters of the deep seas, shown by the total loss or emormous development of their eyes and the growth of illuminating organs to light the abyss, may have been as rapid as it is marvelous.—London Spectator. A Hotbed of Violence. The island of Sardinia is a hotbed of violence. The “Granary of Rome” re- Blsts the softening Influences of civili- sation and remains with many of the peculiarities which distinguished it in the middle of the last century. “In the country,” writes a traveler of that time, “the men are clothed in goatskins, one before and another behind, with- out breeches, shoes or stockings, and a woolen or skin cap on the head. The ‘women have no other habiliments than a long woolen gown and a woolen cap. The peasants always go armed to de- fend themselves from one amother, for they are all robbers and assassins, so that traveling in the Interior is extreme- ly unsafe without an escort, and it is even dangerous for ships to send their people on shore for water unless they are well armed. In short, the Sardes are the Malays of the Mediterranean.” —London Chronicle. A Leopard Collar. “A leopard collar,” he said, taking up a dog collar studded with sharp spikes three inches long. Fitting the collar on his dog, he resumed: “This piece of armor—for that is what it is—illus- trates an oddity of the Himalayas— namely, the gondness of the Hima- layan leopard for dog flesh. In the Himalayas last year 1 found that all dogs wore these murderous looking splked collars. The explanation was that the Himalayan leopards conducted an unceasing dog hunt, and that in at- tacking a dog they always feil upon his neck. This collar with its sharp spikes is a great protection. It has saved many a dog from a hungry leopard. Often in the Himalayas a dog comes trotting home safe and sound, though with smears of blood and yellow hairs upon his collar spikes.” Names and the Law. Bpeaking generally, the law of Eng- land allows 2 person to assume and use any name, provided its use is not calculated to deceive or Inflict pecunt- ary loss. So the court of appeals laid down the law in Dockrell against Dou- gall, and this attitude of the law, the Law Journal remarks, is characteristic of our British love of liberty. French law is much more strict. It forbids any citizen to bear any name other than that which is expressed in the registry of his birth or to add any surname te his proper name. German law is the same, only it goes a little further in imposing a penalty on any one giving 8 false name to an official—Dundee Advertiser. A Missing Five Franc Plece. Fully half the grownup people of France believe the old story that Napo- leon Bonaparte put a check for 100,000 francs in a silver five frane piece and that the coin is yet in circulation. They say that the people did not want the five franc plece and that in order to create a demand for it Napoleon re- sorted to the device mentioned. The check or treasury order, It is said, was written upon asbestus paper and in- closed in the metal at the time the coin was made. Thousands of five franc pleces are annually broken open and have been so inspected since the story of the check was first circulated. Right of Way In New York. Most people in New York think Uncle Sam’s mail wagons are supreme. ‘They are not. The hospital ambulance comes first. Life is more sacred than mail, and when the ambulance gong gongs clear the track. Nest in importance Is the fire engine. Property is more im- portant than mall, and when the en- gine toots and the bells ring clear the way. Then the mail wagons, which have precedence over everything but the ambulance and fire engine. This 18 settled by clty ordinance.—New York Press. % On nccount ot the National Encampmont of the Grand Arwy ot the Republic in Minncapolls, August 13-18, the Great Northern Railway will sell round trip tickets from BEMIDJT to ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIAS for $4.60 Tickets on sale August 11th to 14th. Final return limit August 31. For turther particulars see B. E. Chamberlain, Agent. LI