Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 22, 1908, Page 2

Do Not Trifle With a Cold Is good advice for men and women. It may be vital iu the case of u child. Long experience has proven that there is noth. ing better for colds in children than Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy It is a favorite with many mothers and never disappoints them. It contains no opium or other narcotic and may be given with implicit confidence, Barker’s Drug Store THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED NVERY AFTERNOON. OFFICIAL PAPER---CITY OF BEMIDJI BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. CLYDE J. PRYOR | A. G. RUTLEDGE, Business Manager | Managing Editor Tntered in the postofice at Bemidjl. Minc., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM OBSERVATIONS. The advance of prohibition which is crushing the liquor trade might be called a case of jug-er-not. ‘The Garden of Eden has just been discovered in Alabama. Hope the prohibitionists have driven out all the snakes. John D. has given the University of Chicago about $24,000,000 be- cause it asks for it. Well, Uncle Sam is only asking for $5,000 more. It appears that alcohol and other fluids and solids generate electricity when taken into the human body. That explains why over-indulgence is so shocking. “No peace in the ranks of the Irish” is the latest news from across the watet. Certainly not. There never was and never will be. That’s why we love them. Automobiles abroad have devel- oped the ability to jump like a kan- garoo and to break through iron fences. Evidently the flying machine was discovered none too soon if human kind is to survive. Copies of the Congressional Rec- ord, full of speeches that never were delivered, make a most appropriate Christmas gift from politicians to trusting constituents. But they are no jokes for the weary postman, the only man who has reason to con- sider the legislator’s eloquence as weighty. 8o Called Intelligence In Animals. Now the so called intelligence of the lower animals is largely like that of the rills that find their way to the Bea, or of the seeds of the plants that find thelr way to their proper habitat. Marsh plants find their way to the marshes, hill plants find their way to the hills. The spores of the black knot seem to hunt out every plum tree in the land. The rats and the mice find their way to your new house or new barn because they are constantly on the search for new flelds. The squirrels find the acorn grove and the birds the cherry trees for the same reason. Their necessitles for food send them in all directions till they hit the right spots. I cleared off a swamp in the woods and put a ditch through it; In two or three years the cattail flag was growing in my ditch. These winged seeds from dis- tant swamps traversed the air in all directions, and when the wind dropped them on the proper soil they took root and throve; all others—vastly the greater number—came to naught.— John Burroughs in Atlantic. The Fatal Bowsprit. Now, if you have never reefed a miz- zen or jigger, as we generally call it, on a small boat running off under a press of sail In a seaway, you have never done an acrobatic stunt that knocks out the most thrilling feats of the arena. It Is not so bad as laying out on the headspar to shift a jib, because the wet is left out, and there- fore it s a job not so detested by seamen. Working on the bowsprit is most .dreaded of all sea jobs. More men lose their lives off that spar than from all other parts of the ship to. gether. Driving along she takes » plunge into it, at the same time the heavy foot of the sail bangs across, knocking off your hold, and overboard you go to be swept under and trodden upon by the swift rushing forefoot. A dark night on a jib boom with a half muzzled sail storming about and the spar end pitching, bucking and forking the brine at every plunge—there may be nastier places; if 80, they have nev- er crossed my hawse—T. F., Day tn Outing Magazine, “Try One of My Betels.” In Siam they don’t offer you a cigar or a cigarette, but a betel nut. There every oue carries a supply of them in a neat little ivory box, not unlike the snuffboxes of our ancestors. The betel nut is a narcotic, In its effects not un- Like tobaceo, but it is much more harm- ful. Those who chew it suffer from Inflamed gums, and they generally lose their teeth. The betel is a specles of climbing plant, with a leaf not unlike ivy. It ylelds a crop of nuts, which are ground to a powder. This Is mixed with a similar powder derived from the areca nut and made Into & paste, \lv.v:lfch is wrapped in pleces of betel GAS TANKS REMOVED. Arrest in Connection With Boyertown (Pa.) Disaster, Boyertown, Pa, Jan. 22—A mild sensation was created here when W. R. Javers of Quakertown, Pa., was ar- rested by the state police in connec- tion with last week’s fatal fire. He was taken into custody on a warrant sworn out by Coroner Strasser and 4 accused of having been instrumental in the removal from the ruins of the theater of the two tanks used in op- erating the calcium light at the enter- tainment. The coroner wants to learn whether the tanks were tampered With and evidence of criminal neghi- gence removed. It is alleged that an order which was represented to have been written by the coroner was pre- sented to those who had charge of the ruins requesting them to permit the bearer to remove the tanks so that they might be transferred to a place of safety. It is further alleged that the tanks were ‘taken to the rallroad station and shipped to Quakertown in the name of J. R. Ransom, owner. Two tanks were shipped to Boyertown the following day in the name of the same party. These are now at the station. Javers was taken to the county jail at Reading and will be given a hear- ing before the inquest is held. LYNCHING IS NOT FATAL. Negro Cut Down by Officers and May Recover. Dothan, Ala, Jan. 22—Grover Frankhn, colored, who was taken away from Sherift Butler and his dep- uties and hanged to a tree, is again in the hands of the law and stands a chance for recovery. The mob was so closely followed by the officers and law abiding citi- zens, determined, if possible, to avert the lynching, that they did not have time to get their viotim outside the corporate limits and, hurriedly string- ing him up to the first tree and think- ing they had riddled him with bul lets, they fled. On the arrival of the officers the negro was still alive and was imme- diately cut down and placed in the county jail. It is thought he will re- cover. Boise (Ida.) Bank Suspends. Boise, Ida., Jan. 22.—The Capitol State Bank of Idaho of this city has failed to open its doors for business, temporary suspension having been de- termined upon by the directors owing to recent heavy withdrawals of de- posits. The bank had deposits at the time of the last statement, Dec. 23, of $1,076,722. Woman’s Body Found in Lake. Chicago, Jan. 22.—The body of a woman was found in the lake at the foot of Sixtieth street. There were two cuts under the heart and a nine- inch gash across the abdomen. An attempt is being made to ascertain if the woman was drowned or was thrown into the water after being mur- dered. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. The Mississippl legislature has elected John Sharp Williams to the United States senate. John H. Wagner, seventy-two years old, a prominent architect and engt- neer of Chicago for years, is dead. Fire destroyed the pattern shop and armature winding plant of the Cleve- land Steel Casting company. The loss is estimated at $100,000. The fire was probably of incendiary origin. Alexander H. Patterson, seventy- two years old, vice president of the Duquesne National bank of Pittsburg, died suddenly of heart failure. Mr. Patterson was one of the best known bankers of Pittsburg. MARKET QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Jan. 21.—Wheat—Masy, $1.10@1.10%; July, $1.10%. On track —No. 1 hard, $1.11% @1.11%; No. 1 Northern, $1.09%@1.09%; No. 2 Northern, $1.07%@1.07%; No. 3 Northern, $1.02% @1.04%. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, Jan. 21.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.50@5.75; fair to good, $3.25@4.75; good to choice cows and heifers, $3.00@3.75; veals, $3.75@5.25. Hogs—$4.10@4.27%. Sheep—Wethers, $4.75@5.25; good to cholce lambs, $6.26@6.65. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Jan. 21.—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.10%; No. 1 Northern, $1.09%; No. 2 Northern, 1.06%; May, $1.10%; July, $1.11%. In store—No. 1 Northern, $1.07%; No. 2 Northern, $1.06%. - Flax—To arrive and on track, $1.18%; May, $1.20%; July, $1.22%. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, Jan. 21.—Cattle—Beeves, $3.60@6.10; cows and heifers, $1.40Q 4.60; calves, $5.00@6.75; Western cat- tle, $3.70@4.60; stockers and feeders, $2.60@4.60. Hogs—Light, $4.16@ 4.42%; mixed, $4.2094.62%; heavy, 4.20@4.62%; rough, $4.20@4.25; plgs, $3.60@4.25. Sheep, $3.40@5.60; year- lings, $5.0095.90; lambs, $5.25@7.20. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Jan. 21.—Wheat—May, $1.02% @1.02%; July, 98%c; Sept., 95%c. Corn—May, 60% @60%c¢c; July, 59% @59%c; Sept, 69%c. Oats— May, old, 64%c; May, 62%c; July, old, 47%c; July, 46%c; Sept., 39%c. Pork —Jan.,, $12.65; Feb., $12.67%; May, $13.17%. Butter—Creameries, 31@ 30c; dairles, 19@27c. Eggs—20@21c. Poultry—Turkeys and chickens, 10c; eprings, 9c. A Criterion. “What is a synonym?” asked a teach- er. “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 learn to run a motor car? Skorcher— Ob, five or six. Digby—Five ‘or six what—weeks? Skorcher — No; motor leave nie the candle?—Punch. IS EASILY AVOIDED IF TAKEN PROPERLY Says Backache is the Warning not to Neglect Nature’s Danger Signals. Take care of backache. < A great many cases of kidney complaint are reported about here, also bladder trouble and . rheumatism. An authority once stated that pain in the back, loins or region of the kidneys is the danger signal nature hangs out to notify the suffer- er that there is something wrong with the kidneys, which should receive immediate attention. Only vegetable treatment should be ad- ministered and absolutely no strong- ly alcholic patent medicines,which are harmful to the kidneys and bladder. The following prescription, while simple, harmless and inexpensive, is known and recognized as a sovereign remedy for kidney com- plaint. The gredients can be ob- tained at any good prescription pharmacy and anyone can mix them: Gompound Kargon,one ounce; Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. Shake well in a bottle and take in teaspoonful doses after each meal and at bedtime. This preparation is said to restore the natural function of the kidneys so they will slft and strain the poisonous waste matter, uric acid, etc., from the blood, purifying it and releiving rheumatism. Back- aehe will be relieved, the urine will be neautralized and cleared and no longer a cause of irritation, thereby overcoming such symptoms as weak bladder, painful, frequent and other urinary difficulties. - This is worth trying and may prove just what many people here need. 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. 8:15 Geometry. 10:00 Physics. P. M.—1:30 Algebra. 3:15 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 Schaols. Ground Flat. A young man from a country village ‘when ' sightseeing in Edinburgh was greatly astonished on seeing “Mr.’ 8mith, Tatlor (ground flat),” inscribed on a door and after a careful study of | "the plate exclaimed: e Cai “Great Scott, sic a death! Sbl.!rl? he’s been run ower wi’ a steam roller!” —London Graphic. Her Preference. Timld Child (who has just been as- sured of the company of the angels in the dark room)—Ye-es, but, mummy, couldn’t - you have the angels and’ S eon Legend of 8t. Winifred Well, A romantic legend hangs around St, ‘Winifred' well: Cradocus, a neighbor- ing prince, smitten with the beauty of & Holywell damsel and roused to anger by her coyness, struck off her head as she fled from his unwelcome atteatlions, The ‘head, rolling down the hill, rested near the church, and from the spot the present coplous spring gushed forth as the earth opened to swallow up the assassin, ' Bt. Beuno, who was passing, picked up the head and, with a skill which is' now lost to the medical pro- fession, restored the maiden, with only & slender white line on her neck as evi- dence of the miracle.. But not only did the well spring from the spot where the head rested, but the moss on its brink was supposed to be possessed of a particularly fragrant smell, while the blood marks: on the stones assumed many beautiful tints on June 22, the anniversary of the event. Today the well is contained in a rectangular building, and the water flows into a large basin in the shape of an eighi pointed star.—London: Chronicle. Handling Live Wires. 5 Never handle an electric wire (lest it be “alive”) with the naked hand, but use a' nonconducting substance as a protector. ' Any good . nonconducting substance will supply protection. Rubber—In form of gas stove tube or water hose, could be thrown over a wire to pull it from its connection with a live wire. Porcelain—In form of a bit of com- mon crockery or a floor tile, hand plate for door, a stone ink bottle. Glass—A stout bottle, a glass rod or & pane of ‘glass could be used to dis- lodge a wire from its connection with a trolley wire or other current feeder. .Wool—A woolen scarf, stocking, coat of wrap. Cotton—Any plece of cotton garment or stout cotton twine. Bilk—Scarf or other garment. Any of ‘thesé materials in goodly thickness could be used to protect the band in removing a live wire or even using an instrument to cut it through. Spain’s Canny Railroads. In Spain the raflroads do not lose a chance to make a little profit even in the case of the nontravelers. When you see somebody off in that country you must pay for the privilege. ' The railroads all sell billetes de anden, which are good for the platform only. These cost generally 5 centimos, equiv- alent to a cent in American ‘money. Just why this is done it is hard to see, because persons entering a train can- not very well avold the conductor, who is always making trips to inspect the carriages. If a person-attempted to "Twas In Tater Time. The late Senator Platt of Connecticut enjoyed funny stories and could tell a good many himself. Notwithstanding his long public life, he always remem- bered a yarn that he carried from his school days. One year when the district schools opened in his town one of the teachers In making a record of the ages of her pupils, as required by law, found that one little girl, who came from a fami- ly not noted for being especlally bright, was unable to say when her birthday came, So in order to complete her records the teacher walked two miles to see the girl's mother one afternoon after school. Asked if she could remember Just when her daughter was born, the woman thought for some little time and then, with a sort of puzzled look, said: “Well, the gal was born in tater time, that's sure, but I can’t 'member whether they was a-plantin’ on ’em or a-diggin’ on ’em.”—Boston Herald. The Colored Brother's Reason. Booker T. Washington told the story of a negro pastor who was having some difficulty with his flock. “The old fellow came to me and asked me to help him out,” said Mr. Washington. “I went down to the lit- tle backwoods country church with bim one Sunday. Incidentally I took occasion to inquire among the parish- foners a little and found that they had not paid the old man his salary. “Upon this basis of information I started In to admonish the members of the congregation. I told them that they should pay their pastor; that he had to live; that he had to have his salary. “All in all, I was making a pretty good speech. I had most of the con- gregation convinced, I think. “But there was one old fellow in the back of the church that was mum- bling during my talk. He would snick- er a little and duck his eyes below the old soft hat he held up to his face. ‘We ain’t goin’ to pay 'im any more salary this year.” “The old fellow became so obsirep- erous that I remonstrated with him. “ ‘Brother, why are you not going to pay your pastor any more salary this year? I asked him. “‘Because we done paid him for them same sermons last y’ar,’” was the decisive response.” How Prisoners Read. “It is rather pathetic,” sald a prison chaplain, “the way our inmates read their surreptitious newspapers. It is bad for the poor fellows’ eyes too. “It is against the rule for them to read in their cells, and in the cell doors steal a ride in a carriage, he would | there are peepholes, to which the jail- bave small chance- of getting away with 1t. 'If caught, he would have to pay a penalty of just twice the fare between the point where he was dis- covered and the point where tickets last were ‘Inspected.—New York Sun. ) He Had No Choice. The wife of a dynamo tender went to a haberdasher’s to buy a necktie for her husband. She selected a brilliant red one, ready made, whereupon the young and inexperienced salesman, ‘with compassion for the future owner, was moved to remark: . “Excuse me, missus, 13 this tle for your husband?” “It 1s,” replied the woman. “Don’t you' think he’d rather have some other color? I'm afraid he won’t wear this red tle.” “Oh, yes, he willl” said the woman firmly. ““He’ll have to—he’s dead.”— London Answers. = < = Miss Kreech—Some authorities be- Heve that the practice of Blnging will keep a person from getting consump- tion. Mr. Knox—Yes, but most author- 1tles belleve In “the greatest good to the greatest number.” — Philadelphia Press. 2 ; NATURE'S WARNING Bemidji People Must Recognize 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, . Passdges frequent, scanty, pain- ful. It's time then to use Doan’s Kidney Pills, To ward off Bright’s disease or diabetes: Doan’s have done great work in Bemidji, 3 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 very 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 become clear and I am pleased with the ‘resuits re- ceived.” M For sale by all. dealers, Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for thel|l United States, - Remember the name—Doan’s— || and take no other, s come noiselessly, seelng that all the rules are enforced. “The prisoner who simply must read pastes with g bit of porridge his jour- nal up against his cell door -beneath the peephole. floor a yard or two away and holds his dustpan In one hand and his brush in the other. In this awkward and wearl- some positlon, his eyes nearly popping out of his head from strain, he reads ‘away for dear life. “And when the jailer's cold, hard eye peers in through the peephole it misses the paper and lights up with some faint approbation at the sight of the prisoner polishing up his floor.”’— New York Press. He sits down on the |. From Grapes, the most healthful of fruits, comes the chief ingredient of The only baking powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar Costs a little more than the injutions m or phosphate of lime powders, but with Royal you are sure of pure, heglthful food. alom Who Could Pass7 2 To test the spelling capabilities of fifty applicants for jumior clerkships in the offices of the Sydney water and sewerage board they were called upon to write from dictation this paragraph: “This celibate was a licentiate in medl- cine and held other scholastic diplo- mas. His characteristics were Idiosyn- crasies personified—one day taciturn, the next garrulous. Today his facile pen evolves a sapient distich in piquant satire of some literary genius; tomor- row an encomiastic effusion on an il- literate voluptuary. His studies on concrete sclence were exotic; his re- searches in natural philosophy esoterie if not chimerical.” No less than forty- three out of the fifty candidates came to grief in this artfully designed spell- ing obstacle race. At the next meet- ing of the board a member doubted ‘whether ten out of fifty Oxford M. A.’s, if_suddenly called_upon to write out the same passage, would sacceed In he- gotlating every one of the big words successfully.—London :Chronicle. A Queer 8ervian Belief. To hatch a chicken by holding an egg for ‘the allotted time in the left armpit is belleved in Servia to be a certain charm against violent death, more especially if the bird be swal- lowed whole forty days after it comes to life. A robber who had devastated the distriet of Kolubara for many years was, writes a Belgrade corre- spondent, known to have accomplished both these feats, which accounted for the apathy of the peasants in pursuing him, persuaded as they were of his in- vulnerability. 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