Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 26, 1906, Page 3

THE MODEL IS WHERE THEY MAKE THAT FINE Cream Chewing Candy AND Cream Caramels and twenty-five other vari- eties of DE.LI-SHUS home- made candies. Our line of box candies, chocolates, bulk candies, cakes, pastry always complete and of the best quality. loe Cream. Sweei Cream and Fruit ... THE MODEL 315 Minnesota Ave. Phone 125 The Home of Snowflake Bread THE CITY.. Read the Daily Pioneer, James Anderson of Big Falls spent Christmas in this city. L. B, Kelly. the pulpwood man, went o Tenstrike this morning, Second hand coal ttoves cheap at Fleming Bros. Judge a:l Mrs. Marshall A Spooner ‘el today for the twin cities for a holiday visit with friends. Mrs. F, 8. Meriill of Cass Lake, who spent Xmas in the city, returned to ber home lest night. Phillip Mvdy came in last evening from Park Rapids, where he s} ent Xwas with Lis family. G. E. Kreatz loft this morning tor Walker to look after the work which is being doue on cowplet- ing the Cass couty court hcuse. No shop made food will cver cqual the delicious cuke and biscuits you can make at home, using Hunt's Pefect Baking Powder. J. A. McDonald, cruiser {for Irwin & O’Brien, left this morn- ing for Nebish to look after some timber for his firm. Mrs. Nina Adamson ard fcur children of White Rock, S. D. arrived in the city yesterday and are quart¢red at the Re- more. Charles McFarlane, who is building the new school house &t Redby, spett Christmas ia the city and returned to Redby this morning. ] Properly fitted glasses not only improve the vision, but preserve the eyes. Call on Drs. Larson & Larsou, 2ad floor Swedback block. A. O. Narveson, who is em- ployed in a drug siore at Aitkin, arrived in the city last night for a holiday visit with old Bemidji friends, Mr. and Mrs. Roland Wallin returned last night from Du- luth, where they have been visiting for several 6ays with friends and relatives, 1f you intend vsing a new day bouk or leiger, remember the Pioneer has the test arsortment of all kinds gf blank books and an carly order will insure you j:st the book ycu want, W. B. Sherman came down from Kelliher ycsterday morning and spent Chiistmas day with his two sons in tlis city. He went from here to Duluth to hire men for Russ & Ross, L, C. Hapson, who has lived at Cass Lake for several years, Fas accepted a position as bartender at the Markham buffct and will have charge of the ‘night shift,” Cosmetics will ruin the com- plexion. There's no ecauly practice equal to the effects of Hollister’s R cky Mountaia Tea. It ‘keeps the entire body in perfect health, Tea or Tablets, 35 cents. Bsrkex s drug store H. E. Palmer returned lgst evening ty Blackduck, after having spent Christmas in tte city with his family- Mr. Pa!- mer is clerking 1 the camps of MecAvity, who is logging for the Grand Foriks Lumber com- pany near Blackduck, Bert Getchell left last evening for Northome, and expects to be absent a week or ten days doing some vicinity. H> took along a pair of snowshoes and is prepared f r the deepest of the ‘‘beanti-|much i1mproved since he left fui.” Read the Dailv Pioneer. Reed’s studio for colored work " Lew Gibson of Redby "was a visitor in the city yesterday. Phone 57—Fleming Bros. hard- ware. A. W. Dapaher went to Ten- strike last evening to look after his business interests there. Bemidji Elevator Co., head quarters for hay, grain, ground feeds and flour. T. J. Andrews left last eve- ning for Bridgie to look after his logging 1nterests at tbat place. Join the crowd and spend an hour of real enjoyment at the Bij ou, the best place of amuse ment in the city. Charles Knopke, agent for the Minneapolis Brewing com. pany, went to Kelliher last evening on business. Mrs. A. Hagberg and Mrs. A. L. Ellison left this morning for Brainerd, where they will visit for a week. Mrs. J. N. Keefe and daughter Alice and son Clayton of Cass Lake were the guests of Mr. and Mrs.. A. G. Rutledge, Christmas day. J. E. Wilkin of Cass Lake, the general agent for the Fitger Brewing company, was transact- 1ng business in the city yester- day. Daniel Petrie, sheriff of Hub- bard county, was a visitor in Be- midjt Monday night. He re turned to hLis home at Park Rapids yesterday morniug. She worried and she fretted, and grew as homely as she coulo oe, but now she is a famous veauty, which came by taking Hollister’s Recky Mountain Tea Sarker’s drug store. Leigh LsGore, who is clerking for Ross & Ross in their logging camps at Kelliher, spent Christ mas with old friends in Bemidj. Leigh says he likes the life in the camp and 18 well pleased with his present situation. Miss Jo. Hegg, who bas bee: e nployed on the Cass Lake Vuice during the past year, came down from the “Lake’’ Xmas eve and 8 visiting in the city. Aad A. Tone, the Northome attorney, arrived in the city this morning and left this noon fur Grand Rapids, where he will at- t:nd a meeting of the board of county commissioners of Itasca county. John J O’Neil, of the logging firm of O’Neil & Irvine, came dowrn this morning from Nort- hone,, where he has several camps established for the win- ter. The Blackduck Ewmployment Agency sent fifteen men to Jenkins this morning to work in the camps of the Northland Pine company at Cross Lake C. W. Scrutchin went to Brainerd this morning, where he will appear as attorney in the case of Hill vs. Ras» and )ppose a motion for a new trial, his client having won the case in a former trial. ’ Solon Finley left last evening for Northome, after having spent Christmas in Bewidji. Solon now has charge of a logging camp for Irvine & O,Neil, four and a half miles east of Nort- home, Johin Oman and wife spent Christmas at Cass Lake, where they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Hanson, parents of Mrs. Owan. Both Mr. and Mrs Oman lived at Cass Lake several years prior to coming to Bemidji. K. Mclver, manager of the Beltrami County Mercantile com- pany’s general store at Kelliher, came down from Kelliher yester: lay morning and spent Christ- mas in the city with his family, returning to Kelliher yesterday eveming. Mr. McIver states that business at the Kellihor storehas been very good of late, J, C, Huyck and J, I, Huyck came over from North Dakota and spent Christmas with o)d friends in Bewidji. J. C. traveling representative for t«he Kelly-How-Thompson Hardware company of Dulu'b, with head- quarters at Bismarck, and J: 1. is living at Minot and selling shoes to the “Flickertail’’ folks cruising in that|for the E. F. Mayer Shpa com- pany. Both are doing very well out west, and J. C.’s health is here. We have installed at our place of business, “soda fountain hot drinks.” THIS IS OUR MENU: Hot Chocolate with Macarons | 15¢ Hot Clam Bouillon . . 10c Hot Chicken Bouillon . . 100 Hot Tomato Bouillon . . 10¢ Hot Conc. Ext. of Coffee . 10¢ 0 e Lakeside’ Bakery. What a about picture now, when the whole fawily is to- gether, at Hakerup's, by day light.or electric light. “Dick” Hawkes returned last night f om Washburn, Wis. whbere he went to see his new twin boys and incidentally renew old acquaintances, A. A. Reid, chief clerk in the mercantile establishment of Henry Hughes & Company, the Tuller store at Grand Rapids, came over from the ¢“Rapids’ Monday night and spent Christ- mas in the city. George Millard, cashier of the Lumbermens bank at Big Falls, speat Christmas with Bemidji friends, Mr. Millard is a former resident of this place and he still has a warm spot in hi. heart for “Bemidj " G. H. Denley, agent for tle Great Northern at Hubbard, spent Christmas in the city, be- ing the guest of J. C. Courtuey and family, Mrs. D-nley accom- panied her husband. She is a daughter of Mr, and Mrs. C urt- ey. B. L. L~wis, better known : 8 “Dad” Lewis, arrived in the city Monday night for a combinec business and pleasure visit in the city. Mr. Lewis, who was formerly part owner of the “M. & M.” cigar factory, is now cor- dauctor cn the G. R. & I. railway, w th headqaarters st Grand Rap- ids, Michigan, and is duing ve:y well, J. W. B-sh, passenger con- iuctor on the M. & I, has re- sumed his run from Brainerd to Big Falls, after having laid ofl from duty for two weeks, on wccour:t of the serious illness ot his mother, at Brainerd. Mrs. Bush was considerably improved, and “Bili” resumed his run, but the lady is far from being well, and Mr. Bush may again ask for 1 leave of absence. H.J. McCarthy came up from Hawley and spent Christmas in this city with his family. Mr. McCarthy has a contract to do some of the grading on she double|track wheih the Nor- thern Pacific railway is pusting in from Staples to Valley City. He will put in several thou sand yards of the grade in the vicinity of Hawley. W. M. Love. who has man- aged the Challenge hotel for several months, has removed from the hotel and C. H. Hen- drickson of Fosston is now in charge of the hotel untill Mrs. E. L. Smith, owner of the place and who lives in Spokaune, arrives to take the management Mrs, Smith is expected from Spokane some time in the early spring. FRIEND TO FRIEND The personal recommendations of peo ple who have been cured of coughs anc colds by Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy have done more than all else to make it ¢ staple article of trade and commerce ove: a large part of the civilized world. MARCONI. WIRELESS TELEGRAPH 8TOCK l- uns -umln of the/ and I have FoT Enn:. Ttis boun shortly, er to-day. HIGBEE, Broker g., ©r.PAUL,ML.x. National llnk Ialnvnm .| ever you hear any one say “Merry ‘once becam¢ the owner ‘of some land in New Hamp- as he and his wife were journeylng in the vicinity of the farm they decided to take a look at It. He found an aged ‘woman in charge, She'said In reply to questions that the place belonged to a lawyer down In Boston named Web- ster. “What rent do you pay?” asked. the amused owner. “Rent!” ghe exclaimed: any rent. “I don't pay it he don't fix up the house soon I'll leave anyhow. Wonder if he expects I'm golng to freeze to death this cold weath “Well,” remnrked the proprietor, “It is a pretty hard case, but if you'll ac- 'cept this five dollar bill toward holding on another year I'll try to see Mr. Web- ster and have something done about it With which remark he took final leave of his farm.—Boston Herald. An Organized Holdup. An English Chritmas Isn’t a saen- The band plays, but it plays with one hand while the other Is out for coin. The boys and men sing Christmas hymns and then take & collection, and the moon may be shining, but you can't see it through the fog. Some of the rallway stations are decorated, and you've scarcely had time to remark gerfest; it's a beggingfest. that you think it's a very beautiful custom when an itching palm appears between you and the holly. The post- man says, “Merry Christmas,” and waits for you to be generous, and the lamplighter and the paper boy and the man who delivers groceries and the boy from the cake shop. Porters follow you wherever you go, and servants whom you never saw before bob up in numbers. And out in the street when- Christmas” you mechanically put your hand In your pocket. It isn’t Christ- mas; it's an organized holdup.—Bohe- mian. The Marvel of Distance. The distance to the nearest fixed star 18 so tremendous that, like many of the facts of astronomy, it Is beyond the grasp of the human Imagination, though not beyond the reach of math- ematical demonstration. Light, which travels at a speed of 186,000 miles in a single second of time, takes over four years to reach us from the nearest star. The thread spun by a spider is so excessively flne that a pound of it ‘would be long enough to reach around the earth. It would take ten pounds of it to reach to the moon gnd over 3,000 pounds to stretch to the sun. But to get a thread long enough to reach the nearest star would require half a mil- lion tons. If a railroad could be built to this star and the fare fixed at a cent a mile the total cost of the journey ‘would be $250,000,000,000, or more than sixty times the whole amount of colned gold in the world. Black Rod’s Knock. ‘What Is the meaning of this hostile banging of the door of the house of commons in Black Rod’s Inoffensive face? Why must the king's messenger humbly knock three times for admis- slon and walt submissively on the mat outside until the representatives of the people decide to open thelr doors unto him? It is one of several quaint and curlous customs still preserved In par- llament, a survival from a perfod of history when the house of commons was not so free and independent or so sacred from royal Intrusion as it has been since the revolution. — Michael MacDonagh In Grand Magazine. Nothing New Under the Sun. Blang phrases In course of time be- come absorbed into the vernacular just In the sime way that nonsense rhymes and nursery verses hecome institu- tlons. Take the following example. The famous lines Mother, may I go out ta swim? Yes, my darling daughter. Hang your clothes on a hickory limb And don’t go near the water, are at least 1,800 years old, being found In a book of jests of the sixth century compiled by Hlerocles!—Lon- don Chronicle. The Forest Spirit, The editor was criticising the poem just brought in by the literary con- tributor. “You speak of the ‘spirit of the for- est, ” he sald. “Do you think there Is such a thing as a forest spirit, as dis- tipguished from any other kind?” “Yes, sir,” flercely respondeqd the lit- erary contributor. “Didn’t you ever hear of such a thing as waed alcohol ?* ~Chicago Tribune. A Historian’s Joke, Macaulay Is not usually regarded as & humorous writer, but Jn his “History of England” he perpetrates the follow- Ing In relating the death of Charles II. He says: “Several of the prescriptions have been preserved. One of them Is signed by fourteen doctors. He recov- ered his senses, but he was evidently In a situation of extreme danger.” Discretion, “This popular fiction i3 all rot. In real life the girl's father seldom objects to the man of her choice. “You're wrong there. He often ob- Jects, but he's. usually too wise to say anything.”—Pittsburg Post. The Lovers, First Friend—I see Jack and Molly have made It up agaln. Why was the engagement broken off? ' Second Friend —They had a quarrel as to which loved the other the most, Three-Linkal;s to Banquet, Bemidji 'odga 1. 0. O. F. are planing a tanqetand entertain- | ment to be given at t!eir hall .Monday evening, Dezen.ber 31, 't which thev cxtend a cordial nvitation:to. 11 Odd Fellows and R b k-hs whether members of Bemidj: lodge, No. 119, or not ghire, with buildings thereon. He left the tenant who was there when the premises were conveyed to him in pos- ession, One summer a few years later It Is bad' enough to live here without having to pay for it, and ‘hobby ridden long nnd bard, it Is In- teresting to read of thd.nerve training Which fell to the lot of the Quaker au- thoress, Amélla Ople, In 1789 and aft- er. The' modern mother would shrink with horror from some of methods used on the sensitive child, but In this case it resulted in splendid stuff. Mrs, Worthies.” “I was a creature of fears, tears and screams. My first terror was of black ‘| men and madm My mother made me take a beetle in my band and hold it. As her word was law, I obeyed, but ‘with awful shrinking. I gradually be- came accustomed to it and was fre- quently told to take one up and put it out of harm’s way. I soon overcame that terror. I was made to hold frogs in my hands and was taught to nurse a skeleton as I would a doll. Mother compelled me to listen to her' kindly converse with two poor old lunatics, and I grew to pity them instead. of fearing them.” Bismarck’s Mystic Number. Bismarck, writes a correspondent in reference to our paragraph on super- stition, held, with Pythagoras, that not 13, but 3, was the great and perfect number. Bismarck’s assoclations with 8 were remarkable. He had served three masters. He had three names— Blsmarck, Schoenhausen and Lauen- burg. The arms of his family -are a clover leaf und three oak leaves. He ‘was concerned in three wars and slign- ed three treaties of peace. In the Franco-Prussian war he' had three horses killed under him. He brought about the meeting of three emperors and was responsible for the triple al- llance. He had' three children. His family motto was “In Trinitate Robur” (“Strength In Trinity”), and coantem-: porary caricature pictured him with three hairs on his head. Three was the beginning, the middle and the end of Bismarck.—London Chronicle, How They Save Lights In Stormoway. On a sunken reef 850 feet distant from Stornoway lighthouse is a re- markable beacon which warns mari- ners with the help of a light which 18 only apparent. The beacon is a cone of cast iron plates, surmounted with a lantern containing a glass prism. The prism derives its light from refracting the rays emitted from the lighthouse, and the optical delusion Is marvelous. Mariners naturally suppose that there is a lighted lamp on the beacon Itself, and many of them will not believe oth- erwise. But the object of the beacon is attalned when the navigator:sees the reflected light, which Indicates the per- flous rock below. This beacon in the north of Scatland has been in use was fixed In position others have been placed in other neighborhoods to make clear points of danger. It Is an in- genious and very effective safeguard against perils of the coast, Cooking and Spoiling, There are three kinds of cooking— negative, neutral and positive. The first Is no cooking at all, It s only spoiling good material, Tt ls simply Jabbing wildly at a delicate duty. The | meutral sort 13 the Kind where & person eats and doesn’t know {it—just swal- lows and goes; no sentiment, no beau- 1y, no delight tn it. The third Is where the light of the mind and the grace of the beart join In the delicate mingling of the materlal and touch this and that feature of the procegs with the lovely vision of the sculptor wha rounds the white muscle of Venus' shoulder or of the artist who blends In a flower the tints of anather world.— Ohio State Journal, The Hyena In Shakespeare’s Time. John Trevisa wrote that “the hyoena I8 a cruel beast like to the wolf in de- vouring and gluttony. It is his kind to change sexes, for he is now male anc now female and Is therefore an un- clean beast. And cometh to houses by may, for men should trow that It Is ¢ man, and herds tell that among sta- bles he felgneth speech of mankind and calleth some man by his own name and rendeth him when he hath him without. And he felgneth oft the name of some man for to make hounds run out that he may take and eat them.”—“Shakespeare’s Natural Hiato- Arousing Emulation. Little Johnnle, having In his posses- | slon a couple of bantam hens which lald very small eggs, suddenly hition a plan. Going one moarning to the fow! ! run, Johnnie’s father was surprised to beams and above It a .card- with the i words: “Keep _your eye on thls and do your best.”—London Tit-Bits. A Fool Friend. “A. horse Is a man’s best friend,” said the man who likes animals. “Yes,” answered young Mrs. Torkins, with a sigh, “but when he gets on the race track he is llable to prove one:of those fool friends who make 8o much' trouble.”—Washington Star. A Convenient Memery. do to you if you tofiched that jam egain? Tommy—Why, it's funny, ma, that you should forget too. I'm blamed it I can remember!—Philadelphia Téle- graph. His Turning Polat. De. Style—That was the “turn} polnt in his life. Gunbusta—What wu'r De Style—When he joined the circ a tumbler—New York Times, Be cautlous what you say, of whom and to whom —Flelding. m(n mnow, m -ufly is :b Ople'is quoted In a book on “Quaker | beetles, then’ of frogs, skeletons, black | more than half a century, and since it | night and feigneth man's volce as he | (8 find an ostrich egg tled to one of the | | Apsley. who had only seen four sum- “first Earl ‘Batburst, who was exactly 4 Mother—Fommy, what did I say I'd i i tonight?” BIJO ular Concerts 302 THIRD ST fvery Evening 7:80 0 10:00. Saturdey Afternoon 2:30 to3:30. ! TONIGHT. . EX1RA SPECIALS THE CAMERAGR P THE INDIAN’S REVENGE Illustrated Song : COLLEEN BAWN THE CAMERAGRAPH MERRY FROLICS OF SATAN DON'T MISS IT! PROGRAMME CHANGES WITHOUT NOTICE. WATCH THIS AD DaILY. TICKETS 5¢-10c¢ J.J. ELLIS & SON THE COMPORTABLE WAY. EAST BOUND. { No. 108.. Park Rap. s Line..7:10 8. m (Connecte with Orfentsl Limited at Sauk Ceutre, arrives Minneapolls at 5:15p. m, St. Paul at 5:45p. m.) 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The' youngest bride who was ever led to the ‘altar in England, so far as ! we ‘can discover, was' little Catherine mers when she became the wife of the double ‘her age. The tiny .ring- worn by " Catherlne on this occasion, over. two centuries ago, Is still preserved. Lord Bathurst survived 'to see the eighty-third anniversary of his wed- ding day, w] hile his iady was a wife for leventy six years,.—London Chronicle. Objection Removed. ‘“You' objected” to Jack because he bad to work for a living, didn’t you. mamma ?” Y “Yes, my dear. He doesn’t belong to out ‘class.” #*Well, It's all right now. May he call “Has some one left hiw 8 fortune?" “No, but he's lost ais' Joo."—Cleve: land Leader. Wanted Some of the Same. -A little boy was taken by his father. Into a ‘cafe for dinner.' As they were | eating' their dessert the father handed ;‘the-walter-n bill, which tbat worthy B | | presently with a little pile ‘of change ORGHESTRA MUSIG furnished for all occasions. Also Planos tuuod. Satfstaction guar- antevd. Box 233, Bemldji, Minn. T. SYMINGTON: mLEYSHONEYMl‘AR Oures Colds) Provents Pnen: Kodol Dys 'nlifll Gure See Bijou ad elsewhere in this carried to the cashier’s dusk, returning on'a silver plate. Robby’'s ey bright. h, papa ‘a plate of ‘that too!” ald. Gounod’s Progreas. “As you "advance further. In your ‘art,” sald- Gounod' to a . young poet, “you 'will :come to think ofthe great | poets of the past as 1 now upphellte the great musicians: of former times. | issue for.change of program, ete. Mosart. A matic Dumn—V:nflevllle Pop- Am Auvdaciouns “medlaeval times was in & measure an “/ymportant one, and he who filled the Dost had often very great Influence with his soverelgn, Perhaps the bright- ‘@8t and most astute of fools was Tri- boulet, the favorite jester of Francis 1. It was reported that his majesty, who was of a very geuerous nature, had acceded to a request of Charles V., .mperor of Germany, that he might pass through France on his way from Spaln to the Netherlands, Putting ujde all recollection of what he had suffered at the emperor's hands while {8 captive In Spain, Francls was pre- i paring to receive Charles with much ; ceremony and splendor. Observing one { morning that Triboulet was scribbling | industriously upon a bit of paper, Francls Inquired what he was doing. l “I baye just added the name of Em- . peror Charles of Germany to my list of fools,” answered the jester, “a sover- ‘elgn who is committing the incredible olly of intrusting himself to you by * passing through your kin g@pm.” | “Folly? How if I should'let him pass safely?” “Then I shall substitute your name for his,” was the nudacious retort of the fool. Won by His Vietim. Baron de Mohrenheim, a Russian dip- lomat, was one of the strongest fig- ures In the politieal life of his country. He did not helieve in conceding a point 1t bard fighting seemed likely to bring , vietory. While holding a high position In St. Petersburg his life was threat- ened by a conspiracy. A workman had been detailed to kill him, and after the plot was discovered he had the man brought before him. The accused was a youth who had been driven by star- vation to join the revolutionists. “You 'do not agree with what I am doing?”’ #aid the baron in a friendly tone. The man answered deflantly In the nega- tive. “Very well,” said the intended victim, “every man is entitled to his opinion, and T think that what you want i3 work.” He ordered the man to be freed and found him employment in’ his own service, where the workman “remained till the day of his death a s few years afterward. Broke the Spell. | Up to the time of Grover Cleveland’s ! election it was a popular superstition with politicians that no candidate whose name began with the letter C could be clected to the presidency. The 1dea arose from the fact that no man *! whose surname presented this peculiar- ity, no matter how strong he was with the people, had ever been successful at the polls. There were two Clintons, George and De Witt; William H. Craw- ford, Henry Clay, Lewis Cass and a number of others, who, though their prospects seemed bright indeed, met with defeat when.it came to the test. . Several of the C's, George Clinton and . Henry Clay, for instance, were strong . candidates several times, but never could “make the riffle.” One of the most valuable books for . the professional collector Is esteemed Bolely on account of its errata and the author’s peculiar explanation of how ,uo many blunders came to be made. The book is entitled “The Anatomy of { the Mass.” It consists of 172 pages and 18 accompanied by a list of errata of Iflfieen closely printed pages. The au- thor In his explanation attributes the 1 mistakes to the devil, who, he says, *| first caused him to drop the manu- script In a ditch and thus made it al- most {llegible and, secondly, by befud- dling the printers made them .commit a number of blunders never equaled "~ a work of that size. ] A Book of Blunders. The Wind Month. November was called by the ancient Saxons the wint monat, or wind month, on account of the gales then prevalent. It was also named the blot monat, or blood month, from the an- ! cient practice of then slaughtering cat- tle for the winter provisions. It is said that the Roman senators wished to ' name the month arter Tiberius, as months had already been named after Julius Caesar and Augustus, but the emperor, like Canute, felt that it was possible to have too much flattery and refused, remarking dryly, “What will you do, conscript fathers, if you have i thirteen Caesars?” The Oldest Bank. The Bank of Naples Is the oldest bank in existence, for the Monte Vec- chio of Venice and the Banco San | Glorglo at Genoa, both founded in the twelfth century, have ceased to exist, as has also the Bank of Barcelona, founded In the fourteenth century. The Bank of Naples was founded In 1539 and Is a state bank with a considera- ble capital, to which no oné liys any claim. In other words, It Is Joint atock bank, with no shareholders. Incident, -An Incident of a very curious charac- ter happened at the meet of H. A. Hardwick’s Weston-super-Mare. har rlers at North Petherton. The: hounds were In full cry in a fleld of roots after a hare when a second hare was disturbed, with the result that, racing In an' opposlte direction, she coilided with the first hare. Both were killéd - on the epot, one having lts neck diilo- cated, ‘the other apparently dying of tright—London Mall. Butler and Hoar Ben Butler In a case in the Massa- thusetts supreme court involving dam- tges for fatal injury, Senator Hoar be- 1ag on the other side, quoted Job, “All that a man hath will he give for his life” “That,” said Mr. Hoar,, “was o plea of the devil in a motion for a new trial, and I don’t think the court will be more impressed by it.on ac count of its modern indorsement.” Oftemaive. - "Whlt'll you take for that plpe?” & “Oh, you ‘wouldn't care to smoke this old pipe. “No, but I'd like to. hvy it and throw It away.”—Washington Herald. Her Secret. - . “Dia Jou. marry me for-my. money b ““If your mirror won't mwur that quuflon for you I shan’t."—Houston t, i Fool, '.l'h function of the king's fool in | -