Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 7, 1907, Page 4

Get Your Office Supplies at the Bem:idji Pioneer Office - Most Complete Stock West of Duluth Is, Etc., Siationery, Christmas Stickers, 1907 Diarles, Typewniter Paper, Scrap Books,.Lead Penclls, Pens Holders, Ink Wells, Etc, Rubber Stamps and Pads, Fountain Pens, Letter Coj E:’S S,".‘:,‘}",’, %me'n:alml:;?lc:und%; Pads, D;yc'ument Files, Note Books, Time Buoks, Scale Report Books, Trial Balanoo Books, fiulor’s, Erasers, Kneaded Rubber Squares, 4’ al [Copyright, 1906, by Homer Sprague.] I had chosen Weymouth, on the south coast of England, as the spot where I was to “lay oft” for a month and recuperate. The three or four men ‘who had boats to hire soon had them all out. I had planned to fish that day, and 1 took my boat out T passed at least a dozen others. There was something of a sea on, and only one boat followed me out. Its occupants were a man and a wo- man. The man had charge of the sail, and I soon had cause to wonder that he had been permitted to take a sail- boat out. It was clear that he knew precious little about the management of such a craft, and after awhile I brought my boat up Into the wind and waited for him to come up that 1 might glve him a warning. ‘When he came along he was within an ace of cutting me down, and I cried out to him that but for the woman in the craft I should like to see it bottom side up and he hanging on for dear life. He gave me some impudence in reply, and the woman stood up and held her arms out to me pleadingly. It at first seemed to be a case calling for Interference, but on second thought9| I changed my mind. The toman, ‘whom I took to be the man’'s wife, had not demanded my aid except by signs. The man had thus far escaped disas- ter and might carry the boat back. He was salling straight out into the channel, but he might turn at any mo- ment. To interfere was certain to bring on a row, and I even might be landed in jail over it. 1 resumed my course, bearing away from them, but as I watched the other eraft she suddenly vanished from sight lke the snap of your finger. A fog rolling in had hidden her. The other boat was half a mile away when she was blotted out. The tide was setting In, and I knew that she would drift back toward me as soon as the breeze fell. It was perbaps a quarter of an hour before I heard volces and ten minutes later before I could make out words. They came from the other boat, which was drifting slowly in. The man was cursing and threatening and the woman begging and praying. “I will leave you, I will go away, it you will spare my life,” pleaded the ‘woman, “You promised once before and then lled to me,” came the voice of the man. “But It will be murder, murder, mur- der! Ob, Richard, you don’t mean to kill me!” “But I do. You have been in my way for years. Curse you! Why did I ever run across your face? You have stood between me and happiness long enough.” “But I'll go this time. I promise you before God I'll go. Richard, I have been a good wife to you, but if you have come to hate me I'll go.” “Hate you!” he growled, like a savage animal. “Why, I hate you to the death. I'd have murdered you a dozen times over In the last two years if I'd had a falr show. You are going to die now.” “Oh, my God, don’t do it, Richard! Don’t kill me!” I knew their boat was close to me now, and I gently raised my anchor 80 as to drift In company with it. I might have cried out, but I did not. Had I struck my hand on the rall of the boat they must have heard me. I ‘was sllent, but why I cannot tell. I heard the man move. I heard him tug- ging and breathing hard as he picked the woman up In his arms. She whimpered and gasped and tried to scream, but he gave her a fiing over the gunwale of the boat. She fainted away, but dld not go under the surface. With the boat hook I reached as far out as I could on the port side, and presently I had her and was pull- Ing her in. The two craft were not ten foet apart, and yet no human sight could plerce the fog between. I held the woman's head out of the water for ten minutes. Then I some- how knew that the other boat had drifted ahead of me, and with the ut- most care I hauled the unconscious wo- man into the boat and laild her on the bottom. I waited seven or elght minutes, and I then out with the long oar and by compass gulded the boat to reach the shore at Bridport, to the west. of Weymouth. Before we struck the beach I had forced some brandy down her throat, and she had regained conSclousness, but I did not explain matters to her until we were on the sands and the fog had rolled away. She had begged for her life like a weak woman. and I expected to find her hystericil. She heard me through without interruption, and then her eyes snapped, and she set her jaws. I got a farmer to drive us over to Weymouth, and during the Journey she did not speak five words. Her husband’s boat had not made har- bor yet. The fog had disappeared, but the breeze was very weak. ‘We went to the house where the boat had been hired and walted. When the boat drew near the woman hid herseif. Her husband came ashore with pale face and bloodshot eyes. The boat owner said nothing of a woman having gone with him, and the man was about turning away when the woman stepped ‘out and took him by the arm. He gave jone look and groaned out and sank down, and when he opened his eyes e began babbling. The pair were at the hotel for long (weeks after I left, but so far as I could keep track of the case the man had ot recovered. He could walk around, [but he smiled and babbled in a silly iway, and his mind was that of an ldiot. And, stranger than all, the wo- an never thanked me for what I had done or made mention of the affair,| though I saw her three or four Himes/ a day for two weeks: fm | { | | % ‘ownship Plats in book form, Fine qual LA Py Books, Paper Clips and Fasteners, Rubber Bands, Letter Files, Invoices, Typewriter Supplies, Postal Scales, ity colored Blotters, Letter Copy Presses, Wasta Paper Baskets, Rubber Type Outfits, Staplers, Paper Knives, & Tim Hurst's Baseball Troubles. At the close of that memorable sea- son when Tim Hurst managed the Browns for Von der Ahe he laid over In | Philadelphia on his way to his home up the state, and while in the Quaker City he told his dally experiences while running the Mound City club. “My Mondays,” sald Timothy, “were devoted to telling the St. Louls sporting editors how I was going to win the pennant the next year.” Tuesdays I would be kept busy denying to the elub owners that I had ever made any such statements. Wednesdays I-would be explaining to the newspapers why we weren’t winning games, Thursdays I would be fighting with Chris' to keep him from fining the players all the money they had coming to them. Fri- days I would generally be busy all day getting the terms of pitchers that no batter could hit.” “And on Saturdays?” “On Saturdays I would spend . the day signing players that couldn’t hit any kind of pitching.”—Duluth Herald. Paint and Ocean Travel. “The worst feature of ocean travel is never mentioned In steamship com- pany prospectuses or in books.of tray- el,” sald a returned tourist. “It is not seasickness, for only a few are taken that way In the ocean greyhounds that neither rock nor pitch. It s not the parrow quarters or the inferior cook- ing or the tipping habit. It Is paint. There Is always wet paint on an ocean steamer, and there is never a slgn on it to warn passengers. The modern sallor is a paiuter, constantly wielding the brush, always painting some part of the ship or other. There is hardly a passenger on an ocean liner that does not land from a voyage with some ar- ticle of apparel damaged by paint, A sallor told me once that every ship s entirely repainted inside and out at least three times a:year, The work goes on constantly in port and on the sea, and the passenger never can es- cape.”—Philadelphia Record. Lightning Flashes, 2 Lightning flashes in-a. storm are found by an English observer to be much less irregular in - period’, thax’ they appear. Such storms have n'sun}ly two focl, sometimes three, from which the flashes radiate, and the dischargey from each come at regular (ntervals. The apparent irregularity .1s.due_to the In one storm ioticed the two focl were about a mile and & halt apart, gnd 11 an hour the northern -center itted thirty flashes at intervals of fifteen, | thirty, forty-five, sixty and ninety | onds, and the southern center gave sixteen flashes at.intervals. of seven- teen, thirty-four and fifty-one seconds. Another unexplained obseryation’ is that just before each great. flagh there 1s a momentary faint lighting up of the sky in the stormy reglon, It Made a Difference, An excited man rushed Into yer's office and without any prelimi- nary burst out, “Has a husband a right to open his wife’s letters?” “Certalnly,:, sir, certainly,” was the reply. “Open all you please.” “Well, here 1s a letter. my wife has written to your wife and asked me to deliver. I think there's something unpleasant in it about me; I ‘wish you'd open it and if there is just burn it.” “Humph! Does my wife know your wife Is golng to write to. her?” “Yes.” “And If my wife doesn't get this letter she'll soon find it out, ‘won't she?” “Of course.”. “On second thoughts,” sald the lawyer thought- fully, “I believe there-1s a legal finding to the effect that it is a criminal of- fense to open a wife's letters. 1 couldn’t take the risk, sir; indeed, I couldn’t.” Echo Verses. Echo verses were sometimes used effectively for epigrams and squibs. Thus a critic once wrote; T'd fain praise your poem.. But, fell me, how 1s it When I ery “quiz 1t And when in 1831 Paganini was drawing crowds to the opera house at extravagant prices the Times: printed the followlng lines: What are they who pay thres guineas To hear a tune of Paganini’s? Echo—Pack o', ninnfes! -London Graphic. — i g Youthful - Misinformation, out ‘“exquisite” echo. eries Among the answers ‘to questions at | A recent school examination were the following - interesting .- examples . of youthful misinformation: “Gross igno- rance is 144 times as bad as just ordi- nary ignorance.” ‘“Anchorite, an old fashioned hermit sort of-a.fellow who has anchored hisself - to one place.” “The liver 15 an infernal organ.” "“Va- cuum is nothing ‘with: the air sucked out of it put'up in a pickle bottle. Itis very hard to get.” - Only Two In Office. - A man in a certaln -township was: elected constable. The members of the famlly were much elated and could scarcely ‘contain ‘themselves with: thelr newly -acquired clyic honors.”" At-last one of the smaller children said to“the wife, “Ma, are we all constables?’ The mother replied: “Gwan; child! Nobody’s constable but me and your pal”—Atchison Globe. The Real Cause. Tommy — What was you bawlin’ about last night? Willle—W’y, ‘when ‘paw and me-got home ‘from fishin’ maw didn’t have supper ready, and I whimpered about it, and paw licked me. “And he licked you jis’ fer whimper- 'y “Naw; because supper wasn't ready.” Patlence is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength.— Colton .. _(Original) “Sergeant Millikin, I wish you. to take thirty men, strike the Tennessee river at Brown's ferry and look out for a Confederate force said to be making for that crossing. The distance 1s.about forty miles, and you sbould reach the.ferry before dark tonight.” Sergeant Millikin and his thirty men _were soon In thé saddle briskly canter- Ing westward. Redcliifig’ the ferry. at sunset and finding” no enemy, they crossed the. river and rode-on for. a few miles. By this time-the twilight had faded aud It was nearly dark. Hearing,_something ‘ahead,: Millikin haited his ‘command and listened. Presently not eighty yards distant he heard a voice: < “Lieutenant, go back and tell Colonel Willlams to halt his regiment and go nto bivouac. Then go on and. order the other regiments to bivouac, the Bixteenth Alibama on the left. of the road, the Fifty-sécond and Eighteenth Tennessee on the right. Let the artil lery remain in the rear.” Millikin beard horses’ hoofs receding, but before they were qut of hearing the same volce said: ‘“Captaln Carter, 1 wish you would ride.off Into the woods there where the cavalry are and tell Colonel Hunt that we're going to halt here till daylight, ‘when we'll cross the ferry and I shall expect him to be on the otber side to cover our crossing before day.” Bushes beside the road were break- Ing before a horse, and Millikin, who had heard all he wanted.to know, whispered an " order: to- his men to ‘walk thelr horses as silently as pos- sible to the rear, and after he felt that they were out of hearing the command broke into a ‘trot, then a gallop, till they reached the ferry. Having crossed they rode on to headquarters, pressing fresh horses by the way, and Millikin rode up to'the general's tent long be- Poré noon,’ * : . “General” sald the sergeant, “we struck :a force of Infantry, artillery ‘and ¢eAvalty about six miles beyond ‘Brown'’s ferry, They were to cross at ‘daylight this morning.” The sergéant was commended for his ffective scouting, and preparations were ‘made' to receive the enemy. A vedette line of ‘cavalry .was sent out, back ‘'of which skirmishers were de- ployed, dnd the main force of Ipfantry and” artillery -was - posted on choice ground for’defense. For two days the Union“troops walted under arms, then " gcout came In' from the commander of the eavairy, who said that the Con- federates “1nust. -have retreated, for ‘every' avenue of approach had been scouted dnd “no enemy found. Then the troops were marched back to their camps. ‘Bergeant Millikin. for having given timely warning—though the enemy hiad changed his plans and thus rendered-the information unneccessary —was made a leutenant at the first vacancy. "One night recently at ome of the Loyal Leglon two. graybeards sat side Plain Words. Freeman, the historian, it was said, was apt to grow irritable over matters of Intellectual, difference. One day he was at the Macmillans’ when the con- versation turned upon the subject of Ireland. Mr. Macmillan said that, for his part, he was in favor of granting autonomy, : ‘Whereupon Freeman began to growl at the use of a Greek word. “Why can't you speak English,” de- manded he, “and say home rule in- stead of speaking Greek, which you don’t know ?” One of the guests flushed with anger and ventured to reprove Freeman, call- ing his attention to the respect due their host-and at the same time paying tribute to Mr. Macmillan’s remarkable abllitles. But, although Freeman did not apologize in so many words, he smoothed the matter over by a humor- ous repetition of his eriticism. Later #ome one mentioned gout. “There you B0 againl” exclaimed Freeman. “Why can’t we call it toe woe?” Prey of the Sparrow.Hawk. The sparrow ‘hawk almost invariably catches a flylng bird for its meal, even striking down ‘birds as large as the ‘wood pigeon, though usually going no higher than & blackbird. If it does not exactly swoop like the larger hawks, yet it must have conditions of chase of its own choosing. That is why the small birds usually mob it with impu- nity when they are numerous enough to bewilder it. Once, however, I saw a sparrow haivk that had been molest- ed for some minutes by a perfect cloud of green finches dart among them and secure a victim. One day I had one of these birds pointed out as the one which a few days earller -had come close to the house toward dusk and caught a bat on the wing. That, how- ever, Is a very unusual meal.—London News, The Good Little Cent. A popular clergyman had just closed a successful religious campaign. A great many pennles had been put in the - offering, and his attention was called to this. One night he held up # sllver dollar and a copper penny and gave a conversation held by the two coins, “You poor little red cent, you; you don’t amount to anything. I'd hate to be:you,” sald the big dollar. “I know I'm not very big” replied the cent, “but the chlldren like me, and I -cap: buy a good many things.” “Huh, yon can’t buy anything at all!” sald the dollar. “Just look at me, big and bright and shiny. I can buy a whole lot more than you can.” “May- be 80, said the little red cent meek- ly, “but I'go to church a heap oftener than you do anyway.” Calhoun and Randolph. ‘When John C. Calhoun became vice president ot the United States and con- sequently ‘president of the senate he announced that he had not the authori- ty to call the senators to order for ‘words spoken in debate, as he regard- ed each senator as an ambassador from a sovereign state. The eccentric John of Mr. Calhoun’s ruling to abuse him banquets of the Military Order of the J Randolph of Virginia took advantage by side, and, ‘though not acquainted, fell into’ conversation. One was an invited guest, who had served in the Confederate army, and both. held the rank of major. “1 sometimes feel,” said the Con- federate, “that'I never performed but one Service to entitle me to the rank 1 held, and that was a mere matter of presence of mind. In the summer of 1862 I was a sergeant in the Sixteenth Alabama infantry. ‘1 was sent out from Corinth to discover if the force holding north” Alabama was pushing across country to-attack us in flank. One evening when I was many miles from Corinth, and becomiug fearful of running into a trap, I took two men of the thirty I commanded and rode ahead to search for a place of con- cealment in which to spend the night, Hearing the sound of horses’ hoofs ahead we hid among the trees beside the road. A party of cavalry came along and stopped not far, from me. I knew that if we three men were to take to our heels we'd be overhauled. 80 _I ordered my men in a loud volce.to tell imaginary infantry and artillery to go into camp and the cavalry to be ready to cover our”— The Confederate stopped short, His hearer ‘was staring at him as at a ghost. ' “Do you mean to tell me that you ‘were the man that gave those orders?’ “[ 'do.” “And there were only three of you?’ “I had but two men with me In that spot. There were twenty-elght more half a mile back of me.” The Union ex-officer gulped down a glass of wine, then turned to the other and sald; “You mentloned, I believe, that you ‘were promoted for that service. May F T ask-why?” “Well, my general considered my performance a cool one, and the ne- groes ‘told me that you Yanks were -pushing forward on the other side of the river 10,000 strong and ‘nearing Puscutnbia. -I-never stopped till T had carried this news to my general.” “Major,” said the Union officer, and paused. “Major,” repeated the Confederate expectantly. “You and I both reached the same rank through.a mistake. I was a ser- geant commanding the troop you met, and I went back and reported that yon were coming in force. Our men stgod under arms walting for you. Yoy re- ported 10,000 of us nearing Tuscum- bla. We haln’t half that number, all ° told, in north Alabama.” “I reckon,” sald the Confederate In & lowered voice, looking about furtive- ly to see If they had been overheard, “that we'd better not say anything ' about how we got our start in rank.” EDWARD C. IRVING, personally. One day he began a tirade by saying, “Mr. Speaker—I mean Mr. President of the Senate and Would Be President ‘of the United States, which God in his infinite mercy avert}” What to Name Your Dog. There are certain English names for dogs that have meanings that might be glven when appropriate. Alan means a hound; Ashur, black; Blanco, white; Crispin, curly; Duncan, brown; Julius, soft halred; Leonard, lionlike; Linus, flaxen haired; Rufus, red; Vivian, live- ly; Clara, bright; Constance, loyal; Joyce, sportive. Such names as Scud, Rover, Dart and Patter are suggestive In themselves. Two classic names suit- able for dogs are Biteou and Lixus. Recliprocity. “No,” snapped the sharp faced wo- man at the door, “I ain’t got no food fur you,"an’ I ain’t got no old clo'es. Now git!” “Lady,” replied Harvard Hasben, “I could repay you well. Give me a square meal and I'll give you a few lessons ' in grammar.” — Philadelphia Press. Wouldn’t Dance Upside Down. A young lady rushed into a drug store and asked for some floor wax. The clerk told her they had no floor wax, but had some sealing wax. She replied, “We are going to give a daunce and want to wax the floor, not the cellng.”~-Baltimore Sun. ! Japanese Swords. “Japanese swords are the finest,” sald a swordmaker. !than tlie blades of Ferrara, of Toledo ‘,or of Damascus, The blades of Fer- bend Into a perfect circle without thrown In the air, they must cut it in two with one clean stroke, but the \Japanese blade must do all that and more. The final test of a Japanese beneath a tree. It must hang beneath the tree for tweénty-four hours, and ,ure and back to the forge goes the Japanese blade again.” | Enyfous Canada. There I8 a'great deal of gush about ; the charming and all conquering American girl. What is the truth about this| much lauded damsel? The most attractive American Is.she who is edu- .cated abroad, who-imitates the voice of the Englishwoman and'the dress of the Frenchwoman and who uses the money ,accruing from Chicago pork or New ‘York stocks to buy, so far as such ,things may be bought, the old world graces, of speech and attire—Canadian ' ‘Magazine. il “They are finer | rara, of Toledo and of Damascus must ;breaking, and, a pillow of down being blade is its suspension, edge upward, | every lightest leaf that falls upon its| ,edge must be severed neatly. One fail-; The Knife Thro (Original.] ‘When a mining fever struck a new region in the west I thought I would g0 out and take a hand. One night soon after my arrival I went to a show that had come to the place where I had located. It was given in a big tent and consisted of acrobatic, sleight of hand and other such performauces. There were two brothers, knife throwers, who showed great skill, Ben anl Tarry Halliwell, as their names were given on the roughly printed playbills. Ben's part was to stand with his back to a board while Harry planted knives all about him so that when Ben walked away he left his outline in knives on the board. It occurred to me that it was a horrible way of making a living, for an accident must surely occur in time. But this gave the sympathy of the audience to the brothers, the spec- tators holding their breaths till the end of the game, then applauding vocifer- ously. The Halliwell brothers were down for two performances, and just before the second a specimen of the toughest class at the mines, a thickset, red faced, thick lipped man, with Satan’s own look, sidled around and got in be- hind the ropes on to the plot reserved for the performers. He stood opposite the knife thrower and sidewise to the man at whom the knives were thrown. Harry had nearly pinned his brother in ‘when I saw a flash of light on Harry’s face just as he was throwing a knife. It went through the fleshy part of his brother’s- leg. I had been watching the man who stood opposite him and a second before the knife that wounded Ben was thrown I saw the intruder wanipulate a pocket mirror. It was he who threw the .light of a lamp into Harry's eyes and caused him to mis- send the knife. The audience had kept their gaze fixed on the brothers, espe- cially the one standing for a target, and nobody but myself scemed to have seen the cause of the failure. I'm sure if they had the man who had contrived it would have suffered for his act. Being unused to such scenes I prudently kept my own counsel. A tenderfoot is not fitted to take part in the quarrels of the people of new countries, I saw Harry Halliwell give the man a glance and was confident that he was aware of the cause of his wound- ing his brother. In that glance I also saw a premonition of revenge. Of course the incident ended that part of the performance. The brothers with- drew, and the bill was finished by the others. So far as I could see, the spec- tators supposed that an accident had happened, but were so used to scenes of sudden bLloodletting that they soon forgot 1t. The next day I learned that the flend who had caused the trouble had been incited against Harry Halliwell for some reason not known to my In- formant. He passed under the name of Nevada Tim and had a black record behind him. His occupation was gam- bling, and he passed most of his time at the Metropolitan, a gambling den in the place. I was also told that he had been informed that Harry Halliwell had accused him of throwing a light in his eyes as he was about to throw the knlfe, and he was looking for Harry to kill him. The afternoon after the performance, having nothing to do, I sauntered into the Metropolitan and stood looking at the game.. I was surprised to see Har- ry Halliwell sitting at the table play- ing very moderately. He seemed more interested in watching the door than in the game. I went out after awhile, but something—I could not tell what— led me to go back. There was Harry Halliwell still sitting at the table, the door on his left, and now I noticed his brother leaning on a crutch standing opposite, Presently the door opened, and Nevada Tim walked in. I saw him start when he saw the knife thrower, and Instead of walking straight up to the table, as he had started to do, he sidled around to the left, As soon as the man entered I saw that both the Halliwells were aware of his presence. Ben drew a little off from the table where he and Harry could better see each other, and his eyes never left thelr enemy for a sec- ond. Nevada Tim kept edging around to get in Harry’s rear, but In an ap- parently careless way not likely to at- tract attention. I wished I hadn’t come there, for I knew what he was bent on, and I wasn’t sure the brothers did. Finally he attained a position directly behind Harry, and I saw him turn with sudden swiftness and level a revolver at the back of Harry’s head, but before he could pull the trigger I heard a thud and at the same moment saw the handle of a knife protruding from his left breast. He pitched over back- ward and lay perfectly still. Ben Halliwell had given his brother a signal which, had it come a few sec- onds later, would have come too late. “Harry had turned only half around and thrown the Knife over his left shoulder. So sure was his aith that he had plerced the heart in its center. I had condemned myself bitterly for not interfering to save a man I sup- posed was not aware of his danger, though something told me I might go wrong in doing so. It turned out that I 'would have made a great mistake In interfering. The Halliwells bad plan. ned the affair, had kept out of Nevada Tim’s way and gone to the gambling house to lay in wait for him. Further- more, I found that a number of persons present as soon as Nevada Tim entered knew that either he or Harry Halli- well would 1ot go out alive. Halliwell could not hit a barn door with a pistol. My Introduction to the country did not please me and the same evening I packed up my traps and returned to the east. EDWARD MORRISON. How Dolls Are Made. Many big things are needed to make a small doll. She has her beginning In a great trough, where workmen knead up into a dingy paste old card- board, even old gloves, old rags and gum tragacanth, They are great brawny fellows, these men, naked to the waist, wearing leathérn aprons. In an adjoining room the paste is pour- ed into molds for the busts, the arms, the legs of dolls innumerable. There is & special machine for stamping out the hands. I should not like to con- fess how long I stood in front of it. fascinated by the steady stream of queer little hands that fell ceaselessly from the iron monster. It was aw- ful, uncanny, hypnotizing. Indeed, the whole sight was grim and monstrous. The low factory rooms were misty with steam and lit by strange, red glowing fires. Always the great steel machines pulsed and changed, and through the mist sweaty giants of men went to and fro with beaps of little greenish arms andl legs until you began to think that gome new Herod had killed all the lit- tle people in the world.—Everybody’s. Napoleon Trusted His Omens. Napoleon always had an unlimited trust in his presentiments. When the news came to him that one of the Nile river boats, the name of which was L’Italie, had been wrecked and the crew put to death he gave up all hope of ever completing his conquest of Italy by annexation. Napoleon believ- ed that the stars exercised an occnlt influence over human destinies. When General Rapp, at one time his aid-de- camp, returned from the siege of Dant- slc he found the emperor gazing with concentrated attention at the heavens. “Look there!” shouted the emperor. “It is my star! The fiery red one, al- most as large as the moon! It is be- fore you now, and, ah, how brilliant! It has never abandoned me for a sin- gle instant. - I see it on all great oc- casions. It commands me to go for- ward; It is my sign of good fortune, and where it leads. I will follow.” e Taking Yo Chances, A Glasgow steamer was laboring in a 2eavy sea, the waves sometimes sweep- Ing her decks, but the officers had as- anred the passengers that there was no danger, and all seemed reasonably ealm <vith the exception of one meek eppearing little man, who every few minutes would approach an officer and anxiously inquire if he thought the ship ‘would founder. “No, I tell you!” one of them finally exclaimed, with impatience. “What is the matter with you? Look at those other people—they are not scared to death.” “Oh, I'm not scared,” the man re- plied. “But, If the ship was going to founder, I wanted to know a littls ahead of time.” “Ohl Wanted to tell your friends goodby and all that?” “Well, not exactly,” the man seid esitatingly. “The fact is, my mother- In-law is along with me, and if the ship was qulte sure to sink I wanted to say a few things to her.”—Harper’s Weekly. The Anclents and Medicine, A roll of papyrus acquired by Dr. Ebers in the vicinity of Thebes, Egypt, in the winter of 1872, from an Arab who made anclent grave robbing a business, after investigation and trans- lation was deposited in the library of the University of Lelpsic. The script of this papyrus is hleratic. The date of 1t Is said to be over 7,000 years ago. It 1s a comprehensive treatise on medi- cine. Diseases of the abdomen, the chest, the heart, the eyes, the ears, and 80 on, are carefully arranged and de- scribed in a manner that would com- mand respect at the present day. Feor Instance, of the-heart the papyrus clas- sifies the troubles as fatty degenera- tlon, dilation, carditls, angira, or spasm; hypertrophy (enlargement), thrombosis (plugging) and dropsy. Of medicines over 700 different substances are enumerated, and they are pre- seribed in pills, In tablets, in capsules, In decoctlons, powders, inhalations, lo- tions, ointments and plasters. When Lowell Was Suspended. _ A biography of James Russell Lowell says of a famous incident of the poet's college life: “Throughout his senior year his unexcused absences from reci- tations and chapel exercises increased in number until they reached a tota:i that even now is startling to an aca- demically trained reader. Finally, so the story runs, there came a character- istic ebullition during one of his infre- uent appearances at evening prayers at brought matters to a head. Hav- ing been elected in the morning poet of his class, Lowell had spent the day In ambrosial jubilation. At prayers that evening, belng still jubilant, he arose in his seat and bowed low to the right and to the left. Coming at the end of a long career of consistent negli- gence, this breach of decorum was not to be passed in silence.” Lowell was as a consequence suspended. Fat and Lean Men. Modern sclentdc investigation in a medical way declares that the plump man I8 net necessarily the “healthiest or the best able to resist disease. . TLy leen man hot only enjoys greater re. alstance to weakness and debility, but he is stronger in the performance of a given task. In other words, a large fat deposit in the general tissue is no evidence of good general nutrition The rich and girlish beauty of the plump man, sometimes called “Fatty,” may delight the eye, but when it comes to walking downtown in the morning or running four blocks to a fire “Fat- i ty” blows out a fuse and 1s sent to the repair shop, while his lean brother is merely put inigondition for the day by this little b\kt exercise.—Minne spolis Journal, > : Presence of Mind. Presence of mind is a quality much | talked of, much honored and little cul- | tivated. Yet, like most other good | things in the world, it requires cultiva- | 'tion to bring it to any degree of per- | fection, for in very few cases is it a natural gift. Some people there are : ‘doubtless to whom it comes naturally | and by instinct to do the right things ! at the right time and place, but they ‘are few in number. Then, again, some i penple are by nature cooler headed | than their neighbors and do not shout ! 'or otherwise become useless just when their services are required. But this ! quiet composure, though very valuable, | iis not quite the same thing as presence ''of mind. The latter consist not only in | having your wits ready for use, but in | knowing how to use them and belng ! 'sufficiently calm and steady in mind to remember and turn to account that | knowledge. From the earliest ‘possi- | ble age children should be taught self | control and the Instinct of trying to remedy any mistake or accident they may encounter. Too Late. ' #“Madam,” sald the grateful census ‘enumerator, “you have replied courte- ously and kindly to all my questions. Unlike neazly every person I have met 'sinee I began this work, you have not tneated me as if I were an eney and lan intruder. You have answered satis- factorily all the questions as to age, 'physical condition and ownership of property. Your conduct meets my ‘hearty approval not only as a govern- /ment officer, but as a citizen, and, with F:mr permission, I will ask you a ques- lon not down in my list. Are you engaged to be married to anybody?” “I am, sir,” replied the handsome ‘widow, blushing and smiling. “I feared so,” said the census taker, with a sigh. And he put on his hat and went out into the cold world again, 'his faith in human nature restored, but s heart broken. Lowell Got His Whacks. In his volume on the practice of M- plomacy John W. Foster relates an {i- luminating anecdote concerning James Russell Lowell when he was our min- Ister at Madrid. At a royal receptiou Minister Lowell, in plain evening dress, was preceded up the palace stalrway by a minister from Central America, gorgeously appareled, wearing a jew- eled sword, who was saluted at each landing by the magnificent halberdier with a heavy whack of the battle ax on the marble pavement. As Mr. Loweil wore no insignia of office, he received no attention. At last, his patriotic blood boiling, he addressed the halber- dier in excellent Spanish, “Do you {know who I am?” “I don't” “Well,” said Mr. Lowell, “I am the minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America, the greatest nation on earth, and if you don’t whack the next time I pass you I will forget you at Christ- mas!” And the halberdier whacked $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh be- ing a constitutional disease, re- quires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in- ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the fou nation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the conssitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faithin its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dol- lars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimon- ials. - Address F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O, Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall’s Family Pills for Constipation, 5 Wagon Bridge to Be Construct " bandetie River. . Coniructed Acrocs the Notice Is hereby given, that on the 20th day of February, 1907, at the' village of Baudette, Beltrami counts, Minnesota, the village coun- cil of said village. at a special meeting there- of tobe held at eight o'clock in the evening of said day, will receive and open sealed bids as hereinafter specified, for the construction of a wagon bridge across the Beaudette river, between the villages of Baudette and. Spooner, in sald county and states as follows, - wit: First, For the construction and comple- tion of the super-structure of sald_bridy upon piling already driven, including the furnishing of all labor and’ material m ces- sary to complete the bridge. Second, Kor the timber necessary in the construction of the bridge. ‘Lhird. For all labor necessary and re- quired to construct and complete the bridge. The bridge will be 620 feet long. and 16 feet wide, and is to bo constructed in accordance. Wi plans and e clfications now on file in of the village clerk of “’"“fi'"‘fm a4 ge the village of Cach must be accompanied with a banl d-afi, or certified check for five Dercento‘; tue amount of the bid, to be returned if the bid is not accepted, or to the successtul bid- der, as soon as he has completed the bridge according to the said plans and specifications. The villaze council reserves the right to modify or alter the said plansor specifica~ | tons after the work of construction has com- ‘menced, the reasonable valueof any material and labor Involved In such modification or alteration. to be added to, or deducted from the contract price, as the case may be. The gounc 1 rescrves tho right to Teject any and all bids. 2 All bids shall be addressed to Wm. village clerk, Baudette, M!nnuotm,tm the face of the envelope shall bé indoracy « the words **Bid on Baudette bridge.” Tho village elsrkt basa fow copies ot and speclfications, that wi fu inspéction on applica ion, e lans -for J. U, WILLIAMS, President, Vill X Baudatte: Himmosata. o -0t the Village of Attest: WM. ROG! ERS, Village Clerk, 3 1 me 8 1