Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 12, 1907, Page 2

- mirthfully [nquired.: = o FRIEND TO FRIEN The personal recommendations of peo- ple who have been cured of coughs and solds by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy have done more than all else to make ita staple article of trade an‘l commerce oves - farge part of the civilized world. Barker's Drug Store THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON, OFFICIAL PAPER---CITY OF BEMIDJI A AAAAAAAAAAAAARAAAAAAAAAAS BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. CLYDE J. PRYOR | AuS;RumEnan Business Manager Managing Editor Tutered in the postofiice at Bemidjl. Minn., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM Willed Away the Laundry. When a pecfectly strange woman eame for the soiled clothes the mis- tress of the house came to the conclu- sion that her own laundress had sim- ply employed a new messenger and made no comment on the ecircum- stances. But when two weeks had gone by and still the old laundress, known as Susan, no last name having been men- tioned, did not appear the mistress of the house felt that she would be lack- ing In her duty if she did not make some inquiry about her. “Where 1s Susan?’ she asked the tall and bony structure who came for the clothes. “She has gonme to Pennsylvania to live, yessum,” returned this person, with composure. “She went to Penn- sylvanla some time ago, an’ she lef’ goodby fer yuh, but s’ long es yub didn’t seem tuh notls I didn’t say nuffin’.” “But why dido’'t she come and tell me and allow me to make some ar- rangements about my laundry?”’ asked Busan’s ex-mi “Well, she lef” yo' clothes tuh meh. She made a will an’ lef' dem clothes tuh meh. Wese allus been good frien’s, and so w'en she lef” she say I may wash yo' clothes long ez I wush tuh, an' dere wuz no use worryin' yuh ‘bout it. now was dere?” To which moderate and sensible ques- tion the mistress of the house could only remain speechless. — Baltimore News. Satisfied Her Curiosity. A certain south side lady has come to the conclusion that curlosity can no longer be indulged in with any degree of safety. One night she entertalned a group of friends and at the moment of departure, when conversation al- ways lags a trifie, her eye fell idly on a package carried by one of the men. “WWhat Is It you have there?’ she asked, with hardly a thought of what she was ing. “Wel d another guest, springing forward, with mock indignation, “if he's geing to be searched, I feel that all of us should be subjected to the same Indignity.” “Oh, 1,” commenced the hostess, her tace flushing—“I give you my word that”— “I can prove the ownership of this watch,” cried one man, “This was my mother’s ring” ex- plained ancther. And so It went down the line until the laugh came just {n time to save the life of the hostess. Herenfter one of her guests can wallk off with the grand piano and be free from remark.—Kansas City In- dependent, Worth the Difference. A big jobber sent an aspiring young wman on the road to open up a new ter ritory where a new railroad was golng through. All the towns being new, there were no hotel accommodations, and It was necessary for the salesman to secure meals and lodging at restau- rants, ete., where the price was 25 cents per meal. On looklng over the expense account the manager noticed all meals charged at 50 cents. “Look here, Charlie; I see you have eharged us 50 cents per meal on your trip, and I am reliably Informed that It 1s impossible to get a meal for more than 25 cents In your entire territory. How about 1t?” “Well,” said the salesman, “you are right. It did cost me but 25 cents per meal, but I tell you, sir, it's worth the ether 25 to eat those meals.”—New York Times. How Tin Foil Is Made. Tin foll, which Is extensively used for wrapping tobacco, certain food prod- ucts and other articles of commerce, 1s & combination of lead with a thin coat- Ing of tin on each side. First a tin Ppipe Is made of a thickness proportion- ate to Its diameter, proportiom not glv- en. 'This pipe s then filled wjth molten lead and rolled or beaten 'to the ex- treme.thininess required. ‘In thls proe- ess the il coating spreads simultage- “ously ‘with the spreading of the lead icore ‘and} continuously malntains a thin, even_coating of tin on each side of the center sheet 'of-lead, even though It may be reduced<to - thickness of 4001 inches or less.—Arierican Inventor, \ . . He Explained. 5 The stranded automoblist was work- ing over his'car. Upidafue @ sarcastic follower of: the plaw.,. . “How many horsepower “she?” he “Bixty,” replied the automobilist. “Then, by heck, why don't she go?” ‘Because, my friéid, thirty are pull lag eavh way.”—Cleveland Plain Deal- Trying the Wrong Man. An unusual verdict was rendered by the jury in a case tried in a Calitornia town a good many years ago. The question was as to the ownership of several head of cattle which the de- fendant was accused of having stolen from the plaintiff. As the case pro- ceeded and different witnesses gave thelr evidence, it became apparent to all listeners that the defendant was an innocent man. When It came time for the jury to retire to consider thelr verdict, they did so, but returned to the courtroom In a few moments. The foreman looked the judge straight in the eye and sald with a drawl and twang which betrayed his New Eng- land origin: 5 “Jedge, we find the plaintiff guilty.” “The court i3 not trylng the plain- tifr, but the defendant,” sald hia honor hastily, and the matter being explain- ed, the foreman was at length induced to express the jury’s opinien that the defendant was not gullty. “Howsomever,”” added the foreman solemnly, “’pears to me we're con- sldering the wrong man, your honor! Holy Land a World Center. It used to be a fancy that the Holy Land was the center of the world. In a sense not then meant it was indeed central. It occupled a strategic posi- tion. Three continents converge here— all the continents known as the an- clents—Asia, Africa and Burope. Con- tiguous to Palestine on the south lies Egypt and on the north Syria. Or, tak- ing a wider view, on oue side of it were Indla, Persia, Assyria and Baby- lonta, while on the other side of it were | Egypt, Greece and Rome.. A babe among giants the land of Jesus was in- deed little among the geographical tribes; but, like a babe, it was men- arch of the household of lands. From its central vantage tiny Pales- tine saw throngh the march of centu- ries the procession of these mighty em- pires—Assyrian, Babyloniam, Medo- Persian, Greek and Roman, being it- self during much of the time a centsr of Influence and determining force that have helped form the charaeter and history of the eivilized world.—Ex- change. A Clash of Prayers. Maggle, with her fair face and blond hair, and Nina, with dusky skin and kinky wool, had played together at mud ples and had swung on the same gate ever since they could remember, for Nina’s mammy was Maggie's nurse, says the Housekeeper. They were now seven years old. Maggie loved Nima In spite of her color, yet she had a feeling that her friend deserved te be ‘white, so she added to her prayer each night: “Please, God, make Nina white.* As the weeks went by and Nisa re- mained unchanged Maggte felt that her petition needed re-enforcement, so she confided In Nina, begging her to pray for the greatly desired bleaching. But Nina In surprise looked at Maggle with wide open eyes and exclalmed: “Me? No, siree. Fo' do Lawd, Maggle, I doan wanter to be ne white child, an’ I's jes’ prayin’ with all my might fer you to ceme black!” The Intelligent Bird. Two negroes in Washington were overheard discussing the mtslligemcs of birds in general. “Birds is shere senstbis,” observed one darky to the other. “Yo’ kin learn them anything. I uster werk fer a lady that had one in a clock, an’ when it was time to tell de time it uster come out an’ say euckoo jest as many times as de time was!” “Yo’ doan’ say 507’ asked the ether negro incredulously. “Shore thingl” respended the fret darky. “But de mos’ wonderful pert was dat it was only a weoden bird too!"—Harper's Weekly. The Builders. “The Egyptiaus were the bullders,” said a contractor enviously. “No won- der their monuments will endure for- ever. Labor was nothing te them. As You would spend a eont en & Rewspa- per 80 would an Egyptian king put 10,000 men to werk upon a temple. Labor, you see, cost nothing. A strik- ing example of the Egyptian prodigal- ity of labor lles in this fact: No less jthan 2,000 men were employed for three years in carrying a single stone, a stone of unexampled sise, from Kie- phantine to Bals.” Unlucky at Bridge. “Do you belleve In this thirteea su- perstition?’ asked Tete de Veau. “I do,” replled L'Olgnon. *I eould never understand why I was so um- lucky at bridge till I discovered that I was alwaysidealt a band ef just Mt teen.”—Exchange. A Little Mixed. A Hindoo barrister thus excussd an Absent client whom sickness had pre- vented from coming to court: “The man has fallen unwell, your hanor, and he has sent a man here to say that he 1s lying and cannot come.” A Theery. ‘ Tommie—Pa, how do storms git eut? Tompkins—Get out? What sre yeu driving at—out of what? Tommie— W'y, the weather bureau, o’ eomws. I @idn’t know but mebby the man left a drawer open. A Faliure. “When she gave you the plees of eake, 414 you say “Thank yeu? " “Yes, ma, but it didn’s de no geed.” “Didn’t do any good P “No; she .didn't give me amether plece.” little are pernicious to man—to speak much and know little, to spend much and have little, to presume much and be worth little.—Cervantes, - True Charity. Every good_act ia ebarity. Giving water to the thirsty is charity. Re- moving stones and ‘thorns frem the road is eharity. Exhorting year fel low men to virtuous deeds i charity. 1ty. Putting a wanderer in the right lmmnglnynnrlvmmfmbehr- s A 8imple Hecipe. ~ Everybody In Cedarby owned that Mrs. Hanson was the queen of cooks, but they were llkely to add that when It came to explaining the processes by which she arrived at her excellent re- sults she left a good deal to be de- sired. “Your scalloped oysters are the best we ever have at our church suppers or anywhere, and you kuow -it,” said a neighbor, endeavoring to win speclal favor from this culinary goddess, “Most folks get 'em elther too wet or too dry. I tell 'em I don’t know how you man- age it 8o yours are always just right. I don't suppose you could tell exactly Jourselt.” “Why, yes, I could,” and Mrs. Han- sou smiled Indulgently at the eager, hopeful face of her neighbor. “All I de is butter the dish, put in a layer of eoysters, salted and peppered, then a layer of buttered crumbs, then a layer of mllk and back to oysters again. Basy as ple, 't1s.” “A ‘layer’ of milk?" faltered the neighbor. “Why, yes,” sald Mrs. Hanson cheer- fully. “That's what makes 'em about right—layer of oysters, layer of erumbs and layer of milk. Leastways that’s what I do, and you say you like "—Youth’s Companion. A Woelsh Sermon, The Welsh are noted for their fond- Bess for sermons and music. The an- aual elsteddfod, the national bardic congress, s attended by thousands, who on the great. day of festival “cbair” the fortunate bard, the winner of the prize. A similar enthusiasm greets the Welsh preacher who is eloquent in speech and practical in expounding the Scriptures. The following story of a Welsh preacher, told in the “Journals of Walter White,” fllnstrates the sraphic, simple exposition which con- manded the attentlon of the congrega- tion: “Noe worked at the ark, driving nafla, plump, plump, plump. The hay- then came and sald: ‘Noe, there’s good hunting in the woods here, hares and foxes. Leave your work and come and hunt’ But Noe kept on hammering, plump, plump, plump. “The haythen came again: ‘Noe, there’s good beer at the Red Lion. Leave your work and come anéd drink.’ But Noe kept on hammering, plump, plump, plump. And then the rain eame; and the flood lifted up the ark and carried Noe away and left the haythen all screaming and squabbling in the water.” Fate leads the willing, but drives the stubborn.—French Proverb. Strained the Jar, A little old woman with a sharp nose and sharper tongue was in the country grocery store buying supplies. Among other things she brought in from her cart ‘was o battle scarved jug, which she ordered to be filled with treacle. At last, when her purchases were completed, she n looking over the account, ite:a by i‘em, Lefore paying “What's th che exclalmed. “You have chuargel e for two gallons and a_half of treagle.” “Yes, ma‘am,¥ holds only two gal- 1 measured v, aud It took two to fill 1t 0l woman with a the treacle ¢ gallons anl a ha sigh, “1 don't pay for the treac having the. o'd jug strained putting i half a gallon more will hold - Strand Magazine. your it o- This term 1s so speiled even in n: 1 works of some age, but plane ng Is the correct form. Before Mercator invented the sea chart whivh goes Ly his name all charts were plane projection. In uslug these tl was treat- ed as an a nce, dif- ference of I parture as the sides of angled triangie. There were ve! errors in plane cha vet was clidrted All plain s on them oft discovery pro- Jection c¢: e sailing was the ngs, and thus came sent meaning of the term. ave found their way into cert: acts of the Drit ish parliameat. Once statute cnacted punishment of fourtean years' trans portation for s fa offense, “and upen convi half thereof should go to the &k <1 the other half t¢ the Informenr. Then there is an acl of parliament . for the rebuilding of Chelmsford on which stipulated In one clause that the prisoners should be confined in the old p: n until the new one was bullt and in another—an amending—c! that the new prison should be constructed out of the ma- terial of the old one. He Dicdn’t Put It Off. “Graclous!” med Mr. Staylate. “It’s nearly midnight. T should be go “you know t off till tom day. "—T OVER TWO THOUSAND VISITORS A DAY ,_Cooper' Explains Reason for Remarkable «Average of Boston Callers. During L. T. Cooper’s- recent stay in Boston, it is estimated that sixty- five thousand people talked with him and purchased his medicine. This is an average of over two thousand a day. His success was so phenomenal as to cause universal comment both by the public and the press. There must be a reason for this. Here is the reason given in his own words by Mr. Cooper when interviewed on the sub- Ject. He said: “The immense numbers of people who are calling on me lere in Boston 1s not unusual. I have had the same experience for the past two years wherever I have gone. The reason is a simple one. It is because my medi- cine puts the stomach in good condi- tion. This does not sound unusual, but it is-in fact the key to health. The stomach is the very foundation of life. I attribute 90 per cent. of all sickness directly to the stomach. “Neither animals nor men can re- main well wich a poor digestive appa- ratus. Few can be sick with a diges- tion in perfect condition. As a matter of fact, most men and women today are half-sick. It is because too much food and too little exercise have grad- ually forced the stomach into a half- sick condition. My medicine gets the stomach back where it was, and that is all that is necessary.” Among Boston people who are staunch believers in Mr. Cooper’s theory, 18 Mr, Frank D, Brown, of 67 Bloomingdale street, Chelsea, Mass. He says: i “For five years I have sought re- lief for indigestion, stomach trouble and dyspepsia, spending nearly all my wages with doctors and obtaining no results. I had dull pains across my back, radiating to the shoulders. I had splitting headaches, which nothing seemed to cure. There was a gnawing and rumbling in my stomach and bowels. I was troubled with vertigo overcome by drowsiness. “I felt tired and worn out all the time, my sleep was not refreshing, and I would get up in the morning feeling as weary as when I went to bed. My appetite was variable—raven- ous at times, then again nauseated at the sight of food. Sometimes my face was pale, at other times flushed. I was constipated and bilious, and had catarrhal affection in nose and throat, which caused me to hawk and spit a great deal, especially in the morning. I heard so much of the Cooper reme- dies that I decided to try them. After taking one hbottle, a tapeworm 50 feet long passed from my system. I felt better almost immediately. All my troubles disappeared as if by magic, and my improvement was rapid. I now feel entirely well, and can honest- ly recommend Mr. Cooper’s medicine to anyone who suffers as I did.” We sell the Cooper medicines | which give.. universa] satisfaction. I—E. N, French & Co. See for Northern Pa able and clean, with seats. For night tra A HO Bary arrangements. Inquire of Logal .« ALABKA-YUKO what the offers its patrons. On a daylight trip the Day coaches and Smoking cars are comfort- ist and Pullman Standard sleeping cars have large and comfortable berths. ing cars on all important trains, come and talk the matter over with us. We will assist you in making the neces- A M. OLELAN'D, General ‘Pnssnngnf Yourself cific 'Railway high-back ‘upholstered vel the Pullman Tour- Din- TRIP Agent M. & L Ry. - : P.R., St. Paul, Minn, - [TION, 1909 and dizziness, and at times almost | The Old Buffalo Days. There 1s on record at the war de- partment, Washington, a document bearing witness to how plentiful buf. faloes were within the memory of many men now llving. It s the “re- turn” for several rounds of canmon ammunition expended in Kansas in 1867 to dlvert the course of a great herd of buffalo that was bearing down toward a camp of soldiers with a force that threatened to overwhelm it. At least one officer s alive who saw these shots fired, and he describes the herd as literally reaching as far as the eye could see. It was a long time in passing the camp, whose occupants watched it In silence, awed by the spectacle. General Philip St. George Cooke at once halted a regiment of cavalry on the plains to permit a great herd of antelope to pass, and he was not a man easily halted when on-duty. His humanity impelled him to with- hold the regiment from mangling and maiming the antelope, which were al- lowed the tight of way.—Boston Tran- script, TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails tocure. E. W. GROVE'S signature is on each box. Why safler with your kidneys} tho dis- X ble cavatyrel kumi :e?'-:l'-n proved o bisssing With the growth of Bemidji good lots are becoming scarcer and scarcer. We still have a number of good lots in the residence [part of town which will be sold on easy terms. For further particulars write or call provement Company. Bemidji Townsite and Im- H. A. SIMONS, Agent. Swedback Block, Bemid}i. The Pioneer---40¢ per Month SK your stenographer what it means to change a type- writer tibbon three times in getting outa day’s work. e New Tri-Chrome makes ribbon changes unnecessary; gives you, with one ribbon and one machine, the three essential kinds of busi - ness typewriting—black record, purple copying and red. This machine permits not only the use of a three-color ribbon, but also of a two-csior or single-color ribbon. No extra cost for this new model. {THE SMITH PREMIER TYPEWRITER CO. 9.South Seventh St. Ninneapolis, Minn. BLANK BOOKS A large consignment of Day Books, Ledgers, Cash Books and Journals, have just been received and the stock is com- plete and will give the buyer a good good selection from which to make his choice. 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