Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 24, 1908, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTNANOON, A A A A A A A A A AN AR OFFICIAL PAPER---CITY OF BEMIDJ! BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. CLYDE J. PRYOR l . RUTLEDGE Business Manager aging Bditor Tntered In the postofice at Bemidji. Minn., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM FOR LOSS OF PORT ARTHUR| Russian Press Demands Trial of Ku- ropatkin, Alexieff and Others. St. Petersburg, Feb. 2 .—The pass- Ing of sentence of death by a court- martlal upon Lieutenant General Stoessel, who was tried on charges of cowardice and treason in surrender- ing Port Arthur to the Japanese, is recelved with little satisfactlon in the Russian capital, where it is felt that the trial of Generals Stoessel, Fock, Reiss and Smirnoff has done prac- tically nothing toward establishing the real responsibility for the fall of the fortress. The court, indeed, de- cided the extent of the guilt of Stoes- sel and the other generals, but it neg- lected to judge the system of which they were the product. It declined to admit testimony regarding the pre- paredness of the fortress at the be- gining of the war, the role of the navy in the defense of a marine stronghold and other underlying fac- tors in the humiliation of Russia. The newspapers express sympathy with General Stoessel and declare that the death sentence undoubtedly will be commuted. They demand also that General Kuropatkin, Viceroy Alexieff and other officers, still more intimate- 1y responsible for the loss of the war, be placed on trial. Gang of Car Thieves Captured. New York, Feb. 2'.—After holding up a brakeman who had surprised them in the act of robbing a freight car in the New York Central railroad yards and making him a prisoner at the point of revolvers until they had finished looting the car three men were overpowered by detectives after a desperate fight. In the arrest of the men the police believe they have a gang which has stolen many thou- sands of dollars’ worth of goods from freight cars during the past few months, Clubs Must Closs at Midnight. Pittsburg, Feb. 2 .—Without excep- tlon the police have ordered all clubs in Greater Pittsburg closed at mid- night in the future. Where club- houses are used as hotels guests will be allowed to enter and leave when they choose, but the selling of liquor will not be permitted after that hour. The order i& the result of many com- plaints from parents and wives. f Trials of Writers. George Eliot in one of her letters referring to her novel “Daniel Deron da,” writes as follows: “My book seems to me so unlikely ever to be finished in a way that will make it worth while giving to the world that it 1s a kind of glass in which I behold my infirmities.” Again of the same work, “As usual, I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books.” Montesquieu wrote thus to a friend “I thought I should have killed my- #elf these three months to finish a ‘morceau (for his great work) which I wished to insert on the origin and revolutions of the civil laws of France, You will read it in three hours, but 1 do assure you that it cost me so much labor that it has whitened my hair.” The eminent modern French writer Gustave Flaubert suffered tortures in his efforts to attain perfection. When composing, he would sometimes spring to his feet, shriek.aloud and call him- self “blockhead,” “idiot.” No soone1 was one doubt removed than another arose. At other times he would sit at his writing table as one magnetized, lost In contemplation. His friend Tur- geneff declared that it was exceedingly touching to see his struggles with lan- guage. He would work a whole day and sometimes all night on a single Ppage. ' Traps of the Ant Lion. | We read of the tiger traps in India— great pits dug in the ground and cov- ered lightly with pliant bamboo. The tiger steps upon the false top and be- fore it can retreat is precipitated intc a trap. Walking along a sandy road, look for tiny circular pits sunk below the surface and then sit down and watch an exciting episode in the life of the little still hunter which has dug the pitfall.. It is invisible, and for some time the whole affair seems life- less. Then an ant comes blundering along and without warning topples over the edge and begins to slide down the incline. But the insect fights hard for life and seems about to make its escape, when, lo, the sand grains heave upward at the bottom and with a jerk are hurled like a minlature catapult at the ant, knocking it over and rolling it to the bottom. The ant lion, for such it 1s, now seizes its prey and after sucking its juices casts the dry body away and mends its pit against the coming of another victim.— Chicago Record-Herald. Ty o Italian Diet. The low resisting power of the Ital- ian, even among the more favored classes, to the assaults of disease has long been asecribed to the profession of the well nigh farinaceous ‘and legu- wminous fare on which he subsists—the call on the heart in the later stages of pneumonia, for example, too often find« ing Inadequate response from the de- fect of the muscle forming constituents in the dlet of the patient. — London Lancet. Geography. “I'd like to see that young Japanese prince.” “A Japanese prince! Where 1s he?” “Oh, he's traveling incognito.” “Is he? I'm so dreadfully weak &bout geographical names. That's in POWDER WORKS EXPLOSION Four Whites and Twenty-four China- men Are Killed. Berkeley, Cal, Feb. 2 .—With a force that shook the entire bay regicn like an earthquake the packing house of the Hercules powder works at Pinole blew up and in the explosion four white men and twenty-four Chinamen were killed. Ten tons of dynamite went up in the terrific blast, shattering the sheds to dust and splinters. W. W. Stillwell, foreman of the packing house, was blown to atoms. The twenty-eight dead included every man who was at work in the packing house. * Flames burst forth in the ruins fol- lowing the explosion and threatened the .gelatine house, where two score girls' were at work, . A panic ensued and many were cut by flying glass and crushed and tram- pled in the mad rush for the doors. TO FIGHT PROHIBITION. Brewers and Malsters Pledge Big “War Fund.” Chicago, . Feb. 2 .—The United States Brewers’ association and the nited States Malsters’ association have united in a common warfare agalnst prohibition and temperance movements. They have pledged many thousand dollars as a “war fund” with which to fight Sunday saloon closing and to stop the wave of prohibition. This action was taken at a session of the executive officers of both organ- izations held here. Rudolph Brand of Chicago was se- lected chairman of the conference. Edward A. Faust of St. Louis re- viewed the movement of the prohibi- tionists through the Southern and Western states and asserted the time was ripe for action on the part of liquor interests. Brewers from all parts of the coun- try attended the meeting. ACCUSED OF MANY CRIMES Mild Looking Young Man Captured After Long Chase. New York, Feb. 2 .\—A mild looking young man who described himself as James A. Baker of Columbus, O., when he was arrested here after a 7,000- mile chase, charged with murder and a long series of postofiice and rail- road station robberies, is now said to have been one of the Hatfield-McCoy feudists of Kentucky. His real name is supposed to be Dickinson. Baker, or Dickinson, has told the police that he has a wife in Pitts- burg whom he married five years ago under the name of Baker. The pris- oner was arraigned before United States Commissioner Shields and held in $5,000 for further examination on March 2. OF WORLDWIDE REPUTATION Miss Harriet Hosmer, Sculptress, Dead at Wntertown, Mass. Boston, Feb. & .—Miss Harriet Hos- mer, the sculptress, is dead at her home in Watertown after an illness of about three weeks. Miss Hosmer was born in Watertown in 1830 and spent most of her life in the art centers of Europe, returning to her old home a few years ago. Marble statues mod- eled by Miss Hosmer stand in many of the leading cities of Europe and the United States and at the Colum- bian exposition in Chicago in 1893 she was awarded a prize of $25,000 for her statue of Queen Isabella. She was the author of many poems and ‘works of prose. SUICIDES AT DINING TABLE Greek Causes Commotion at Granite City, Il Granite City, Tll, Feb. 2 .—While a number of boarders were - seated around the dining table in a boarding house here Tashoo Tartanose, a Greek, remarked casually: “I am a crack shot. I can shoot so well that I believe I will kill myself.” He quickly drew a new revolver and shot' himself through the heart, dying instantly. It is said he was de- spondent because he could not secure employment. 7 Thirty Thousand Homeless Men. New York, Feb. 2 .—It is estimated; by one of the managers of the Ass ciation for Improving the Condition' of the Poor ‘that there are approxi- mately 30,000 homeless men in New York today. Of these probably 60 per; cent are non-residents. Though the; poverty of the deserving unemployed is real and their need of help con- stant the society has reason to be-: lieve that conditions are improving,| the number of men out of work grow- ing smaller. 1l Health Causé of Tragedy. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 2 .—After strug-i gling with his wife for possession of' the weapon and seriously wounding her J. R. Campbell shot and killed' himself in his home here. TIl health,; it is thought, had temporarily de-: ranged his mind. Campbell was near- ly sixty years old. His wife is about the same age. He was well known here. Heroic Sacrifires Save Life. i - An Unsecured Loan. Though pawnbrokers are not sup- posed to have any frieuds, only custom- ers, there is'a story that is told in New York that shows that they sometimes stretch their rTules—if the right man comes along, A certain racing man had been having a very hard streak of luck. If there were twenty-one horses in the race, his choice would never be better than No. 20. Finally his money was all gone; also all of his negotiable property. When he had spent his last dollar for breakfast, he turned into the pawnshop where all his valuables were being cared for, and they amounted to considerable. “I’d like to have $500 on this,” he sald to the proprietor, laying down an ordinary lead pencil on the counter. Without a change of countenance, the pawnbroker made out a ticket and passed the money over the counter. Right there the racing man’s for- tunes seemed to change. Every one of his selections proved an easy winner, and, as he pushed his luck, he was able at the end of the week to redeem his pencil and all his other valuables. —New York Globe. A Doubtful Guarantee. The Arabs and, indeed, all Moslems have the practice of re-enforcing prom- ises by adding to thelr word of honor the Arabic phrase Inshallah (“Please God”). How much meaning it conveys in some lands of the east is told in the pages of “In Moorish Captivity.” The pious proviso is a very useful formula to the Moors and is frequently used In making promises that they ‘have no intention whatever of keeping, as they can then take refuge behind the Almighty when they are taxed ‘with their breach of faith, There is a story told of a man who kept a shop in Gibraltar and who knew the ways of the Moor. To him one day came one of the faithful, who was desirous of buying some cloth. On being informed that the price was $2 a yard, payment in sixty days, he replied: ® “All right. 1 will take so much and will pay you in sixty days, Inshallah.” “No,” sald the vender, “the price is $2, payment in sixty days. For sixty days, Inshallah, the price is $2.50.” Her Hidden Ambition. There is an instance, rare in the pro- fession, of a musician who had little enthusiasm for her calling, just as Fanny Kemble, the actress, was by no means enamored of the stage and would have quit it had not circum- stances bound her there. A brilliant young violinist, a native of Holland, played one day for Edward VII. when he was the Prince of Wales. “Is there anything you care more for than your Stradivarius?’ asked the prince, expecting, of course, a negative reply. The young Netherlander colored a lit- tle. “The violin'is not an absorbing passion with me, your highness,” she replied. “Ah! Perhaps you have a leaning to another branch of art?” suggested the prince. “Indeed, I have mnot!” the violinist said in a burst of confidence. “But, your highness, I just love to cook! I really believe I should make an excel- lIent chef if I had the opportunity to practice.”—New York Tribune. A “Fine Old Woman.” During the evening a gentleman came to Mrs. Siddons and said, “Mad- am, I beg your pardon for asking so rude a question, but in consequence of a wager allow me to ask your age.” She replied, “Seventy-eight' years old.” “Hang it,” said he, “I have lost.” And he abruptly went away. Mrs. Siddons immediately said, “Pup- py!” “Very true” I observed, “but why did you tell him you were so old?”" She replied, “Whenever a lady of an uncertain age, as it is termed, is asked how old she Is she had better add ten or more years to her age, for then the Inquirer goes away saying, ‘What a fine old woman!”—“Journals of Sir George Smart.” Foresighit and Delicatessen. In -Chicago is a woman who com- bines the functions of caterer and trance medium, serving her customers Wwith refreshment psychical or phys- leal, according to their wishes. Either she or the sign palnter whom she employed must be a humorist, for her sign reads thus: “Madame Blank, caterer and trance medium. Grocerles and Previsions.” Guaranteed Ghosts. “No intelligent person pays any at- tention to ghosts,” sald the dogmatic person. “Perhaps not,” answered Miss Cay- enne, “unless the ghost has been able to. secure an introduction from some psychic research society.”—Washing- ton Star. The Bohemian. “Ah, once a bohemian always a bo- hemian!” exclaimed the unscissored poet. “A bohemian never changes.” “No, not even his collar,” replied the practical man, who had met a few bo- hemians.—Chicago News. Wayside Communings. ‘Wareham Long—Wot started the hard times anyway? Tuffold Knutt—We did, ye ole fool! We wus sufferin’ with ’em long 'fore anybody else caught ’em.— Chicago Pitisburg, Feb. %! —The life of lit-!| Tribune. tle Antoinette Meyers, two ‘years old, | has been saved by the heroic sacri- fices made by her mother and sister, aged fifteen years. The child was terribly burned and skin was grafted from the mother and sister, both of whom are in a serious condition. It Is said, however, all will recover. Monuments. Dr. Griffin—TI must say the world is very ungrateful toward our profession. How seldom one sees a publc memo- rial erected to a doctor! Mrs. Golight- ly—How seldom! Oh, doctor, think of our cemeteries!—London Answers, S ST Doesn’t Always Follow. Because some men get over a fence safely with a loaded gun it is not al- ways safe to assume that they won't examine a mule’s héels to settle a bet. Manchuria, isn't 1t?”—Chums, —Washington Post. Locating the Blame. Father—Why, when I was-your age I dian’t have as much money in a month as you spend in a day. Son— Well, pa, don’t scold me about it. Why don’t you go for grandfather? Her Late Husband. = Hubby (returning from his club at 8 a. m. and finding his wife, dressed in widow’s weeds, awaiting him)— ‘What on earth are you in mourning for? “My late husband,” came the tear- ful reply. Didn’t Fire Him. A kind old gentleman, seeing a smalll .boy who was carrying a lot of news- papers under hls arm, said, “Don’t all those papers make you tired, my boy?” “Naw, I don’t read ’em,” replied the lad.—Canadian Courfer. . —_— Saved His Goldfish. ‘When a Bavarlan peasant treats him- gelf to a new hat, he does not throw the old hat away. He just puts the new hat on top of the old one. The other day an amusing scene was wit- nessed at the Munich railway station. A peasant who had bought'a new hat and a bowl containing several goldfish found himself hustled by the crowd surging at the entrance to one of the platforms. In the crush the bowl was broken, and the fish fell out. For a moment the peasant knew not what to do. Suddenly he made up his mind. He snatched his two hats from his head, and, picking up the lively fish, he put them inside the old hat, which he then filled with water at the near- est water tap, Carrying the improvised aquarium, the ingenious peasant en- tered his train smilingly, but very care- fully.—Munich Cor. London Globe. Facing a Waterspout. ‘What it means to encounter a water- spout In the south’seas s described by Beatrice Grimshaw: “First of all, a black trunk, like an elephant’s, began to feel blindly about in midair, hang- ing from a cloud. It came nearer and nearer with uncanny speed, drawing up to Itself as it came a colossal cone of turbulent sea until the two jolned together in an enormous black pillar some quarter of a mile broad at the base and probably a good thousand feet high, uniting as it did the clouds and the sea below. Across the darken- ing sea, against the threatening copper crimson sunset, came this gigantic hor ror, waltzing over troughs of torn -up water in a veritable dance of death. like something blind, but mad and cruel, trying to find and shatter om gragile little ship.” Too Much Collection, A Scottish gentleman paying a visit to London wus taken by his nepliew tc a service in St. Paul's cathedral. He had no acquaintance whatever with the liturgy of the Church of England He picked up a prayer book and be- came very much interested, but as he turned over the leaves his face Dbe- came clouded with a look of intense anxiety. He piaced the prayer book carefully down, looked cautiously around, picked up his hat and crept stealthily to the door. His nephew followed him and said: “Are you ill, uncle? What is the matter?” The . uncle replied: “No. But it s enough to make any man ill to see the number of collections wmade in thi. kirk?” “Collections!” said the nephew, 'In surprise. “If therc is any at all, therc certainly wen’t Le n:ore than one.” “Well,” said th e, “they should 0o’ mark £o many in the book. There’s naething but ‘colleet’ and Dbits of prayer, then ‘collect’ and more prayers. and ‘collect’ again. And says I to my sel’, “If I bide here until all these col- lections are ta'en, I'll no" have a baw- "—London Tit-Bits How indians Tan Deerskin. The skin dressing of the Indians both buffalo and deer skins, Is general ly very Dbeautiful and soft. The; stretch the skin either on a frame o on the ground, and after it has remain ed there for three or four days, witl the brains spread over the fleshy side they grain it with a sort of*adz o: chisel. After the process of graining though the skin is appaveatly beauti fully finished, it passes through an other process—that of smoking. Ko this they hang the skin on a frame In a smoke proof house or tent. The fire is made at the bottom out of rot. ten wood, which produces a strong and peculiar smell. The fire wust be smoth- ered to make the smoke. The grained skins must be kept In the smoke for three or four days, and after this the #kins will always remain the same, even after being wet, which does not belong to the dressed skins in civilized countries.—“Life. Aong the Indians.” ARE YOU WRETCHED (N BAD WEATHER? Keeping the Kidneys Well Has Kept Many Bemidji People Well. Many Bemidiji people find that bad weather brings on a dull pain in the back, or rheumatic aching, neuralgia, nervousness, irritability and weakness. If, when you get wet or take cold, it “‘settles on the kidneys,” and there is a shivery, chilly sensation in the back, it shows kidney weakness, which is often the beginning of disease. Doan’s Kidney Pills should be used persistently until the chilly feeling is gone, and the flow of urine is natural. Doan’s Kidney Pills have saved Bemidji people much suffering. Mrs, L. Kane, living at 615 Fourth St., Bemidji, Minn., says: ““I had been a sufferer from kid- ney complaint for a number of years. Doan’s Kidney Pills have given me the greatest relief and I am willing to have my name used as I am confident anyone using them will receive great benefit. My trouble seemed to be of a dropsical nature and I suffered much from rheumatic pains,. My system seemed to be filled with uric acid and I felt very miserable indeed. I procured Doan’s Kidney Pills at the Owl Drug Store, used them carefully as directed and derived great benefit.” For sale by all dealers, Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co,, Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the United States, * Remember the name—Doan’s— and take no other, . Loading Freight by Cards. #I don’t know whether the:practice is still kept up In the far south, but 1 remember how tickled I was at seeing the method used In loading goods into freight cars down in Mississippi some Wwhile ago,” said a railroad man of St. Louis, : “A lot of strapping black fellows will be on the job under the supervision of a white man, who will be fssuing or- ders with great volubllity. ‘Put this abourd the king of dlamonds; take this to the ace of hearts; load this on the ten of spades; this to the jack of clubs,’ and so on, and then you'll notice, each one of the long line of freight cars has tacked on it some one of the fifty-two cards composing a full deck. The Sen- egambian loafers for the most part ‘were Ignorant of letters and figures, but every man of them knew the paste- board emblems which he had often handled in games of seven up. That next to craps is the chief diversion of the colored sports of Dixle.”—Baltl- more American. Cruel Spring. The talk in the village hostelry had been on the subject of vegetable freaks, but at length it veered round to goats. “Did ever you keep a goat, Bill?” inquired a gray whiskered gentleman 1n a corner seat. “Dld I ever!” answered the little man addressed with rustic familiarity. “I bought one last Christmas what nearly brought me to the work’us, Eat anything, from tins o’ blackin’ to flatirons, that goat would. Lucky thing for me the spring killed 1t.” “I dldn’t know the seasons affected goats,” observed the gray whiskered gentleman. “Who's talkin’ about seasons?’ came the reply.- “It was the spring of our alarm clock what ’e made a meal of one day as done it!”"—London Express. A Gladstone Bull. - Mr. Gladstone dearly loved a joke, even at his own expense, and he pos- sessed considerable mimetic powers. He was once guilty of an amusing bull in a debate on the question of dis- establishment. Dilating on the hold held on the affections of the people by the Church of England, he said: “When an Englishman wants to get married, to whom does he go? To the parish priest. When he wants his child baptized, to whom does he go? To the parish priest. When he wants to get buried, to whom does he go?”’ The house answered with a roar of laughter, in which M*. Gladstone him- self jolned, adding, “As I was con- trasting the English church with the Irish, a bull is perhaps excusable.” His Punishment. It was beginning to rain, and a man who was on the point of starting for church discovered that there wasn't an umbrella in the house fit for use. “You can borrow one from the T—s next door,” suggested his better half. “They never go to church.” “No, Laura,” he answered with firm- ness. “It is wrong to borrow umbrel- las on Sunday. 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