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

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHAD WVERY AFTERNOON, OFFICIAL PAPER---CITY OF BEMIDJI BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. GLYDE J. PRYOR | 4. 0. RUTLEDGE, Business Manager ‘Managing Editor “ntered in the postoffice at Bemidj!. Mine., a8 second clags matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM Joel wants to know. The North- field News says: ‘“Why not invite the piain people in the Republican party to a harmony meeting in addition to a few self-appointed leaders? Anyway, why should five or six men assume to be the whole thing?”—Duluth News-Tribune. Evidently, the gentlemen who are avowed candidates for the re- publican nomination for governor, neglected the mighty (?) North- field statesmen reletive to his wishes in the matter., Referring to R. C. Dunn’s strong advocacy of J. F. Jacobson, which is something not at all new with the Princeton man, some of the state editors are prone to ask, “‘Why don’t you speak for yourself, Bob?” Some folks are inclined to the belief that the Hon. Bob is in reality “speaking for himself,” right; and they say that Bob’s unanimous sup- port of Jacobson is not given with any idea that Jake will be nominated, but rather that Jacobson and Young will become involved in snch a fight that a third man will be called in and nominated at the last moment— the third man being R. C. Dunn. OBSERVATIONS. [By “Doc”] Most people gladly take advice from a stranger. Occasionally a full-bearded man tells a bare-faced lie. Fortunately stupid people seldom realize that they are stupid. A man usually aims at a human target when he shoots off his mouth. All things come to him who waits —even the almshouse and potter’s field. Ever notice that the compliments some people hand you always leave a bitter taste? How we would like to sce all the kickers and knockers get together and fight it out! Dishonest men usually get a lot of things they don’t deserve before they finally get behind the bars. ‘Even the sarcastic woman de- clines to make any cutting remarks when she has an ax to grind. Every time a stingy man is forced tolet go of a dollar he imagines that he is in a dentist’s chair having a tooth pulled. Paid For the Supplies. s A story said to be characteristic is told of a certain judge. It seems that ‘when he convened court at one of the towns on his circuit it was found that no pens, ink or paper had been pro- vided, and upon inquiry it developed that no county funds were available for this purpose. The judge expressed himself somewhat forcefully, then drew some money from his own pocket. He was about to hand this to the clerk when a visiting lawyer, a high priced imported article, brought on to defend a case of some importance, spoke up In an aside plainly audible over the room. “Well,” he remarked, with infinite contempt, “I've seen some pretty bad courts, but this—well, this is the Umit!” The old judge flushed darkly. “You are fined §25 for contempt, sir! Hand the money to the clerk!” he said, and when the pompous visitor had humbly complied he continued. “Now, Mr. Clerk, go out and get what pens, ink and paper the court may require, and if there is anything left over you can give the gentleman his change.”—Harper’s Weekly, A Genius at Excuses. “While I was stage managing a piece some time ago,” said a theatrical mag- nate, “one of my show girls showed an independence of spirit which was superb. She was always late for re- hearsal. Her excuses were great. All her friends and relations had a series of maladies which were remarkable in their number and diversity. She nurs- ed them all until they naturally gave up the ghost. About an hour was enough to bury most of them. Then she caught on to mechanical devices. Btreel cars were invariably late—just as late as she was, in fact. Then in turn came certain inconveniences In hotels. The elevator was continually sticking until finally came the denoue- ment. It was in Phlladelphia. The siren did not appear until nearly two hours after the proper time. I looked at her and waited. The excuse came glibly. - “‘Oh,’ she panted, ‘T’'m so sorry, but they are repairing the stairs at the hotel, and I could not get down until they brought a ladder! “I recognized genius in that girl.”’— Chicago Record-Herald. [0 REVIVE. INDUSTRY Dbject Republicans Should Kecp in View in Naming Candidate, EX-SECRETARY SHAW TALKS Espionage of Business Men, Drastic Business Restraining Legislation and Criminal Prosecution Has Been Carried Too Far, He Telieves. Kansas City, Feb. .—Leslie M. Shaw, ex-secretary of the treasury, who kas arrived here to address the Kansas City Bar association, gave out a signed statement to the Associated Press in which he declared that a number of unauthorized reports had been published concerning his recent visit to Chicago. Mr. Shaw declared that politics had in no degree influ- enced his visit to that city. He went there, he said, at no man’s instance and in no man’s interest. His visit, he said, was on a matter of personal business. Mr. Shaw, in his statement, continued: “I am not seeking to defeat any man's nomination for the presidency. There is not a man whose name is mentioned who is not my personal friend and for whom I would not «ross the continent to bestow a kind- ness. That I prefer some does not imply that I would lift my hand against others. “I am intensely interested in busi- ness conditions. The number of men out of employment and the number socn to be dismissed is to me alarm- ing. The interest of these men and the eifect of their enforced idleness upon business generally far transcends any candidate’s ambition. “I wish that factioralism within the party to which I belong might cease and that a convention of broad mind- ed, patriotic, unselfish and unambi- tious men, uninstructed and un- pledged, might gather in Chicago on June 16 next and in the light of con- ditions as they then exist to select a man who is belleved to be most likely to lead the party to victory and whose election will best conserve the moral and industrial interests of the coun- try. That business confidence at home and abroad is now at ebb tide all who know something of the subject must admit. It will require something besides espionage of business men, something besides drastic business restraining legislation, something be- sides criminal prosecution to again set our industrial wheels in motion.” TWENTY-SEVEN RESCUED. Only One Miner Perishes as Result of Cavein. Shamokin, Pa., Feb. ..—All but one of the twenty-eight men and boys who were entombed in the Mid- Valley colliery have been rescued. Frank Orloskie, a miner of Mid-Val- loy, foll down a .chute after the acci. dent and was killed. The men were entombed by a num- ber of pillars of coal running, causing a gangway to close in. When the miners were imprisoned they gathered in a long well ventilated gallery and made plans as to the best means of digging their way through the block- ade. The men had picks and shovels and began work without delay. The imprisoned men heard sharp raps on the steampipe running through the drift and felt certain of being res- cued. When the rescuing party pene- trated to the entombed men it was found that the men had dug for a great distance through the fall of coal. WERE COUNTED AS DEAD Three Survivors of Wrecked Vessel Have Terrible Experience. Seattle, Wash., Feb. —A dis- patch to the Post-Intelligencer from Neah Bay says: The crew of the little six-ton sloop Teckla, lying at anchor here, were startled by a feeble hail from a steel lifeboat drawing up slowly in the light breeze. In the boat were the forms of four men, three living and one dead, survivors of the American ship Emily Reed, wrecked off the mouth of the Nehalem river, on the coast of Oregon, 200 miles from Neah Bay. The three living survivors were in a pitiful condition. Their tongues were swollen from thirst so that at first they could scarcely articulate. They had had no food since last Sun- day night nor any water since they left the wreck of the Reed Friday morning. Extreme Cold Accompanies Flood. Gallipolis, O., Feb. |.—The crest of the Ohio river flood has passed this section, a stage of forty-seven feet having been reached. The river is full of the heaviest floating ice that has passed here since 18%4. Much damage may be done by the ice. Pomeroy, Point Pleasant and Hender- son are partly inundated. There is much suffering on account of the ex- treme cold. Bribery Cases C-ontinued. San Francisco, Feb." .—The trolley bribery cases of Calhoun, Mullaly, Ford, Abbott and Schmitz were con- tinued by Judge Lawler for one week over the objection of Attorney A. A. Moore, who declared that all the United Raflroad officials were ready for immediate trial. All the cases against Ruef, except the one which is now set for trial, wers also con- tinued. NO VERDICT. IN SNELL CASE Jury Unable to ‘Agree in Contest fof ' 'Big Estate. Clinton, I, Feb. .—The jury in the famonus Suell will case, being un- able to reach a verdict, was dis- charged by Judge Cochrane. Richard Snell, the contestant, announces that he will ask for a new trial of the case at the May term of court. The last ballot stood eight for the com- testant to four for the proponents of the will, o — The suit to break the will of Colo- nel Thomas Snell was brought by the aged and eccentric millionaire’s son, Richard Srell, president of the Clin- ton bank. It has been rife with sen- sations, chief of which were the Snell letters, written by women and young girls to the old man, who was willing to pay lavishly for being loved and for being told so in affectionately worded epistles, in which appeals for money were mingled with expressions of endearment. When Colonel Snell died, in June, 1907, he left an estate of $2,000,000. To his son Richard he left only an annuity of $50 per year. To a grand- niece, Mabelle Snell McNamara, he left property valued at $25,000 and an annuity of $1,000 per year. The rest of the property he left in trust, inter- est to be added each year to the prin- cipal, until twenty years after the death of his youngest grandchild, then but five years of age. Richard Snell sought to break his father’s will on the ground that he was insane about women. TRAFFIC INTERRUPTED. Serious Blizzard Raging in lowa and Nebraska. Chicago, Feb. .—One of the heav- lest snow storms of the winter is rag- ing here. The snow is falling in blinding sheets and is piled in drifts by ‘a thirty-mile gale. Street cars and elevated road trafic and tele- phone service is badly interrupted. llinois, Omaha, Feb. |'.—A foot of snow, drifted four to six feet deep in many places, is the situation here. Traffic within the city is practically at a standstill. Trains from the West are from one to eight hours behind time. Des Moines, Feb. ‘—A blizzard rages throughout this part of the state, delaying trains, stopping street car traffic and interfering with tele- graph and telephone communication. Kansas City, Feb. |)—With a tem- perature slightly below the freezing point a heavy, wet snow is. falling throughout Western Missouri. SWEPT BY IMMENSE WAVE Ocean Liner Narrowly Escapes Being Foundered. New York, Feb. .—While the steamer St. Andrew, bound from Ant- werp for this port, was plowing her ‘way through the stormy seas of the banks of Newfoundland last Friday she was all but engulfed in a huge wave which suddenly swept down upon her. So great was the force of the blow that the big ship was brought to a stop and for the moment, while she staggered helplessly, some of those on board feared she would founder. Everything movable was swept away by the irresistible rush of water. Cattle fittings were torn out, the lifeboats were filled and a flood of water swept into the stoke- holes. Fortunately no one on the steamer was injured. ADOPTED BY THE SENATE Resolution of Inquiry to the Secre- tary of the Treasury. Washington, Feb. 1 .—Senator Cul- berson’s resolution directing the sec- retary of the treasury to inform the senate if any national banks outside of New York city complained between Oct. 1 and Nov. 15, 1907, of the re- fusal of national banks of New York to pay in cash New York exchange or to respond to calls for reserves was adopted by the senate. On motion of Senator Clapp the resolution was so amended as to di- rect the secretary to send to the sen- ate his answers to such letters or tele- grams as well as the letters and tele- grams themselves. When Life Was Little Valued. The 223 capital offenses which the old English law recognized as punish- able by death did not keep down crime, and ‘with the abolition of the death penalty for all crimes but murder crime in England, as well as every- where else all over the world where the death penalty has been modified, lessened markedly, notes the Boston Traveler. Edmond Burke sald that he could in his time obtain the assent of the house of commons to any bill that car- rled the death punishment. A man’s life was not very valuable in those strenuous days. If he scratch- ed his name on Westminster bridge, if he wore a wig or false mustache or any other disguise on a public road, if he cut down a young tree, if he stole property worth more than $1.25, if he had been transported for crime and re- turned a day ahead of the expiration of his term of punishment, if he wrote a threatening letter, if he stole a hide from a tanner’s, for any and all of these things and for 200 more than these he was hanged by the neck until he was dead. An Indignant Artist. The sensational offers said to have been made by theatrical managers to the principal actor in a recent murder trial must have made professional stars feel very much as did the painter Haydon in 18468 when two of his finest plctures were being shown at the Egyptian hall, and the public thronged Into another room where General Tom Thumb was on view. “They rush by thousands to see Tom Thumb,” wrote the disappointed painter in his diary. “Their eyes are open, but their sense is shut. It is an insanity, a rabies, a madness, a furor, a dream!” Another entry later on runs: “Tom Thumb had 12,000 people last week, R. R. Haydon 1331 (the half a little girl). Exquisite taste of the English people!” We do not séem to have progressed much since then.—London Chronicle. Diameter of a Fine Wire. Should you ever find it necessary to obtain the diameter of a fine wire, it may be done in this manner: Wind it carefully around a piece of pencil in one layer for an Inch or so, that each th"x?ifisfifiélflng the previous one. Then measure exactly an inch along the wire and count the number of turns In the inch. You then have the information. Thus, if there are eighteen turns the wire Is one-eighteenth of an inch in ai- ameter. A Curious Ciphei: Code. Prisoners confined in different parts of jall often use cipher codes In com- municating with one another. In the Kansas City jall some years ago the officials came across a hard one. A fellow named Turner, In for forgery, invented the puzzle. The writing was on long narrow strips of paper, on the edge of which were letters and parts of letters that apparently had fo. con- nection and from which no words could be formed. One day a deputy who was passing the cell of a prisoner saw him passing a long strip of paper around an octagon lead pencil. He took the paper away, and on it were the mysterious scrawls that had wor- ried the keepers. But the deputy got an idea from this, and, going back to the office, he wrapped the strip around an octagon shaped lead pencil and after several trials adjusted It so that the parts of the' letters fitted together and made a sentence, though the writ- Ing was very fine. The writer had adopted the simple but ingenious plan of covering the pencil with paper and had then written along one of the flat sides. On unrolling it the writing was as mystical as a cryptogram, but when put around the pencil as it was origi- nally it could be easily understood, Why. There is something almost plaintive in the truly English word “why.” It may be indefinitely prolonged upon the lips. “Why” is almost poetlcal in it- self and fitly introduces the best hex- ameter in the language: “Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing?” Its uses in poetry are almost infinlte, and one modern writer makes almost a line of it alone: Why do the night winds sigh, The sea birds wildly cry, The summer clouds pass by, The lilies droop and die, The light fade from the sky? Why—oh, why? To most.of the whys there is not a good because. The inquiring mind is puzzled to account for many things besides its own existence. Hundreds of such questions occur to us at every step, and no satisfactory reply can be expected. Life is too short. Socrates was always saying “Why,” and we have all heard of the man who called Pope the “little crooked thing that asked questions.”—Exchange. Thé Man Who Told the Tale, It happened on a Pullman car be- tween New-York and Chicago. Dinner having been finished, the gentlemen assembled In the smoking room to en- Jjoy their cigars. “During the time I was in the war,” sald the quiet man, “I saw a very wonderful thing in the line of surgical operations. A friend of mine was shot through the right breast, the bullet passing clear through him. The pres- ence of mind of his companion un- doubtedly saved his life. He wrapped his handkerchief around the ramrod of his gun and, pushing it through the path made by the bullet, cleared the ‘wound of all polsonous lead. I know it is hard to believe, but, gentlemen, the man still lives to tell the tale.” “Which man?” inquired the slim pas- senger on the other seat quietly. “The wounded one, of course,” ex- claimed the old soldier scornfully. “Oh, I beg your pardon. I thought it might be the other.” The Mania For Shopping. One phase of the feminine mania for shopping is illustrated in John Foster Fraser’s “America at Work.” Speaking of the C. O. D. method of shopping and of the way in which it appeals to the woman with the slender purse, he says: “If she has no dollars, that does not deprive her of the pleasure of shop- ping. She will walk Into a big store, look over a dozen gowns and try on several before deciding. Then she will get a C. 0. D. card and, visiting other departments, will buy a hat, rich un- derwear and a parasol. She will give a fine order. When the goods are de- livered at the address she mentioned, it 1s found there is no such person as Mrs. Walker. True, she has put the store to a lot of trouble. Yet think of the morning of womanly delight she has had In her shopping.” The Right Place. A dignified elderly gentleman riding on a train was annoyed by a boy sit- ting across the aisle. The boy had just finished his breakfast and was amus- ing himself by laughing at the old gentleman. Presently the latter lean- ed over and said to the boy’s mother: “Madam, that child should be spank- ed.” “I know it,” said she, “but I don’t believe in spanking a child on a full stomach.” “Neither do 1,” said he. over.” “Turn him Appropriate. The Monument Man (after several abortive suggestions)—How would sim- ply “Gone home” do? Mrs. Newweeds —I guess that would be all right. It was always the last place he ever thought of golng.—Puck. Winning Her Attention. “My wife never pays any attention to what I say.” “Mine does—sometimes.” “How do you manage 1t?” “I talk in my sleep.”—London Opin- lon. Got What He Liked. Host~-Why on earth did you put poor Jenkins between two such chatter- boxes at the table? Hostess—Why, dear, you know he 18 80 fond of tongue sandwiches! Chlefly the mold of a man’s fortune # in his own hands.—Bacon. A Lost Bank Note. A friend of mine, writes a Scottish sorrespondent, recently saw a plece of paper lying on the street. He picked it up. It was a one pound note. Some men might have pocketed it, with a smile of satisfaction. My friend, how- ever, honestly handed it over to the police. A short time afterward he dis- covered that. he himself. lost a pound. He thought over the matter and remeilibered that before finding the note he had been standing on the edge of the pavement for some time. It slowly dawned upon him that the * GRELaEe ey pound he had found was his own anad that he had drawn it from his pocket unconsciously. He went back prompt. Iy to the police station and explained the circumstance, The officer in charge only shook his head and smiled in- credulously. “Very clever,” he sald. “but—eh—it will scarcely do.” If my friend cared to call back at the end of 8ix months, he was informed, he would get the pound if in the interval it had not been claimed. During this time of waiting he is inclined to meditate as to whether honesty Is always the best policy.—London P. T. O. In Case of Accident. Don’t bluster. Be tactful.. If there are dangerous germs present, ask them to withdraw. If they demur, ask them ‘where they were brought up with gen- tle irony. Be careful to render first aid to the injured. A great deal of unnecessary suffering has been caused by persons hastily rendering third or even fourth aid where first aid was indicated. In case of drowning select a best method of resuscitation. There are 4,639 best methods in all. Have them about you in the form of loose news- paper clippings and run them over ‘briefly before acting. Keep cool. Stop every little while and take your temperature, If the coroner arrives while you are at work, immediately desist. It is dis- courteous to save life in his presence. Take accurate notes of the street and number. Reviving patients almost, al- ways ask where they are. If possible, induce death to super- vene rather than to take place merely or even to ensue. It gives the family a sense of dignity.—Puck. The Frank Critic. “When Sir John Millais was engaged in painting his ‘Chill October’ among | the rushes on the banks of the Tay, near Perth,” said an English artist, “a railway porter from the station at Kin- fauns used to carry the canvas back and forth for him, “The porter was a quaint chap. His services were called for many days in requisition. He became quite friendly with Sir John and seemed to take a hearty interest in the progress of the painting. “Well, ‘Chill October’ was eventually finished and sold a little while after- ward for a thousand pounds. This fact somehow reached the porter’s ears. He met Sir John’s brother-in-law at Kin- fauns one day and said excitedly: “‘Mon, is’'t true that Sir John’s sold t'picture and got a thoosand poond for't?” “‘Yes, certainly,’ was the reply. “¢A thoosand poond! repeated the porter. ‘Why, mon, I wadna gi’en half a croon for't’ ” Patience. Traveler (after waiting patiently for train for four hours)—She’ll no be com- In’ the day, I doot? Porter—Hoots, mon, hae ye no patience? Ye'll just bide a wee while an’ she’ll be byl— Punch._ A Thinking Part. The Old One—In adopting a theat- rical career you are entering a touchy and jealous profession. Keep guard over your tongue. The New ‘One—Oh, I've found out that I'll have ample op- portunity to think before I speak!— Puck. L. T. Cooper, whose theory that the human stomach is the cause of most i1l health and who created 2o furore in Chicago, St. Louis and other western cities, {8 meeting with the same remarkable success with hic medicine throughout the east. Cooper has convinced an immense rumber of people that his theory is sound and his medicine will do what he claims. Perhaps the most interesting fea- tures of the discussion this young man is causing, are the statements made by responsible people who have taken his medicines and have become enthusiastic converts to his beliefs. Among statements of this charac- ter, the following, by Mr. August ‘Wittmer, 1049 Rockwell Court, Chi. cago, Is characteristic of the wide- spread faith in Cooper, which has grown up in a comparatively short time. Mr. Wittmer says: “I wouldn't take $1,000 and be in the condition I was three weeks ago. I was practl- _cally an Invalid for fourteen years and think I had about all of the dis- eages known. My stomach was weak, and at {jmes I would have an enor- AS SUCCESSFUL EAST AS IN THE WEST Cooper’s Theories Are Being Rapidly Accepted . by Eastern People. mous appetite, and then again none at all. Pie and cake made me sick, and I almost always had & sickening fooling In my stomach. I was ner- vous, and for weeks at a time could not sleep, and then azain eould sleep eishteen Lsurs at a stretch. Sleep, i however, ecemed 1o do me no good, jan1 I would awako tired and more exhausted than when I went to bed. “I was constipated, had pains in my back, and flutterings and pains in my heart. I was unable to work with azy regularity, and took no in- torest in anything. I tried all kinds of medicines and doctors, but none benefited me. I had no emergy and no ambition, and had about concluded to give up when the Cooper medicine ‘was recommended. Thanks to it, my health seems completely restored and I feel like & new man.” Cooper medicines have created the greatest sensation of anything of the kind ever before introdnced. ‘We eell them, and will be glad to ex- olain the nature of them to our callers., 1—E. N. French & Co. good lots] scarcer ‘and - easy terms. H. A. SIMONS, Agent. BUY A GOOD LOT With the growth of Bemidji are becoming scarcer. We still have a number of good lots in the residence part of town which will be sold on For further particulars write or call Bemidji Townsite and Im- provement Company. Swedback Block, Bemidfi. - The Da.ily Pioneer 40c per Month Pioneer Advertising Reaches the People. 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