Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 5, 1908, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED BVERY AFTHRNOON, OFFICIAL PAPER---CITY OF BEMIDII AN~~~ BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. CLYDE J. PRYOR | . RUTLEDGE, Business Manager aging Editor Wntered In the postofice at Bemidjl. Mint., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM CALL FCR IMMENSE SUM. Bills to Place Volunteer Officers and Men on Retired List. ‘Washington, March .—Estimates of the probable cost of the pending bills to place volunteer officers and pri- vates of the Civil war on a retired list with pay were sent to the house com- mittee on military affairs. The war department estimate is that the bill for officers alone would cost $11,000, 000 annually and that for officers and men together would cost $82,000,000 annually. The estimate by the pen- sion bureau is that the cost for both officers and men would be about $62,- 000,000 annually. The volunteer bill proposes to place all officers of the Civil war on half pay, according to the grades they held at the time they were mustered out of the service, and for privates a flat rate of $30 a month to all soldiers who served eighteen months or more. These figures are startling to the committee and are certain to create consternation among the Republican leaders of the house, who are trying to hold down expenses. The claim is made among the members of the mili- tary committee that if both hous shall agree to the pending proposi- tlon for paying increased pensions to widows of the Civil war, at a net cost of more than $15,000,000 a year, the military committee will be justified in reporting and voting for the proposed increases for officers and men. SMALLPOX SCARE IN ROME Government Prohibits Telegrams Re- ferring to Outbreak. Rome, March , via Paris, March 4. —The municipality of Rome has pur- sued a mistaken policy in endeavor- ing to suppress the news of an out- break of smallpox in this city in the fear of frightening away the spring tourist trade, which constitutes a large source of revenue to the cap- ital. Instead of pacifying the public fears the method pursued in prohibit- ing the sending of telegrams referring to the outbreak has given rise to the spread of the wildest and most exag- gerated reports. There is practicaily a panic in Rome over this smallpox scare. All the vaccine material in the city has been exhausted and a fresh supply has been ordered from Switzerland. The laza- retto of Santa Sabina, where the cases have been isolated, has been surround- ed by a cordon of troops, This action has resulted in the shutting out of many tourisis, who are lodged in a nearby hotel and has caused much -—pleinl, Mo Amcricels ai® In the hotel in guestion. EXPULSION RECOMMENDED Two Members of Duma Accused of Treasonable Speeches. St. Petersburg, March .—The com- mittee of the duma which has had the matter under consideration has decided to recommend the exclusion of M. Kolubfakin and M. Kososotoft. M. Kolubiakin is the deputy from St. Petersburg whose surrender was de- manded by the government because of the charge against him that he made & treasonable speech at Samara in 1906, while the minister of justice proposed that M. Kososotoff be ex- cluded from the duma on account of a post-election speech at Ufa. The first named deputy is a Constitutional Democrat and the second a Socialist. M. Kolubiakin is considered a valu- able member of the lower house. The committee delayed its action until the conviction of the two deputies on the charges specified left it no alternative. In the matter of M. Kolubiakin the exclusion will not be made permanent pending action by the senate on his Appeal. TO SUCCEED STILLINGS. Said President Will Appoint W. 8. Rossiter Public Printer. Washington, March .—Ii is under- stood the president has decided to ap- point W. S. Rossiter of New York to be public printer to succeed Charles 8. Stillings of Massachusetts. Mr. Rossiter has been for several years chief clerk of the census office and recently was detailed by the presi- dent to make an examination into the conduct of the business at the govern- ment printing office. Reinforcements for Morocco. Paris, March .—The cabinet voted formally to send 4,000 additional sol- diers to Morocco with the object of coitinuing the aggressive policy of the government in that country as well as affording rest to the troops who have become tired out in the re- cent fighting with the Moors. Parlia- ment will be asked to appropriate the sum of $500,000 for general rellef as well a8 improvement work in Morocco, MEXICAN BANK ROBBERY. Institution at Chihuahua Looted of 295,000 Pesos. El Paso, Tex., March .—A special to the Herald from Chihuahua, Mex., glves detalls of the robbery of the Banco Minero. When the bank opened Monday it was discovered that 295,000 pesos in bills of the denomlnations of 1,000, 100, 50 and 20 were missing. The document vault had been entered by breaking the lock and the money vault by taking out stone masonry. The work is supposed to have been done Sunday afternoon and night. Beveral suspects are in jail. The bills taken are new and can be traced. The bank was capitalized at 5,000,000 pesos. It was backed by General ILuis Terrezas, Ambassador and Governdr Enrique Creel and Yno- cente Ochoa, wealthy men. It has a reserve of 1,700,087 pesos. The rob- hery causes no fear as to the bank’s soundness. Telegrams have been sent all .over Mexico and to the American border describing the bills and asking 81l banks and officers to be on the lookout for the money and the rob. bers. Indicted for Alleged Rebating, St. Louls, March ‘—Indictments charging the St. Louis and San Fran- cisco Railroad company with granting | rebates and the Chapman & Dewey TLumher company of Kansas City with accepting rebates were returned by the federal grand jury here. Where ldols Are Eaten. At certain seasons in some parts of India it is the duty of every devout person to eat a special sort of confec- tionery. Every confectioner in Octo- ber, for instance, has a pole about six feet high at his door, and to this is nailed a great hook about a foot long and thick in proportion. On one side of this is a Dbrisk fire, with a huge earthen pan on it. Before the pan a man may be seen sitting, for nobody stands when he can slt, with a kind of wooden ladle, and with this he briskiy stirs a quantity of bubbling, black looking sugar till it becomes quite tough. He then scrapes it together and puts it on a piece of board to cool a little, and then, getting up and dex- terously throwing it on the large hook. he begius to pull out the tough sub- stance. He draws it out to the length of four or five feet at a time and throws it back and elongates it again, and so he manipulites it till the mass becomes as white as snow. This composition so treated is manufactured in all sorts of sacred forms—figures of little idols and gods—and is eagerly bought for con- sumption.—Strand Magazine. Ink Froze on the Pen. The winter of 1683-4 in Europe still holds its place as one of the most se- vere and remarkable on record. So tremendous was the cold that trees split asunder with deafening reports. The strangest sight of all was on the Thames. Here on more than a foot thickness of ice a thoroughgoing town of streets was erected. There were tallors’ shops, butchers’ shops, tobac- conists, printers and, indeed, many oth- er businesses all being carried on as if they had stood there for years. Writing anywhere but near a large fire was impossible, as the ink froze in pot and on the pen, whole barrels of liquids were frozen solid and wine was sold in oue pound blocks. New bread on being taken out of the oven would immediately stiffen and become solid There were hundreds of deaths from the cold, and throughout the frost the poor suffered miserably. — Pearson’s Weekly. Little Great Men. A Chinese who had long studied the works of Confucius, who knew the characters of 14,000 words and could read a great part of every book that came in his way once took it into his head to travel into Europe. Upon his arrival at Amsterdam his passion for letters naturally led him to a hook- seller’s shop, and as he could speak a little Dutch he civilly asked the book- seller for the works of the immortal Xixofou. The bookseller assured him he had never heard the book mention- ed before. ~Alas,” cried our traveler “to what purpose, then, has he fasted to death to gain a renown which has never traveled beyond the precincts of China?” There is scarce a village In Europe and not one university that is not thus furnished with its little great men.—Oliver Goldsmith. First American Play. The first play written by an Ameri- ean produced in this country, according to the Philadelphia Public Ledger, was the tragedy, “The Prince of Parthia,” by Thomas Godfrey, which was brought out at the Southwark theater In the Quaker City in April, 1767, by Lewis Hallam’s company, the first or- ganization of players to visit Phila- delphla. Godfrew was an ambitious young poet, who died at an early age. His play was above mediocrity and an important part of the volume of his works published in 1765. A Use For His Obituary. A well meaning and consclentious editor on being shown by the man most Interested that the death of the commandant was falsely reported in his paper, apologized profusely and of- fered to make it all right. “We'll print a correction at once,” he safd. “Well,” sald the man who wasn’t dead, “perhaps it would be better to let It stand. Tl show it to my friends when they want to borrow money.” Painful Etiquette. The royal court of France used to be R great place for etiquette. Louis XIV. once caught a severe cold owing to the fact that on his arising from his bed one cold morning the lord of the chamber, whose duty it was to hand him his shirt. happened to be absent. Not one of the numerous courtiers present had the courage to trangress etiquette by handing the garment to the shivering monarch.—London Scrap Book. Indifferent. “I can't give you an opinion on that question,” the statesman- replied, “be- cause it's a question I pay no attention to. I am indifferent to it—as indiffer- ent as the backswoodsman's wife. That lady, you know, looked on while ber husband had a fierce hand to hand tussle with a bear, and afterward she sald it was ‘the only fight she ever saw where she didn’t care who won.’” Going On. A terrible noise of thumping and starping came from Bob's room early ene morning. “Bobby, Bobby,” called his mother from downstairs, “what is going on up there?” “My shoes,” replied Bob. One Drawback. Olive—What an improvement it will be if the time ever comes when every- body can get a seat in the street cars. Violet—Oh, I don't know. A girl would Nature’s Vengeance. Pliny informs us that twelve cltles in Asia Minor were swallowed up In one night. In the year 115 the-city of Antioch and a great part of the adja- cent country were buried by an earth- quake. About 300 years after it was again destroyed, along with 40,000 in- habitants, and after an interval of six- ty years was a third time overtnurned, with the loss of not less thau 60,000 souls. In 1692 the city of Port Royal, in Jamaica, was destroyed by an earth- quake, and the houses sank into a gulf forty fathoms deep. In 1693 an earth- quake occurred in Sicily which either destroyed or greatly damaged fifty- four clties. The cify of Catalonia was utterly overthrown, 19,000 inhabitants of the clty perishing in the ruins. In 1755 Lisbon was destroyed by an earthquake, and it buried under fits rulns above 50,000 inhabitants. In Au- gust, 1822, two-thirds of the ecity of Aleppo, containing a population of 200, 000, were destroyed by an earthquake Thirty thousand of its inhabitants were buried in the ruins. Held Down the Speaker. The sanctity of the speaker is an in- violable law of parliamentary England, yet once the necessities of the nation were so great that au assault and bat- tery had to be made upon his sacred person. It was in the third parliament of Charles 1. that the angry commons framed their petition of rights. This cut at the very root of the king's pre rogative, and among those in the house ‘who opposed it was Mr. Speaker. Upon Sir John Elliott moving its acceptance the speaker essayed to leave the chair, which would," of course, have proved fatal to-the bill. But they were ready for him, and Hollis and Valentine seiz- ed him, one on each side, and literally held him in the chair.until the for- mality of the reading was over. So vital was the petition considered that Cromwell said in the lobby afterward, “Had we been defeated I should have left England tonight.”—London Chroni- cle. Undodgeable Taxes. “In the past,” said the tax assessor, “governments were wiser. They levied taxes that could not be sworn off. There was, for instance, the English birth tax of the seventeenth century. A laborer paid 2 shillings as birth tax; a duke paid £30. You couldn’t get round it. “Burials were taxed, according to the station of the dead, from a shilling to £25. That, too, could not be dodged. ‘“Marriages were taxed. A duke to marry paid £50; a common person, like yourself, paid half'a crown. “In those days you paid a tax on every servant, on every dog, on every horse, on your carriage, your hearth, your windows, watches, clocks, wigs, hair powder, plate, ribbons, bricks, coal, gauze and candles.”—Cincinnatl Enquirer. A Madman’s Strange Belief. An unfortunate maniac was confined in one of the Scottish lunatic asylums, his particular infirmity being an un- shakable Dbelief that every day was Christmas day and that he was din- ing sumptuously on turkey or roast beef and a good slice of plum pud- ding. His real dlat. however wac af the plainest, he being served twice daily with a dish of oatmeal porridge. After daily describing to his attendants the pleasures he had tasted in his cut of turkey or what not he as regularly added, “Yet, somehow or other, every- thing that I eat tastes of porridge.” This story it was which gave rise to the saying, “As palatable as-the mad- man’s porridge.” 8ome Famous Salt Lakes. The Dead sea is forty miles long and nine miles wide. The Great Salt lake is seventy miles long ‘and eighty miles wide, the largest body of brine in the world. There is evidence to show that once the Great Salt lake was at least 850 miles in length and 150 in width, nine times its present area. The Dead sea contalns about 24 per cent of sol- ids, ome-third of which is pure salt, while of the 23 per cent of solid mat- ter in the waters of Great Salt lake nearly all is salt. Not a Question of Grammar. The green reporter turned to Editor McKelway. “Which should I say,” he asked hesitatingly, “ ‘My boy Henry laid an egg on the table? “Well,” said Editor McKelway im- patiently, “if you want something to crow over, and he’s that kind of a hen- nery, let him lay it on the table if he can. Otherwise have him put it there.” ~Judge. His Distinction. A solemn funeral procession, slowly wending its way up the slope from the church to the grave, was intercepted by the old verger, who, pulling his forelock in the usual rustic style, ad- dressed the clergyman, whispering- in a confidential manner: “Please, sir, corpse’s brother wishes to speak to yer!”—London Tit-Bits. A Nautical Secret. Passenger—What makes this boat pitch so? Sailor—That’s a nautical se- cret, ma’am, that we don’t like to give away; but, seein’ it’s you, I don’t mind tellin’ you that it's the waves.—San Francisco Call. He Wanted to Know. The Employer (coldly)—Why are you 80 late? The Suburbanite (guiltily)— There were two wrecks on the track this morning, and— The Employer (testily)—Who was the other one? Partly True. Mr. Nix—I don't believe a word of your story! Weary—Well, that part mrbout my bein’ out of work for nine years Is as true as gospel!—Philadel- phia Inquirer, 5 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 poetic 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, never be sure then that she was pretty. —Puck, T'm not so particular as some men are —Boston Transeript. i Odd Use For Bread. Perhaps the most novel use to which bread is put may be seen in one of our great watch factories, where more than forty loaves of fresh bread are required each day. An official of the watch fac- tory is quoted as saying ¢ “There is no secret regarding the use of bread in this factory, and I am will- §ng to tell all I.can concerningit. From the earliest times in the history of watchmaking it has been the custom of watchmakers to veduce fresh bread to the form of dough. This is done by steaming and kneading. They then use this dough for removing oil and chips that naturally adhere in course of manufacture to pieces as small as a part of a watch. There are many | parts of a watch, by the way, that are 8o small as to be barely visible to the naked eye. The oil is absorbed by this dough and the chips stick to it, and there 18 no other known substance which can be used as a wiper without leaving some of its particles attached to the thing wiped. This accounts for the continued use of bread dough in the watchmaking industry.”—American Food Journal. A Quaint Compliment. On Mark Twain’s seventy-second birthday a Hartford clergyman said of him: = “No wonder he finds happiness in old age. All the aged would be happy if they were as sympathetic and as kind as he. He Is continually going out of his way to please others, and the result is that he is continually pleasing him- self. Listen, for instance, to the quaint compliment he paid me the last time he came to hear me preach. He waited for me at the church door at the serv- ice’s end and, shaking me by the hand, sald gravely: ‘I mean no offense, but I feel oblig- ed to tell you that the preaching this morning has been-of a kind that I can spare. 1 go to church, sir, to pursue my own train of thought, but today I couldn't do it. You interfered with me. You forced me to attend to you and lost me a full half hour. I beg that this may not occur again.’” Philosophy of Descartes. Turning the mental vision inward, as Bacon turned it outward, Descartes watched the operations of the soul as an object In a microscope. Resolved to believe nothing but upon evidence s0 convincing that he could mot by any effort refuse his ascent, he found as he inspected his beliefs that he could plausibly doubt everything but his own existence. Here at last was the everlasting rock, and this was re- vealed in his own consciousness; hence his famous “Cogito ergo sum” (I think, therefore 1 am). Consciousness, said he, is the basis of certitude. Interro- gate it and its clear replies will be science, for all clear ideas are true. Down In the depths of the mind is the idea of the infinite perfection—the mark of the workman impressed upon his work. Therefore God exists.—New York American. Science and Sound Fact. “The workings of the human mind when asleep are full of wonder,” re- marked a scientist who was paying a visit to an acquaintance. “Have you ever started up from a sound dream- lome aleep, With ev<iy cenca on the alert and with your whole being thrill- ed with a vivid yet indefinable feeling that something was wrong and instant action required?” “Often,” replied his hostess, “and in nearly every case I have found that 1 ‘was awakened by the fumbling of my husband’s key at the front door!” Impertinent. Bpeaking of a man noted for his im- pertinence, an acquaintance said: “Blank’s impudence was second only to that of a waiter 1 heard about the other day. “‘Look here, walter, sald a guest, ‘this fish is not cooked properly.’ “‘I know it, sir,/ said the waiter, ‘but you told me it was for your wife. “‘Well, what of that? asked the sur- prised guest. “‘Why,’ said the walter, ‘I knew that if the lady was your wife she couldn’t be very particular.’” Realism In Art. Two artists were boasting how they could paint. “Do you know,” said one, “I painted a sixpence on the ground one day, and a beggar nearly broke his fingers trylng to pick it up!” “That’s nothing to what I did,” said the other. “I painted 2 leg of mutton on a stone, and it was so realistic that a dog ate half the stone before he found out his mistake!” His Narrow Escape. “I tell you, the closing of the Steenth me.” “How was that?’ “Why, a friend had advised me to put my money in it and”— “And you took his advice?” “No, but I would if I'd had any mon- &y.”—Philadelphia Ledger. Not the Kind He Wanted. “Little Willie ran away to hunt red- skins.” “Yes?” “But he didn’t find any until his fa- ther had finished with him.”"—Harper's Weekly. Ungallant. “My face is my fortune, sir,” she sald. “Well,” he replied, “poverty is no dis- grace, but it's awfully inconvenient at times.” ‘The Wicked Husband. “Why does a man lfe to his wife?” asks a woman writer. Dear me, does he?*—Duluth Herald. A moral, sensible, well bred man will not insult me. No other can.—Cowper. 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 blowlng out of fuses is nothing to excite alarm. To be startléd—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. passibility even when the sudden flash singes their fingers, and it is delight ful to see how many of thenr have at- PR e National was a mighty close call for | nerves, To jump is one thing, however, while to fall Into a senseless panic {& quite another. To blow out is the duty and destiny of fuses, and when they have done if 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 Indlanapolis News of- fice. Here it i8: 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 dwell upon the merits of a watch he was of- fering for sale to the highest blddex 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 sald. “Ten dollars. You're the buyer.” “Ach, nein,” said the German. “I'm the Schwob (Suabian); mein freund heir ist der Bayer (Bavarlan).” Solicitous. An old lady unaccustomed to travel- ing innocently seated herself in a first class carriage, although she only had a third class ticket. The guard, think- ing she had made a mistake, popped his head into the carriage and inquired, ‘““Are you first class, ma’am?” “No, sir, not altogether,” she replied, “but much brighter than I was, thank you.”—London Scraps. . 4The new theory ‘(backed up by his preparation) advanced by L. T. Cooper with regard to the cause of most i1l health of the present genera- tion is being sown broadcast by this young man. Cooper believes that the human stomach has become degenerate im clvilized races and claims that good health is impossible unless the stom- ach is re-vitalized. This he claims to do with his preparation. An article from the Indianapolis Star during Cooper’s stay in that city has this to say of Cooper and his prep- aration: “Residents of this city are being astounded by L, T. Cooper and his new preparation. “Reports that preceded Mr, Cooper’s visit here told of his success in other localities, but the immense success of his medicine and the general belief in his theory was wholly unprece- dented. “So great is the rush of the public to this young wman that people stand in line waiting their turn for hours in an effort to see him. The most inter- esting feature of this is statements made by reliable citizens as to the actual accomplishments of Cooper’s medicine. Among recent statements of this character the following is & fair ezample; ) NEW THEORY SUCCESSFUL IN INDIANAPOLIS L. T. Cooper Makes Many Converts During Stay in That City. “Mr. B. F. Campbell, of 3224 Wes Washington Street, had this to say of his experience with Cooper: ‘I have been a victim of stomach trouble for the past five years—sick and suffering pain all the time. Everything I ate distressed me. I have been under the treatment of many physicians, and have taken all kinds of medicine, none of which afforded me relief. I was greatly discouraged, and was about ready to give up, when Mr. Cooper came to this city to introduce his preparations, -““I was skeptical, of course, after spending so much money and taking such a large quantity of medicine, but, like the drowning man, I was ready to grab at a straw, so I secured some of Mr. Cooper’s New Discovery medi- cine and began taking it. It seemed to help right from the first dose. I have been taking it for several weeks, and can now eat heartily and enjoy my meals for the first time in five years—eat anything, without pain or distress of any kind. I feel like a new being—life is worth living now.’” Let us explain Mr, Cooper’s remark- able medicine to you if your general health is nof all that it should be. —E. N. French & Co. ' i Kidney-Ettes cure Backache _ The LCeader of them Hil, Owl Drug Store, Bemidij, Minn. Price 25 @ents Gu: WILL CURE i GUARANTEE THOUSANDS Prepared at laboratory of Matt J. Johnson Co., St. Paul, Minn. Suaranteed under the Food and Drugs Act. June 30, 1906. No. 2029. FOR SALE AND GUARANTEED BY Barker's Drug Store I Reaches the People. BEMIDJI PIONEER. INVESTIGATION HAS MADE stand out stronger than ever, as the remedy which Rheumatism, Catarrh, Backache, Kidney Trouble, or any other blood trouble. To refund your money if you are not en- tirely satisfied after taking half of the first bottle. HAVE BEEN You are the judge. I pay for the trial CURED if you are not satisfied. Pioneer Advertising Advertisements printed in the Bemidji Pioneer are read by more. people than if published in any other three news- papers combined printed in Beltrami county. The Pioneer has three times the circulation of any Beltrami county competitor, and contains more local, county and state news, hence our adver- g tising space brings larger returns. We Court Investigation !