Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 17, 1907, Page 6

1 P - — | GENERAL SCHOOL FUND. Debit Balance on Inm| January 1, 1906. Special § id, Rural Schools lh\lnbull\l to Distri $ 13,477.68 T10.48 Court house, ml and grounds. The foregoing statement, prepared by the County Auditor. Inventory of County Property. v is approved by this Board, and respectfully submitted to the taxpayers of Beltrami County. l Poor farm K Furniture Flraitars Snd Aafarcs, court Ros WES., WRIGHT. J. H. WAGNER. F. 0. SIBLEY. A. W. DANAHER. GEO. GUNDERSON. Pretty Giose. A certain elderly lady was in a fairly good position and lived In one of the suburbs of a large town. One morn- ing she went to her butcher with a basket filled with wooden skewers. She told him she had saved them—that they had been weighed to her as meat and that she had brought them to recelve their weight back again in meat! Is there a man bold enough to carry econ- Perhaps the meannesses of mean people are more often actuated by feelings of avarice than by those of economy. It would be difficult, for In- stance, to find a worse case than the An old man once wrote a Balance on hand December 31, 1906. Dated at Bemidji, this Sth day of January, 1907, $142816 $ 1424816 INDEBTEDNESS FUND. Dehxt Credit BBalance overdrawn January 1, 1906, 140.81 Tax Collections 1906. . $ 3349 Balance overdrawn Decem 107.82 $ M08 0§ 108, = An Old Time Alderman. REAL ESTATE FUN Several patrons of the restaurant at Broadway and Tenth street were lunch- " g;‘;;‘“ Credit | yng there a few days ago, seated at a e overtmin Japuary 1 10065 £ 294911 | table between the corner windows on T2 2ol1l the second floor which commanded a P, * "5 fine view down Broadway, which = makes a sharp turn at Tenth street. GENERAL DIRCH FUN. Sald one of them: “Do you know that Debit Credit | this bend in Broadway was made in Balance overdrawn January 1, 1906, . 8 2,665.85 & 1108 order to save a tree? Well, it was. As Foclelons Me e 1R | orlginally planned, Broadway woula have cut a slice off the lawn of Hen- $ 26635 $ 26535 qrik Brevoort, who ran a tavern in omy so far? " the Dutch farmhouse which stood WARRANTS ACCOUNT. where Grace church now is. He was Debit an alderman, like many of his profes- slon today, and not only succeeded in | $180,404.93 saving the magnificent tree In the 129,863.97 shade of which his customers lingered | goj1owing: $310,268.90 $310,268.90 over their pipes to watch the trafie on ASSETS AND LIABILITIES OF BELTRAMI COUNTY. Liabilities. County Bonds, dut June 30th, 1907, . . County Bonds, due TJune 17!]\, 1911, County Bonds, due June 2nd, 1917, Connty Bonds, due June 30th, 1919, County Warrants unipaid TFotal.cciover wrer wrnn sore sene Taxs for 1906, County Funds Taxes for 1905 and prior ye Due from State, care non-resident Due from State for wolf bounties p: Due fro rwater County (Taxe Due fr arwater County (Claims] Due fror Trabbard _County., s Real Fatate: | Lots 5, 6 and 7, Scction 19, Tp. 14733 Excess of Liabilities over Assets...... cooo cove vien soen cevn cren aees . Tl .iiine vese sore sove soee sese sese sess ssse sese sese sere - Bloomingdale road, but about 1849 al- so prevented the opening of Eleventh street from Fourth avenue to Broad- way, which would have necessitated the tearing down of his tavern.”—New York Sun. Poll Parrot as a Game Bird. ‘While the parrot is a bird of beauti- ful plumage, as a table delicacy it Is 44p| DOt to be recommended, as I know .o | from sad experience. My first essay at eating a parrot was attended with-mod- ified success. The bird must have been comparatively young, and after several hours’ boiling became soft enough to masticate and finally swallow, leaving behind it an impression that we had lunched on the sole of a rubber boot.— Arthur D. Temple in Field and Stream. RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS OF CITY, TOWN AND VILLAGE FUNDS Recelpts P nt: r Oredis Bal- | Fecolps | oo g ayments | Credit o Balanc ance o CITY, TOWN AND VILLAGE, Tan. "Tst, 1006, Sollections | Treasurers |Jan. st 1907 Village of Bemidj ] s 159 9818 159 98l¢ 159 988 Northern. 801 87 801 87| 801 87| 585 50 585 50 585 56 87 00 s 2] 62 24 i 24 5100 1 38| 1 38| 1 33 37| 33 37| 33 37| 889 70 589 76 85 760 245 00| 906 70| 1151 7)| 1151 70| 9 o) 9 03 ] (* 1D w1 1117 92 wee o 731 7 1724 90| 1724 90| 1724 90| 13 48| 13 13 48| 450 70 450 70 450 70 1200 39) 1200 1200 39| 370 50 7 50| 76 561 1510 66| 1510 66] 1510 664 997 59| 997 50| 997 59| 27 1 o2 73] 241 2 41 2 41 1200 15] 1200 15§ 1200 15| 24 28 24 23 24 2 432 03 432 03| 4 03] 689 051 689 05| 689 05 680 14| 680 14f 680 14| 815 91 815 91 815 91 2 55| 2 55| 2 55| 1 41] 1 41) 141 gl a8 ad Roosevelt 7% Hornet . llgg 9{; ll.;’g ?38 ugwfl 22 Benville 59 73 3 0 3 0 3 05 1096 51 1096 51/ 1096 51 371 & 317 8 307 & . 1240 00 b 1500 B 1o & 490 0 Baudette . ] 900 92 20 00 Spooner. i 245 00 g 2 e i Kelliher g g 81 81 88 81 84 4 28 s 23] 4 5% 311 62| 311 62| 311 62| 193 69| 193 69| 193 39‘ 317 99| 317 99 317 9% 7 o 97 &7 o1 o 32 41 32 32 41 30 30 97] 30 o7| 3 & 5 84 23 g3 8% Vil £ Blnckdnck. 5] 125 12 Durand . o0 71 o0 171 910 77 Totals... MBLTU b ong %0283 2l 148 %0 14 * Pald by error, returned to Treasurer. + Paid to State Treasurer, account of State Loans. RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS OF SCHOOL DISTRICT FUNDS Recelpts Paymen ts| . 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It was raining, and the.girl wore a new dress that she was afraid of spoiling. She looked into the street, saw a boy she knew, and. calling out to him, she said, “Deliver this letter for me, and I will give you a penny.” The miser heard the offer and said, “Give me the penny, and I will carry the letter myself.” What is more, he did so.—London Captain. Knew Him Too Well. The late President Chester A. Arthur, although he was a man of warm friendships, had a high sense of per- sonal dignity that would brook no un- due familiarities. A lifelong friend of Mr. Arthur, who had accompanied him on one of his hunting trips, was telling an acquaintance some of the incidents of the hunt. “I know it's the general impression,” he said, “that Mr. Arthur is a cold, self centered sort of man, but it isn’t true. He is one of the most genial and com- panionable of men when you become well acquainted with him. I thought I already knew him pretty,well, but I came to understand him better while on that trip than ever before.” “I suppose you know him well enough now to call him by his first name,” venfured the other. ““On the contrary,” was the rejoinder, “I know him well enough not to call him by his first name.”—Youth’s Com- panion. Desert Plants. Plants of the desert, as a rule, pos- sess few leaves, the cactus, for in- stance, being mostly spines. There is a very good reason for the lack of leaves in desert plants. The object is to check the transferation of moisture by offering as small a surface as pos- sible to the dry air. For the same rea- son the roots of desert plants usually run deep into the soil so that they can suck up all the available moisture. In some instances the leaves assume a vertical position and thus avoid the direct rays of the burning desert sun. On the other hand, the leaves of trees in very wet countries are provided with points—such as the maple—from which the rain drops off. Were the leaves flatter the rain would collect and ‘make them rot. A Surprise. A cook at a cheap boarding house played a little game on a grumbling boarder by serving him with a piece of sole leather instead of beefsteak. “You've changed your butcher, Mrs. Hascher?” said the boarder, looking up at the landlady after sawing two or three minutes at the leather. “Same butcher as usual,” replied the boarding mistress, with a patronizing smile. “Why?” “Oh, nothing much,” said the board- er, trying to make an impression on the steak with his knife and fork, “only this piece of meat is the tender- est I have had In this house for some weeks.”—Strand Magazine. In a German Law Court. A German law court was the scene lately of an amusing incident. The magistrate, a tiresome and long wind- ed person, was deciding a small case in which the plaintiff claimed damages for abuse. “To call a man a ‘pig’ or a ‘dog,’ ” replied the judge, “is certainly an insult, but to say that he is a ‘pig- dog’ is offensive, for no such animal exists.” The plaintiff glared at the bench. “Schweine-Hund!” he remark- ed, with bitter emphasis.—T. P.’s Lon- don Weekly. The Innocent Joys of Youth. “Gracious, Fanny!” exclaimed a mother to her little daughter. “Why are you shouting like that? Why can’t you be quiet like your brother?” “He’s got to be quiet,” replied Fan- ny. “He’s playing papa coming home late.” “And who are you playing?” “Oh, I'm playing you!” — Harper’s ‘Weekly. . Always on Guard. Friend (to draper in his shop)—I no- tice that all your assistants squint most horribly. Couldn’t you have got some better looking ones? “I chose them purposely. They are most useful in keeping a watch on peo- ple. My customers never know on ‘which side they are looking.”—Nos Loi- sirs. Baby's Mamma. Sister (teasingly)—Mamma’s more my mamma than she is yours. She was my mamma ever so long before she was yours. Baby (stoutly)—That don’t make any difference. I'm the littlest, and the littler a person is the more mamma she is. The Honor of Brave Men. “You refuse to fight me?” “Certainly.” “I believe you are a coward.” “Of course you do. Otherwise you never would have dared mention the matter.” Elephants are always drawn smaller than life, but a flea always larger.— Bwift. * Fighting For Fire, : A great ceremony in Jerusalem is on Baster Saturday, and commemorates the anclent tradition of the celestial fire that was said to rise from the tomb of Christ. The Greek patriarch enters the ‘sanctuary of the sepulcher, the door closes behind him, and the surging, tossing, tumultuous multitude awalt the coming of the fire. Suddenly out of the right hand window in the wall of the sepulcher shoot flames of fire, and in an instant every one of the thousands has produced a candle and dashes madly forward to light it at the mystie fire. The light thus taken from the holy sepulcher is instantly carried to all the Christian yillages round about Jerusalem, and fleet footed young men vie with one another in being first to light their local shrines with the i divine flame. The writer has seen two rival runners put down their candles and indulge in a sanguinary battle with knives and sticks until the light of one of them is put out. There is no Jjoke meant here, but each is striving desperately to extinguish the flame of the other.—Travel Magazine, A New Orleans Dish. The greatest, the most toothsome and sustaining of all dishes is the gombo file one encounters in New Orleans— not at public eating houses, but in pri- vate residences. It is a strange yet haleyon compound of five different in- tegers, each cooked separately and aft- erward joined in a most delectable and fragrant mess. There are fried chicken, broiled bacon, stewed oysters, peppers and smothered onions, all pre- pared with unutterable skill. These one by one are emptied into a pot of most celestial “stock,” and then when the conglomeration Is complete for service the presiding genius of the kitchen pours into the ecstatic confec- tlon a shower of fine green dust—the powdered leaf of the sassafras—and there you have a plate that would have made Lucullus gasp in simple wonder. There is none like it nor shall be till our summers are deceased.—New York Sun. Hammers. Hammers are represented on the monuments of Egypt twenty centuries before our era. They greatly resembled the hammer now in use, save that there were no claws on the back for the ex- traction of nails. The first hammer was undoubtedly a stone held in the hand. Claw hammers were invented some time during the middle ages. 11 luminated manuscripts of the eleventh century represent carpenters with claw hammers. Hammers are of all sizes, from the dainty instruments used by the jeweler, which weigh less than half an ounce, to the gigantic fifty ton ham- mer of shipbuilding establishments, some of which weigh as much as fifty tons and have a falling force of from ninety te a hundred. Every trade has its own hammer and its own way of using it. Queer Weather Forecasting. One of the rites performed by the French peasants on New Year's eve is the forecasting of the weather for the coming year by means of onions. ‘When the bells ring for midnight mass they scoop out the middles of twelve onions, set them in a row on the kitchen table, fill them with salt and name them for the months of the year. Then when they return from mass they examine the condition of the salt. If it has melted in any of the “months,” those months will be rainy; if the salt remains dry, it indicates drought; if half melted, the first fortnight of the month will be wet. The peasants have such implicit faith in this means of foretelling the weather that they plant their crops in accordance with the prophecy of the onions. The Iron Law of Caste. As an illustration of the exclusive- ness of caste, which a native of India will do almost anything to preserve, it might be mentioned that when money passes between a low caste and a high caste man the coin is thrown on the ground by the one and picked up by the other for fear of defilement. They may not stand on the same carpet or enten the same room. Neither must the low caste man cross the threshold of his superior’s house or hut. If he wants to communicate with him he stands out- side and bawls. An Invitation, “Mabel,” he said, “I love you. I place my happiness in your hands’— “For goodness sake,” she cried plead- ingly, “don’t do it now!” “Why not?” “Because I'm quite sure I'll need both hands in a minute or so to keep you from kissing me.”—Philadelphia Press. An Adage Vindicated. “Where there’s so much smoke there must be some fire.” . The boss was speaking. He had just detected the office boy consuming a cigarette on the premises. The adage was verified immediately. The boy got the fire. — Philadelphia Ledger. The Very Worst. Schoolmistress — Now, tell me the truth, Johnny Jones. You know what ‘will happen if you tell a lie, don’t you? Johnny Jones—Yes, ma’'am; I'll go to a bad place. Schoolmistress—Yes, and that isn't the worst of it. You'll also be expelled from school. Man's Character. According to an old French saying, “A man’s character is like his shadow, which sometimes follows and some- times precedes him and which is occa- sionally longer, occasionally shorter, than he is.” There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.—Seneca. High Game and Fools. “Never eat game high,” said an anti- quary. “People will tell you that high game is tenderer. What rot! Of course it is tenderer, but would you want your steak or your chop spoiled in order that it might be a little softer to the teeth? No, never! Highness in game is an anachronism, a relic of the past, a relic of the days of stage coaches. In those days it was impos- sible to deliver game to the citles fresh —transit was too slow. All game was high, and men ate it high because oth- erwise they couldn’t eat it at all; lence to eat game high nowadays, when there is no necessity for it, is to {be & fool.”—Cincinnatl Wnanirar FOOLS OLD LAWDLADY How Major Crofcot Got Out of Paying Back Board Bill. CREDITOR WAS DETERMINED. But the Grand Promoter and General Organizer Was Equal to the Occa- sion and Came Out on the Ground Floor. [Copyright, 1906, by M. M. Cunningham.] Major Crofoot, grand promoter of grand enterprises, sat in his office with Just enough fire in the stove to keep the Ironwork warm. He had counted the money in his pockets and knew that he had exactly 80 cents. Had his financial standing been figured it would hn\e ts, exactly 80 cents. “Liabilities, about $4,%0. “Expectations, unlimited. “Nerve, same as usual, “Pigeons, scarce.” Major Crofoot was waiting to pro- mote somebody or something when ‘“THE DOOR OPENED AND THE ENOCKERESS WALKED IN. there came a knock on his door. It wasn't the knock of a woman suffering ‘with the toothache and who wanted to inquire for the dentist upstairs, nor yet the knock of a creditor who was com- ing in to say that if his bill was not paid that day he would begin a lawsuit. It was a knock that bothered the major for a minute, and before he could make up his mind exactly what to do the door opened and the knockeress walked in and bowed coldly and sat down. The major recognized her at a glance as his old landlady—one of his old landladies, one of the ones to whom he was in- debted in the sum of about $30. His mind was instantly made up. He gave her no chance to refer to his perfidy in walking off as a debtor, but said: “I see, my dear Mrs. Russell, that you got my little note of yesterday and are here on time. I am glad to see such promptness on your part. It shows me that I have made no mistake in ap- pointing you secretary of the Great American Fconomic company, capital $8,000,000.” Wants Money Due Her. “I got no note from you yesterday,” she replied. “I haven't heard from you since the day you walked out of my house, and that's two years ago. Isaw you on the street half an hour ago and followed you. and I want it!” “No note from me! Dear, dear me! The messenger must have gone to the wrong house. I wrote to ask you to call at this hour, and all night long I was thinking of what a pleasant sur- prise I had in store for you. 1t surely must be the hand of Providence that guided you here.” “You may as well leave out the blar- ney and fork over my money. I have got a lawyer who will put you in jail if you don't pay.” “My dear, dear woman,” said the major as he fixed himself anew in his chair, “there was a time when I was in financial straits. Such periods are some- times referred to as a person being stone broke or on his uppers. I had the ambition, but not the opportunity. ‘While ‘waiting for the opportunity I wandered into your well kept caravan- sary. You cast your bread on the wa- ters—that is, you took me in without money aund without price, trusting to my honor to pay you in the future.” “I mever did anything of the kind, sir!” exclaimed Mrs. Russell. “I told you the front room upstairs and board ‘would be $8 per week, and you said it was cheap enough. I couldn’t get a cent out of you, and after four weeks you skipped out. You are a bilk and a deadbeat, sir, but I'll have my money or know the reason why!” “You had confidence in me, my dear woman, when others had not, and I determined that when the time came I would repay you a hundredfold. That time has arrived. I could draw you a check for $3,000, but I propose to do even better than that. As I said, I have just organized the Great Ameri- can Economic company. I want a sec- retary at $15,000 pet year, and the place is yours. As you leave this of- fice for home I will accompany you as far as the Twenty-eighth National bank and there open an account for you to the amount of half your first year's salary. Tomorrow we will see about your hosses and diamonds. I shall want you to drive to and from the office, and the larger diamonds you get the better I shall be pleased. Do you write a sloping or back hand?” Won'’t Stand For Blarney. ' “That's nothing to do with the case,” she retorted. *“You owe me a bill, and 1 want it, and all your blarney will go for nothing. I shan’'t take any check either, but want cash.” “Mrs. Russell, do you know the value of the waste in this country every year?” asked the major after consult- Ing a battered city directory for a couple of minutes. “I know that such rascals as you beat me out of at least $200 every year.” “The money value of the waste is a hundred million dollars every year. The Economic company will save as much of that waste as possible. It will gather up castoff clothing, boots and shoes, foods, played out umbrellas, bottles, tin cans and so forth. In one You owe me over $30, | year ‘we shall gather up waste to the amount of $10,000,000, two-thirds of which will be clear profit. After the first year we shall pay 50 per cent divi- dends right along. I shall not only pay you $15,000 per year as secretary, but let you in on the ground floor for a large block of stock. Among my mail this morning was a letter from King Edward of England, in which he says he will save at least a million dollars’ worth of old shoes for us every year. It is the biggest, richest thing in the world. All the gold mines of Colorado put together can’t equal it. Can you dictate to a stenographer?’ “I'd Lize to know what all this talk is about!” angrily replied the cred- itor. “I tell you, sir, it won’t do. You played the sneak and skulked on me, and now you've got to pay that bill. Will you do it now?” “My dear old landlady, it pains me to observe this aggressive disposition on your part. You sheltered me. You trusted me. You had confidence in me when the rest of the world turned coldly away. [ am a man who can never forget a kindness, but now, when I would requite you'— “Why didn’t you come back and pay up like a man?” “Months and months ago, when the tide had turned with me and the mil- lions were rolling in, I started Zor your house with a check in my pocket. I anticipated taking you by the hand and telling you how glad I was to be able to pay my debt. Almost at your door I met Jones—Jones of the cock eye—and he told me that you had mar- ried a French count and gone to Paris to set up a steam laundry. That was the sole reason why I retraced my steps. I have tried in vain to get your Paris address. Are you just in on the steamer?” Her Last Request. “You know Dbetter. You know that you are lying to me. I ask you once more and for the last time, will you pay that bill?” “Certainly, my dear—certainly. I only wish it was larger. Do you re- fuse the secretaryship ¥’ “1 do.” “And you don't want horses and diamonds?” “I don’t.” “And you won't come in on the ground floor?” “No, sir, nor any other floor. I'll take the money for that bill, and then T'll leave you—no check, but the cold cash.” “It is hard, woman—it is hard in- deed to have one's financial honor doubted, but I must forgive you. As you will not take a check I will run upstairs and get the photographer to cash it. I suppose $40 will straighten the matter out?” “Yes, sir.” “If any one calls tell 'em I'll be back in three minutes,” said the major as he disappeared through the door. The landlady waited fifteen minutes and then began to shiver with the cold. She waited fifteen more and then be- gan to walk about. ‘When three-quarters of an hour had passed she looked out in the hall. At the end of an hour she kicked over two chairs, tore the calendar off the wall and knocked down the stove- pipe and went downstairs. Some folks might have walted all winter, but Mrs. Russell knew when to let go. M. QUAD. Innocent. Timothy Coffin, who was prominent at the bar of Bristol county, Mass,, half a century ago, once secured the ac- quittal of an old Irishwoman accused of stealing a piece of pork. As she was leaving the courtroom she put her hand to her mouth and in an audible whisper said: “Mr. Carfin, what'll I do with the por-ruk 7" Quickly came the retort: “Eat it, you fool. The judge says you didn’t steal it.”—Woman’s Home Companion, Resourceful. “Don’t you know that this is not a smoking compartment?” “Never fear. I'll hide my pipe when I see the conductor coming.”—Fliegen- de Blatter. I The Madrigal. The word madrigal sounds very formidable to a beginner in music. More than once have I heard the ques- tlon, “What is a madrigal?” Strictly speaking, a madrigal is an elaborate vocal composition in from three to six parts, generally sung in chorus. The melody should not be carried through a single part, but should be dispersed in phrases through the different voices in the conversational manner peculiar to the music of the sixteenth and sev- enteenth centuries. The true madrigal has no accompaniment. This form of song is considered English, but is thought to have had its origin In the Netherlands. The exact derivation of the word is not known. The first madrigals are believed to have been morning songs, shepherds’ lays or songs in praise of the Virgin.—Circle Magazine. A Very Practical Christian, A benevolent old man who lived on his farm in Iowa never refused shelter to any who might ask it of him. His many friends remonstrated with him about this characteristic, knowing that many unscrupulous hoboes would avail themselves of the opportunity and that there was great danger of the old man being robbed. To these remon- strances the old man replied that he believed in ‘“practical Christianity.” “But,” said one of his friends, “this seems very impractical. Suppose one of these men took it into his head to rob you one night?” “My dear young friend,” was the re- ply, “I bid all enter in the name of _God, but ‘pmvembeliefin ncflm