Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 4, 1908, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUDLIAHED MVERY APTERNOON, OFFICIAL PAPER---CITY OF BEMIDII | BEMIDJI PIGNEER PUBLISHING CO. CLYDE J. PRYOR I A. 0. RUTLEDUE, Business Manager | Managing Bditor Totered In the postoffice at Bemidji. Mink., a3 second class matter. \ SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM INDIAN MUST WORK. Not the least encouraging feature of Secretary Garfield’s annual report | is that part of it in which he points out that the red men have at last been made to understand and ap- preciate the fact that in order to be| treated like white men they have but| to show a willingness to work for a living. They have been taught that the government will no longer sup- port them in idleness, and if they wish to eat rations they must work for them. In pursuance of this policy rations are mno longer dis- tributed, except to those who by reason of age or other infirmity are incapable of supporting themselves. It is a healthful and salutary lesson and well worth learning by red men and white men alike. OBSERVATIONS. [By "Doc”] Buttons were invented by a bachelor; pins by a married man. Light moves 187,000 miles per second, thus barely keeping ahead of the electric meter. Hetty’s daughter won’t be Green long, but she will always have plenty of the “long Green.” The man who stayed at Colum- bia twenty-seven years was probably needed on the football team. The Atlanta Georgian not inaptly remarks that the sudden spread of Prohibition “has taken a great many people’s breath away.” An echo in Italy repeats a report sixty times. An ordinary sewing circle can give it one hour’s start and beat it hands down. Sound moves at the rate of 743 miles per hour, except when you are trying to call a small boy playing in a lot across the street. The un-employed in Philadelphia are waving red flags. demonstration of the truth of the adage anent the individual who finds work for idle hands. About the year 580 the Latin tongue became obsolete, only enough of it remaining to supply the back of the dictionary and furnish mater- ial for filling prescriptions. DISEASE IS EPIDEMIC. Smallpox, Diphtheria and Measles Af- flict Eveleth, Minn. Eveleth, Minn., March ,—A small- pox, diphtheria and measles epidemic has broken out here and almost 100 families are under quarantine. The epidemic came upon the town so un- expectedly and suddenly that its equal could hardly be imagined. Dr. T. V. Johnson, the health officer here, has | resigned, giving no reasoms, and the city has a hard problem to cope with. Over 1,000 children have been dis- missed from the public schools, due to sickness of pupils and teachers. Wife Held on Susoicion. Clinton, Ta., March 3. —Murdered while he slept the body of Fred Delph, aged twenty-six, was found in his home on East street. His head was blown off by a shotgun, which had been placed against the ear and dis- charged. The girl wife of the mur- dered man is suspected of the crime and is under arrest. She refuses to talk. Michigan Fireman Ki'led. Bessemer, Mich., March .—Fire at Wakefleld destroyed two boarding houses, three saloons, a furniture store and a barber shop. The loss is $80,000. Herman Munshow, a fireman, fell from a ladder and broke his back, dying while being taken to the hos- pital. Passenger Steamer Ashore. New York, March '—The New York and Porto Rico Steamship com- pany has received a wireless message Ronouncing that its passenger steamer Coamo is ashore somewhere on the coast in the vicinity of New York, but the message did not disclose the ex- act Jocation. The Coamo was bound from San Juan, Porto Rico, to New York. Kalispell Chief Murdered. Helena, Mont., March .—Big Louis, & chief of the Kalispell Indians, was shot and killed in a drunken quarrel on the Flathead reservation by an- other Indian supposed to be Alexan- der Poud, who was also shot and killed in turn by a friend of the chief. 3 Standards. She—Men and women can't be judg- ed by the same standards. For in. stance, 2 man is known by the com- pany he keeps. He—And a woman by the servants she can’t keep.—Judge. { do with the buggy? Another | T “Right to the Polnt, “The following letter,” said a travel- Ing man, “was received by a friend of mine who was drumwming up trade in New England for a New York necktle house: “*We have received your letter with expense account. What we want.Is or- ders. We have big families to make expenses for us. We find in your ex- pense account 50 cents for billlards. Please dow't buy any more billlards; also we see $2.25 for horse and buggy. ‘Where is the horse, and what did you The rest of your expense account s nothing but bed. Why is it you don’t ride more in the | nighttime? “*John says you should stop in Bos- ton, where bhis cousin George Moore lives. John s you should sell Moore a good bill. Give good prices—he is Johu's cousin. h Sell him mostly for o so John says you can leave Boston at 11:45 in the night and get te Concord at 4:35 in the morning. Do this and you won’t need any bed. And, remember, what we want is orders.”” Trading as a Fine Art. A grocery store in Nelson, Laneca- shire, nanaged by a collier's wife. One night the good woman was com- pelled to leave the shop for a short time in charge of her husband, giving him full instructions how to act and especially cautioning him that in the event of a customer presenting a jar or pot and asking for treacle, jam or pickles he “must be sure and weigh th’ pot.” Full of confidence, the collier install- ed himself behind the counter. In a short time a lad ran into the shop and piped out: . “I want two pound o’ pickles fur mi faythur, and here's th' pot.” The good man carefully weighed the pot and exclaimed: “Nay, lad, th' pot weighs enough bowt pickles, but I'll gi' thi one or two anyway.”—Liverpool Mereury. The First American Duel. In the year 1630 occurred the first duel known to have taken place om American soil. The principals, Edward Doty and Edward Leister, were serv- ants of a Mr. Hopkins, one of the New England colo! The men had quar- reled over some trifling matter and re- sorted to the field for its settlement. The affair was stopped by the authori- ties, but not before one had been wounded in the thigh and the other in the hand. There was no law covering such matters, but the governgr of the province decided that the men should be punished nevertheless. At his or- ders they were sent to have their heads and feet tied together and lie in that condition twenty-four hours without food or drink. They suffered so much, | however, that they were released at the end of an hour. His Apprenticeship. “Yes,” said Mr. Pater, with ill con- cealed pride, *“my youngest boy makes some smart remarks at times. Only re- cently he asked me what it meant to be an apprentice. 1 told him that it meant the binding of one person to an- other by agreement and that one per- gon so bound had to teach the other all he could of his trade or profession, while the other had to watch and learn how things wege done and had to make, himself useful in every way possible.” “What did he say to that?” asked one of the audience. “Why, after a few minutes the young rascal looked up at me and said, ‘Then T suppose you're apprenticed to mother, aren’t you, dad? "—London Answers. Herbert Spencer and the Puddles. On no one occasion was Herbert Spencer known to ride when going to a dinner, yet so carefully did he guard himself against the chance of soiling his dress shoes that.he habitually car- ried a bundle of old newspapers under his arm. These were for the purpose of being dropped, one by one, into each mud puddle he might encounter on crossing the street. By the time he reached his destination the store of pa- pers was exhausted. Muddy shoes on the return walk did not matter to-him in the least.—London Caterer. 2 For Emergencies. A barking reserve is for use, not merely for show. It is for use in times of emergency. Yet some bankers look upon their reserves very much as the superintendent of a hospital regarded its emergency bed. A patient all bang- ed up in an accident was brought to the hospital one night and was told that there was no room for him. “Why not put him in the emergency bed?” it was suggested. “If we put him in the emergency bed,” it was replied, “then we would have no emergency bed.”— Wall Street Journal. A Clever Scheme, Mother (examining school report)— How did you come to have such good marks in arithmetic this week? Tom- my—Well, you see, it was this way: We had ten examples a day, and 1 got the teacher to help me to do five, and Eric Jones got her to help him on the other five. Then we swapped helps. See?—Harper's. Impartial. “Mr. Scatterton prides himself on being strictly impartial.” “Yes,” answered the unamiable man. “I once went shooting with him, He didn’t seem to care whether he hit the rabbit, the dog or one of his friends.” The Dangerous Case. One of the surgeons of a hospital asked an Irish- help which he consid- ered the most dangerous of the many cases then in the hospital. *“That, sir,” sald Patrick as he pointed to a case of surgical instruments. Man’s wrinkled face is the original time table—Dallas News. Self Composed. She—He is a .person of perfect ease and possession and is thoroughly at home anywhere. He—Yes, he even has the faculty of making you feel a total Stranger in your own house.—London Tit-Bits, Fear and Danger. Nervous Old Lady (to deck hand on steamboat) — Mr. Steamboatman, i- there any fear of danger? Deck Hand (carelessly)—Plenty of fear, ma’am, but not a bit of danger, S o — Never a One Day President. The periodic assertion Is made that on Sunday, Mavcl 4, 1849, Senator Da- vid Rice Atchison of Missourl, who _was then president pro tem. of the senate, was president of the United States “virtually.” He never was, “virtually” or otherwise. . In 1793 congress enacted that in event of no president or vice president being ready to succeed the frst office should devolve on the president of the senate and vext on to the speaker of the house. The succession was changed in 188G. 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. Atchl- son took no oanth as president, 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 chief 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 vistonary unless by some bolt from the blue the eclected officials had been re- moved.—Pittsburg Post. 3 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 book, 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 1 need not be afraid of their ever coming up again. Glory!” The minister gave up hopes of re- forming him. R 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 official 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, after securing his keys, released his com- rade Rohlf, when they in turn ovesr- came and disarmed the second night watchman. 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, reached the boundary wall and dropped to liberty by the braad 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 until 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 I was quick, I was fast; If I stood firm, I was fast; if 1 spent too freely, I was fast, and that not to eat was to fast, I was discouraged. But when 1 came across the sentence, ‘The first one won one $1 prize,’ 1 was tempted to give up English and learn some other language.” R — 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, I 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. g Creative. A certain man coming from abroad was taken up by the smart set. “We'll make a lion 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 some exercise for their creative genius. Nor was the world the worse off. For, after all, it is the contribution to the gayety of nations that is especially needed.—Puck. 1t takes' A and | s Water and Life. Ot all the conditions preparatory to life the presence of water, composed of joxygen and hydrogen, is at once the most essential and the most worldwide, for if water be present the presence of other necessary elements is probably. assured. If water exist, that fact goes bail for the necessary temperature, the gamut of life being coextensive with the existence of water as such. It Is 50 consequentially, life being imposs!- ble without water. Whatever the plan- et, this Is of necessity true. But the absolute degrees of temperature with- In which life can exist vary according to the mass of the body, another of the ways in which w size tells, On the earth 212 degrees I. limits the range et the top and 32 degrees F. at the bot- tom in the case of fresh water, 27 de- grees I'. in the case of salt. On a smaller planet both limits would be lowered, the top one the most. On Mars the boiling point would probably be about 110. degrees K. Secondly, trom the general initial oneness of their constituents a planet that still pos- sesses water will probably retain the other substances that are essential to life—gases, for the reason that water vapor is next to hydrogen and hellum the lightest of them all, and solids be- cause their weight would still more conduce to keep them there. Water, indeed, acts as a solution to the whole problem.—Professor Lowell’s “The Ev- olution of Life” in Century Magazine. Only an Office Boy. “If you want a ready-to-hand study In the downright cussedness of humun nature unwarped,” said an insuranee agent, “just watch the office boys in your own or any other place of busi- ness. In four cases out of five the thing will come out this way: “A new boy is engaged. He is meek and mild, apologetic of bearing and courteous of speech. He is apparently seeking an excuse for daring to make a living. He looks reproachfully at the head office boy, who orders him around in a rough, catch-as-catch-can style. Such rudeness pains him. “Note this boy a little later. His rude superior has resigned or been dis- missed, and he is now head office boy. Is he meek and mild, apologetic and reproachful? Say, he’s a worse young rufian than his predecessor—bullyrags the newcomer, ignores the cuspidor, uses language not fit to print and comes dangerously near ‘sassing’ his employer. He knows it all; and a lit- tle more. “There are exceptions. but they prove the rule.”—New York Globe. A Big Grasshopper. A geographical expedition whieh set out for Australia on an exploring and mapmaking tour had engaged a negro cook, who took great interest in every- thing he saw. While the party was en route a kangaroo broke out of the grass and made for the horizon with pro- diglous leaps, an event that interested the colored gentleman exceedingly. “You all have pretty wide meadows hereabouts, I reckon,” he said to the native who was guiding the party. “Not any larger than those of other countries,” returned the guide most po- litely. “Well, there must be mighty power- ful high grass roundabouts, heh?’ he insisted. “Not that I know of,” replied the guide. “Why do you ask such odd questions?” 2 “Why, I’ll tell you, boss.. I was think- in’ of the mighty uncommon magnitude of them grasshoppers.”—Kansas City Independent. An Artist's Ruse. A Roman cavalier commissjoned a great artist to paint his portrait, no definite price being agreed upon. When the portrait was finished, the painter asked 100 crowns in payment. The highborn sitter, amazed at the demand, returned no more nor dared to send for his counterfeit presentment, whereup- on the artist hit upon the happy expe- dlent of first painting bars across the portrait, then affixing the doleful leg- end, “Imprisoned for debt,” and finally placing it in a prominent part of his studio, to which Roman nobles fre- quently resorted. Ere long a rich rela- tive came to the rescue and released his kinsman. 7 ; Newton’s Telescope. Newton’s telescope is a clumsy look- ing instrument, nine inches in length, two inches in aperture and capable of magnifying thirty-eight times. It was entirely made by Newton himself, who first exhibited it before the Royal so- clety in 1671, and more than 100 years later his successor in the presidency of the society laid before George IIL. Sir Willlam Herschel’s scheme for mak- ing a telescope on Newton’s plan, to be forty feet in length and four feet in aperture.—Pall Mall Gazette. Financial Expedient. Shoeblack—Shine, sir? Four sous? Passerby—No, thank you. Shoeblack— I'wo sous? Passerby—No. Shoeblack— For nothing, then? Passerby — All right, if you like. Shoeblack -(after having finished one shoe)—It's 6 sous to clean the other, sir.—Nos Loisirs. - Kept Busy. One of the contemporary poets asks, “Where are the bright girls of the past?” Our own observation is that pome of them are administering cau- tlous doses of paregoric to the bright girls of the future. Tender Hearted. Mrs. Muggins—My husband -is too tender hearted to whip the children. ‘Mrs. Buggins—Humph! My husband is so tender hearted that he can’t even beat the carpet! ‘Where envying is, there is confusion and every evil work.—New Testament. 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 is the very poetry of mo- tion.” v “Except when you have a smashup!” “No; even then—it's blank versel”’— London Opinion. U e i OUpRE SR " When Actors Play to Actors. “When he (Henry Irving) engaged me to play Ophelia in 1878 he asked me to g0 down to Birmingham to see the play, and that night I saw what I shall always consider the perfection of act- ing. It had been wonderful in 1874; in 1878 it was far more wonderful,” wrote Ellen Terry in McClure’s, “It has been sald that when he had the ‘advantage’ of my Ophelia his Hamlet ‘improved.’ I don’t think so. He was always quite independent of the people with whom he played. The Birmingham night bLe | knew I was there. He played—I say it without vanity—for me. We players are not above that weakness, if it be a weakness. If ever anything inspires us to do our best it ig the presence in the audience of some fellow artist who must, in the nature of things, know more completely than any one what we intend, what we do, what we feel. The response from such a member of the atdience flies across the footlights to us like a fluwe. I felt it once when 1 played Olivia before Eleanora Duse. 1 felt that she felt it once when she play- ed Marguerite Gautier for me.” The Topsyturvydom of Religion. At the opening of King Edward VIL’s first parliament he had to repest after the lord chancellor an oath which con- demned in almost brutal words all things papistical. Yet held aloft by a Protestant peer for all Protestants to reverence was a veritable emblem of papal supremacy—a quaint little bon- net of crimson velvet turned up with ermine. This is the cap of mainte- nance, and so sacred is it that no hands but royalty may finger it. Thus the premier marquis, whose hereditary right it is to carry it, balanced it some- what after the fashion of a conjurer upon a white staff. This cap was granted to Henry VIIL by Pope Leo X. In the middle ages it was held as symbolic of the overlord, only being granted to vassals and feudatories ‘whom the lord wished to honor, so that it implies as nothing else could the su premacy of the pope over the kings of England.—London Standard. What Makes the Heart Buat? Professor Jacques Loeb, the celebrat- ed biologist, in his book, “Dynamics of Living Matter,” has shown that a strip cut from the ventricle “of the heart put in a solution of chloride of sodium will continue to beat for a number of days, until putrefaction sets in. He says this can be done with an ordinary muscle after it has been ex- tirpated from the body. This would tend to prove that the heart is a chem- lcal machine and that it is all due tc chemical action. The muscular con- traction is probably due to the substi- tution of sodium for calcium salts in the cells of the muscles. The difficulty of this theory is that it does not explain the control of the muscles. It is plain that the problem of control is not solved by the chem- ical theory. A Fair Chance. Dressed In the latest and most ap- proved motor cycling costume, with goggles all complete, the motor cyeclist gayly toot-tooted his way by Regent's park toward the zoo. Suddenly he slackened, dismounted and said to a small, grubby urchin: #1 say, my boy, am I right for the 7007 ‘The boy gasped at so strange a sight Baking Powder The only Baking Powder made with Royal Grape Cream of Tartar —made from granes— Insures healthful and delicious food for every home—every day Safeguards your food against alum and phosphate of lime and thought if must be some new ani- mal for the gardens. “You may be all right if they have a spare cage.” he said when he could find | his tongue, “Lut you'd ha’ stood a far better chance if you'd 'd a tail!”—Lon- don Answers. The Poet’s Son. “Why, Freddy, how dirty you are, and only yesterday you wrote a verse for papa’s birthday, promising always to wash your hands clean.” “Well, mamma, that ~was only a poetlc license.”—Fliegende Blatter. Asserting Himself. He—Will you be my wife? She—The idea! Don't be ridiculous. He—Yes, 1 know it sounds ridiculous; but, then, T'm not so particular as some men are —Boston Transcript. | Cause For Worry. “Did you have a good time at your musical ?” “No,” answered Mr. Cumrox. “Ev- ery time the band played anything 1 enjoyed I got worried for fear it wasn’t classical enough to be the money's worth,”—Washington Star. Willing to Help. “I suppose old Cashman has more money than he knows what to do with?” “Yes, but his wife and daughters are ready to supply the needed informa- tion.” A Martyr. “Mamma, have T got to take a bath tonight?” “I'm afraid you have, my dear.” “But I haven't done anything all the week to deserve it.”—New York Life. There is Only One ssBromo Quinine®’ That is Laxative Bromo ©O:-:finin USED THE WORLD OVER TO CURE A COLD IN ORE DAY. Always remember the full name. for this signature on every box. Look 25¢. r—_ \ S — Pioneer Advertising Reaches the People. 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