Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 20, 1908, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHRD NVERY AFTERNOON, A A A A A A A A A A A A A A ARG OFFICIAL PAPER---CITY OF BEMIDJI BEMIDII PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. CLYDR J. PRYOR | A, 0. RUTLEDGR Business Manager Managing Editor Sntered in the postofice at Remidii. Mink., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM OBSERVATIONS. The last stage of a liar is when he is unable to believe his own thoughts. You notice that a man usually is able to hunt up excuses for passing his new photographs around. If it doesn’t crop out in some other way a man’s vanity will run riot in the style of his whiskers. Describing 2 man as having a mechanical turn of mind is a polite way of saying he has wheels in his head. My son, when you tell your troubles to some one you not only keep them yourself, but add them to his store. The unhappy medium between hair and baldness is that stage where a man tries to cover_four inches of hair space with three long hairs. Common School Certificates. Program of examinations for Jan- uary 30 and 31, and February 1, 1908. Thursday, January 30th. (First Grade Studies.) A. M.—8:00 Enrollment. :15 Physical Geography or General History. Agriculture may be taken at any one of above periods, and may be substituted for either Geometry’ or Physical Geography. Friday, January 31st. (Second Grade Studies.) A. M.—8:00 Enrollment. 8:30 Professional Test. 9:30 Spelling. 10:00 Arithmetic. P. M.—1:15 Geography. 2:45 Composition and Pen- manship. 3:20 Reading. Saturday, February 1st. (Second Grade Studies Continued.) A. M.—8:00 U. S. History. 9:45 English Grammar. 11:30 Music. P. M.—1:15 Physiology-Hygiene. 2:45 Civics. 4:00 Drawing. The examination will -be held in the court house, Thursday, Jan. 30th and in the high school building Friday, Jan. 31st and Saturday, Feb. 1st. Marks of 75 or above from an in complete examination - taken within two years will be accepted, including State high school board certificates. A second grade certificate on which no mark is below 70 per cent. is up- on recommendation renewable for two years if the applicant has given evidence of ambition to improve by attending teachers’ meetings, insti- tutes and training schools and by reading books proscribed by the Teachers’ Reading Circle board and other educational books and papers. Teachers should bring with them all the credits, including certificates, which they wish to have accepted. Dated Bemidji, Minn., Jan. 1st, 1908. W. B. STEWART, Co. Supt. of Schools. " The Mysterlous Passenger. The captain of a vessel which was dringing to America in the fall of 1796 & mysterious passenger who had come aboard at Hamburg watched the latter 80 closely that at last the passenger #ald one day: “Sir, this is not the first occasion upon which T have observed the attentlve scrutiny you bestow up- on me. May I inquire the reason?” “Sir,” responded the candid captain, “you took passage on my ship as a Dane. I don’t believe you’re anything of the kind.” The passenger smiled. The smile was full of perspicacity and confidence and was followed with, “Pray tell me, then, what you believe me to be.” At thls question Captain Ewing fidgeted, hesitated and finally blurted out: “Well, to be honest, I think you are a gambler.. You've well nigh ruined yourself at home and are now coming to fleece the fools you’ll find on shore.” The young man’s smile broadened. The next minute he turned grave again, lowered his voice and replied: “Captain Ewing, as you have studied me ‘during this voyage, so I have studied you. I have come to the con- clusion that you are a man to be trusted. 1 am Louis Philippe, duc @'Orleans, eldest son of that Louis Philippe @’Orleans who was slain by the guillotine on the 7th of Novem- ber, almost three years ago.” & . 10 FIGHT SOCIALISM French Conservative Classes Or- ganizing for Battle, PROMINENT MEN TAKE PART The Commercial Parliament, a Body Designed to Combine Business Men of France in Defense of Their Com- mon Interests, Holds First Meeting. Paris, Jan. 20.—Two significant evenis marking the growing deter- mination of the conservative classes to resist the encroachments of revolu- tionary soclaliSm were observed here. The first is the initlal meeting of the “commercial parliament,” a body de- signed to combine the business men of France into a sort of non-political par- liament in the defense of their com- mon Interests. The chief aim of this parliament i3 to meet the sccialists on their own ground by promoting joint action between masters and men, thus preventing the pressure for excessive state interference. The second event is the appearance in Paris of a weekly paper called Opinion, on the model of the London Spectator. The purpose of this publication is to marshal con- servative republican opinion of all shades against the demands of col- lectivism, such as premature aspira- tions for disarmament, ete. To the socialistic warfare of the classes it will propose co-operation between the classes. The prime movers in this movement are E. Paul Doumer, former president of the chamber of deputies; ox-Premier Ribot and Alexandra Mil- lerand, former minister of commerce. NEEDS OF COLORED RACE Distinguished Men Discuss Them in New Yerk. New York, Jan. 20.—A Northern governor, a Southern editor and an intellectual leader, whose activities are confined to no section, gave sym- pathetic expression to the needs, aims and hopes of the colored race before a mnoteworthy audience at Carnegle hall. To these personally delivered addresses were added similar senti- ments in the form of messages from Cardinal Gibbons and British Ambas- sador James Bryce. With unanimity these men advocated further oppor- tunity for this less fortunate people, through popular support of Tuskegee institute, in the iInterests of which the meeting was held. “We can never afford to lose sight of the fundamental cbject alike of enlightened ~self-interest, of philan- thropy and patriotism,” sald Governor Hughes. “These are first, to give op- portunity and stimulus, so that each man may make the most of himself. A ftew centuries ago the ancestors of most of us were living a savage life In the forests of ‘Northern Europe. TO ESTABLISH TARGET RANGE Northwestern Representatives sent Memorial to Taft. ‘Washington, Jan. 20.—Representa- tives John J. Esch of La Crosse and ¥. C. Stevens of St. Paul presented a Joint memorial to Secretary of War Taft bearing on military reservations in the Northwest. It is proposed to establish a permanent training field and target range at Camp Douglass, | Wis., suitable for both regular army and militia maneuvers on an exten- #lve scale. It is further proposed to establish a full regimental battalion of fleld artillery at Fort Snelling, Minn. In elaboration of these propo- sitions the two members made a strong showing. The militia of Illi- nols, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, which is now being equipped with artillery and infantry accoutrements, forms an jmportant factor in the es- tablishment of a big range at Camp Douglass, near Sparta. Congress has adopted a policy of fitting out the militia on a practical regular army footing. In behalf of a regimental artillery force at Fort £nelling many arguments, such as climate, surroundings, transportation, accessibility and health, were urged. The Snelling reservation is on an equal footing with any in the country and the proposed fleld range for maneuvers at Camp Douglass would make that point equal to Fort Leaven- worth. Pre- Observe Child Labor Day. New York, Jan. 20.—The national child labor committee has just issued, through the religious press of the country, a letter to pastors and churches requesting the observance of Saturday, Jan. 25, or Sunday, Jan. 26, as Child Labor day. Last year a large number of churches considered this subject on Child Labor day. Harvester Trust Fined $12,600. Topeka, Kan., Jan. 20.—Judge Dana, in the Shawnee county district court here, assessed a fine of $12,600 against the International Harvester company, which the court found guilty on forty- three counts of violating the Kansas anti-trust law. The maximum fine is $1,000 a count and the’minimum $100. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. Sir John Lawson Walton, M. P. and attorney general, is dead at London. Four children were drowned while skating on a reservoir at Coral, Pa. Former Governor Charles H. Saw- yer of New Hampshire is dead at his home in Dover, that state. Colonel John I. Handley, supreme vice president of the Fraternal Union of America, is dead at Denver. Andrew Haben, formerly state sen- ator and state assemblyman and sev- eral times mayor of Oshkosh, Wis., died suddenly at his home in that city. Isaac N. Hascall, at one time acting governor of Nebraska and for many years a prominent politician, is dead at Omaha. Hascall was seventy-seven Years old and had practiced law in Nebraska forty-two years. The loan certificates issued by the The black man is entitled to his chance.” The other formal addresses were by Editor Henry Watterson, who spoke on “The Negro's Future,” and Booker T. Washington, who told of work of the educational institution of which he is the head. MANY CITIES AFFECTED. ' Sovereign Bank of Canada Goes Into Liquidation. Toronto, Ont., Jan. 20.—When cus- tomers of the head office in Toronto] and seventy-five branches throughout Canada called at the Sovereign bank of Canada they found other banks in possession as a result of the transfer- ence of all business of the Sovereign bank to the Bankers’ association of Canada, consequent upon the decision of the Sovereign bank to g6 into liqui- dation. There will be no interruption to business so far as the Sovereign bank’s customers and depositors are concerned. The branches of the bank have been assigned to different banks, each of-whica will take charge of the accounts in the particular branch with which it is engaged. The customers as usual and they may either get the cash or a certificate of deposit from the particular bank that is in charge. The only point in which serious diffi- culties may be created Is in the case of borrowers who have been extended a line of credit by the bank. The present condition of the financial mar- ket may render it extremely difficult for some firms to place their loans and rumor is busy with the names of several that may be forced to assign. Held Slave by Chinamen. Pittsburg, Jan. 20.—Florence Living- stone, sixteen years old, is in the hands of the police, having been cap- tured In a raid on a house occupied by Lee Ping in the Chinese quarter. The girl says she was kidnapped from her parents in Cincinnati when she was nine years old and since that time has been held by Chinese as a slave, frequently passing from one China- man to another in different parts of the country. Tobacco Warehouse Burned. Janesville, Wis, Jan. 20.—Fire whih totally destroyed the Julius Marquessee warehouse caused a loss of between $160,000 and $200,000 to tobacco which was stored in cases. The fire was of mysterious origin and before the department arrived the south side of the structure was en- tirely gone. There were between 3, 500 and 4,000 cases of tobacco stored there, valued at $50 a case. Her Mind. Hilton—My wife Is a matter of fact woman. She only speaks her mind. Chilton—So does mine, but she changes’ her mind so often ‘that it keeps her talking all the time.—Chicago News. A Clever Mana; The Groom (very wealthy)—Why did you ever marry an ordinary chap Mk me? The Bride—I haven't the sligh Idea. Mamma managed-the whole af- will present their checks or passbooks |- New York clearing housé during the recent financial stringency reached a total of $97,000,000, according to a statement prepared by President Al- exander Gilbert of the Clearing House association. Newspapers of Argentina are giving prominence . to expressions - of - regret that Brazil continues to favor Amer- ican manufactured -goods, . flour and wheat. This works an injury to; Ar- gentina,” as ‘she cannot compete with American cereals in the Brazilian markets. Walter C. Rollins, -who several -years ago owned a famous string of horn_es»wh_lch ‘won many large stakes, killed” himself at his home in New York city by shooting. Grief over the death of his wife recently is be- -leved to have caused the act. MARKET QUOTATIONS, ° *" Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Jan. 18.—Wheat—May, :$1.08% @1.08%; July, $1.09%. On ‘track—No. 1 hard, $1.10%; No. 1 ‘Northern, $1.08: No. 2 Northern, . $1.061%; No. 3 Northern, $1.02%@ 1.04%. 8t. Paul Union Steck Yards. St. Paul, Jan. 18.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.00@5.75; fair to good, $3.26@4.75; good to choice cows and heifers, $3.00@3.75; veals, $3.75@5.50. JHogs—$4.10@4.25. Sheep—Wethers, $4.75@5.2! good to choice lambs, $6.25@86.50. ' Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Jan. 18.—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.09%; No. 1 Northern, $1.07%; No. 2 North- ern, $1.05%; May, $1.095%; July, $1.- 10i6. In store—No. 1 Northern, $1. 06%; No. 2 Northern, $1.035.. Flax —To arrive and on_track, $1.16%; May, $1.19%; July, $1.21. -Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, Jan. 18.<Cattle—Beeves, 65@6.25; cows and- heifers, $1.50@ 4.20; Texans, $3.20@4.00; .calves, $5.50 @7.30; -Western , cattle, $3.75@4.60; stockers and feeders, $2.50@4.20. Hogs —nght: $4.16@4.40; mixed, $4.20@ 4.50; rough, $4.20@4.25; pigs, $3.60@ 4.20. Sheep, $3.50@5.70; yearlings, $5.60@6.00; lambs, $5.50@7.30. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Jan. 18.—Wheat—May, $1.02%@1.02%; July, 9716 @97%c; Sept., 94%c. Corn—May, 60c; July, 58% @68%c; Sept., 58%c. Oats—May, old; b4c;: May, 52%c; July, old, 47%c; July, 46%c; Sept., 39%c. Pork—Jan., $12.75; May, $13.27. Butter—Cream- erles, 20@30c; dairies, 19@27c. Eggs —23@24c. ' Poultry—Turkeys, 10c; chickens, 10c; springs, 9c. A Criterion. *What is a synonym ?”-asked a teach- or, g :“Please, sir,” sald the lad, “it's a ‘word you can use In place of another £ you don’t know how to spell the oth- er one.—School Board Journal. ’ Used Up. . Digby—How long did it take you to Jearn to run a motor car? . Skorcher— Oh, five or six. Digby-Five or-sl what—weeks? Skorcher —- No; motor ——— e land take ny {5 The Doctor’s Imagination. “I have a good story on one of Wash Ington's best known oculists,” sald a prominent clubman, addressing some friends in the billiard room of the Met- ropolitan club. “My eyes had trou- bled me for.some months, and-finally 1 went to see the doctor about’ them. “After a thorough examination he sald that the muscles were badly strained, and then he gave me a pre- scription for drops to be used in my eyes three times a day. When I left he gave me an appointment for that day week, as he: sald he could not ex- amine my eyes for glasses until they were in their normal ‘condition. “Well, I mislald that blessed pre- scription, and as I was particularly busy that week I had no time to get another copy. 8o in'some trepldation I kept my second appointment. “As the doctor examined my eyes 1 hesitated a moment about telllng him I had not used the drops, when he took the words out of my mouth and the breath out of my body by remarking with pleased emphasis: “‘Your eyes are very much Im- proved. That medicine which I gave you is certainly wonderful. It always has such prompt and satisfactory re- sults. “It was all I could do to keep silent,” concluded the speaker, laughing. “But I wasn’t quite sure how he would take the joke. You see, he may not have a sense of humor.”—Washington Star. Comets In Oldzn Days. People nowadays do not regard the comet as one of those signs that fore- run the death or fall of kings, but the superstition was still current in the time of Queen Elizabeth, though, to the amazement of her courtiers, the queen calmly scorned it. It was also {thought that if the sovereign would re- frain from looking at the malignant celestial passerby no harm would come to her. On one occasion Hlizabeth’s attendants shut and curtained her win- dows, but her majesty, as might have been expected, with “a courage an- swerable to the greatness of her es- tate,” caused them to be opened, cry- ing as she looked up: “Jacta est alea— the die 1s cast!” Theh, like King Knut on the seashore, she read her people a homily, asserting that her “steadfast hope and confidence were too firmly planted in the providence of God to be blasted or affrighted-with those beams which elther had no ground in nature whereupon to rise or at least no war- rant in Scripture to portend the mis- haps of princes.” Queen Elizabeth n Ale Drinker. There is an amusing letter written by the Earl of Leicester to Lord Bur- leigh as to the lack of sufficlently strong ale for the queen at Hatfield. “There is not one drop of good drink for her here. We were fain to send to London and Kenilworth and divers other places where ale was. Her own beer was so strong as there was no man able to drink it.” Ale and bread were the chief items of the royal breakfast. The quantity of ale con- sumed by ladies at breakfast in those days was constderable, for in the reign of Henry VIIL the maids of honor | were allowed for breakfast “one chet loafe, one and a pi anchet, two gallons of ale er of wine.” A Lady Lucy made a mighty tonic of the national brew. Her breakfast was a chine of beef, a loaf and a gallon of ale, and for her pillow meal a posset porridge, 8 _generous cut of mutton, a loaf and a gallon of ale.—~Westminster Gazette. : Very Nicely Done. Gallant Man (aside)—At last I have her all t6 myself.” Now I can tell her how I love her and ask her to be mine, How shall I do it, I wonder? Gentle Maid (behind her fan)—It is surely coming. I am so nervous and frightened. ' I know ‘he is going to be terribly dramatic. I do hope I shan’t haveto help him up off his knees. Goodness, why doesn’t he’ say_some- NATURE'S WARNING Bemidji People Must Recognizd and Heed it. Kidney ills come -quietly—mys- teriously, But nature always warns you. Notice the kidney secretions, See if the color. is unhealthy-— If there are settlings and sedi- ment, 3 Passages frequent, scanty, pain- ful. It's time then to use Doan’s Kidney Pills, 5 To ward off Bright's disease or diabetes. : Doan’s have done great work in Bemidji, i Frank - Engels,’ living _at: ‘415, Minnesota Ave., Bemidji, Minn,, says: ¢‘I have no hesitancy in publicly: recommending Doan’s Kidney Pills to others as I am confident that my testimonial will be the means of bringing relief to some sufferer. There was a dull aching in the small of my back, for many months, my kidneys were véry much disordered, the secre- tions being unnatural in appear- ance and at times there was a great deal of soreness about the kidneys. - At last I decided to try Doan’s Kidney Pills and procured a box at The Owl Drug Store. ' I started ‘using :.them carefully as directed, the pain disappeared, my secretions have becomé cléar and I aw pleased with the ‘results re- ceived.” - For sale by all dealers, . Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., | Buffalo, N. Y,, sole agents for the United State s, Remeniber the name—Doan’s— other, thing? T must Lreak thls horrible si- lence, (Aloud, recklessly) Have you ever been abroad? Gallant Man (smilingly)—No. saving it for a wedding tour. Gentle Maid (demurely)—Why, how funny; so am I. Gallant Man (meaningly)—Then why shouldn’t we take it together? Gentle Maid (innocently)—Possibly your wife and my husband might ob- Ject to going in such a crowd. Gallant Man (brilliantly)—The crowd ‘wouldn’t be objectionably large if your husband and my wife were husband and wife. (Further conversation was disjointed and indistinct).—Pearson’s Weekly. I'm Where Animals Beat Men. “Nature faking aside,” said the zoo keeper, “mice won't eat oleo. It is a fact. Lay a pat of oleo and a pat of butter side by side and in the morning the butter will be gone, but the oleo will remain untouched. “Oh, yes, some animals are incredi- bly nice about their food. The otter, when living wild, will only eat one plece, one mouthful out of each fish he catches. He will land a beautiful trout, but only one bite of it from the back, just behind the neck, is good |- enough for him. The rest he tosses aside. This epicure often kills a dozen fine, big trout ta. make one meal. “Chimpanzees have very delicate tastes. A banana or a pineapple that to you seems delicious to a chimpan- zee may be revolting. His taste is keener. Grapes grown in hothouses where sulphur fumes are used as an Insecticide taste all right to a man, but, a chimpanzee will have none of them. “The jchneumon loves eggs. He can tell a fresh from a stale one simply by tapping the shell.””—Los Angeles Times. “Copy Reading” Howells. The London Atheneum says of the following Howells paragraph that it is the best sentence perhaps in any re- cent English book. Describing a cer- tain ancient edifice, Mr. Howells writes and the Atheneum quotes: “What, in the heart of all this blos- soming, was the great cathedral it- self when we came in sight of it but a vast efflorescence of the age of faith, mystically beautiful in form and gray as some pale exhalation from the mold of the ever cloistered, the deeply reforested past.” Very fine, all must admit. But wouldn’t that paragraph have been meat and drink to the man who used to mark up Mr. Howells’ newspaper copy back at Bucyrus, O. If Howells the reporter had written that for the Bucyrus Blade he would have found it in the paper next day about like this: = “The cathedral, with flowers all around it, looks fine, It is 400 years old and needs paint.”—Galveston News, Lots of Degrees. First Professor—That man has been slgnally honored by many colleges. 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