Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 9, 1908, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED NVERY AFTERNOON, A A A A A A A A A A AN AN OFFICIAL PAPER---CITY OF BEMIDJI BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. CLYDE J. PRYOR | A @. RUTLEDGE, Business Manager Managing Editor Tntered in the postofice at Bemidjl. Mine.. s second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM SIMPSON STRONG FORATTORNEY GENERAL. George T. Simpson of Winona, assistant attorney general, has issued an announcement of his can- didacy for the republican nomina- tion for attorney general, and has shied his castor into the ring as an active aspirant for that office. In his anneuncement, Mr. Simpson says: “As I have concluded to be a candidate for the Republican nomi- nation to the office of attorney gen- eral, I feel that it is due to my friends and to the public ally that I make formal announce- ment of the fact and respectfully ask the support of the party. The office is a very important one and the public are entitled to know the qualifications, experience and pur- poses of one who aspires thereto. “As city attorney of the City of Winona, county attorney of that county and first assisstant attorney general, I have had the experience, which, I believe, fits me to give the office of attorney general such an administration as will be satis- factory to the people. I know its duties and requirements and if I am so honored I pledge myself to a fearless and impartial discharge of the obligations of the position and a conscientious observance of my oath and office. “In conclusion T will simply say that I have not made nor will I make any combination with any other candidate looking toward his or my nomination.” geuer- Mr. Simpson’s services as assist- ant attorney general have fitted him to make an admirable head of the office, and he isin every way entitled to the support of all fair- minded republicans in securing the nomination he desires. STYMIEST LEASES NEWSPAPER. Our old friend, W. J. Stymiest, has leased the Rainy River Region, published at Baudette, and has gone out on the “deep” of the briny sea of journalism. We have been a true friend of Stymiest, and have always advertised him for the best; but we now wash our hands of him, With such a horrible example as ourself ever before him as to what consti- tutes a “journalist,” we had pre- dicted better things for him. In a letter to the Pioneer man, Stymiest says: “Friend ‘Doc—1 am sending you my first offenze against litera- ture (?). I remember you having told me once, in all sincerity, that unless I mended my ways I would come to some bad end; but I never anticipated anything like this. Yours in distress.” We have received “offense against literature” (same being the copy of the Region, with Mr. Stymiest at helm, and we are agreeably sur- prised at “Bill's” efficiency in get- ting up a “rag.” He will undoubt- edly “make good” at Baudette; any- way the boundary line is in close proximity, and he can “make his get-away” if matters get too warm for his comfort. A “Fine Old Woman.” Durlng the evening a gentleman came to Mrs. Siddons and sald, “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 replled, “Seventy-eight years old.” “Hang M1,” sald he, “I have lost.” And he abruptly went away. Mrs. Slddons Immedlately said, “Pup- 1244 “Very true”” I observed, “but why did you tell him you were so old?” Bhe replled, “Whenever a lady of an uncertaln 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 saylng, ‘What a fine old woman!”—“Journals of Sir George Smart.” B — Foresight and Delicatessen. In Chicago Is a woman who com- bines the functions of caterer and trance medium, serving her customers with refreshment psychical or phys- Ical, according to their. wishes. Either she or the sign painter whom she employed must be a humorist, for her sign reads thus: “Madame Blank, caterer and trance medium. Groceries 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 psychie research soclety.”—Washing: ton Star. i How He Did It. “When I was connected with a cer~ tain western rallway,” says a promi- nent official of an eastern line, “we had in our employ a brakeman who, for special service rendered to the road, was granted a month's vacatlon, “He decided to spend his time In a trip over the Rockies. We furnished bhim with pas: “He went to Denver and there met a number of his friends at work on one of the Colorado roads. They gave him a good time and when he went away | made him a preseut of a mountain goat, “Evidently our brakeman was at a | loss to get the animal-home with l\lm.l as the express charges were very hea at that time. Finally, however, hitting upon a happy expedient, he | made out a shipping tag and tied 1t to | the horas of the goat. Then he pre- | sented the beast to the office of the| stock car line. “Well, that tag created no end of amusement, but it served to accom- plish the end of the brakeman. It was inscribed as follows: “‘Please pass the butter. Thomas J. Meechin, brakeman, S. 8. and I Ry.”” —Harper's Weekly. Ant Merchants, Ant merchants, clad in leather un- derwear, are to be found in Paris, London and several other European cities. Wherever pheasants are pre- served the ant merchant is in demand. It is not, however, ants, but the eggs of ants, that the man chlefly deals in. From every part of Europe ants are shipped to him, and he keeps them in ant runs—places similar in their nature to chicken runs—and he feeds and tends them carefully, so that their health will keep fine and they will lay generously. The eggs he packs in wooden boxes and ships to various earls, dukes, counts and other game preserves In different parts of the world. And the ants themselves he slays as soon as they cease to lay, pressing them and selling them in Dblack blocks similar to plug tobacco to dealers in birds and bird food. It is interesting to be an ant mer- chant, but leather underwear is essen- tial to the business, as the little crea- tures bite unmercifully.—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Coincidence. The strange story told by a default- ing debtor of his being recognized after he had been for six years trylng to live down the past is not so strange a story as one which came within the ken of Professor Jowett. A good man went wrong, was caught and sentenced at Liverpool to imprisonment. After the sinner had served his term Jowett and others helped him, and he obtained a colonial editorskip where his past was unknown. He did well; was a new man. One day a tornado swept off the roof of his office. Under the roof was discovered a batch of old English papers which had been placed there and forgotten after the mall haa brought them. He set members of his staff to work to get out of the derelicts anything which might be interesting enough to print. The first thing that they found was a full report of the trial and conviction of the man him- self, their editor, at Liverpool all those years before.—St. James’ Gazette. Pants and Trousers. Everybody talks well when he talks In the way he likes, the way he can’t help, the way le never thinks of. The rest is effort and pretense. The man who says “trousers” because he likes to say it and the man who says “pants” because he likes to say it are both good fellows with whom a frank soul could fraternize, but the man who says “trousers” when he wants to say “pants” is a craven and a truckler, equally hateful to honest culture and wholesome ignorance. He belongs in the same sordid category with the man who wears tight shoes and high col- lars that are a torment to the flesh, who eats olives that he doesn't relish and drinks uncongenial clarets in imi- tation of his genteel neighbor in the brownstone front.—Atlantic. Book Evolution. “Books” have progressed from the days when they were only wooden rods or bits of bark. For the derivation which connects “book” directly with “beech,” both having been “boc” in Anglo-Saxon, s the favorite one. “Buchstaben,” the German word for letters of the alphabet, means literally “beech staves.” Many book words go back to such vegetable origin. The Latin “liber,” a book, whence comes our “library,” was properly the inner bark or rind of a tree, especially of papyrus. The Greek “biblon,” whence “Bible” and “bibliophile,” meant much the same thing. A ‘“codex” was a block of wood, and “leaf” is obvious. A Compromise. A private soldier was taken to the guardroom for Leing intoxicated. He became excited. “Sergeant, am I drunk?” he asked of the “noncom” in charge. “Yes—take off your boots,” was the reply. “But excuse me, sergeant,” the de- linquent continued, “I am only half drunk.” “Very well, then—take one boot off!” said his superior.—London Scraps. Peculiarity of Madness. Who can tell why it is that in mad- houses the idea of subordination is very seldom te be found? Bedlam is inhabited only by kings, poets and philosophers.—Medora Messenger. Human deeds and human lives are never understood until they are finish- ed. You can no more tell in advance how manhood will turn out than how a young child will grow up. Reading » Pig’s Tail. “Don’t buy that pig,” said the older butcher hastily. “Why not?” asked the younger man. “Look. at his tail,” was the reply. “See how loose it hangs, like the tail of a rat. That is a sign that the anl- mal is In bad health. “You can read a pig's condition by Its tail. The tighter it is curled the fitter 1s the pig. And when the tail hangs straight, as this one does, the pig ought to take to his bed and send for the veterinary.” — New Orleans Times-Democrat. - — T B, 0 Unintentional Sabhath Breaking. In the varly days of New England it was the custom to keep the Sabbath from sundown Saturday night until the same hour on Sunday. That this practice was attended by pitfalls Is shown by an incident told In “The Pa- pers of the Connectlcut Valley Histor- {eal Society:"” There lived In Ryefleld a thrifty dame, an enterprising, driving woman and a notable housewife. The good wo- man was not willing to lose Sundhy evenings out of her catalogue of house- work, but she was pious withal and strictly kept the day to the sunset limit. As soon as the sun was fairly below the horizon she would begin her washing and get her clothes ready for drying Dbright and early on Monday morning. One cloudy Sunday she, supposing the day was ended, changed her Sun- day gown, rolled up her sleeves and went to work. As she was scrubbing away in the kitchen, her face toward the west window, the clouds suddenly broke, and the great round sun shone in full on the poor Sabbath breaker at work. She gave one cry of amazement and horror and fled the kitchen. After that sinful day she never be- gan her work on Sunday evening. Lincoln’s Rules. On one occasion President Lincoln on entering the telegraph office of the war department, writes Mr. Bates In “Lincoln In the Telegraph Office,” was heard to remark to Secretary Seward, “By jings, governor, we are here at last!” Turning to him in a reproving manner, Mr. Seward said, “Mr. Presi- dent, where did you learn that inele- gant expression?” Without replying to the secretary, Lincoln addressed the telegraph operators, saying: “Young gentlemen, excuse me for swearing before you. ‘By jings’ Is swearing, for my good old mother taught me that anything that had a ‘by’ before it was swearing.” One day Secretary Seward, who was not renowned as a joker, sald he had been told that a short time before on a street crossing Lincoln had been seen to turn out in the mud to give a colored woman a chance to pass. “Yes,” said Lincoln, “it has been a rule of my life that if people would not turn out for me I would turn out for them. Then you avoid collisions.” What He Meant. Park row at 1 a. m. and a policeman and a sailor in conversation. “Keyside, keyside!” said the sailor. “’0w will Hi reach the bloomin’ key- side?” “G’'wan wid ye. D’ye think I'm a locksmith, that I know about yer old key and its side? There's one key and lock I'll be after givin’ ye, and that's to a cell. Move on now.” “Keyside! Hi said keyside as plain as Hi could, blime?” Just then a high brow who had been to the postoffice buying stamps so that his rejected contributions would come back to him stepped up. “The man wants the keyside, what- ever that is, and I dunno,” said the po- liceman. “I believe he’s looney angd I'll run him in.” “He wants the quayside—the docks,” said the high brow as he directed the man to the water front, while the po- liceman said: “Well, I'll be blowed!”"—New York Press. A Slap at Mother. Dinner was done, and the family was assembled in the sitting room. Mother had taken up the evening paper and ‘was reading an account of how a high- wayman had been operating in the sub- urbs. Father was down on his hands and knees trying to act like a horse while little Willie drove him around the floor. “Papa,” finally remarked the good lady, glancing toward her husband, “here Is a story about another man who was waylaid. Do these holdups always stop you withi a pistol and then go through your clothes?” “Oh, no’ grinfully replied father, arlsing from the floor. “Sometimes they walt until you hang your clothes over the back of a chair and go to sleep.”—Philadelphia Bulletin. Nevertheless He Got Her. “You say my daughter loves you?” questioned the old man. “I'm sure of it,” replied the young man, “Well, well,” returned the old man, looking the young man over critically. “There’s no accounting for tastes, is there?”’ And somehow, although the young man knew that he ought to be happy over the possession of the girl, he couldn’t help scowling and speculating on that remark of the old man’s. Power of Deceiving. There Is a Brooklyn woman who pos- sesses a servant who is a model in all respects save one—in that she is none too truthful. Lately the mistress has been using all her eloquence to make Nora see the error of deceitfulness, But at last she had to own herself beaten when Nora, with a beaming smfile, turned and in a most cajoling tone said: “Sure, now, mum, an’ wot de ye sup- pose the power of desavin’ was given us fer?” Marital Troubles. Most of the people who write about troubles of married life are single. If they were married they .would be so busy with their troubles they would not have time to write.—Moorhead In- dependent. 7 Forced Out. She—Mr. Bloom does not pay his wife ‘much attention, does he? He— No. The only time I ever knew of his going out with her was once when the gas exploded. 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 self. He—WIll you be my wife? She—The idea! Don’t be ridiculous. He—Yes, I know it sounds ridiculous; but, then, I'm not so particular as some men are —Boston Transcript. —_— His Brothers.’ At the usual monthly petty sesslons court held In a certain provincial town some ‘weeks ago the followlng Incident occurred: One of the local police constables had summoned a neighboring farmer on a charge of “having a number of asses wandering at will on the public road.” The defendant failed to appear, but his brother was present In the person of the clerk of petty sessions, who on hearing the sentence of the presiding magistrate, “Fined 2s. 2d. and costs,” rose to the occasion by replying: “They’re my brother’s, your worship. I'll pay the fine.” He was shocked when his becoming exhibition of fraternal love for the asses was rewarded with an outburst of laughter.—London Graphic. Where the Shoe ched. It was easy for Mr. Randall to bear with his wife’s remarkable decision of character at all times, but her obsti- nacy he found most difficult to endure. “I can’t quite comprehend her,”. he confided to his brother after one try- ing experience. “Many years as we have been married, she still surprises me. Why, all in the same day, some- times In the same hour, she will settle a disturbance in the kitchen, put the children just where they belong, adjust some matter in the church and then, when her judgment ought to be at Its best, display the most astounding ob- stinacy In attempting to regulate my goings out or comings in. It's—it's in- comprehensible.” Moslem Prayer Rugs. Prayer rugs were evidently invented for the purpose of providing the wor- shipers with one absolutely clean place on which to offer prayers. It is not lawful for a Moslem to pray on any place not perfectly clean, and unless each one has his own special rug he I8 not certain that the spot has not been polluted. It does not matter to these followers of Mohammed how unclean a rug that is on the floor may be, because over it they place the prayer rug when their devotions begin. An Eye Experiment. The two eyes really see two objects. If the two forefingers be held, one at the distance of one foot, the other two feet in front of the eyes, and the for- mer be looked at, two phantoms of the latter will be observed, one on each side. If the latter figure be regarded. two phantoms of the nearest finger will be observed mounting guard, one on either side. _ Answered. Two ministerial candidates named Adam and Low preached in a Scottish church, Mr. Low preached in the morning and took for his text, “Adam, where art thou?” He made a most excellent discourse, and the congregation was much edl- fled. In the evening Mr. Adam preach- ed and took for his text, “Lo, here 1 am!” 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. ANCIENT RELICS DUG UP. Alleged Pirates’ Treasure Unearthed Near Long Beach, L. I. New York, March 7.—Reports that Captain Kidd's buried treasure had at last been discovered drew an inter- ested crowd to Long Beach. It is re- ported that one of the crew of a dredge, which is engaged in deepen- ing the channel between Long Beach and Hempstead, L. I, had found an ancient gold crested snuffbox and e flintlock pistol such as stage pirates are armed with. The relics were picked up by the dredge pipe. It is also reported that a gold brooch and a ring set with diamonds were found on the beach near by. Scores of peo- ple went to the beach and began dig- ging in the sand and the men on the dredge could, with difficulty, be in- duced to leave the discharge pipe through which the sand from the bot- tom of the channel was being piled up on barges. NATURAL PHENOMENON. Electrical Storm Oceurs During Rag. ing Blizzard. Marquette, Mich., March 7.—A nat- ural phenomenon occurred here, With a blizzard raging and with freezing temperature prevailing an electrical storm was experienced. Sharp flashes of lightning split the atmosphere and heavy peals of thunder rattled win- dows. At Munising, Mich., thunder and lightning also were features of a severe snow storm. This is the first time snow was ever accompanied by an electrical display in Northern Mich- {igan. Engineer Dead; Fireman Hurt. St. Paul, March 7.—Engineer C. E. Hinchman was killed and Fireman G. B. Chamberlain injured in a collision in the Union depot yards between a "Milwaukee switch engine and a Bur- lington motor. = Passengers on the mo- tor train were hurled from their seats and suffered minor bruises. A blind- ing snow storm, prevailing at the time, is blamed for the collision. Sue Night Riders for Damages. Paducah, Ky., March 6.—Robert H. Hallowell and wife of Vandergrift, Ind., formerly of Caldwell county, Ky., have filed suits for® $50,000 damages each against twenty-five or thirty res- idents of Caldwell county on the ground that they were members of a body of night riders which attacked 1 9£lr_huma last Mav. . CAUSES SOME DAMAGE. Fifty-five-Mile Gale Experienced at Chicage. Chicago, March '.—A high March wind caused damage in the down town district. The gale, which at times reached a velocity of fifty-five miles an hour, blew down chimneys and smashed in several store fronts. A load of gravel on the roof of the Merchants’ building was blown into the street, pelting pedestrians and covering their clothing with dirt. A chimney was blown off the Sherman House and the bricks tore a great hole through the glass canopy over the sidewalk, In the suburb of Gage Park, which is flooded with water on account of the rapid thaw of the last few days, the wind drove the water into waves which rolled into the first floor of residences, driving the tenants to the second story. The heavy iron smokestack of the Grand Pacific hotel was blown over, the heavy plates crashing down into the alley between that building and the Illinois Trust and Savings bank. An unknown man who was passing through the alley was struck and seri- ously injured. HON. ALBERT L. COLE DEAD Republican Candidate for Governor of Minnesota in 1906. Fergus Falls, Minn., March .—Hon. Albert L. Cole, Republican nominee for governor two years ago, is dead in Texas, where he had gone for the benefit of his health. A. L..Cole was born in St. Law- rence county, N. Y., and came to Min- nesota in 1882. He was sixly years old and served two terms in the lower house of the Minnesota legislature- BANKERS’ AND MERCHANTS’ BOOKKEEPING INSTITUTE The art of bookkeeping acquired by actual practice and experience in two or three months. Day and Evening Sessions. Catalogue free. 126-130 SOUTH THIRD STREET. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Pulls I 2 to 16 fourteen inch stubble plows. 1ne Gasolene Pwaing En Gasol Traction Plowing Engine that will plow 60acres per day at Zg’ge:lt:k;enr. nc::? alnt,ew*ill do your Seading, Tgl"elhin nd also haul your grain to market in car load qnantities. 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He is wanted in ccnnection with the mys- terious dissppearance of Mrs. Sera- fino Costanzo, who, the pelice say, was spirited away from her home in this city last Tuesday. Increases Pay of the Army. ‘Washington, March - —The senate army pay Increase bill, granting an increase of 40 per cent in the pay of enlisied men and of smaller per- centages to officers varying with rank, was pasged by the senate. Serious Fire in Jap Town. ‘Tokio, March ' .—A serious fire took place at NodasSoy, a brewing town near Tokio. Four'hundred out of 1,000 houses in the town were destroyed. The damage 'is estimated at about $2,506,000. BUY A GOr With the gro~ good lots scarcer ‘ still he . -lots ¥ ‘ tow. on easy For furth write or call Bemidji 1owusite and Im- provement Company. A.SIMONS, Agent. Swedback Block, Bemid}i. 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