Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 29, 1907, Page 4

{ { { % Get Your Office Supplies at the Bemid ji Most Complete Stock West of Duluth I Blank Baoks, Ledgers, Journals, Etc., Stationery, Christmas Stickers, 1907 Diaries, Typewriter Paper, Scrap Books, Lead Pencils, Pens, Holders, Ink Wells, Etc. Rubber Stamps and Pads, P, i ight. Vermont’s Two Seasons. K P~ Moeling Tom‘g‘ One winter when Thaddeus Stevens At the regular meetidg of Be-!pgg come back to his Vermont home midji Lodge, K. of P, to be held he was the victim of a severe cold . » ; !and eoulg not leave the house for many .“"s evem‘ng, thera. willibe WOl‘k ‘weeks. %ue of his callers was Lewis in the Third rank and all Visit-!Glark; a man of short stature, who ing and local members of the}in earlier days had been a playmate of order are urged to attend. Was Best Show Yet. 3 “A Woman’s Sacrifice,”” which was given at the opera house last evening, proved to be one of the strongest plays that bave yet been given by the Henderson company. Both Mr, and Mrs. Henderson, who had .leading parts in the cast, did exception- ally clever work, Mrs. Hender son’s portrayal of the leading part showing her to. be an emotional actress of rare ability. The remainder .of the company all did well. “The Convict’s Wife’' is the bill for tonight. This play was writ- ten by Mr. Henderson and is re- plete with strong climaxes and thrilling scenes. Wil Against WiIL A ceetain prosy professor of physics Is so great a misanthrope that he de- liberately announces his lectures for the days when he has reason to think that his students will least want to at- tend. He commanded thelr presence on an election day once and drove them nearly wild by delivering a tedious es- say on will power. “If he wills it, a man may accom- plish anything,” he droned. “Let him make up his mind not to die, and he will live In spite of disease; let him decide that life is not worth living, and he will drop peacefully out of it. 1 challenge any student to cite an in- stance in which the power of the will bas not triumphed over everything.” Up shot the reprobate of the class, a youth beloved by all his companions for his daring humor. “Sir, I accept your challenge. are wrong,” he said. “Pray mention an example,” retort- ed the professor dryly. “With pleasure, sir. An hour ago I willed that this lecture should be brought to a speedy conclusion. I've willed the same thing sixty times since, but up to now it hasn't come off.” “Nor will it,” said the professor, “for I have not only willed that this lecture should last another hour, but am per fectly willing that It should do so.” And It did. You the “Old Commoner” and was a near neighbor of the Stevens family in their Peacham home. Vermonters had just begun to wear buffalo coats, and Mr. Clark arrived at the Stevens home al- most lost' in a coat which reached to the ground. His upturned collar com- pletely covered his ears and face, while n fur cap completed the disguise. “Is that you, Lewis?’ asked Mr. Btevens In an incredulous tone. “Yes, Thad,” he replied. “Well, skin yourself and eit down,” exclaimed the. other. During the interesting conversation which followed Mr. Clark asked Ste- vens If he wouldn’t come back to his Vermont home and live. “No,” replied Stevens. but two seasons here—winter and late In the fall.”—Harper's Weekly. “You have The Crocodile’s Strong Jaw. Bir Samuel Baker in_ his “Wild Beasts” says that the power of the Jaws of the crocodile Is terrific. Once he had the. metal of a large hook, the thickness of ordinary telegraph wire, completely bent together, the barbed point belng pressed tightly agalnst the shank and rendered useless. This com- pression was caused by the snap of the jaws when seizing a live duck which he had used as a bait, the hook belng fastened beneath one wing. On one oceasion he found a-fish welghing sev- enty pounds bitten clean through as if divided by a knife. This, again, was the work of a snap from the jaws of a crocodlle. M. Paul Bert once made experiments on the strength of a croc- odile’s jaws by means of a dynamome- ter. He found that a crocodile weigh- Ing 120 pounds exerted a force of 808 pounds in closing his jaw. The lion has an enormous jaw power. On one occasion an African traveler pushed the butt end of his.gun Into a lion's mouth, and the pressure of the jaws cracked It as though it had been struck by a steam hammer. An Anatomical Pussle. Behind -the bridge of your nose is a little cavlty in the skull, thé origin of which appears to be unknown. It probebly was a gland, consisting of two tiny lobes, jolned togesher, and is named the Sella turcica. Physiologists belleve that this is the remains of a sixth sense, which was of practical value to our -antediluvian - ancestors, but whether it enabled them to see In the dark in days before they possessed fire or helped them to find their way through trackless forests as wild beasts can today or what other purpose it may have served we do not know and probably never sball know. A Robust Ghost. John Leech and a member of the Millais family once stayed a night at Cowdray hall, in England, where, many guests being present, the two friends had no alternative but to accept rooms in an isolated wing supposed to be haunted. In the middle of the night Millais awoke, belleving that some glant was shaking him violently by the |sh0ulder. This “was supposed to be the favorite device of the ghost. He rushed into a corridor and found Leech sltting there trembling and declaring that he would not for the world go back to his room. They spent the re- ' mainder of the night In the corridor, {but in the morning said nothing of | thelr experiences. In the afternoon , there arrived an evening paper telling of a violent earthquake in the locality. The earthquake was what the two vis- itors believed to be their ghost. Valuable Pebbles. | Between the northern point of Long Island and Watch Hill lies a row of little islands, two of which, Plum is- land and Goose island, possess a pe- cullar form of mineral wealth. It con- sists in ‘heaps of richly colored quartz ! pebbles, showing red, yellow, purple ! and other hues, which are locally called ! agates. They are used in making stain- ed glass windows, and there is a suffi- clent demand for them in New -York to keep the owners of one or two sloops employed in gathering them from the beaches, where the waves continually roll and polish them, bringing out the : beauty of their colors. El Dorado. The modern meaning of El Dorado may be traced as follows: One of Pf- zarro’s men said that he had discov- ered a land of boundless wealth be- tween the Orinoco and the Amazon. This country was named El Dorado, and many adventurers, among them Sir Walter Raleigh, endeavored to find it; hence the name has come to mean a golden country of the mind, 2 fabu- lous land of fabulous wealth, much as Cockaigne, a fancled land of luxury and idleness.—New York American. Happiness and Hunger. “My idea of perfect happiness,” said the seedy philosopher as he made his fourth round trip to the free lunch counter, “is to be In a position to go into the swellest restaurant, put my hand over the price list of the menu and order what my taste dictates, irre- spective of the demurs of a diminished wad.” safe 10 Love Tnem Then, “I like dear little babies before they (have learned to talk, don’t you, Mr. Smythe?” “Indeed 1 do! Before they have learned to talk there Is no danger of their parents telling you the remark- able things they have said.” — Stray Starleg, Humors ot Translation. ‘Vietor Hugo alway: translated the Firth of Forth as “the First of the Fourth” and swore that he was right, too, while Disraell noted with amuse- ment “woebegone” as’ “douleur _va- ten.” An early transiator of Scott’s “Bride of Lammermoor” had it as “La Bride de Lammermoor,” the second word menning “bridle,” and the same. man rendered “Welsh rabbit” by “La- pin du Pays'de Galles.” The case of “La Dérniere Chemise de ' Amour” for “Love’s Last Shift” is classic, and when the farce “Hit or Miss” was done into French it almost was billed as “Frappe on Mademoiselle.” That delightful piece in which Toole was at his funniest, “Walker, London,” was referred to in a French newspaper as “Londres qui se Promene.” The best that the translator could do for the “Stickit. Minister” was “Le Ministre Assassine.” Buying a Gitt Book. The principle of choice should in gen- eral follow the taste or need of the friend for whom you are selecting a book. Yet it is also well now and then to open a new channel of interest by glving' a volume outside of your friend’s habitual line. We are often thankful to a friend who has drawn us out of our mental sheep tracks. There j are a“few writers that stand as per- manent figures in the modern literary world—writers who have given out seminal’ ideas that seed and beautify the fleld of thought. Chief among these men are Shakespeare, Carlyle, Ruskin, Emerson and Victor Hugo. Until a libra- Ty possesses at least the best writings of these five men It Is sadly deficient. You are doing kingly service when you make these men known to any thought- ful mind.—Edwin Markhara in Success. Met His Match. Rev. Matthew Wilkes, a celebrated London preacher, was caught in a shower in the famous Billingsgate market, where the profanity of the women who seil fish there is préver- bial. As he stopped under a- shed among them he felt called upon to at least give his testimony against their wickedness. 3 “Don’t you tdink,” said he, speaking with the ‘grestest deliberation and solemnity, “I shall appear as a swift witness against you in the day of Judgment?" “I presume $0,” said one, “for the i biggest rogue always turrs® state’s evidence.” Ben Butler’s Retort. An old lawyer in speaking about Gen eral Ben Butler said: “Ben Butler was A terror and a torment to the judges. 1 On one occasion Judge Sanger, having been bullled and badgered out of all patlence, petulantly asked, ‘What does | the counsel'suppose I am on this bench [for? Scratching his head a minute, ' Butler replied, ‘Well, 1 confess yanr honor’s got me there’ ™ MAIL ORDERS RE- CEIVE IMMELIATE ATTENTION MONEY CHEERFULLY REFUNDED ). f CLOTHING HOUSE B. 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Kuppenheimer’s short lots, last lots and final lots of suits and overcoats at 333%, 40% and 509, off the regular prices. fancy weave and black and blue suits. coats- Matchless $25.00, $24.00, $22.00, and $20.00 suits and over- Kuppenheimer’s Kuppenheimer’s mohair lined and serge lined over- $14.75 Absolutely all-wool worsted suits, grey ying. Most im- $9.75 lSnn&:mm Consacy Qe § and reefers, sizes 3 to 16. them as worth 3.50,4.,4.50,5.,long’s they last Boy’s, Children’s and Young Mens’s Clothes Clearance ¢ Broken lot assortment of less than 50 suits and overcoats, covering all odd garments, Russian suits, sailor suits, Nor- folk suits and double-breasted suits. Russian Overcoats We vouch for $2.65 35 Young Men’s Hand Tailored Overcoats Black cheviots, blue veleours scotch weave overcoats, that have been standard highest grade values, ankle length, with and without belt, styles that were selling for . $8.50 and $10.00, m sizes ‘13 to ~ 20 chest, for clearance, EXTRA SPECIAL BROKEN SIZES in Youths all-wool cheviot & cassimere suits, worth to %0 $4.85 Boys knee pants in cassi- sizes 3 10 16 for meres, cheviots and tweeds, 50c Boys $1.00 and $1.25 furinband, caps Copyright 1906 The House of Kuppenheimer and 75c values, ' 380 65¢ ’ *“The trouble,” sald the dentist as he Promises to the Dying. A clergymadn, discussing unhappy love affairs, said: 3 “Many a love tragedy is caused by a husband’s promisé to a dying wife that he will not. marry again. He thinks when he makes this promise that it will-be easy to keep. : Whether it is easy or hard to keep, it is a promise rarely if ever broken, = Time and time again widowers have sought e out for advice on this subject, They are in love, but they promised their dead wives not to marry again. Shall they break or keep this promise® I can only advise them to do as their conscience dictates. At the same ‘time I think it is selfish of dying wives to extract such promises from their bro- ken hearted husbands. Such prom- ises, by the way, are rarely extracted by dylug husbands from broken heart- ed wives. But, then, when the dead husband’s will is read it Is usually found that if the widow marries again the money is all taken from her. So it comes to the same thing in the end, doesn’t {t?’—New York Press. Famous Collection of Antlers. Of the famous collections of antlers formed in the seventeenth century only two or three have escaped the general fate of conflagrations, sieges and pil- lage. One of these is in Moritzburg, the king of Saxony’s historical hunting castle, near Dresden, while in the cele- brated gun gallery in Dresden itself are to be seen in an unrivaled show the wonderfully Inlaid arms used by the elector. The great banqueting hail of the castle of Moritzburg is one of the sights with which no doubt many a traveled reader has been charmed. It is a chamber of noble proportions, slxty-six feet long by thirty-four wide and thirty-eight feet high. On its oth- erwise unadorned white walls hang seventy-one pairs of magnificent ant- lers, which one may describe as the most famous of their kind in the world. Not a single one carries less than twenty-four tines or is less than 200 years old, while some are probably double that age. A Celebrated Clock. The art of the clockmaker has achieved many remarkable triumphs during many centuries. Sometimes it Is a clock wonderful for the complexi- ty of its movements and its busy popu- lation of automatons that attracts our admiration, like that in the Cathedral of Strassburg. At other times the im- mense size of the machinery and the dials excites astonishment. This is the case with the celebrated clock in the tower of the'Churchiof St. Rombaut at Mechlin. A writer in La Nature thinks this clock possesses the largest dials that exist in the world. There are four of them, one on each side of the great square tower, and thelr extreme diam- eter I8 nearly thirty-seven and one-half feet. The figures showing the hours are nearly six and one-half feet high, and the hands have a length of nearly twelve feet. Who Gets Your Vote? “Do you see that man there?” re- marked a barber to a customer In his chair. “Well, he has had one and the same job for the past forty-seven years and has been married all that time, and his wife has never at any time during that period known what salary her husband was getting, The wife gets 50 much & week and no more and has never beenable to learn what amount of money her husband has been recefving in exchange for his Ia- bor. Now, what bothers me Is which should have the:diamond medal-I say diamond, as In- this case the finest ‘would seem to be needed—the man for being: able to so long baffle a woman’s curiosity or the woman for surviving Pi % "~ Right She Was, B ! “They tell me your husband draws a salary for sleepin’.* “Sure, that’s right, Mrs: Clancy. He's 4 night watchman.”—New York World. Illustrated Phrase. Going against the grain—Chicago Journal. Pa Was a Lawyer. Teacher--What s the longest sen- tence you ever read, Bobby? Bobby—Imprisonment for life.—Cin- cinnati Comamercial Tribune. Busiaess and Pleasure. Old Man—What ye cryin’ fer, 80 long an unsatisfied curlosity.”—Co- lumbus Dispatch. A Fearful Duel. The most terrible duel fought at any time In Paris was the one ‘between Colonel D., an old Bonapartist officer, and M. de G. of the Gardes du Corps, a mere - youth, but of herculean strength. The two men, lashed togeth- er go as to leave their right arms free, were armed with short knives, placed in a hackney coach and driven at a tearing gallop around the Place de la Concorde. They were taken out of the coach dead. The colonel had elghteen stabs, the youth only- four, but one of these had plerced his heart. Mastered the ‘Q. Hundreds of people have cured them- selves of impediments in speech. One of last year’s mayors as a young man used to find it almost impossible to pro- nounce words beginning with a “q.” Every day for months he used to walk across St. James’ park practicing thjs sentence aloud, “A quantity of quick- sllver quietly quartered In a quag- mire,” until he conquered the impedi- ment. | Today he is one of the most fluent speakers In England.—London Tit-Bits. 3 ' Why He Wanted an Autograph. : “A young man once wrote to Willlam: Dean Howells for his autograph. The novelist replied In a typewritten line: _“Have you bought my~last book?” - The young man answered: “I have not. I want to sell your auto- graph In order to get money enough to buy 1t.” Reasonable Request. probed away at the aching molar with a long, slender Instrument, “is evident- ly due to a dying nerve,.”. “Well,” groaned the - yictim, “At’s open to you to treat the dying with a little more respect.” The Combination. 5 Miss Millyun—One can be very hap- Dy in this world with health and mon- ! ey. Deadbroke—Then let's be made | one. I have'the health and you have the money.—Tllustrated Bits. T ‘Tommy? & Tommy—I - want to build. a snow house. 0ld Man—Won't yer ma let ye? Tommy—Yes, but she wants me ter take de snow off de sidewalk ter build 1t wid.—Leslie’s Weekly. In a Way. LY V4 “The baby ees learning ze French, yes, madame.” “He's learned the gestures anyway.” —Harper’s Weekly. A Setter. “What kind of a dog Is that, my oneér‘.f'off pewriter Supplies, Postal Scales, A Mother’s Argument. “The most to bé regretted act of my life,” says a commander of the navy. “was a letter I wrote to my mother when about seventeen years of age. | She always addressed herletters to me a8 ‘my dear boy~ I felt atthat time i1 was a man, or very near it, and wrote saying that her constant ad- !d:esslng me as a ‘boy’ made me feel | displeased, I received in reply a letter " full of reproaches and tears. Among ! other things, she snid: “You.might grow to be as big as Goliath, as strong as Samson and as wise as Solomon; you might become ruler of a nation or em- . i beror of many-nations, and the world ‘might revere you and fear you, but to | your devoted mother you would al- | ways .appear in memory in your 4tno- |'cent, ‘unpretentious, - unself conceited, ! unpampered babyhood. In those days when I washed and dressed and kissed and worshiped you, you were my idol. Nowadays you -are becoming part of a gross world by .contact with it, and I cannot bow down to you and worship 1 Fou, but if there are manhood and maternal love transmitted to you, you will understand that the highest com- \ pliment that mother love can pay you i8 to call you “my dear boy.”*” Some 014 Time Glants. Cajanus, a- Swedish giant who was nine feet high, was on exhibition in London in 1742, and several old hand- bills still -exist. which set forth the measurements of this freak of nature. Thirty years later we have Charles Byrne, who was eight feet four inches In height in his stockinged feet. He, however, died .young, at the. age of twenty-two, from hard drinking. Cot- ter O’Byrne, another Irish giant, fol- lowed a few years later. He was born at Kinsale in 1761 and at the age by the time he was twenty-three had Increased to. nine feet four inches, and then he changed his name to O’Brian In order to make people think that he was descended from King Brian Bo- rolhme and went on exhibition. At that business he, of course, soon real- ized a yery comfortable fortune and re- tired, dying at Clifton on Sept. 8, 1804. His will especially provided that his body should be thrown into-the sea in order to prevent the surgeons from cut- ting it up. No Rhyme For Tipperary. A poet once jumped to the conclusion that there was no rhyme to Tipperary and said-so, whereupon an indignant Irishman, who chanced also to be a bit | of a versifier, pounced upon him and poked fun at-him In a lengthy poem, every. other line of which rhymed or was supposed to rhyme with the place in question. Thus: ‘A bard there was in sad quandary To find a rhyme for Tipperary. - Long labored he through January, Yet found no rhyme. for "Tipperary; Tolled every day in February, - But tofled in vain for Tipperary; Searched Hebrew. text and commentary, But searched In vain for Tipperary. And so on through many scores of stanzas, ending up with: Ho paced about his aviary, Burnt. in ‘despair his dictionary, Blew up sky high his secretary, And then in wrath and anger sware he There was no rhyme for Tipperary. Gliisxes and the Eyes. Every ore knows. that' in using a fleld glass it Is necessary. to adjust it to a proper focus. Suppose that you put one of the tubes at your focus and the other- tube at.a focus that sulted some one else and then . you.Jlooked through both tubes.. You would have a more or less blurred vision, and If you kept’ on -looking. the chances are that you would. feel giddy and get a headache. Now, the two eyes are sup- posed to have an-equal natural focus, and when by any chance that focus Is unequal a headache results. The rem- edy is a pair of glasses or a single glass to make the eyes equal in power. The Danes. The Danes, or Northmen, first be- came prominent in Buropean “history in 783, when they began to ravage the north coast of France and south- ern shores of Great Britain. The dar- ing of these hardy seamen was re- markable, for:in their small ships they even penetrated the Mediterranean and became terrors to the seaboard popula- tion of Italy, Bicily and Greece. The first king of ‘Denmark Is sald ‘to-have -| been Skiold, 60 B. C. . S All Tt Needed. “I made this potato salad for you myself,” smiled she. “Isn’t It dell- clous?” ‘*“It would be,” assented her husband, “if you had put a little more ofl and vinegar and pepper and. mustard seed and horseradish In the dressing and Introduced a sliced egg or two and a tew white onlons and left halt of the potatoes out.” Tolerance In Japan, ‘Westerners seem. to find: it incon- celvable how the Japanese can .main- taln allegiance to different creeds at oue and the same time. One broad ex- planation of this 1s that we as a nation are tolerant in mind, especially In mat- ters. pertaining to religion. — Japan Times of Tokyo. ; The Wrong Jam. ) - Haskell-What's Bobby crylng for? Mrs. Haskell—Oh, the poor boy caught his finger In the pantry door. Haskell —H'm! He evidently didn't get the Jam he was looking for that,time.— | Plek-Me-Up. i Getting Back at Him., Hewltt—I' got éven with the doctor Who vaccinated' me. - Jewett—How did ‘you do 1t} lewitt—He ran for office, 2 ed bim. . { boy?” . “Its a setter. Can’t you see set? g of fitteen was elght feet high. This