Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 9, 1907, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED MVERY AFTERRNOON, OFFICIAL PAPER---CITY OF BEMIDJI BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. GLYDE J. PRYOR | 4, 0. RUTLEDAE, Business Manager Managing Editor ®ntered In the postoffice at Bemidjl. Minn., a8 second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM Why Was Ho an Idiot? There Is a story told of a very talka- tive lady who met with a well de- gerved rebuke at a social gathering not long ago. Her husband Is a man of high standing In the world of sclence, but the lady regards him as a dreamer of impossible dreams. “Do you know,"” she remarked, “that genius and imbe- cllity are twin brothers? The world regards John as a genius. Now, there are tlmes when I believe him to be an dtot.” A palnful sllence followed, broken by a blunt old doctor who had over- heard the remark. “Are we to understand, madam,” he sald, “that Professor Y., though your husband, Is so lightly esteemed by you?" “I say what I think,” she retorted. “At times John is unmistakably an idfot.” “Merely band ?" “Sir!” “Oh, very well,” was the grim re- Jolnder. “We will put it another way: He is your husband because he is an idiot. Wil that do?’ — Pearson’s Weekly. because he Is your hus- The Folklore of Pus: Puss has earned the reputation of being weatherwise. Good weather may be expected when “tabby” washes her- self, but bad when she licks herself agalnst the graln or sits with her tall to the fire. Formerly in Scotland when a family removed from one house to another the family cat was always taken as a pro- tection against disease. It is curious to find the opposite practice obtalning in Ireland, where it is considered high- ly unlucky for a family to take with them a cat when they are “fiitting,” especially so if they have to cross a river. There Is a popular belief that a cat born in the month of May is of no use whatever for catchilng rats and mice, but exerts an injurious influence on the house through bringing into it disagreeable reptiles of various kinds, says Woman's Life. In Scotland black cats are supposed to bring not only good luck, but also lovers, in {llustration of which may be quoted the well known rhyme: ‘Whenever the cat o' the house is black, ‘The lasses o' lovers will have no lack. i The Burglar. A burglar was one night engaged In the pleasing occupation of stowing a good haul of swag in his bag when he was startled by a touch upon his shoul- der, and, turning his head, he beheld a venerable, mild eyed clergyman gaz- ing sadly at him. “Oh, my brother,” groaned the rev- erend gentleman, “wouldst thou rob me? Turn, I beseech you—turn from thy evil ways. Return those stolen goods and depart In peace, for I am merciful and forgive. Begone!” And the burglar, only too thankful at not belng given into custody of the police, obeyed and slunk swiftly off. Then the good old man carefully and quietly packed the swag into another bag and walked softly (so as not to dis- turb the slumber of the inmates) out of the house and away into the silent night. For he, too, was a burglar. “Cleverality.” There is a story that Charlotte Bronte when a girl of sixteen broke out angrily at some one who said she was always talking about clever peo ple, such as Johnson and Sheridan. “Now, you don’t know the meaning of clever,” she sald. “Sheridan might be clever—scamps often are—but Johnson hadn’t a spark of ‘cleverallty’ in him.” That remark really gives the essence of Johnson and the key to the great qualities of his work, for in his case even more than in most the prose was the man. Whoever wants ‘cleveral- 1ty” had best leave Johnson alone. The slgnal merit of Johnson's writings is that he always means what he says and elways says what he means. He may often have talked for victory, but except perhaps in the political pam phlets he always wrote for truth.— London Times. ] Fool's Gold. Pyrite, or sulphide of irom, occurs quite freely in the iron measures and granite gash veins in upper Michigan. It has a brassy color and is known as “fool's gold” by reason of its similarl- ty to the yellow metal in the opinion of the inexperienced. The miners call it “mundic” Few people appreciate the great value of this mineral. Its principal use s in making sulphuric acid, and In that form it 18 consumed In very large quantities, much of it en- tering Into the refining of kerosene ofl as well as belng used extensively In the manufacture of artificlal fertilizers. —Mining World. Great 8cheme. Mrs. Simpson in her “Many Memo- rles of Many People” says of Arch- bishop Whately: He was utterly re- gardless of appearance. If he came to us without a servant and percelved a hole in his black stocking he would put a plece of sticking plaster on the corresponding part of his leg to con- ceal the defect. Foolish Question, “Hello!” crled the neighbor. “What are you bullding a new chicken house for?” “Why,” replied Nettles, “for a flock of pink elephants, of course. You didn’t suppose I'd put chickens in it, aid you?” Applause. A frlend having declared in Mrs. Biddons’ hearing that applause was necessary to actors, that it gave them confldence, “More,” interposed she; “it gives us breath.” Genlus s a combination of aspira- tion and inspiration.—London Truth, e i S s e i g, Sunday Laws of Australia. Melbourne, Australia, has some laws which are wonders. One of them pro- hibits the opening of any cafe on Sun- day before 11 o'clock In the morning, and the unwary American’ who may not know this finds himself suddenly high and dry without a thing to eat till 11. So he sooun learns, if he's in lodgings, to sleep till 11 and then for- age forth. Another nlce thing that contributes to the hilarity of the Sundays here and the guyety of natlons generally Is that there are no street cars running till after 2 o'clock on Sundays. All the steam roads bring thousands of people iInto the city, but they have to walk once they are inside the city lwits. And 1f you buy baker's cakes and ples to be taken away from the prem- 1ses you may only buy them between 1 and 3 Sunday afternoons. And you may not lnvite frlends to dinner with you in Sydney, which is in New South Wales and under different jurisdiction, it you are living In a hotel, because in some mysterious way, which is not at all clear, you are breaking the Sun- day law.—New York World. Irish Legal Wits. The mots of the celebrated wits— Harry Deane Grady, Lysaght and Kel- ler—of the Irish bar early in the last century are now in large measure for- gotten. Some few are, however, on record. Harry Deane Grady, a leader of the Munster bar, voted in the Irish house of commons to support the union agalnst the wishes of his constituents, one of whom remonstrated indignantly with him on his intended course of ac- tlon. “What, do you mean to sell your country?” “Yes,” was the cool reply, “and very happy I am to have a coun- try to sell.” Ned Lysaght, a celebrated wit and poetaster of the period in very embar- rassed circumstances, applied to Mr. La Touche, the well known banker, for a place In his establishment. “What situation, my dear Lysaght, could pos- sibly suit you?” said his friend, who felt himself in a difficulty. “Not only one, but twe,” was the reply. “Pray, what are they?’ “If you will only, my dear La Touche, make me cashier for one day I'll become runner the next.”—London Law Notes. What a Woman Di There s much to be said against the New York cabby, but there are fre- quent occaslons when one is really de- serving of sympathy. The other day a cabby drove a well dressed and re- fined looking woman to a Broadway restaurant, where she ordered an ex- pensive lunch and then told the walter that she had lost her purse, but that her cab was waliting and if he would send a boy with her she would go home for the money. The boy entered the cab with her, and she directed the cabby to drive to a Sixth avenue de- partment store. When they arrived she left the boy in the cab, entered the store to make an imaginary purchase and went out at the opposite entrance. In the hope of getting information about his departed fare, cabby drove back to the restaurant, accompanied by the brass buttoned boy, whom he blackguarded all the way for letting the woman escape. The restaurant people discharged the lad for the same reason, and the driver cried quits.— New York Times. Gladstone Nicknames. A collection of the nicknames that were from time to time conferred up- on Mr. Gladstone would be a fine die tionary of epithets alike of love and dislike. Besides such perennials as the Grand Old Man, “the G. 0. M.” and the People’s Willlam we recall the Franchise Bill, the Pope of England, St. Willlam the Woodcutter, the Mah- ai of Midlothian, the Old Parliamen- tary Hand, the People’s Will, Mr. Mer- rypebble, the Ancient Senator, Youart ‘the Man, Hawarden Bill, Prime Bflly, W. G, the Only William and the Old Gentleman. At one time his name was a favorite theme for Christmas cha- rades, among which may be remem- bered the following elegant outburst of a Conservative wit: “I should be my first if I comld throw my second at my ‘whole.” The Marble Bible. In 1857 Mindon-min, king of Bur- ma, erected a monument near Manda- lay called the Kutho-daw. There he bullt 700 temples, in each of which there 18 a slab of white marble. Upon these 700 slabs s engraved the whole of the Buddhist Bible, a vast literature in itself, equal to about six coples of the Holy Bcriptures. This marble Bi- ble 18 engraved in the Pall language, thought to be that spoken by Buddha himself 500 B. C. Very Likely. “You're a queer looking thing to want to fight with me,” said the young bulldog contemptuously. “You're mot in my class.” “Perhaps not,” replied the porcupine quietly, “but I think I can give you a few points.”—Philadelphia Press, Making Things Even. Customer (to watchmaker) — I told you that my watch lost half an hour every day, and now that you've re- paired it it gains half an hour. ‘Watchmaker — Well, don’t complain, It's only working to catch up lost time, — e S Judicious Charity. “I don't belleve he is #o miserly as they say. I hear he invites his poor relations to visit him each year.” “Yes. They all live at a considerable distance and are too poor to come.’ Sure. Sunday 8chool Teacher—Tommy, can you tell me what caused the flood? Small Tommy—Yes, ma'am. It rained. . —_— How the Baby Talked. Mr. Bacon—1I was up to see the Smarts’ baby today. Mrs. Bacon — Did they mi ey 'y make him “Yen? “What aid he say?’ “I couldn’t understand. 1 think it's 8 great mistake for a mother to teach 8 child to talk when she had hafrpins in her mouth!"—Yonkers Statesman. The applause of a single human belng is of great consequence.—John- 80D, e ——— " (" e —— Fohn Winds. The Journal of the Meteorologlenl Boclety of Japan contains an account by Dr. Okada of the occurrence in Ko- rea of those remarkable winds which have been called fohn winds. The winds to which this name was origi- nally given are warm winds blowing down from the snowclad mountains of Switzerland and producing extensive meltings of the snow. They have hence been called “snow eaters.” The fohn is essentlally a phenomenon of mountainous reglons, and Wonsan, in Korea, where they have been observed, 1s surrounded except on the east by high mountains. In this region they are always westerly and cause abnor- mally high temperatures and dryness of the air. A similar wind in North America blowing down from the Rocky mountains has been called the chinook. Fohn winds occur also in the arctlo reglons. Blowing sometimes in midwinter they produce a remarkable cllmatic paradox. As a result of the elevation of temperature caused by them it may happen that northern Greenland, though In winter darkness, s warmer than southern France. Men Who Help Thieves. ‘The ‘“rechristener” is the profession- al name of the man who alters the names and numbers on stolen watches. The rechristener 1s usually a clever engraver who through drink or other wise has lost the chance of obtalning honest employment and alds the re- celver of stolen property. When a watch has been stolen the number or name or other indication of make or ownershlp may be forwarded to the police and by them communicated to pawnbrokers. There is consequently an element of risk in attempting to dispose of It. There are various ways of getting over the difficulty, and re- christening is one that is frequently resorted to. The engraver adds or pre- fixes another figure to the number or he turns the name “J. Robins” into “T. J. Robinson,” the extra initial serving to make the name look level and central on the watch case. This is done very cleverly, and the rest of the letters or figures are touched up to make all appear to have been cut at the same time.—London Standard. Why Is the Ocean Salt? The Creator made the ocean salt to save the land from._putrefaction. The winds blow everything offensive and pestilential (as far as we allow them to do the work of boards of health) out to sea, where all humors are ab- sorbed by the hungry waters. Salt is a purifying agent. The ocean is a great manufacturer. It converts every- thing foul into health making ozone and hands it back to us without charge. No government label is nec- essary. Stand on the prow of a ship for three hours a day, deep breathing like an athlete, and your lungs will be cleaned of everything poisonous. Your blood will leap through veins and arte- rles. Your heart will be obliged to thump with renewed force. The tide is the ocean’s tongue. It comes in twice a day to lick up the foul things of the earth and convey them to the ocean’s stomach, where they are dl-| gested, salted down, cured and render- ed pure agaln.—Marine Journal. The Grimmest Epitaph. ‘What 18 the most terrible epitaph in existence? One of the grimmest is surely that on a stone which was set up a few years ago in the cemetery of Debrescin, eastern Hungary. It reads as follows: “Here rests in the Lord Joseph Moritz, Sr., who died In his sixty-second year. He was shot by his son. Frau Joseph Moritz, who died in her forty-seventh year. She was shot by her daughter. Elizabeth Mo- rite, who dled by her own hand in her seventeenth year after shooting her mother. Joseph Moritz, who dled in prison, age twenty-seven. He had shot his father. May eternal mercy have pity on their poor, sinful souls!” This memorial was erected by a lo- cal literary association, to which, it is said, the last of the {ll starred family left a sum of $7,500 for the purpose. Wager of Battle. In 1817 one Richard Thornton, called to the bar of the king’s bench charged with the murder of Mary Askford, in open court threw down his glove and defled his accuser, whereupon there was & pretty to do. Wager of battle, it was supposed, had dled a natural death in the dark ages, but Lord Ellen- borough after much consultation of precedent held that it was still the law of England and ordered a fleld to be prepared. Thornton’s accuser thereup- on declining combat, the prisoner was discharged. Next year parliament passed an act abolishing this privilege of appeal to the strong right arm. Picking on Him. A first grade boy brought perfect spelling papers home for several weeks and then suddenly began to miss five and six out of ten. “How's this, son?” asked his father. “Teacher’s fault,” replied the boy. “How s it the teacher’s fault?’ “She moved the little boy that sat next to me.”—Lippincott's. Practical. Sound practical advice given by a misanthrope: If ever you should be at- tacked by night never shout “Murder!” for no one will bother about you. Yell “Fire!” and everybody will be out ot doors in a Jiffy. Sneaked. “What side do you genmerally take when your wife gets in an argument with somebody else?” “Outside. It's safer.”” — Milwaukee Bentinel. i There are times when God asks noth- ing of his children except silence and 'luenca.—mblmon. Not Due to Race Prejudice. Exeter, N. H, Oct. | .—With refer- encé to the published report that Booker T. Washington, Jr., son of the colored educator, and J. E. Gomez, son of the Cuban general, had been forced to leave Phillips-Exeter acad- emy ‘on' account of race prejudice Dr. Harlan P. Ames, prinoipal of the acad- emy, in a statement to the Assoclated Press denled the story and sald that both students voluntarily left school rether than submit to discipline, .| which made me very miserable. I have used ‘a great many remedies| RIVER CAPTAIN WRONGED. Suspension by President's Order Con. demned by Witne: Pittsburg, Oct. ).—Thé members of the Plttsburg delegation to the deep waterways conventlon at .Memnhis, Tenn., have returned liome. They do not agree with President Theodore | Roosevelt that during the trip to Mem- phis there was any danger ot colljsion between the steamboat Mlssissippl, on Which was the présidential party;, and the Fred Hartweg, on which was the Pittsburg delegation. The members of the Pittsburg delegation prefess to believe that an injustice was done Pllot C. L. Nichols of the Hartweg, who was suspended on orders from the president. Captain John Moren, who was on the Mississippl, says he was close to the president when the Hartweg came near, but at no time were the steam- ers closer than 100 feet and there was not the slightest danger of collision. “I was on the Hartweg,” said Cap- tain W. B. Rodgers, “and I never saw a fleet handled better. There was no accldent and at no time was there the least danger of any accident or col- lislon, The president must have had a mistaken notion when he thought that experienced rivermen would take any chances at such a time.” HEROQIC ACT IS FUTILET Youth Carries Unconscious Form Long Distance in Icy Water. Traverse City, Mich., Oct. 8.—Will- fam Egler, aged twenty-two, of this city was drowned in Lake Michigan under circumstances that reveal his brother Harry, aged eighteen, in the light of a hero as well as that of a powerful swimmer. Turning Cat Head point in an eighteen-foot launch that they had built themselves the young men encountered a southwest gale too heavy for them to go forward. In turning back their boat was capsized | and sank, the older brother. going down with the laanch. Harry Eglér dove to the bottom, secured hold of his brother’s clothing and, being an expert swimmer, fought his way through the icy water nearly a mile to the shore. Cold and exhaustion be- gan to overcome him as he was roll- ing the unconscious form of his brother on a barrel and he was com- pelled to leave the dying boy on the beach and run a mile.to the nearest farmhouse for help. There he fell ex- hausted after explaining what had oc- curred and urging that help be sent instantly to his unconscious brother. It was too late, however, to resusci- tate the older boy, whose heart had stopped beating before assistance reached him. OF NEWS. BRIEF | Dr. W. S. Laton, aged fifty-five, one of the best known physiclans in Min- neapolis, dropped dead from apoplexy. Mrs. Daisy ‘Gordon Hanna, former wife of Dan R. Hanna, was married at Stamford, Conn., to Franklin Felton of New York. Fire at Oxford, ‘Neb., devastated nine blocks in the business section | and also invaded the residence sec- tion. The loss exceeds $200,000. Another product that has felt the effect of rising prices is chocolate, in | Wwhich decided advances in the price to retailers have been made in the’ past few days. The American Museum of Natural History has just received from Egypt twenty-seven cases of rare fossils, | about 600 specimens in all, compflslng forms new to science. Deputy National President -Percy Thomas of the Telegraphers’ union has resigned his position and Na- tional President Small announces that he will make his headquarters in New York and conduct the strike of the telegraphers of that city. 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