Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 7, 1906, Page 4

% ACEEFEEREEEEFSCFEEFEEREE 4 CORRESPONDENCE & ’i!!!ii’iiiii!"i’i’)i)“‘ SPAULDING. M. Rygg went to Bemidji Tuesday. Born: To Mr. and Mrs. R. Sti, a son. Peter Stai transactad business at Wilton Friday. L. O. Myhre was a Wiltoa visitor Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs, C. Carpent:r have gone to McIntosh, A. Djoune was a business visitor at Bemidji Wednesday. Miss Carpenter closed a very successful term of school Fri- day. Miss Flora Carpenter has gone to Duluth where she will enter the Duluth Normal school. Miss Lillian Gustafson spent the Thanksgiving holiday with her parents at their home near Werner, The Ladies Aid society con- ducted a successful auction sale, after which all enjoyed an excel- lent dinner, The Misses Anna and Marie Rygg and Miss Larson who are at Bemidji are spending a few days with the homefolks. WILTON. A. S. Murray made a business trip to Bemidji Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Patterson made a business trip to Bemidji Friday. Mrs. T. O. Melby and Mrs. E. Soland were shopping at Be- midji Friday. Miss Frances Bowers, who has completed a term of school near Fowlds, returned to her home Wednesday last. The M. B. A. dance given at Roger’s hall last Thursday night was quite largely attended, all| presert time. Martin Guisness, who has been spending the past few months with his sister, Mrs. Bollingrud, near Kelliher, returned home last Wednesday. The members of the Ladies report an enjoyable Aid Society of thke Lutheran church here, served dinner Thanksgiving, also auctioned many useful articles, from which they realized a nice sum. Report of school No. 1, Wilton, Minn, for the month ending Nov. 28, 1906. Number of pupils enrolled Y; average daily attend- ance 6; number of cases of tardi- ness 0. Puapils neither absent nor tardy: Ulysses McKiernan and Ciifford McKiernan. Report of school No. Wilton, Minn, for the month ending Nov. 28, 1906. Number BIJOU 302 THIRD STREET, Life Like Motion Picture Show. 3’ RRRRRRRRRRRARRRRRRRRRRRRRRA Every Evening 7:30 to 10:30. Saturday Afternoon 2:30 to 3:30. of pupils enrolled 25; averaze|Change of Program Every Other daily attendance 14; number of cases of tardiness 8. Pupils neither absent nor tardy: Lottie Brennan, Doris Ernst, Ruby; Martin, Bertie Martin, Clifford Lackore, Mable Lackore. | QUIRING. C. J. Carlson wasa visitor at Inez store Friday. Will Sjogren made a trip to Blackduck this week? Fred Wing and family visited with Mr, and Mrs. C. J. Carlson Sunday evening. Missionary services were held in the north schoolhouse Sunday. There was a good at.tendauce.l Misses Helen and Kathrine Laurie gave a very nice Thanks- giving program each in their schoolhouse. Mrs. Hendrickson, Mrs. C. J. Carlson, A. Hendrickson and Miss Nora Hendrickson visited with Mr. and Mrs. Detrickson Sunday. The Laurie sistersand Mr and Mrs. C. J. Carlson took Thanks- giving dinner with Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Dooher. They report a fine dinner and a good time. H. Hendrickson and fawily ar- rived from Blackduck last week. Mr., Hendrickson has a fine hnomestead in Quiring where be will make his future home. We| all exterd our welcome to Mr. Hendrickson and family. CUNNINGHAM. Two feet of snow on the level and much more in places. Venison roasts supplied the Thanksgiving tables this year. Chris Hellersheim spent Sun- day afternoon at the home of the Koshny'’s. A number of the homesteaders attended the dance Friday mght at Bergville. Lu Guptill spent last week in Night. TONIGHT & TOMORROW NIGHT. THE FOX HUNT. The Fox. The Hounds. The Great Dog Kennel. The Meet at the Club House. Oa the Scent. The Query. The Fox Attempts to Throrv off the Scent. Doubling in Her Tracks. The Fox Takes to the Water. Illustrated song: ““Keep a Little Cozy Corner in Your Heart for Me.” sung by PROF. H. L. ALLDIS, assisted by MISS BLANCHE BOYER, pianist. THE REBELLIOUS WALKING STICK. Vengeance of a Lawyer’s Clerk. Mother-in-law, domestic com- edy. . The Burglar Scare. Smallpox Epidemic. This promises to be the best program ever. Admission 5 and 10 cents. J. J, ELLIS & SON, MANAGERS Bemidji visiting his mother and sister Vivian. . Vick Fish and family have moved into Mrs. John Guptill’s house. While there Victor will haul cedar to Bridgie for Lu Guptill, Many trees have fallen under the weight of snow, and others have been stripped of large branches on account of not be- ing frozen, Read the Dailv Pioneer. f!i’ ”-)!% EEEGGEEJ “MEN’S XMAS GOODS FEATURED” Christmas Tale FOR WOMEN ONLY, BUT OUR MEN’S SECTION STORY SIMPLIFIED. TELLS THE HOLIDAY SHOPPING This season the furiushing department for Men is so thoroughly imbued with the spirit of Yule Tide that it represents a powerful factor for the woman confronted with the perplexing problem of “What to get Father, Brother, Husband and Friend.” Mental Action Is Released; Worry Is Absent and the troubles of Gift purchasing are quickly dispelled, after a visit to this part of our store. A Glance Is Proof. We're not going to enumerate a list of articles suitable for the man’s Christmas, but we do most cordially invite you to More Shopping " Come, and Come Early More than ever before have we used particular painstaking methods in Days Before the selection of these NEW CREATIONS and we enthusiastically assure Christ- you that no matter what the article, it will be mas GREAT VALUES FROM . NEW---CHOICE--GOOD ENORMOUS ASSORTMENTS. LET US HELP YOU SELECT YOUR PRESENTS. O’Leary @ Bowser. A Native African Food. The native food of the Malunda coun- try, 1n southern Africa, comprises ma- nioc and that alone, It is a plant par- tlcularly adapted to wet, marshy soll, says the author of “In Remotest Ba- rotseland.” It takes two years to arrive at maturity and while growing re- quires very little attention. The root ‘when full grown Is about the size and has very much the appearance of a German sausage, although at times it grows much larger. One shrub has several roots, and the extraction of two or three in no way Impairs the growth of the remainder. When newly dug it tastes like a chestnut, and the digestion of the proverbial ostrich can-alone as- similate it raw, but when soaked In water for a few days until partly de- composed, dried on the roofs of the huts and stamped it forms a delight- tully white soft meal, far whiter and purer than the best flour. Then It Is beaten into a thick paste and eaten with a little “flavering composed of a locust or a caterplllar, which the na- tives seek In decayed trees. Another way of eating this native luxury Is by baking the roots after soaking them and eating it as you would a banana. George Ellot’s Savonarola, Savonarola is one of the most strik- Ing characters in George Eliot's great historical novel “Romola,” the scene of which Is In Florence and the period that of Savonarola’s career. The idea of writing the book occurred to the novelist while on a visit to Florence, and on a second visit to the city, In 1861, she began to carry out her proj- ect. The subject and design were for- elgn to the author’s genius, but she spared no pailns in making a thorough study of the locality, the people and the literature of the Italian renais- sance for the purposes of her story. In her own words, the work “plowed into her” more than any of her books. She began it, she says, as a young wo- man and finished it as an old woman. Her picture of Florence and Savona- rola Is undeniably Iimpressive, and some critics declare “Romola” to kL2 George Eliot’s greatest novel and thc character of Savonarola one of the finest delineations.—Pearson’s, Size of Heads. The average adult head has a cir- cumference of fully twenty-two inches. The average adult hat is fully six and three-quarters size. The sizes of men’s hats are six and three-fourths and six and seven-eighths generally. “Sevens” hats are common in Aberdeen, and the professors of our colleges generally wear seven and one-eighth to eight sizes. Heads wearing hats of the sizes six and three-eighths and smaller or being less than twenty-one inches in circumference can never be powerful. Between nineteen and twenty inclies In circumference heads are invariably very weak and, according to this au- thority, “no lady should think of mar- rying a2 man with a head less tnan twenty inches in circumference.” Peo- ple with heads under nineteen Inches are mentally deficient and with heads under eighteen inches invariably idi- otic.—London Young Woman. Satest Place In Trains. “I have one rule for my family when they travel,” said the conductor of the suburban train, “and that Is for them never to ride in the rear coach or the first one and, preferably, not in the coach next to the last or first. The rea- son for It is so obvious that I should think the foremost and last cars of a train would have scant patronage from anybody who reads of raiiroad acecl- dents. If there is a smashup, those are the coaches that suffer. It seems strange that some kind of a buffer s not put behind the locomotive tender and at the rear of the train. How many lives would be saved by a device of the kind one has only to study the statistics of rallroad accidents to fig- ure ont for himself.”—New York Press. Lifting a Kettle of Hot Water. Some time when the teakettle is bub- bling and boiling on the kitchen range 1ift it quickly by its handle and set it on the open pdIm of your other hund. This sounds like a very foolhardy thing to do—as If your hand might be blis- tered in a twinkling—but you will find that you can' hold the teakettle which has just come from a roaring fire for some time without hurting you. Try it and then see if you can tell the ren- son why you are not burned. Be sure, however, that the water Is bolling Btrongly before you make the experl- ment. A Kippered Pastor. ‘A French Protestant pastor was the guest of a Scottish preacher at a manse. One morning kippered herrings were served at breakfast. The French pastor asked the meaning of “kipper.” His host replied that it meant “to pre- serve.” On taking his leave next day the French pastor, wringing his host’s hand, sald, “May the Lord kipper you, my good friend.” . Postage Stamps. Postage stamps are pecullarly liable to become septic and to convey deadly germs, says the British Medical Press and Circular, a fact that cannot be too widely known to the public who find in 1t a popular substitute for sticking plas- ter. Never Missed It. Teacher — Who discovered Amerfea? Small Boy—Dunno. Teacher—Why, I supposed every boy In school knew that. Small Boy—I didn’t know that it was lost. 2 Somewhere. “Pardon me, madame, I think I | have eeen you somewhere.” . War From a Thumb Bite, Perhaps the most portentous If In- nocent Incldent in the proceedings leading up to England’s war with King Theodore of Abyssinia was—a thumb bite. The British consul was practically a prisoner at his court when Mr. Stern, a British missionary, called upon the “king of kings.” The first mistake of the Englishman was to seek an audlence Immediately after the king had dined too liberally with his court. The second was his choosing as Interpreters two utterly Incompetent men. The inefficiency of this pair so angered the dusky monarch that then and there he ordered them to be beat- en. Mr. Stern, “unable to bear the sight, turned around and bit his thumb.” Now, he was not aware of 1t, but to bite the thumb is in Abys- sinia a deflance and a threat of venge- ance. The quick eye of ‘the king caught the innocent menace, and he had the misslonary also beaten. From that sprang the war, the defeat of the forces of the king and his death by his own hand In his ruined city of Mag- dala.—London Standard. The Eternal Wilderness. We still have our “unmanstified” places. And there shall come to us a wilderness here and another there where now there Is none, for every- thing moves in circles, which is not at all a new discovery, and the man wio today laments a dearth of the wilder- ness may live long enough to find him- self one day wielding an ax as dull as the pen he now bewalls with—and for- ty miles from a grindstone. We shall not remonstrate with the writers who are picturing us going to eternal smash for want of tall timber. Their work is not without its good. effect in staying the denudation of our nearby recrea- tion: grounds, and we are content to watch the wily old wilderness creeping up in the rear of the advancing army of invasion, reaching out with sure, si- lent fingers and reclaiming her own, building anew her razed stockades and unfurling to the winds her defiant ban- nerets.—Recreation. ‘A Patented Plant. “One plant at least has been patent- od,” said an Inventor. “It is the Abrus precatorius, alias paternoster pea, alias weather plant. John Nowack took out the patent. The weather plant fs still delieved by many persons to foretell the weather. John Nowack was sure it did so, and he put it on the market along with an indicating apparatus, guaranteeing it to foretell for forty- elght hours In advance and for fifty miles around fog, rain, snow, hail, earthquake and depressions likely to cduse explosions of“fire damp. Alas ror poor Nowack! The experts of the bureau of agriculture took up his pat- ented plant. They proved that the movements of the leaves—to the right foretelling rain, to the left foretelling drought—were not caused by the weather, but by the light. And they proved that the plant’s famous down- ward movement, which was supposed to foretell earthquake, was caused by an insect that punctured the stem, causing the leaf, naturally, to droop. That is the only patented plant I know of, and Nowack lost money on it Buying Birds to Free Them. Birds are often purchased in the bird parket at Lucknow, India, in order to be set free again. This is done by Hin- doos as a work of merit and by Mo- bammedans after certain rites have been performed as an atonement, in imitation of the Jewish scapegoat. It is essential that a bird used for this purpose should be strong enough to fly away; but that does not Induce the cruel dealers to feed the birds, or to refrain from dislocating their wings or breaking their legs. They put down everything to good or bad luck, and leave the customer to choose a strong bird, if he can find one, and to go away if he cannot. The merit obtained by setting a bird free Is not attributed to Deity, but it Is supposed to come in a large measure from the bird itself or from its attendant spirit, and hence birds of good or bad omen, and es- pecially kites and crows, are In much demand and are regularly caught to be sold for this purpose. Inns In Hungary. Wayside inns In Hungary generally rejoice In very quaint titles. This one was called the Dropperin and had the usual sign outside--viz, a long pole with a wooden ring and a gigantic wine bottle suspended from it. The system of keeping the scores s primi- tive, but practical. The regular. cus- tomers and the Ingkeeper each have a bit of wood called rovas, with the name of the person written on it, and | ! every liter of wine consumed Is marked by each making a notch on his re spective bit of wood. When the score 18 pald off, both the rovas are burned. Consequently you hear the peasants in- viting each other to Ingyonroviasmo- ra, lterally drink on my “knotch stick,” which sounds most comical.— “Wanderings In Hungary.” Cruel. A cashier In the financlal district ot I New York, on being advised by hll‘v physician to take a vacation not long | | 280, wrote the agent of a South Amer- | fcan steampship line as follows: “As I am thinking of taking a trip. to South | America, please advise me immediate: 1y with particulars relative to rates, ac- commodations, and 8o on, to and from the various perts usually visited by tourista at this season of the year." t “Very likely. I'go there very often.”” . ' —Le Sourire. i It thou love learning thou shalt be. The answer came by special delivery, ot way on'tvgt the country.” ‘De Quincey. He had to fill up a cen- 'zled him greatly. He finally managed ‘came to the occupations of his three ‘to see the harm in my innocent de- jception”— bave the passage and staircase reps: od and confl adi’t yer better wait and see ‘ow :;a::r stg:l;::: wll‘} sall :3?%9.'1};.}3:: ‘goes on fst? Them coffing do make . such work taircase Dext Wednesday; shortest and quick- & i with 8 Late News of the World By Wire| Domestic--Foreign--Financial--Social--Political and Commercial % To know how to be ready—a great thlng, & precious gift and one that im- lies calculation, grasp and decision— be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything can- not be untled. He must know how to Qisengage what is essential from the detail in which it is Inwrapped, for everything cannot be equally consid- ered. In a word, he must be able to implify his dutles, his business and Els life. To know how to be ready-is o know how to start, It s astonish- ing how. all of us are generally cum- bered up with the thousand and one hindrances and duties which are not such, but which nevertheless wind us about with their splder threads and fetter the movement of our wings. It 1s the lack of order which makes us slaves. The confusion of today dis- counts the freedom of tomorrow. Con- fusion is the enemy of all comfort, and confusion is born of proscrastination. To know how to be ready we must be able to finish. Nothing {8 done but ‘what is finished. The things which we leave dragging behind us will start up again later on before us and harass our path. Let each day take thought for what concerns it, liquidate its own affairs and respect the day which Is to follow, and then we shall be always ready. To know how to be ready is at the bottom to know how to die.—Amiel. The Lottery In ltaly. - Lotto banks do a thriying business In Italy. Millions of people of all classes and conditions contribute every week to the game, by which they hope ‘to make fortunes. The princess and her maid, the professor and his pupils, the bootblack and the army officer, the crippled mendicant, school children— everybody Is drawn into the lotto net. The main office Is In Rome, but sub- offices are in operation in every hamlet in the kingdom, and drawings take place every Saturday In eight cities. The public knows the hour of the drawing, and the plaza near the Via del Umitta, near the Quirinal, always swarms with people when the little blind boy draws five numbers of the ninety which have been placed there. These numbers are displayed on a slgnboard In the order in which they are drawn, and the player who has bought a ticket with the same num- bers in the same order recelves the grand prize. The play keeps many people still poorer than they would be and Is a great source of revenue to the country.—Illustrirte Zeitung. Rats as Gold Mines. It is a common practice for the boys in some watch and jewelry .factories to kill the rats which infest the build- ings and burn the bodies to obtain the gold. Many oiled rags are used In burnishing watch cases, and in time they become impregnated with gold. The rats eagerly devour these rags, and a few months of this kind of dlet fills the interior mechanism of the rat with a gold plating. Twice a year the boys have a grand cremation. The rats are caught by the hundred and burned in a crucible. The intense heat drives off all animal substances and leaves the gold in the shape of a little lump., The amount of the precious metal obtained in this way is not large, but gives the ingenious youngsters plenty of pocket money. In some fac- torles young Napoleons of finance buy up in advance the shares of their fel- low workers in the rat colony.—London Malil. The Source of Chalybeate Water. The chalybeate waters of Tunbridge ‘Wells are said to owe thelr ruddy tint| and queer taste to the fact that St. Dunstan flung his pinchers into them after that memorable encounter re- corded In the old rhyme— 8t. Dunstan, as the story goes, Once pulled the devil by the nose With redhot tongs, which made him roar “That he was heard three miles or more— or that the glowlug proboscis—and a long snout is one of the most marked features of the flend In the medlaeval art—was itself plunged into the healing well when 4ts owner had taken a fly- Ing leap out of the saint’s cell at May- fleld, some nine or ten miles away.— London Queen, How He Answered. The London Academy tells a story ot sus paper, and the set questions puz- to characterize his occupation as “writer to the magazines,” but when it daughters his troubles began again. At last he put a ring around their names and wrote, “They are like lilies of the field—they toil not, neither do they spl'n.” One Way Blind. “You admit you are an impostor?’ isaid the judge. “No, I don’t, your. honor.” “You claimed to be blind, and yet [you have an unimpaired eyesight.” “That's true, your honor, but I'm: morally blind, sir, and not being able “8ix months,” ejaculated the judge. Ingredients of the Play. Half a text, a sprinkling of aristo- crats, a sin or two and a quantity of good: clothing are the famillar ingredl- ents of serious playwriting, and it Is 'wonderful to see what varled and in- Iteresting results can still be obtained from the recipe.—Outlook. Comforting. Old Croakybo—I think we'd better while I'm laid up, Mrs. Grimage: . G. (his housekeeper)—Lor’, sir; wallpapers — ~How to Be R ‘| A Faroe Reformer. The people of the Faroe islands cling to thelr old customs and see little good in change, says the author of “The Faroes and Iceland,” but now and then one of them becomes a conservative re- former. Buch was an old man of | 8tromo who, in his youth, had learned cabinetmaking In Copenhagen, then had been a blacksmith in New South ‘Wales and later. a marine in the Dan- Ish navy during the Sleswick-Holstein ‘war. Having thus traveled far beyond. the wildest dreams of his .countrymen, he returned while still a comparatively - young man to Stromo and invested his savings in a home. - Conservative though he appeared to outlanders, to the islanders he was a reckless in- novator. He roofed his house with slate instead of with the tradifional turf, but could find none to follow his example. They shook their heads in doubt. He argued vainly with them against the habit of throwing fish cleanings Into the brook and getting drinking water lower down. The only advice they would accept from him— and that after long hesitation—was to boil their fish oil -outdoors instead of in the liring room. But when this ter- rible mnovator heard from a visitor that women rode bicycles in England he was so astonished that he asserted confidently that the world could not last much longer. ¥ Cause and Effect. BShakespeare saw life in large and wrote as he saw. He never “blamed it on to God.” His pages are full of the inexorable sequence of cause and ef- fect, and the swift march of deeds points the moral of individual responsi- bility., If things were “rotten in Den- mark,” it was because the fathers had eaten. sour grapes and the children’s teeth were set on edge; If Macbeth trembled at the knocking at the gate, it was because conscience doth make cowards of us all. The ghosts that haunted Bosworth field were of Rich- ard's own creating, and Regan and Gonerll, desperately dead, reap but thelr inevitable due. In short, Shake- speare’s message is the message of a robust manhood and womanhood: Brace up, pay for what you have, do good if you wish to get good. Good or bad, shoulder the btrden of your moral responsibility and never forget that cowardice is the most fatal and most futile crime in the calendar of crimes. Cowards die many times before their deaths; The vallant never taste of death but once. —Martha Baker Dunn in Atlantic. The 0ld Greek Divorce Law. A clergyman was railing against di- vorce. “We ought to have the divorce law that was enforced in anclent Greece,” he said. “If that old Greek clause was tacked to every separation, I am persuaded that divorces would fall off 60 to 70 per cent. This law was that when a man got a divorce he could not under any -circumstances marry another woman younger than his ex-wife. An innocent law, a brief law, not much to look at, but how many divorce suits would be nipped In the bud if all husbands knew that after the separation they could not marry younger women than the wives :hey had cast off!”—Philadelphia Bul- letin. ‘Water on the Velat. Water is sometimes very scarce and precious on the South African veldt, according to a writer, who says: “In our veldt cottage we had no well, only large tanks, and about August our condition usually became ‘desperate. If you washed your hands you carried the precious fluid out to pour it on some thirsty plant or vegetable; the bath water the same, part of it being first saved to scrub floors. Cabbage and potato water was allowed to cool and then used for the garden or to wash the dogs in first, so that these ‘waters did three dutles.” Enthusiast to the End. An enthusiastic French physiclan, while dying, made careful observa- tions of his condition, detailing his symptoms to his son and attending physician in order that they might make a-record of them. At the very - end, when he was on the point of pass. ing away, he surprised the friends at his bedside by saying, “You see I am dying.” Helped Out. F The Father—So you think you can . support my daughter? The Sultor—I'm quite sure I can, sir, If you will help us out. The Father—I'll help you out - all right, all right! Whereupon the’ sultor dashed madly down the front steps with: the father a close second In : the race.—Cleveland Plaln Dealer. hen Herbert Spencer was a boy his ber sent him away from home to L. - The youngster became home- ek and, with 2 shillings in his pocket.” made his way home, over 120 miles, in three days, -walking most of the wa; He did forty-eight miles the first day and forty-seven on the second. On the* third day a friendly coach driver took him most of the way for nothing. 2 Mistook His Destination. - . - An editor of a western exchange re- cently began worrying- about how he ‘would get his shirt on over his wings after reaching paradise. An -envious contemporary sarcastically observed: that his difficulty would likely be in finding out how he could .get his hat Housekeeper—I hear your brother, ‘whodied in California, left you $1,000, Dinah.-. That will be a great help to X