Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 15, 1906, Page 1

“ THE BEMID: VOLUME 4. NUMBER 201 BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY EVENING, DE_CEMBER 16, 1906, ! with Rheumati other Plood Trouble? ‘§@§f“@n would you hesitate to take it? I MAKE AN ABSOLUTE GUAR‘HTEE to refund your money if you are not satisfied with the result after taking half of the first bottle. ARE YOU ILL m, Backache, Kidney Trouble, Catarrh or any 1f so, and you could FIN@ FEAS sm—:am TE RELIEF IN Of course you wouldn’t, and I am so sure ‘‘6088’" will cure any of the above named complaints that Barker’s Drug Store. The “Home is the m 1 ever go to,” ed John Muir, the famous geolo. and naturalist. He was on the train returning from Ari- zona to his home in Martinez, Cal, after the earthquake. “As long as I camp out in the wountains, without tent or biankets, 1 get along very well, but the minute 1 get into a house and bave a warm bed and begin to live on fine food I get into a Jdraft, and the first thing I know I am coughing and sneezing and threatened with paeu monia and altogether miserable. Out doors is the natural piace for a maun. Walk where you plense. when you like. and take your time. "he mountains won't hurt you, nor tke exposure. Why, 1 can live out for v for bLread and tea an:d ocea little tobac- co. All I need is and a pot to b The rest is easy.”: 1 water in and an ax. World’s Work. Expert Whip Crackers. “The French,” said the sailor, “have whip cracker competitions. A French cabby or trucker is as proud of his whip crackin’ ability as a young man is of his drinkin' powers. There ain’t Do driver livin’ what can crack a whip ' Uke a Frenchman. Walkin' along the streets of Paris is like walkin’ through a battle—on every side, bang, crack biff, go the whips. The thing makes you mad. It scares you. It's as if a gun was continually bein’ shot of alongside of your v: But at the com- petiuons it ain't ouly the loud cracks that count. They have artists there— men what can play a toon on a whip. Yes, sir, a toon. I've heard 'em. I've beard the ‘Mar-slays’ and ‘Hiawatha’ and ‘Foller On’' played with whip cracks, and played as delicate and sweet and lovely as the ear could wish to hear.’—Los Angeles Times. Meaning In Oriental Rugs. Not only the design but the colors of the rugs woven In the orient are full of significance. They represent nation- al or individual traditions and stand for virtue, vices and social importance. Red was regarded by the Bgyptians as symbolic of fidelity. Rose tints signify the highest wisdom and black and in- digo sorrow with the Persians. Pref- erences for duller tones of color among the Persians give to all their embrold- eries and other products of the loom a certain richness and dignity. Tyrian purple is almost universally regarded as royal. Green has been chosen by the Turk as his gala color, but he would not approve of its use in rugs, where it would be trodden by the feet Carlyle on Disraeli. Willlam Black, the novelist, reminiscences of Carlyle, reports him as saying: “There's that man Disraeli. They tell me he is a good speaker. Perhaps I do not know what a good speaker is. But I read a speech of his that he delivered in Glasgow a year or two ago, and it appeared to me the greatest jargon of nonsense that aver got into any poor creature's head.” In his t dangerous place | for the bread A Cholera Belt. | “The cholera belt,” said a pale Anglo- Indian, “is not an imaginary girdle, llke your ple belt, but a real girdle, which .every foreign resident of India wears day and night. In winter the belt is made of heavy wool. In the summer it is made of light wool. It is never taken off. Even when you are sleeping in a temperature of 103 de- grees, tossing and moaning and per- spiring, despite the punkah that fans you from above, you still keep on your cholera belt, no matter what else you shed. Every Anglo-Indian has a couple of dozen cholera belts. They are said to prevent cholera, and I have no doubt they do so. At any rate, I never heard : of any wearer of a cholera belt whom cholera ever seized upon.” An 01 Medicine. “Ground oyster shells,” said the phy- sician, “were used as a medicine by the mediaeval doctors—a medicine for the rickets and scrofula.” “How absurd!” “Absurd? Not at all. Oyster shells ; contain lime, nitrogen, iron, sulphur, magnesia, bromide, phosphoric acid and iodine. Those are all excellent tonics. You know how hens eat ground oyster shells and thus produce eggs with good, thick, strong shells? Well, as the oys- ter shell powder acts on eggshells so I have no doubt it acted in the middle ages on' the.bending. crumbling bones of the rickety, putting strength and firmness into them. Ground oyster shells, I am convinced, would be good things for frail children today. They would strengthen the frame, Increase the appetite and have a splendid effect on the teeth.”—Philadelphia Bulletin. A Curious and Rare Book. The most curious as well as one of the rarest books known to collectors is thé edition of the Vulgate issued by Pope Sixtus V. some time between 1585 and 1590. The book, as Disraeli described it, “fairly swarmed with er- rata.” So numerous were they that a number of printed paper slips contain- ing the proper words were pasted over the errors, and, this device proving in- efficient on account of the immense number of mistakes, as many of the copies as could be found were called in and destroyed. Only a few remain, and the book with its paper patches com- mands an extremely high price. Scott’s Narrow Escape. The world had a narrow escape -of never having known a Sir Walter Scott. When a tiny babe he was left in charge of a maid, but the girl’s hedrt was in Edinburgh, whither she wanted to go to rejoin her lover. She was, however, compelled to stay and ‘look after the infant at Sandy Knowe. The girl regarded her charge as an obstacle to be removed and afterward confess- ed that she carried young Scott up to the Craigs (under a strong temptation of the devil,"as she expressed it), fully Intending to cut his throat with her scissors and bury him under the moss. *(com SEAL '8725 (o) o S0 V\P/O/ “aass” WARMEST WEAR LONGEST i IF YOUR DEALER DOES NOT HAVE THEM WRITE | GOODYEAR RUBB : ER CO. STPa MM.‘ v-v vvvwwwwww""vvv '1 ANK OF PUPOSKY ¢ Puposky, Minn. A General Banking Busi- ness Transacted. Loans Made on Approved Security. Interest Paid on Ap- proved Security. Foreign and Domesti: Ex- change. 4 4 PAID UP CAPITAL $10,000. ’ i Collect! ns Given Careful Attention. Fire Insurance Wreitten in Strong Old Line Companies. 0. J. LAQUA, ASST, CASHIER g Farm Loans a Specialty. E A. E, SMITH, CASHIER B e P e ol P o ol B . ol o o M o e e o e B | money and valuables. PRESSURE TEST PLANNED FOR CITY'S FIRE HOSE Special Test Pump to Be Used for Work--- All Hose Will Be Stamped. The hose owned by the city and used by the local fire depart- ment will be given a thorough test and an accurate estimate obtained as to just how much pressure each length of hose will stand, This will be done by means of a new test pump, which was recommended to the fire committee by Mayor Carter. The test will demonstrate the actual pressure capacity, which will be stamped on the hose, to- gether with the date the test was made. The test work will be done under the supervision of the mayor and Alderman Mat Mayer, chairman of the fire cor- mittee of the council. This test will have much to do with preventing the use of hose that should be condemned. Don’t forget the Methodist annual fair and supper Tuesday, the 18th, in the opera house. Sale begins at 10 a. m. and continues only one day. Mother Goose, The most popular children’s book ever written was “Mother Goose’s Mel- odies.” Mrs. Goose, or Mother Goose, as she was familiarly called, was the mother-in-law of Thomas Fleet, a Bos- ton printer early in the century. When his first child was born his mother-in- law devoted all her attention to the baby and, it is said, greatly annoyed Fleet by her persistent and not par- ticularly musical chanting of the old English ditties she had heard in her childhood. The idea occurred to Fleet of writing down these songs and pub- lishing them in book form. The old- est extant copy bears the date of 1719, The price marked on the title page was “two coppers.”. This account of the origin of Mother Goose Is discred: ited by some critics, who declare that in 1697 Perrault published “Contes de ma Mere I'Oye,” or “Stories of Mother Goose.” The name Mother Goose was familiar in French folklore, being used by writers of this literature over a cen- tury before the time of Perrault. The Status of a Meteorite. A meteorite fell on a Vermont farm in 1896. It was a valuable meteorlte, and the landlord at once stepped up and claimed it. “All minerals and metals on the land belong to me,” he said. “That’s in the lease.” But the tenant demurred. “This me- teorite,” he said, “wasn’t on the farm, you must remember, when the lease was drawn up.” The landlord perceived the justice of that claim. He thought a moment, Then he said decisively, “I claim her as flying game,” But the tenant was ready for him. “She’s got neither wings nor feathers,” he said. “Therefore, as ground game, she’s mine.” They continued their argument, and In the heat of it a revenue officer; ar- riving with a truck, proceeded to put the meteorite aboard. “I claim her for the government,” he sald, “as an article introduced Into the country ‘without payment of duty.” A Hotel Experience. One fashionable hotel on Fifth ave- nue refuses to give any receipt for jewelry deposited in its safe or hold itself responsible for a greater amount than $250. Its explanation of this rule is based on'an experience which seems excuse enough. Two guests of the hotel kept their valuables and money In the safe. They left them there when they went abroad, sometimes to stay for six months. Once the wife came back alone and drew out all the As she had of- ten done so before the clerks gave the box to her as a matter of course. . It ‘was not until her husband had return- ed ‘and wanted the same valuables that the hibtel knew of their divorce. The husband brought suit and recovered all he claimed. Since that result of its «corifidence in its guests the hotel has "limited its responslblllty to §260.—New {| York Sun, . ing the Chickens in Engiand the calls chuck, chuck, or coop, coop, prevail;.In Virginia, coo-che, coo-che; In Pennsylvania, pee, pee. This latter call is widely em- ployed, being reported from Germany, Spain (as pi, pl), Bulgaria, Hungary, Bavaria and the Tyrol. In the Austri- an province the term 18 used in com- bination—thus: Pulla, pi, pl. The call pullele, pul, pul, also occurs there. In some parts of Germany the poul- try are called with tick, tick; in Prus. tuk, tuk (Grimm), and schip, schip, the latter being an Imitation of their own cry. In eéastern Prussia hens are called with kluckschen, kluck, kluck; also tippchen, tipp, tipp. Grimm re- cords also pi, pl, and tiet, tiet. Wein- hold reports from Bavaria bibi, bibell, bidli; pi, pi, and pul, pul. - In Denmark the call is pootle; in Holland, kip, kip; in Bohemia, tyoo; in Bnl;sm tirl, tirl, i That Falled.” sia, put, put, and young chickens wlth‘ NEW AGENT TAKES CHARGE AT THE RED LAKE AGENGY Earl W. Allen, Bonded Superintendent, Replaces John T. Frater at Reservation. John T. Frater, the Indian agent at Onigam, came down | last evening from the Red Lake agency and spent the night in the city. Mr. Frater states that the |affairs of the Red Lake agency new agent, Earl W. Allen of Fort Lapwai, Idaho, who will act as superintendent of the Indian reservation. as clerk. preter, 4 have been trarsferred to thel|(pga, m. 1s Prominent K. P. James A. Murray, the. “dean”’|; of the “bunch” at Blackduck, came down from the ‘Duck’ this morning and spent the day in the city. Mr. Murray is one of the strongest Knights of Pythias in the north half of the state and has been very instrumental in furthering the interests of the local K. P. lodge at Blackduck, which is rapidly coming to the front as one of the best of the order in this section. Buy your dolls at the opera/ house Tuesday. Sale begins at Band Concert and Dance. The Bemidji band will give a achool and have charge of the |concert and dance next Thurs- Dr:: J. R. Collard |day evening, the 20th inst., at the will remain as physician and R.|city opera house. It is the in- E. L. Daniels will be continued |tention of the members to make Peter: Graves will re- | the concert the best yet given by tain his old posmnn of inter-|the local musical organization, and the dances given by the The travsfer terminates Mr. |band arealways enjoyable affairs. Frater’s connection ‘with the Red [ There should be a good attend- Lakers, but he will still remain as agent for -the-Leech Lake, Cass Lake and Wmmblgouhmh Indians. You can .get. some good Christmas ™ presents at the Methodist fair, Tuesday at the opera house. Sale begms at 10 a.m § = Hard Water.' A farm woman in Pennsylvania once sald to me, “I never hear any one sing “The Old Oaken Bucket' “without a shudder.” For fifteen years she had done the cooking and' washing for a family of six with no other water sup- ply than what she bad hauled’ out of a well nearly thirty feet deep by means of a bucket. Baths in winter were al- most out of the question, and even in the summer they were regarded as an occasion of more than ordinary impor- tance, for which preparatious. had to |, be made hours® ghead of the great event. A cubic foot of water weighs sixty-two and a half pounds, and in all these years the number of tous | this woman had lifted had made poet- | ical allusions to “iron- bound” and ; “moss covered” buckets a good deal like saying “rope” to a man about to be h.unged.—x-‘arming. Johnson on Actors, Although he wrote plays, Johnson claimed not to be fond of ‘players. ‘When Boswell suggested that we miglit respect a great actor Johnson cried: “What, sir, a fellow who claps a hump on his back and a bump on his legs and cries, ‘I am Richard ITI? Nay, sir; a ballad singer is a higher man.” No doubt Boswell had Garrick in mind when, after hearing Johnson say that be looked on players as no better than dancing dogs, he timidly suggested, “But, sir, you will allow that some players are better than others.” “Yes, sir, as some dogs dance better than others.” A Black Mast. Most trading steamers which wish to study economy and effect have their | aft mast painted black. If they did not the mnst would soon be sullied by smoke and would look very dirty In consequence. The smoke from the vessel's funnel is carried backward by the forward motlon of the vessel, and | the mast would look grimy if it was painted any other color than black. Let Him Right In. A minister, addressing a meeting of the London Bible soclety, of which the Marquis of Anglesey was president, sald that St. Peter refused to admit the marquis as a peer or as Welling- ton’s old officer or lord leutenant of ' Ireland or the leader of the Horse ' guards at Waterloo, but let him right In as soon as he knew that he was president of the Bible society. Be First In Attack, An old. Beotch drillmaster, so the ‘Btory goes, taught his pupils the art of thrusting with the ‘saber untll they ‘were quite proficient. “Now teach us to parry,” sald they. “Oh,” sald he, “you must do the thrusting and let your enemy do the parrying.” The Light That Failed. It was by an accident that Mr. Kip- | ling got his famous title, “The Light He had almost declded to call the novel “The Failure,” al- though he was dissatisfled with this. One evening as he was sitting in his study reading by lamplight the light went suddenly down—almost failed, in fact. In a second Kipling jumped up, exclaiming excitedly, “By Jove, I've got 1t!” Pointing to the lamp, he said, “The Light That Falled,”—London Standard. The Man Fish, Mathew Buchinger, mentioned in old English wonder books as the “man fish,” was the most remarkable- mon- strosity of his time. He had neither hands, arms, feet nor legs. From his shoulders grew two finlike excrescen- ces, and along his back there were sev- eral rows of scales. ' He had the lidless eyes ‘characteristic of the fish species and a queer puckered mouth and e (88 a mountain. ance. Lincoln and H.y Beard. It was a child who persuaded Abra- bham, Lincoln to wear a beard. Up to the time he was nominated for presi- dent he had always been smooth ghav- en. A little girl living in Chautauqua county, N. Y, who greatly admired him, made up her mind that he w.uld look bettér if he wore whiskers and with youthful directness wrote and told him so. He answered her by return mail: Springfield, Ill., Oct. 19, 1860. Miss Grace Bedell: My Dear Little Miss—Your very agree- able letter of the I5th s received. I re- gret the necessity of saying I have no daughter. I have three sons—one seven- teen, one nine and one seven years of age. They, with thelr mother, consti- tute my whole family. As to the whisk- ers, never having worn any, do you not think people would call it a plece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now? | Your very sincere wellwisher, A. LINCOLN. Enflently on ‘'second thought he de- cided to follow her advice, On his ‘way to Washingten his train stopped at:the town where she lived. He ask- ed If she were in-the. crowd..gatheréd “at the station to' meet him. Of course ! she was, and wmlng hands forced a way for her through the mass of peo- | ple. When she ‘reached the car Mr. Lincoln stepped from the train, kissed her and showed her that he had taken her advice.—St. Nicholas. The Arabs’ Hasheesh, “Intoxication from eating a dish ot liver was once my portion,” said an orientalist. “It happened In the Saha- ra. I was spending the winter at EI Kantara. In February I made a car- avan trip over the desert along the great caravan route that runs from Biskra to Timbuktu. The third day out we reached an oasis of date palms. We got coffee at the baked mud cafe. We dined on red fish and gazelle steak, and for an entree was served this infernal liver. It was liver pow- dered with kiff. Kiff is hasheesh. It is made of hemp, and it makes you drunk. The Arabs mix it with their tobacco, and they bread llver with it. , and they drop it in coffee. Thus they eat, drink and smoke thelr kiff. I ate their kiff and imagined my arm to be a mile long. T thought my foot as big *My voice, when I spoke, sounded.in my ears like the roar of a thousand thunders. In a word, I was kiff drunk, and it was two days before 1 was fit to resume my journey across the gold colored sands.” Luminous Paint as Night Lights. | The connection between earthquakes and luminous paint would hardly be apparent to any one without explana- tion. It nevertheless exists, and the use to which it is' put Invests it with the utmost importance just for the few critical moments of the shock. In the Philippine Islands, where earthquakes are not uncommeon, small metallic plates coated with luminous palnt are 80 placed about the premises that at the. first warning the Jnmates are quickly gulded to the door and thus to the street. In Manlla It Is laid on In patches about the bedrooms and stalr- cases, serving as guldes for the door handles and the stairs, night lights be- Ing considered especlally dangerous, as likely to set fire to the falling houses and thus to roast the inmates In their own homes. Caged Until Married. On a certain Island in the Pacific it is stated that the natives are still In the habit of confining their girl chil- dren in cages until they are of an age to marry. These cages are constructed of palm branches, and the’girls are imprisoned in them when they are two or three years old. They are not al- lowed to leave their cage under any pretext whatever, and they are only taken out once a day to be washed. The children are sald to grow up strong and healthy in spite of thqlr Incarceration. Fatherly Advice. “Papa,” sald the girl with the new. engagement ring, “did I understand’ you to say that you intended to buy me a plano for a wedding present?” . “Yes, dear,” repligd her father, “but I wouldn’t advise you to mention it to George. He, might break the nm t.“—ommm News. ; Agency School for: Last : Three Years. H, C. Norman, who for the past three years has acted as superintendent of the - Indian school at the Red Lake ager.cy, has geyered his connection with the school, and was in the city last evening on his way to his heme at Faribsult. Mr. Norman - was appointed superintendent at Red Lake December 13, 1903; he resigned December 13, this year, and his office was Number 13, but' he asserts that this coincidence of the unluciy 13"’ has no relation tohis affairs, as he is doing nicely and is content with his lot. Mr. Norman has received word from the Indian office at Wash- ington that he has been appointed superintendent of a new Indian school which is being opened . at the Blackfoot agency, Montana, seventy-five miles west ‘of Kalispell, and located on the main line of the Great Northern Railway company’s coast -run. The new situation is considered avery good one and a fitting recognitionof Mr. Norman’s ability. Splendid supper at the opera house Tuesday evening, begin- ning at 5:30. Price 25¢. NO DISORDERS LIKELY. Public Interest in French Controversy Decreases. Paris, Dec. 15.—The first day of the regime of the separation of church and state having passed without grave disorders. public interest in the de- tails of the continuation” of the Btruggle Is already visibly flagsing, It fi now apparent that the resistance of the elergy will be purely passive and thai there is no prospect of religious pas- sions being aroused unless the church- es are closed and the government, therefore, is resting on_its ‘oars and will continue to do so until parliament authorizes the drastic'measures which the cabinet is preparing. In the mean- time in this city, except in the church- es where legal applications were filed, the-police again took notes of infrac- tions of the law at the morning masses. : Cardinal Richard is awaiting expul- slon from the episcopal mansion. The government, however, desires to avoid even the appearance of force in the case of the aged primate, who is in bad health, and is postponing action in the hope that he will depart in a few days of his own volition. The Action, a violent Socialist or- gan, has made an attack on the gov- ernment, calling attention to the al- leged fact that the Catholic gymnastic socleties had numbers of rifies. There is not the slightest evidence, however, that armed resistance is contemplated. POLITICAL CRISIS DISCUSSED. Kaiser and German Chancellor in Conference. Berlin; Dec. 15.—Emperor William lunched with Prfnce von Buelow at the chancellor’s palace during the day and presumably they discussed the present situation brought about by the dissolution of parliament. The em- peror ‘and chancellor have been in complete ‘accord throughout in -the treatment of colonial questions and desire to relieve the government from dependence upon - the Clerical party. This it appears will be-as much an issue at the coming elections as the question of the retention or abandon- ment_of the German colonies. The imperial government and the Vatican have. got ‘along fairly well since the beginning of the late Prince von Ho-| henlohe’s chancellorship, but the crit- ical attitude of the Center or Clerical party of recent years has been annoy- ing to administrative and court circles. It is not intended to completely break with the members of the Center party, but only to show.them that they are not indispensable. The leaders of all the party groups and ‘many of their followers held caucuses in the commit- 'tee rooms of the reichstag during the day. It 1s reported that the elections will be held Jan. 20 and that the new relchstag will assemble Feb. 7, but nothing appears to have been definite- 1y decided\by the government. BRYCE AS AMBASSADOR. English Statesman May Be Sent to ‘Washington. London, Dec. 15.—Parliamentary circles here show much interest in the prospect of James Bryce’s appoint- ment to the ambassadorship at Wash- ington and some of the Irish members asked the chlef secretary for Ireland it they might congratulate him. Mr, Bryce did not deny the report, but merely replied: “You must not baueu ovorytmu you hear.” Beginning December 31, the Minneapolis, Red Lake & Mani- toba railway will carry the mail from Bemidji to Redby (on the shore of Red Lake) and inter- mediate points, the company hav- ing been notified that the govern- ment had decided to award them the contract. A representative of the rail- way mail service visited Bemidji a few weeks ago and made a thorough inspection of the Red Lake line from this city to Redby, and took account of the manner in which the settlers and resi- dents along the line could be served if the mail was carried by the railway company, with the result that he recommended the awarding of a contract. For several years the mail has been carried by stage from Be- midjt to Buena Vista and thence to Nebish and the Red Lake In- dian agency. The routa which the stige has been compelled to take has been a bad one, and the roads have been such most of the time that expeditious trips could act be made. The new arrangement to carry by rail will necessitate the put- ting into effect of a new time card on the railroad. The train which now leaves Bemidji. for Redby at 8 a. m wjjl be changed to leave in the afternoon and will return the next morning, instead of 1n the evening, as at present. This is done so that the people up the line may receive their mail the same day. that it comes re Bemicji from outside points and be able to send answers in time for out-bound mail the next day. The new time card will go into effect Monday, Dec 381. Tonight---Last chance to see the ““Tunnel Workers™---at the Bijou. Leaves for Home. J. H. Welch, brother of W. P. Welch, left this morning for_ his home near Piesre, S. D, ®iter haviog spent several dayé in the city with his brother, who has been a sufferer with sore eyes. J. H Welch has a valuable home- stead near Pierre, where his wife is now residing. He has been in Bemidji on several ipre- vious occasions, when he was connected with the supreme tent of the Maccabees, He is now supervisor for the Modera Woodmen for the district includ- ing southern Minnesata and South Dakota. = Sunday Worship.. BAPTIST—The subject on Sun- . day morning in the Baptist church will be, “God’s Know- ledge and Notice of Faith as Well as Works.” Sunday schoolat 12:10. Young People’s meeting at 7 p. m. “Some Thoughts from Lovely Queen Esther,” will be the subject in the evening, at 8. All welcome. PRESBYTERIAN: . :Morning .service “add sermon at 11. "Bible class and S. S., 12:15. Junior C. E, 3 p. m. SemorC E 7p. m. Evemng service at 8 Mr. Clark, an evangelist from aneanohs, will spel.k 1n the evening. The music at both services will be_a special feature, "Mr. R. E. Turner, tte basssoloist from St. Paul, will have cha.rge of the musie _ and will sing solos. The phblic is cordially invited to these services. ¢ METHODIST—Morning subject, “Some Inside Facts.” Second discourse. Last Sunday’sser- mon. cavsed general comment and' the sermon tomorrow morn ng is likely to produce a greater effect. Time1l. Sun- day ‘school : 12:15. Junior League 3. . Epworth League 7. Evening subject, ‘A Broken-up ‘Funeral Upon a OCrowded Street.”” A real and genuine occurrence. Special music at both services, Come and bring come friend with you. | Time : 8 o’c!ock\