Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 30, 1908, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTHRNOON, BEMIDII PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. CLYDE J. PRYOR | . RUTLEDGR, Business Manager Managing Editor Tntered in the postofice at Remidil. Minn., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---85.00 PER ANNUM KAISER WANTED FOR DELEGATE. That A. Kaiser, the old republi*} can war horse of Bagley, will be selected as a delegate from the Ninth Congressional district to the national republican convention seems to be a foregone conclusion. During the past week many of the papers throughout the district have made favorable mention of Mr. Kaiser as a delegate; and he has been the recipient of many letters assuring him of the support of the writers for the position. Mr. Kaizer was in the city Satur- day, and relative to his candidacy for delegate said: “While I have been making no canvass up to the present time, I have received so many assurances of support that I have decided to be- come an active candidate- I am for Taft for president, first, last and all the time, and I believe that no man should be elected as a delegate to Chicago who thinks otherwise, as the state at large is for Taft for the republican nomination.” The Pioneer has heretofore spoken of Kaiser’s loyalty to the republican party, and his continued labors in the republican vineyard should be recognized to the extent of his being unanimously selected as a delegate to the Chicago gathering “DOC” IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR US. Says Mary McFadden, “News and Comment,” in the Duluth News- Tribune: “Doc,” otherwise A. G. Rutlegde, of the Bemidji Pioneer, who should use his own name rather than the unattractive nom de plume, is at- taining considerable distinction on account of his observation column. The territory covered by the Pioneer and the Cass Lake Times is pretty well provided with paragraphic com- ment. Thanks for your kind words, Mary, but “Doc” is good enough for us. We were given that name when we first went into the Grand Forks Herald office to learn the printing trade, under the direction of George B. Winship, some twenty years ago; and there are some events associ- ated with that “nick-name” that we cherish. No, Mary, God bless you, we are not looking for any undue notoriety. Many of the old boys would not know us under our cor- rect initials of “A. G.” We prefer “Doc;” and we fear your kind words are more in the way of a charitable reminder of the weakness of our vaporings than attesting any merit, which latter we do not claim for them. However, it is such kind words as yours that spur one on to better things. Again, we thank you, Will Guard Tobacco Beds. Lexington, Ky., March 28.-Lieuten- ant Jenkins and fifteen men from the Whitesburg company of militia were tent to Mount Sterling to guard to- bacco beds and other property, threats of destruction having been made. Governor Guild Improving. Boston, March 28.—The following oulletin on Governor Guild’s condition has been issued: “There has been turther improvement in the governor’s condition during the past twenty-four hours.” Milk Drivers Vote to Strike. Chicago, March 28.—A strike was voted by the milk wagon drivers of Chicago at a meeting here. The vote was 987 in favor of a strike and 67 against. Nearly 1,100 members of the union attended the meeting. The drivers demand an increase of $5 a week over the present scale, which expires on March 31. Heroic Act Cause of Death. Marshalltown, Ia, March 28.—Rob- ert B. Williams, Civil war veteran and a member of the Soldiers’ home, while attempting to stop a runaway team here, recelved injuries from which he died at the home hospital three hours later. Wikliams was a veteran of Company H, Eleventh Indiana infan- try. He was sixty years old. Canal Across New Jersey. Trenton, N. J., March 30.—Governor Fort has signed the canal bills that permit the construction of canals 250 feet wide. The bills pave the way for a ship canal across New Jersey from the Atlantic ocean to the Dela- ware river. R — 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, _— Forecastle Gourm “Scouse, or lob scouse, a parson's face sea pie, junk, tack, slush and duft —there’s a meal ye can’t beat no- wheres,” sald the sailor. “Yes,” he went on, “ye can talk about yer ris de veau, yer vol au vent, yer mouses aud other French dishes, but they ain't none o' them in it with sea fare dished up by a good sea law- yer. “Scouse is soup, soup made o' salt beef. Add some good sea vegetables to it, sitch as spud sprouts and split peas, and ye get an extra fine soup, what is gener’ly called lob scouse. Pot au feu is slops beside a rich lob scouse. “Foller up yer scouse with a parson’s face sea pie. That's a pie made of bul- lock’s head. Good? Why, friend, there ain’t nothin' like it on earth. “Junk is salt beef. Junk ain’t no brain food. It don't strengthen the mind like a correspondenceyourse, but, by tar, I'd ruther have it than caneton a la presse or a supreme de sole. “Tack and slush is the sailor’s bread and butter. What if “ye do have to break yer tack with a tack hammer, and what if yer slush is sometimes strong e¢wough to queer the compass? Sailors need strong food, for they must do their work.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. A Little Card Trick. A Russian priest was so devoted to the amusement of card playing that he played up to the last moment be- fore commencing the church services. On one occasion, having a particularly good hand dealt him, he thrust the cards into his pocket, intending to re- turn and finish the game after the service. Unluckily the cards fell out on the church floor, to the extreme scandal of the congregation. The wit- ty priest, however, was fully equal to the occasion. At the conclusion of the service he beckoned up one of the choristers and asked him the names of several of the cards, which the boy knew correctly. He then suddenly asked the lad the name of the next salnt's day, which the child could not tell. “See!” cried the priest, turning to the congregation. “You teach your children the names of every card in the pack and leave them ignorant of their religion. Let this be the last time I am compelled to bring playing cards into the church to shame you.” And picking up his hand he made an honorable retreat—London Answers. A Bad Break. “It beats the Dutch,” said a young broker, “how much trouble a fellow’s wife’s most charming girl friend can make for a fellow—or for a fellow’s wife,” Then he explained what ap- pearéd to be greatly in need of ex- planation. “I went home for dinner the other night,” he continued, “with a frlend who was married recently. The wife’s old chum was there and met the husband for the first time. “‘Really,’ she sald on presentation, ‘I quite feel that I have known you. You see, that picture of yours in for * ball costume that Jennie always ks on her dresser so long was very miliar to me.” “Say, you ought to have seen face of that friend of mine. Buf finally found his voice. “‘But, my dear Miss Smith,’ he¢ plied, ‘I never was a football pl and never had on a football costur “Then you should have seen Miss Smith’s face.”—New York Globe. Animals Are Not Proud. Professor Schuster asserts that ani- mals lack moral feeling entirely, none of their acts being immoral or moral in the broad sense, and that they have no trace of a sense of shame or of honor. Thelr courage, he declares, Is “a mere Impuise of nature,” and of moral cour- age they know nothing. He continues: “And animals have no pride in the sense of man’s conception of that qual- ity. They are not proud of thelr kind, of their kindred, of their individuality. They neither have an individuality nor are individual. Animals are not proud because they have no consclousness of the scope of the value of their kind, of their enterprise or of any other form of their capability. They are neither supercilious, proud nor the contrary— that is, grieved, wounded or depressed in regard to a possible pride.” Where Beggars Have Trades Unions. Begging is a vocation in China and beggary an institution. In every prov- ince there is an organized beggars’ trade union or guild—in some districts several. These guilds have presidents and officlals and are in every respect thoroughly well organized. There s a membership fee of about $4, and all members swear to abide by the rules. The chiefs, or “kings,” as they are called, are under the protection of the magistrates, and their power is con- siderable.—Wide World Magazine. The Age of Artificial Beauty. ‘Writers on topies concerning wom- en’s matters would fain have us be- lieve that the present is the age of | beauty. The fact is that never before have the arts of artificiality been so widely adopted among all classes as they are today.—London Opinion, Has to Take Them. “I can take 100 words a minute,” said one shorthand writer to another. “I often take more than that,” re- marked the other in sorrowful accents, “but then I have to. I’m married.” Worth Two M “Len made the glee cinb.” “Why, his voice is cracked.” “I know, but it split the other night, and he's singing duets now.”—Yale Record. And Now He Doesn’t. Howell—Do you like congregational singing? Powell—I did until the cats in our neighborhood adopted the idea. Foiled. “Ah!” said Bragley, with a view to making Miss Wise jealous. “I was alone last evening with some one I ad- mire very much.” “Ah!” echoed the bright girl. “Alone, were you?'—Philadelphia Press. A Losing Scheme. “They tell me that poor Jolly is a victim of bis own good fellowship.” “That’s so. He lost his own health In drinking other people’s.”—Baltimore American, o Executing a Death Sentence. Prince Urussov writes in his “Me- moirs of a Russian Governor” of an kequaintance, one Von Robren, a very kindly man, who liked to tell some- times of his presence of mind and ‘his police ability as demonstrated on one occasion at his former post. He was once called upon to be present at the execution of a Jewish criminal. The condemned man hung the required number of minutes and was taken down from the gallows, when the phy- sician was supposed to confirm his death. But it appeared that they had forgotten to cut off the Jew’s long. thick beard, thanks to which, although the noose had deprived the man of consciousness, it had not killed him. “Imagine yourself in my position,” said Rohren. *The doctor told me the Jew would come back to life in five minutes. What was I to do? To hang him a second time I held to be impos- sible, and yet 1 had to execute the death sentence.” “‘But what did you do, then?” 1 asked and received the memorable answer, “I had him buried quickly before he regained conscious- ness.” Two Clever Answers. A pretty southern girl recently show- ed herself a match for the curious minded women in her boarding house who were bent on knowing what her father’s business was. As a matter of fact, he was an un- dertaker, but the girl was a bit sensi- tive on this point, so she made up her mind not to gratify their curiosity. ‘When unduly pressed on the point she answered: i “He’s a southern planter.” This was quite within the bounds of truth and completely threw the inquis- itive one off the track. The retort of a well known actress to a similar question about the occupation of her father, who was a letter carrier in her old home, was not inferior in finesse to that of the Dixie girl. It was when she first began playing in London. Some one asking what business her father was engaged in, she sweetly replied that he was “a man of letters.”—Pittsburg Leader. At 4 In the Morning. The hour of 4 a. m. has something mysterious about it. Cocks crow, peo- ple on the brink of death give up the ghost, every one who is asleep sleeps sounder, and even the watchful sentry can’t always keep his eyes open. At this hour people are in their weakest state, and if life Is just on the flicker it is not surprising that it goes out. Many a man’s life has been saved by a spoonful of ammonia administered just when the clock strikes 4. The period of deepest sleep varies from 3 to & o'clock. An hour or two after golng to bed you sleep very soundly, then your slumber grows gradually lighter, and it is easy enough to waken you at 1 or 2 o'clock. But when 4 o’clock comes you are in such a state of som- nolence that you would take no motice =% +ha end of the world. _— nals In New South Wales. 'uth Wales has a novel system g with habitual criminals. A antenced to a term for his par- ffense and to an indeterminate :cause he is an “habitual” 2 has served the definite term, well behaved, he can rise from grade w grade, each step being accom- panied by various concessions. One feature Is that he may earn wages, which may be sent to his family, spent on luxuries or credited to him for the day of release. A committee examines his progress from time to time, advis- | ing the minister when he may be re- leased. No release Is absolute till after a year’s probation under modified re- straint. Curiosities In Wedding Rings. Among the curiosities of wedding rings it is on record that in the early days rings were made of rushes. Per- haps the most curious material used for rings required on an emergency is | the case of one being hurriedly made by cutting it out of the finger of a glove and another cut out of a visiting card. Many cases are on record of rings made of brass and iron being used, as also curtain rings and door keys being pressed into service at wed- dings. More at Home. A young fellow being asked by a re- cruiting sergeant if he wished to enlist in a Scottish regiment, replied: “Not likely. I'd rather go to a lunatic asylum than enlist in a Scottish regi- ment.” “Ah, weel,” said the sergeant, “I’ve nae dout ye'd feel mair at hame there.” —Dundee Advertiser. Gentle Play. His Mother—What are you moping about the house for, Tommy? Why don’t you go over and play with Char- ley Pinafore? Tommy—'Cause I play- ed with Charley Pinafore yesterday, and T don’t s’pose he’s well enough yet. The Wise Boy. : “What is the best place in which keep fresh milk in hot weather?” ask- ed the teacher. “Please, teacher, in the cow,” an- swered the small boy who had just re- turned from a country holiday. Of Course. “And I am the very first you have loved, Bertha?” “Of course you are. How tedious you men are! You all ask the same question.”—London Opinion. A Crisis, ‘Wild Eyed Man—I want some sooth- ing sirup quick. Druggist—What sized bottle? Wild Eyed Man—Bottle? 1 want a cask. It's twins.—Illustrated Bits. BT 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 Him 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. “Cinnamon canaries are the best known of a mere handful of instances ‘where it is possible to change the color of a bird or animal by food. The trick has long been known to fanciers, and each claims to have his own secret for working the miracle, but the process is really simple and consists in abundant- ly sprinkling the birds’ food with red pepper. It is a troublesome process, for a large number of birds either re- fuse to eat or suffer®rom deranged digestion. Even of those who take the dlet not more than a third or a half will show the color effects. The only inducement to the fanciers to produce this curious change is that once so altered these birds have an artificlal value. Dealers will tell you that in ad- dition to the red pepper they give oth- er red articles of food, such as tomato skins, slices of beet and the skins of red ‘apples or cranberries. But this 1s merely an innocent fallacy, based on the idea that the coloring matter of the food 1is transferred bodily to the feath- ers.—Collier'’s Weekly. Confession of Mouth., A city dentist, defending his profes- sion as a whole from the double charge' of charlatanism and “graft,” made this interesting declaration: “While such things exist in dentistry, as in all businesses, there is far more of it among gilt edged practitioners than along the modest level where, for example, I work. Some men enjoying the most fashionable clientele are the rankest frauds either in ability or in representation of work done. “But a dentist never can fool a den- tist. Often a patient will get into my chair for the first time, and in a casual conversation 1 will ask who last treat- ed the teeth. The name always comes, and a glance tells me whether the man has worked honestly or dishonestly. I have sized up some of our ‘best’ den- tists in that way in half a minute, and many a reputation has crumbled in my estimation. “A dentist can fool the people, but he can’t fool a dentist.”—New York Globe, Four Kinds of Nails. The members of a primary class in the young ladies’ school were ambi- tlous to emulate the members of the senior class, whom they regarded with considerable envy on account of their proficiency in the art of writing compo- sitions. Becoming eager for a like priv- ilege, the five little girls were told that they might tell the world- what they knew about “nails.” A half bhour was allotted to the diffi- cult task, and all went to work. The first four had nothing unusual or star- tling upon their papers, but Sadie M., aged seven, was characterized by con- siderable ingenuity. She took her place with dignity and read without a tre- mor, “There are four kinds of nails— finger nails, door nails, toe nails and tacks!” and resumed her seat bewitch- ingly unconscious that she had caused the smile. The Insect and the Net. It has been known for a long time that an insect will not fly through a net with meshes three or four times as large as its body, whereas a bird will go through a mesh of corresponding slze without hesitation. The Insect can- not tell us why it stops and lights on the net without trying to go through, and its peculiar action puzzled observ- ers until the scientists took the matter up, as they do all things of that kind. They say that the eye of the insect is made up of many facets, so that the net looks to it like a continuous opaque surface, the meshes not being appar- ent. Therefore it stops or turns back before it discovers that it might have gone through the net without stopping. To the eye of the bird, however, the meshes are plainly visible, and it goes through without hesitation, What He Got. He was addressing a lowly but intel- lgent audience somewhere in the "vi- cinity of Whitechapel, and he had se- lected for his discourse “Rhymes and Rhyming,” so that he might illustrate to those rough and rugged minds how the charms of poesy can brighten the poor man’s hearth. And, touching upon the difficulties of rhyming, he said: “It is easy enough, my friends, to get a rhyme for so simple a word as ‘sea,’ but what can you get for ‘bur- glary? ” “Well, guv’nor,” exclaimed one of his hearers, “it all depends on the judge. My Bill got seven years!”—London Scraps. | Caddies. The term “caddies,” or “cadies,” or “cawdies,” is akin to “cad” and “cadet” and means messengers or unattached male servants. Caddles, in fact, were originally a class of men found in ev- ery Scotch town of any size who were at the beck and call of everybody who wanted an odd job done; hence they were at the beck and call of everybody who was starting for a game of golf, and now they are employed solely by the goifer. A Philosopher. “Smiley says he hasn’t any luck at alL” “Indeed! It's something unusual for him to complain.” “Oh, he wasn’t complaining. He says he’d rather have no luck than always have it bad.”—Exchange. Her Dear Friend. “Yes,” said she defiantly, “I admit that I kissed him.” “Did he put up much of a struggle?’ inquired her best girl friend.—Louis- ville Courier-Journal. About the first thing that would strike a dead hero could he return to earth would be the great number who try to answer his name at roll call.— Atchison Globe. Reading 2 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 ani- mal 1s in bad health. “You can read a pig's condition by its tall. The tighter it is curled ‘the fitter 18 the pig. :And when the tail hangs straight, as. this one does, the DPlg ought to take to his bed and send for the veterinary.” — New Orleans mocrat. i “omny TWO KILLED AT SIOUX CITY Switch Engine Deralled and Foot- board Ocoupants Crushed. Sfoux City, Ia, March > .—A de- fective switch was the cause of the derailment of an engine in the yards of the Omaha road in which J. L. Gil- fillan, night foreman of the yards, was instantly killed and T. J. Blakely, a switchman, fatally injured. The acci- dent happened at Third and Howard streets. The two men were riding on the front footboard of the engine, which was doubled under the loco- motive when it left the switch. Gil- fillan had been employed by the Omaha road for twenty years. PREPARED FOR ‘A STRIKE. But Southwestern Operators Will Con- fer With lMlflarl. Kansas City, March . \—Southwest- ern mine owners are well prepared to stand a strike of the 35,000 coal min-«| ers of Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas on April 1, ac- cording to a statement made here by Charles S, Keith, one of the leading operators in this part of the country. He expressed the opinion that the Operators’, association would agree to a conference to try to reach terms of settlement of the:differences. The as- soclation will meet Tuesday. MARKET QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, March 28.—Wheat— May, $1.04%; July, $1.02% @1.02%. On track—No. 1 hard, $1.08; No. 1 North- ern, $1.06; No. 2 Northern, $1.04; Ne. 3 Northern, 97c@$1.01. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, March 28.—Wheat—To ar- rive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.- 06%: No. 1 Northern, $1.04%; May, $1.02%; July, $1.03%. Flax—To ar- rive, on track and May, $1.16%; July, $1.185. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. 8t. Paul, March 28.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $6.00@6.75; fair to good, $6.00@5.75; good to choice cows amd heifers, $4.00@5.00; veals, $3.76@5.00: Hogs—$5.60@56.70. Sheep—Waethers, $6.76@86.25; good to choice lambs, $7.00@1.60. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, March 28.—Cattle—Beeves, $4.80@17.36; cows and heifers, $2. 6.10; Texans, $4.50@6.60; calves, $4.50 @6.75; Western cattle, $4.50@6.50; stockers and feeders, $3.16@5.20. Hogs —Light, $5.55@6.05; mixed, $6.55@ 6.05; heavy, $5.55@6.00; rough, $5.55 @6.70; pigs, $4.50@5.40.. Sheep, $4.60 @7.00; yearlings, $6.00@7.76; lambs, $5.85@7.90. : Chicago Qra Chicago, Mar 93% @94c; Jul 8634c. Corn—M 63%c; Sept., 62 old, 58%c; Mz 47% @4T%ec; Jul Pork—May, $13. Butter—Creamer fes, 20@26c. Eg i Turkeys, ehicke; ¥ work. J. F. 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