Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 2, 1906, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PION VOLUME 4. NUMBER 168 BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1906. TEN CENTS PER WEEK “SKY PILOT" READY FOR WINTER'S WORK Rev. Mr. Higgins Preparing to Resume Preaching to the Lumber- jacks. TELLS HOW TO WIN THE HEARTS OF ROUGH MEN OF THE WOO0DS Minister Must Not **Preach Over Their Heads,” or Pose as Better Than They. Duluth Herald: Rev. F. E. Hig- gins of Bamidji, superintendent of the logging camp missionary work in Minnesota, under the supervision of the evangelistic committee of the Presbyterian church, has been in Duluth for the past few days. He is pre- paring for his annual campaign in the woods and is enthusiastic over his work. While in the city Mr. Higgins held a conference with Dr. Zart- man of New York, who is secre- tary of the Presbyterian evange- listic committee and is greatly interested in the work in the lumber camps. ‘ Mr. Higgins expects to have five men in the field this winter. Two of these are already with him in the work, C. L. Ward Jand F. C. Davis, both of whom come from Minneapolis and both of whom are former woodsmen. Of these two stalwart lieuten- ants, Mr. Higgins has many nice things to say. He wishes that he could secure more as faithful and as competent “There is a great work to be done in the wo)ds and it is rather hard to sezure the right sort of T men to do it,”’ said Mr. Higgins. | was no better than they were at; “The man of stern clerical ap- pearance, who is accustomed to preaching high-sounding ser- mous in the cities, has no place administering the gospel to the lumberjack. “The woodsmen do not take kindly to the city preachers, clothed in black, nor can they understand them. The lumber- jack has his peculiarities as does everyone else and those peculiar- ities must not ba ignored if one wants to make a success of'Every year sees an improvement religious work among them. “They respect you and they will listen to your arguments in favor of sobriety and good, clean Christian lives, but you must not keep them on a straight diet of religious topics all the time you talk to them. You must give them religion along with other things and the man who can do that successfully, who can gain the good will of the men among whom he works, can be most successful in making them see a way out of that darkness which envelopes a great number. “They may be rough, but their hearts are big, as I have had oc- casion to remember during the many years that I have been working in the woods of North- ern Minnesota. “‘One must be a diplomat as well as other things to succeed as a ‘sky pilot,”’ as we are called by the lumberjacks in the woods. l [ remember that a few years ago Ihad an assistant who was a very fine young man with an ex- cellent education, but did not understand the men. “On one eccasion, during an address before a meeting vafl lumberjacks, this young man said: ‘At ope time I had fallen as low as any man in this room—’ He got no further. Several of those present informed him in 1o uncertain language that he|of Fergus Falls will be the editor. "25¢. the moment. His break was most unfortunate and I found it necessary to dismiss him from the service, bright though he was, “The lumberjacks are men and they want to be treated as such. They are brave, too, and most of them have a desire to be good, if you only reach them and kindle that fire, “The work has been very suc- cessful in Minnesota, however, in the men and more of them are persuaded to lead better lives. “They appreciate the efforts of ".he»missionaries in their behalf and I only wish that the mem- bers of the churches all over the country who contribute the papers and magazines for dis- tribution in the lumber camps could see how they are appre- ciated there.” Rev. Mr. Higgins returned not | long ago from the lumbering camps of Uregon and Washing-! ton. He says that he did not see) another preacher there and that iin the spring, when the season’s work isover here, he is going west with his workers and preach the gospel to the lumber- jacks of the Pacific slope. Mr. Higgins is a rugged, force- ful man, known by all the lum- berjacks and Indiaus throughout this part of the state and liked by all of them. He has bhad many interesting experiences| during his long service in the! northland country, He has traveled with dog teams, behiud} horses and even walked, to carry! out his mission. Just at present he is making arrangements for the launching lof a semimonthly publication, “The Lumberjack,” which Will;‘ contain news of interest toj the craft Rev. Thomas Whittles PROFESSOR RITCHIE MAY SPEAK BEFORE EDUGATORS Local Man Invited to Address the Range Educagional Association at- Duluth, Professor Ritchic, superin- tendent of the’ Bemidji schools, has been invited to participate in the meeting of the Range Edueational association, which will be held at Duluth Satur- day, He was requested to give a five-minute talk on the topic, “How can the teacher of science help or hinder the work of the English teacher?”’ The sutj cts are to be discusred at five- minute, round-table talks. Mr. Ritchie is not yet certiin whether it will be possible for him to atiend the meeting; but, in any event, he will prepare a paper on the subject alloted to him, and if unable to b2 presant, will have it read at the meeting. Bijou Program. The program at the Bijm theatre for tonight and uctil Monday will be as follows: “The Villsage Church;” +The Highway- wen;” “The Rescue;”” “A Friend in Need;” ““Robbery of the Pay Wagon;”’ “The Reward of $5,000;"’ “In Hot Pursuit;”’ “Driven to Bay:"” song, “After They Gather the Hay;” “A Free Pass;’ “Off to the Theater;’ **Oh, What a Heat;” “The Ghost.;" “Ancther Practical Jokey’ “At the Corner Grocery;” “His Final Effort;” “Fishing in thd Mississippi Near | received at Bisja¥, Vanderlip & Co’s. Prices ranges from 5¢ to MAIL ORDERS FILLED _PROMPTLY. QUALITY CLOTHES STORE (] CLOTHING HOVSE Realize the Magnitude of This Business. Know the Immgnsity of Copyright 1906 3. 'tuonenhelmar & Co.. Chi. TOGETHER, AS MUCH § VOTE To OUR SPECIA BOY’S CLOTHING--ALONE CONSTITUTING THOUSAND.S oF DOLLARS OUTLET FOR STEIN-BLOCH - AND B. CLOTHES AT $15-$18-$20-$22-2-$25 This Stock. 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Rice. who has acted as|” official scaler for the surveyor general of logs and lumber- for The Sonmet Writers, ‘The fashion of sonnet writing was at its helght in the sixteenth century, when Rousatd, the French “prince of some time past, left yesterday| poets” in his own country and genera- afternoon for Island lake, where|ton, wrote over 500 sonnets, a total he will do some scaling for the which appears only to have been ex- ceeded by Gomez de Quevedo, the Crookston Lumber company for: Bpanish Voltaire, who is said to have a few days, after which he will enter the employ of A. T. Hatcher, Rice is onme of the most competent men in this part of the state, along the lnes of timber estimating._ Dora Thorne. The Beach and Bowers Dra- matic Stock company, ‘which opens here for three nights Mon- day, November 5, at the Opera house, will present a most elabor- ate production of the actually original dramatization of Bertha M. Clay’s world famous novel, “Dora Thorne.” The story of this play alone is highly dra- matic, intensely emotional and replete not only with thrilling dramatic scenes and situations, but furnishes in its text a fine opportunity for the introduction of some really refined but none the less laughable comedy. The story of *‘Dora Thorne,” the poor simple country girl, daughter of a gamekeeper on the estate of an English nobleman,- is the sad story of many a similar girl in a similar station of life. She is ardently wooed and ultimately won by Ronald Earl, the son of an English aristocrat, who owns the immense estate on which the girl was born and on which her father, Richard Thnrne, worked in the humble capacity of game- keeper. As usual, the rich old man vehemently opposed his son’s love watch. But love, as usual, found the way and the young couple were married. After the marriage a former but discarded sweetheart . of . Ronald’s, the -| beautiful-and- wealthy heiress, Valentine Charteris, appears on the scere and out of spite and villainy conspires with the villain, Ricbard Holt, a rejacted suitor written over 1,000. Fortunately for monnet lovers some of the best poets have been prolific sonneteers. Petrarch, who created the classlc model which later poets imitated, wrote &15. Cam- oens s responsible for 352, Sir Philip BSidney wrote 108, Spenser 88 and Dante 80. English sonnets were first written by Bir Thomas Wyatt (1503-42) and Henry Howard, earl of Surrey (1517-47), and the first appearance of any in book form was in a rare publi- cation briefly known as “Tottle’s Mis- cellany,” the full title being “Songs and Bonnettes written by the Right Hon- oure Lorde Henry Howard, late Earle of Burrey, and other.”” The greatest sonneteers of our language are Shake- speare, Milton, Wordsworth and Ros- setti—London Standard. Tiger and Vulture of the Sem. If the “killer” whale Is “the tiger of the sea,” as the writer of an interest- Ing article in the September Windsor has it, the orcas surely are the vultures of the ocean. In connection with whale catching the author of this interesting natural history article tells of the fol- {owing Incident: Bome years ago a whaler in the northwest had killed a large whale and had the animal along- wide when it was attacked by a school of orcas. They doubtless were half starved and, crazed by the scent of blood that extended away a long dis- tance, probably followed it up like hounds, Immediately attacking the whale. The men, with spades and lances, cut and slashed at them, In- flicting terrible blows, yet despite this the orcas literally tore the whale from the ropes and carried it off. This cer- talnly shows that the orcas, together with a very fair share of intelligence, are also creatures of extraordinary courage.—Dundee Advertiser. Always In Trouble. S A still summer’s evening, quiet and almost sad. The trees nodded sleepily, as if hushing the world to rest. Sud- denly the silent beauty was rudely dis- turbed. The clattering of a horse’s hoofs broke the sllence into a thousand echoes. A horseman dashed through the scented.lanes, rage glittering from his eyes. He sprang from his horse and rushed int¢ the still homestead and dragged forth Farmer Brown. “Why, what be matter, 8quire Tamp- son?” queried the worthy farmer » e e | “Matter?” repeated the squire. “Why, mmer'enou;h. to be sure! Your great lubberly son Jack has run off with my beautiful daughter Maud.” “Has' he, really?” érled the farmer, , now thoroughly awake. ‘“Thee'rt right of Dora’s, to separate the young| t' call 'im a lubberly idjut. He's allus couple. This affords an intensely doin’ somathin’ clumsy. Only larst week he went an’ broke a shovel!”— strong scene, in which Holt and | London Express. Earl quarrel, and the former tries to stab his hated and suc Melting Fire Clay With Sun’s Rays. There is an apparatus which concen- cessful rival. Lator, in the third | trates the rays of the sun from more iact, Miss Charteris arranges for| than 6,000 small mirrors on a spot a meeting, at which she faints in Earl’s arms, just as his wife Dora enters, thus affords the = unfortunmate wife apparer.t truth of her hus- about seven inches in diameter. The heat generated is about 7,000 de-| grees F. Iron can be melted in less Holt the villain, | than a minute and fire clay fused in about three minutes by this machine. Magnesia, one of the hardest things to melt, requiring a heat of about 6,400 band’s perfidy and Dora leaves | degrees F., can be reduced to a molten her broken-hearted and a wanderer in the world. Some years suffers a .severe later Ronn.lé illness from husband and her home | ®8tate In twenty minutes. For the ben- efit of those who wish to forget the name of this instrument it is called the pyrheliophor. Protective Colors of Animals. I seem to trace a faint clew to the which he barely escapes with his | connection between the protective col- reasor, and later begins a long oring and the mind in the intense de- sire of the fox to remain concealed and wearisome journey of the|and unseen. That this Is a posaible world in search of his missing| theory we infer from the fact that a wife whose innocence he has blind animal does not change color. established and whown he has Put a dozen minnows into an ordinary white wash hand basin and they will found out to be the innocent and [ in a very short time be of a pale color. unfortunate victim of the wicked | I over one no change passes we may woman and her villainous accom- After many weary months he finally finds his wife— things are made clear; the villain and Miss Charteris confess their vile conspiracy and the couple are reunited. ‘‘Dora Thorne,” be tolerably certain that it is blind.— From Dale's “The Fox.” Guess Again, “I have a pleasant surprise for you, Miss Sharply.” 2 “Can I guess what it Is, Mr. Bore- some?” “You may try, Miss Sharply.” “Let me see. I guess you are going the once humble game-keeper’s|to tell me that you intended leaving daughter, finally becoming the mistress of the grand estate on the city.” “Good night, Miss Sharply.” “Good night, Mr. Boresome.”—Cleve- | which she was born and raiscd, | 1and Plain Dealer. ~ and lives id happiness everafter- ward. ‘'ne KIrst Bathing Machine. Monotonous, “Wealth has its disadvantages,” sald the philosopher. “Yes,” answered the man with sport- There. does not seem to be much | ing inclinations. “It must be very mo- doubt that the first bathing' machine | notonous for a man to be able to bet was seen at Margate and that it was | $5,000 or $10,000 on a horse race with- the Invention of a worthy Quaker | out caring whether he loses it.or not.” Invention on the Margate beach in 1750. “The public are obliged to Ben- :; hamed Beale, who placed his hopeful | —Washington Star. Sounded Expenmsive. jamin Beale, one of the people called Dumley—How much will it cost to ; Quakers, for the invention,” writes the [ send a packing case from Philadelphia author of A Short Description of the | to' Boston? . Frelght Agent—Six cents . Isle of Thanet” published in 1796.|a foot. Dumley—My! How many feet But it was the old story, the public be- | 1s it from Philadelphla to Boston?— came grateful after the inventor had | Philadelphia Press. been ruined by his enterprise. His successors had reaped the haryest. Old Benjamin Beale's widow could re: Anm Ascending Scale. Curate's Little Girl—My hen has laid. member {n her last days the first fam- | an egg, Vicar's Little Girl—My hen ily that ever resorted to Margate for | has laid two. Bishop's Little Girl— the purpose of bathing being carried | That's nothing, My father has lald & into the sea in a covered cart. In 1803 | foundation stone.—London Sketch. ' NN B Beale’s machines were one of the in- ‘stitutions of Margate. It was alarm: He that was never acquainted with ingly claimed for them that ‘“they may | adversity has seen the world but one be driven to any depth into the sea by | alde and Is:ignorant of half the scenes 's London ‘Week-l MILL TO RUN UNTIL WINTER STOPS WORK Plans to Pul_ in “Hot Pond” and Run All; the Year Fell " Through. UNUSUAL ?;ARGE OUTPUT OF LUMBER SAWED THIS SEASON No Seriws: Breakdowns or Acoidents Have Marred the Season’s : Work. The sawmill of the Crookston Lumber company located in Be- midji will be run until it “freezes up tight,” according to an em- ploye of the company who is in the confidence of the manage- ment of the mill. At one time this fall, it had been proposed to put in a “hot Ipond," 80 that the mill could hereafter be run the year ’round, both winter and summer, except ifor a short time in the spring, when the mill plant would be overhauled and necessary repairs made.. This preposition, how- ever, was discouraged, when Thomas H. Shevlin, president f ie company, was here recently. Th¢ company has had a very successful season’s sawing, this year, It has not been necessary to shut the mill down at any time, either on account of break- ages or shortage of “raw material”’—logs. There have been no accidents to any of the employes; and the continued long whirr cf the wheels and buz of the saws is really an exceptional foccurrence, Much credit is due J. M. Richards, the general 2 LONG-DISTANGE WIRES NOW RUN INTO BEMIDJ Northwestern Telephone Company Complétes ‘“Copper Circuit” Be- tween Here and Crookston. Bemidji is now connected by “‘hello” with the outside world on two different long-distance cir- cuits, The Northwestern Tele- phone Exchange company has complet2d a second line of wire from Crookston to this citr, putting in what is known as the ‘‘copper circuit.”’ This gives a direct line to the twin cities by way of Fargo, and |is & matter of great convenience to the patrons of the phone, Buenther Funeral. The Henry Buenther funeral was held yesterday afternoon |md the body was laid to rest in Greenwood cemetery. A num- ber of friends of the drowned ‘'man turned out to do the last honors to the dead. - ADDITIONAL LOCALS. David Beauregard of Northome was transacting business in the city yesterday afternoon. A new lot of sheev music just received at Bisiar, Vanderlip & Co’s. Prices range from 5c¢ to 25¢. ¥ Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Smith of Detroit City, Minn., arrived in the city today, and will make their howe for the winter with their daughter, Mrs. A. E Smith. John Mogan, who -buys logs for the Crookston Lumber com- pany in the country around Northome, spent today in the city. John says business is geod up in the nerth country and that heis ge!.ting his share of the logs. Dr. and Mrs: Stanton of Cass Lake are the guests of Mr. and Mre. Fred LaFavar. The doctor has his left hand in chancery, as it were, a result of blood poison-* ing. A small abrasion on his hand developed into a nasty sore, mdnager, for these conditions.