Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 25, 1908, Page 2

| W PSS ——. | i i i i 1 | ) 3 ] e e e i 1 i X THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISMED EVERY AFTURNOON, A A A A A A AP A OFFICIAL PAPER---CITY OF BEMIDJI BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. CLYDE J. PRYOR | A, O. RUTLEDGB, Business Manager | Managing Editor Tntered in the postoffice at Remidji. Minc., a3 second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM ——e— OBSERVATIONS. [By “Doc"] An ounce of prevention is worthy a pound of cure,and sometimes costs more, Strangers have been barred from the gallary of the New York Stock Exchange, but lambs will continue to be welcomed on the floor. There are four or five people in the world who cherish secret ex- pectations of being called as expert witnesses on judgment day. While it may be true that George Washington never told a lie, it is pleasant to recollect that nobody ever called him “Honest George.” Next to the man who tells you his own troubles comes the man who wants you to rejoice with him over the troubles of some one else. Art for Art’s Sake Work’s Sake and mottoes make good man who is making the Art or the Work. ‘The most aggravating feature of the Man'Who Means Well is that every time he offends you you know he will be around next day with the same old apology and you’ll have to forgive him. and Work for other similar reading to the money out of The pursuit of agriculture isto be dignified by the establishment of the Agricultural Guild of the University of Chicago. The pur- suit of the dollar likewise has been dignified by the gildin, FAIR TRIAL NOT LIKELY. France Refuses to Surrender Haytian Refugees. Paris, Feb. 2 .—France has decided nol to turn over the Haytian revolu- tionists who have sought refuge in the French consulates in Gonaives and St. Marc, in Hayti, to the Haytian authorities, for the reason that it does not believe that the government of General Nord Alexis will grant them 8 fair trial. Consequently all the refugees, to the number of about 100, including General Firmin and other leaders of the recent unsuccessful movement, will be escorted to the coast and embarked on steamships, provided that they give written prom- ises not to return to Hayti during the time that the government of Genera/ Nord Alexis is in power. The French foreign office points out that in taking this stand it is only following out the traditional French policy in Hayti and it explains that General Nord Alexis himself, when he was a revolu- tionist, once sought and obtained from France the same protection that France is now giving the men who sought to usurp his position and power. THAW CLOSELY WATCHED Asylum Officials Studying Condition of Noted Inmate. Albany, N. Y., Feb. 2: —Dr. Terris, president of the state commission of lunacy, said that Harry K. Thaw, ac- quitted of ihe irder of Stanford ‘White on the ground of incanity, was being closely watched by Superintend- ent Lamb of the state hospital for the insane at Matteawan. Dr. Ferris said that the procedure in such cases as Thaw’s is to cbserve the patient for the first sixty days of his confine ment and at the end of that period, if he is regarded by the superintendent as sane, a report to that effect will be made to the court. [f Thaw is be~ lieved by the superintendent, after he has made his examinations and observations, to be insane it is ua- likely that a report will be made to the court unless required by Thaw’s counsel. Two Police Killed by Robbers. El Paso, Tex., Feb. 2 —A dispatch from Chihuahua received by the Her- ald says that two policemen were at- tacked by bullicn robbers at the Santo Do.ningo mine in Santa Eulalia dis- trict, state of Chihuahua, Mex., and afier a fight were both killed. One of the robbers was killed by the police: men and the other fled without secur ing any VLooty. Embezzlers Cet Six Years Each. Biloxi, Miss., Feb. » .—W. T. Smith and J. W. Harper, charged with em- bezzling $32,000 from the First Na tional bank of Hattiesburg, Miss. were sentenced to serve six years in the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., by Judge Mills in the United States court here. Both men were employed in the Hattiesburg bank up to a year ago. Boer Girl Marries Briton. London, Feb. :'—The union be tween Boers and Britons was further cemented by the marriage in the Dutch church in London of Marie, youngest sister of General Botha, for- mer commander-in-chief of the Trans- vaal army and now premiér of the new colony, to R. C. Hawkins, a bar- rister at law and a prominent Liberal. Whistler’s Odd Ways. Lord Redesdale once gave a descrip- tlon of Whistler's methods to a meet- ing in London in support of a memo- rial to the great artist. He was paint- ing, he sald, a portrait of ‘a lady. ‘Whistler took up his posltion at one end of the room with his sitter and the canvas at the other end. For a long time be stood looking at his model, holding in his hand a huge brush full of color, such a brush as a man would use to whitewash a house. Then he rushed forward and smashed the brush full of color into the canvas. Then he ran back, and forty or fifty times he repeated this. At the end of that ‘| time there stood out on the canvas a space which exactly indlcated the fig ure, the form-and the expression of the sitter. There was a pathetic story attaching to the picture. The bailiffs were in the house when the picture was finlshed. That was quite a com: mon occurrence, and Whistler only laughed, but he went round his studic with a knife and deliberately destroyed all his canvases. including this picture which was to have been his (Lord Redesdale’s).—Dundee Advertiser. The Gentle Rebuff. “Immeasurable are the rebuffs that the helpers of the poor, the seekers after charity for their suffering broth- ers undergo,” sald a New York charity organization official. “A friend of mine, a Methodist minister in a small western town, told me the other day of his last rebuff, a not unkind one. Entering the office of the local weekly, the minister said to the editor: “‘I am soliciting aid for a gentleman of refinement and intelligence who is in dire need of a little ready money, but who is far too proud a man tc make his sufferings known." ““Why,’ exclaimed the editor, push- Ing up his eyeshade, ‘I'm the only chap in the village who answers that de- scription. What's this gentleman’s name?” e “‘I regret,’ said the minister, ‘that I am not at liberty to disclose it." “‘Why, it must be me,’ said the ed- itor. ‘It is me. It's me, sure. Heaven prosper you, parson, in your good work.” ” An Unburied Picture. Rossettl secured permission In 186¢ to reopen the coffin of his wife in order to secure the manuscripts of some poems which he had buried with het seven years before. Some such incident might have oc: curred in connection with J. M. W Turner if his desire to be buried wrap: ped up in his own painting of “Car- thage” had been carried out. There was some difficulty in selling the paint- ing, and the artist kept the canvas by him. He always said he would be wrapped in it when he was buried and even went so far as to ask Chantrey if as his executor he would fulfill his wishes on that point. ) “No doubt,” answered the sculptor, “I shall bury you rolled up in your pie- ture if it is ome of the conditions of your will, but I would take you up next day and unroll you!” The Master's Title. Professor Key when head master of & large London school was one of the most genial gentlemen that ever filled that position. He was fond. of encour- aging fun in his boys and was not un- willing to recount occasionally duri class time when anything prompted it the manners and customs of countries he had visited. On one occasion he was telling his class about Spain and sald: “Do you know, boys, that when a man attains to eminence there he i¢ not called ‘sir,’ but is given the title of ‘don? " 3 7 One of the boys here called out: “Then, I suppose, sir, they 'would call you Don Key?” % The gravity of the class was com- pletely upset for the remainder of the afternoon.—Strand Magazine. Price of His Treason. Benedict Arnold died in London June 14, 1801. His life after his treason was a most unhappy one. He was avoided by men of honor and on many occa- sions deliberately insulted. He re- ceived a considerable sum of money from the British government and made several unsuccessful attempts to en- gage in business in British America and the West Indies and finally re- turned to London, where he died in obscurity. His second son, born in 1780, entered the British army in 1798, served with credit in many parts-of the world and three years before his death in 1854 was made a lieutenant general.—Household Companion. —_— Running No Risk. “What,” asks the maiden aunt, “go- ing to marry that Mr. Newwun? Why, you hardly- know the man, Imogene. In the few days you have been ac- quainted with him you cannot possibly have learned anything of his family or antecedents or habits or personal cir- cumstances.” “That is true, Aunt Keturah. But you have always told me that no wom- an who knows anything about a man will marry him.”—Success Magazine. A Definition. “Paw,” asked a thoughtful lad, wrin- kling his brow, “what’s a pessimist?”" “A pessimist, John J.” replied his father, “is a man who, after a cyclone has blown his house away with him in it, goes back and grumbles at his lot.” —Puck. The Charges. Ford—Your lawyer made some very severe charges against the defendant, didn’t he? Brown—Ye-e-e-e-s, but you ought to see how he charged me!— Liverpool Mercury. Great minds are wills; bothers, only wishes.—German Proverb. He Could Not Will. “Can you lend me a fiver, old fel- Jow?” ¢ “Surely I can.” “But will you?” “Ah, my will power has utterly de- serted me these days!”"—Town Topics. Motoring. “Motoring I8 the very poetry of mo- tion.” “Except when you have a smashup!” “No; even then—it’s blank verse!”— London Opinion. Never a One Day President. The periodic assertion is made that on Sunday,'March 4, 1849, Senator Da- vid Rice Atchison of Missouri, who was then president pro tem. of the senate, was pr States “‘virtuall, “virtually” or otherwise. v In 1793 congress enacted that in event of no president or vice president being ready to succeed the first office should devolve on the president of the senate and next on to the speaker of the house. The succession was changed in 1886. Now, Zachary Tay- lor and Millard Fillmore were in Wash- ington on March 4, 1849. It being Sun- day, they permitted an interregnum to follow until the next day. Mr. Atchi- son fook no oath as president, and ‘without taking such he could not ex- ercise the office. Mr. Taylor could have taken the oath at any “second subsequent to noon on March 4. No pompous inauguration Is demanded. The chlef justice need not administer the oath. Arthur took it in New. York before Judge Brady at 2 a. m. and Mr. Roosevelt in Buffalo before United States Judge Hazel. The “virtually” of Mr. Atchison Is visionary unless by some bolt from the blue the elected officials had been re- moved.—Pittsburg Post. Glory Everywhere. A Methodist minister was much an- noyed by one of his hearers frequently shouting out during the preaching, “Glory!” “Praise the Lord!” and the like. Though often reproved, the hap- py member persisted in expressing himself. One day the minister invited him to tea and, to take his mind from thoughts of praise, handed him a sci- entific boolk, full of dry facts and fig- ures, to pass the time before tea. Presently the minister was startled by a sudden outburst of “Glory!” “Halleluiah!” and “Praise the Lord!” “What is the matter, man?”’ asked the minister. “Why, this book says the sea is five miles deep?” “Well, what of that?” “Why, the Bible says my sins have been cast into the depths of the sea. and if it is that deep I need not be afraid of their ever coming up again. Glory!” The minister gave up hopes of re- forming him A Daring Escape. The annals of Sing Sing are full of daring escapes. A typical case was that of Pallister and Rohlf, two con- victed murderers. By frequent appeals | they had headed off the day of their execution, and at length decided on escape at any cost—even that of life itself. Late one night Pallister called for a drink of milk, and as the officiai on duty opened the cell door to give it him he was seized, dragged in and overpowered. The desperado then locked the officer in the cell and, nfterl securing his keys, released his com- rade Rohlf, when they in turn over- came and disarmed the second night watchmgn. This done, they offered re- lease to three more prisoners with whom they had made friends. These declined the doubtful benefit, however, whereupon the two murderers climbed the skylight, reachzd the boundary wall and dropped to liberty by the broad Hudson, which they crossed in a small boat.—New York Tribune. Up Two Stumps. Little Johnny was in the habit of wanting more victuals put upon his plate than he could eat. His papa de- cided to break him of the habit. One day as Johnny insisted upon being served untll his plate was well filled his papa said, “Johnny. if I give you this you will have to eat every bit of it or I will punish you.” Johnny prom- ised that he would, and bravely did the little fellow try to do so, but in vain. It was too much for him. He would try again and again and then look sorrowfully at his papa. Finally, laying down his fork, he said: “Papa, if you was me which would you rather do, get a licking or bust?” Our Language. An intelligent - foreigner is said to have expressed himself after the fol- lowing fashion on the absurdities of the English language: “When I dis- covered that T was quick, I was fast; if T stood firm, I was fast; if I spent too freely, I was fast, and that not to eat was to fast, I was discouraged. But when I came across the sentence, ‘The first one won one $1 prize,’ I was tempted to give up English and learn some other language.” A Little of Everything. “The weather used to be in four acts —spring, summer, autumn and win- ter.” “Well?” “But now nature seems to have gone into vaudeville.” — Louisville Courier- Journal. Live Furs. “Mamma, look!” exclaimed Mary. “Those furs are just like mine.” . “Why, Mary, you have no furs,” re- plied the astonished mother. “Yes, 1 have,” said Mary, “and they are filled with kittens.”—School Educa- tion. A Pleasant Change. “So you enjoyed Venice?”’ said the traveler. “Yes,” answered Mr. Cumrox. “It was kind of pleasant, for a change, to be robbed by a gondolier instead of a hack driver.”—Washington Star. , Ancestry. Don’t step hard on a struggling mor- tal because his grandfather once rob- bed a stagecoach. None of us can go too far back in the family record with- out a shiver of apprehension.—Man- chester Unlon. Creative. A certain man coming from abroad was taken up by the smart set. “We'll make a lon of him,” quoth they, “for the distinction he will there- upon reflect upon us.” But the man was too little. much material to make a lion. “Then we'll make a monkey of him,” sald the smart set, determined to have It takes Bathing a Prince. George IV. while prince and reslding in his Brighton palace kept in his bed- room g portrait of Mrs. Gunn, an old bathing woman who used to dip him into the sea when be was the little Prince of Wales. A picture book much prized by children showed the old lady bathing the- little fellow. Beneath the yleture was this stanza: To Brighton came he, Came George the Third's son, To be dipped in the sea . By the famed Martha Gunn. A companion portrait to Martha Gunn’s was that of Thomas Smoaker, who had charge of the horse which drew the bathing machines into and out of the sea. One day the little roy- al highness, having learned to swim, swam out farther than Thomas judged to be safe. He called to him to come back, but the self willed boy struck out with more vigor. Thomas went after the prince, overtook him, seiz-d him by an ear and drew him to shore. “Do you think,” he replled to the boy’s angry words, “I'm a-going to get myself hanged for letting the king's heir drown hisself just to please a youngster like you?”’ Only a Dodge. An insurance expert was relating in Chicago some oddities of insurance. “And then,” said the expert, “there was that case of the general store man in: Ohio. This man’s store burned down, and, because his stock was so heavy, the company disputed his claim. I remember one item in his stock list— 17,500 mourning hatbands. When 1 came to this item I thumped it with my pencil and said to the storekeeper severely: “‘Look here, this is unreasonable. Why should you have had 17,500 mourning hatbands in stock? What possibility was there that death would create in a single small shop like yours a demand for 17,500 mourning hat- bands? “The storekeeper smiled at me in a condescending way and replied: “‘I didn’t keep those hatbands for men who grieved for the death of rela- tives or friends, but for men who went into mourning for the grease on their hats.’ ”—Boston Globe. Misfires of Young lIdea. Alr usually has no weight, but when placed in a barometer it is found to weigh about fifteen pounds a square inch. If a small hole were bored in the top of a barometer tube, the mercury would shoot up in a column thirty feet high. A right angle is 90 degrees F. Hydrogen is colorless, odorless and insolvent. < A cuckoo is a thing that turns from a butterfly into a moth. Horsepower is the distance a horse can carry one pound of water In an hour. The earth revolves on its own axis 365 times in twenty-four hours. This rapid motion through space causes its sides to perspire, forming dew.—Uni- versity Correspondent. Senate and Lords. The British house of lords Is a sur- vival of the ancient aristocracy of the kingdom, which for a long time was supreme 0 ‘all national matters. When Fuses Are Made to Blow Out. ‘With everybody traveling more or , less, usually more, In electrically driv- en cars and trains, the time has cer- tainly come for general appreciation of the fact that the blowing out of fuses 1s nothing to excite alarm. To be startled—to “jump,” as the saying Is—when this happens Is the privilege of all except the professional electricians, The latter are bound by professional pride to show perfect im- puusibility even when the sudden flash siuges their fingers, and it is delight- ful to see how many of them have at- tained to this command of thei nerves, To jump is one thing, however, while to fall into a senseless panic Is quite another. To blow out is the duty and destiny of fuses, and when they have done it such danger as there was Is all over. Nothing worse than delay can follow, unless the passengers proceed to make wild rushes for which there is no need whatever. Travelers should keep these facts carefully in mind.—New York Times. It Was His Friend. A little story In German and Eng lish, accompanied by an Interpreter, drifted into the Indianapolis News of- fice. Here it is: Two Germans stepped into an auction house where a sale of ‘watches was going on. They occupied front seats and soon attracted the at- tention of the auctioneer. As he dwelt upon the merits of a watch he was of- fering for sale to the highest bidder the auctioneer turned to the Germans from time to time as the price mount- ed—$6, $6.50, $7, $7.50. As the auc tioneer nodded at one of the Germans there came an answering nod, which he took to be a bid. “That feller knows me,” said one German to the other. “Yes, sure,” said the other. The nodding kept on. Finally the auctioneer extended the watch to the nodders. “It's yours,” he said. “Ten dollars. You’re the buyer.” “Ach, nein,” said the German. *“I’m the Schwob (Suabian); mein freund heir ist der Bayer (Bavarian).” Talked to the Wrong Man. One day an important looking gen- tleman took a seat beside a quiet man in an Arkansas rallway carriage and began a conversation. “I'm going up to Little Rock,” he sald, “to get a pardon for a convicted thief. I'm not personally acquainted with the governor, but he can’t afford to refuse me.” “Is the’ fellow gullty?’ asked the man. “Of course he is. But that makes no difference. His friends have agreed to glve me $500 if I get him out, and the thermometer is very low when I can’t put up a good talk. Where are you trayeling?” “Going to Little Rock.” “Do you live there?” “Yeg “Perhaps you might be of some serv- ice to me. What business are you in?” “I am the governor.”—St. Louis Re- public. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets Druggists refund money it it fails tocure. E. W. GROVE'S signature i3 on each box, the democratic sentiment won a place & W. GRO £ for itself in the shape of the house of commons the natural and apparently indestructible conservatism of the Brit- ish people held on to the house of lords as a check upon the commons and a perpetual reminder of the ancient insti- tution. The sehate of the United States was the result of the compromise struck between the Nationalists and States’ Rights parties in the convention that formed the constitution. Some were for merging the representatives in a single body, while others insisted upon the. second chamber (the senate) as a recognition of the political equality of the states, Lacked Something. “You Germans have no sense of hu- mor,” said an American, “Try me and see,” said the German. “Well,” said the American, “you know America is the home of very large things—the highest mountains, the greatest waterfalls”— “Oh, yes, yes, yes,” said the German. “And our trees,” continued the Amer- ican, “are so tall that in order to see to the top of them one man looks as far up as he can, and another man begins where the first man leaves off and loolts up to the top.” “But dat vass no joke; dat vass a He.” A Boston Correction. Bilkins had recently moved from New York to Boston. The other morning he went to the butcher’s. “Give me a nice porterhouse,” he or- dered. “Extremely sorry, sir,” said the pro- prietor ‘of the establishment urbanely, “but we are not giving anything away this morning.”—Harper’s Weekly, The Truth. Fear 18 not in the habit of speaking truth. When perfect sincerity is ex- pected, perfect wisdom must be allow- ed. Nor has any one who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear tt.—Tacitus. Too Healthy. “Do you belleve that mosquitoes car- ry malaria?” “Not the mosquitoes around here,” answered Farmer Corntossel. ‘“They couldn’t possibly do it and be so healthy.”—Washington Star. Persistency is. the road to success. The only known exception to this rule is the case of a hen sitting on a china egg —Exchange. Simple Remedy for La Grippe. La grippe coughs are dangerous as they frequently develop into pneumonia. 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