Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 8, 1908, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY I’lflllEEHl Snienes wvaRY AreaanooN. ) BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By CLYDE J._PRYOR. Tntered in the postoffice at Bemidit. Mins., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM Grand Rapids Independent: Two bours after the Beltrami county con- vention the Bemidii Daily Pioneer was out containing a two galley writeup of the affair, giving all the details of the meeting. That is cer- tainly going some,” and when we see the slimness of the Pioneer’s advertising columns, and the appar- ently unappreciative disposition of the people of the Pioneer’s home town, we heave a sigh of relief that we do not live in Bemidji. OBSERVATIONS. LA. G. Rutledge.] A distinguished New York physi cian says a man may get drunk on water. But he doesn’t. Chicago has the only Chinese baseball nine in the world. China, however, turns out some millions of fans yearly. Penance For Discourtesy. Nicholas I., czar of Russia, was the type of an absolute avistocrat. The succession of terrible wars which clouded his reign did not tend to soften his disposition or to render him less imperious. But, rough and harsh as he was, Nicholas had a measure of chivalry in his disposition. He would not tolerate under any circumstances an insult offered to a ;woman, As the czar was driving through the streets of St. Petersburg he caught sight of an officer of his household in the act of upsetting an old beggar woman whose hands were raised in a prayer for alms. The official was quite un- mindful of the august witness of his nct and was rather pleased when, a few hours later, he was summoned to the imperial presence. Nicholas soon undeceived him and in the presence of a dozen courtiers cut him to the quick with his indignant reproof. “Enough!” saild Nicholas finally. “You will walk up and down that cor- ridor all night, and every time you turn you will say in a loud voice: ‘I am a puppy! I am a puppy.’” Carried Out Instructions. Every sailor has his story of the mistakes which landlubbers make over the names of things at sea, which always seem to be exactly the oppo- site of what they are on land. A new boy had gone on board a ‘West India ship, upon which a painter had also been employed to paint the ship’s side. The painter was at work upon a staging suspended under the ship’s stern. The captain, who had just got into a boat alongside, called out to the new boy, who stood leaning over the rail, “Let go the painter!” Two Harvard professors are to compile an oranz-outang dictionary. It should prove helpful in composing college yells. That Brooklyn physician who asserts that people can get crazy drunk on water must have had good opportunities of observing the stock market. A steel trust has just been formed in England. Thank heaven! At last some Englishman will have enough swag to establish universi- ties and chapels in this country. A Russian has invented a boat fitted with pneumatic cushions, so that it bounds from wave to wave. Most of us would prefer a boat that waived the right to bound. A Willing Informer. | “What is the number?’ repeated cen- tral. “Violet Park, eight-seven-seven.” “Violet Park, eight-double-seven?” “I reckon so.” “And what number do you want?” “Elmdale, two-naught-four-seven.” “What is your name?” “My name is John Henry Miggles. T live at 65 Blicken street, Violet Park. ‘My house phone is Violet Parlk, eight- seven-seven or eight-double-seven, as you choose. I am married, have no children. We keep a dog and a cat and a perpetual palm and a Boston fern, and”— “All that is unnecessary, sir. We merely”— “And last summer we didn’t have a bit of luck with our roses. I tried to ‘have a little garden, toc, but the neigh- pors’ chickens got away with that. The house is green, with red gables. There is a cement walk from the street. I am forty years old. My wife is young- er and looks it. We have a plano, keep a cook and an upstairs girl. Had the front bedroom papered last week, and I want”— “Did you want Flmdale two-naught- four-seven ?’ “Yes!” gasped Mr. Miggles. “Well, the line is busy now. call you?” But Mr. Miggles wrote a letter.—New Orleans Picayune. Shall 1 Squaring the Circle. There is a record of an attempted quadrature in Egypt 500 years before the exodus of the Jews, and, if we are to take Hone as an authority, the problem was solved by Hippocrates, the geometrician of Chios, nearly 500 years B. C. By some it is claimed that the efforts of Hippocrates were in the direction of converting a circle into a crescent because he had found that the area of a figure produced by draw- ing two perpendicular radii is exactly equal to the triangle formed by the line of conjunction. This last is the famous theorem of the “lunes of Hip- pocrates.” The “Papyrus Rhind,” the oldest mathematical book in the world, written by one Ahmes about 2,000 B. O, gives a rule for “squaring the circle.” The rule given requires that the diameter of a circle shall be short- ened by one-ninth and the square erect- ed upon this shortened line. The early . Babylonians also worked at this old mathematical problem, as is attested by several references in the Talmud. The Proper Adjective. At the close of a revival service in Philadelphia the minister of the church went down the aisle, according to his custom, to greet the strangers in the congregation. “I don’t think you are a member of our church,” said he te one as he warmly shook his hand. “No, sir,” replied the stranger. “Well, you will not think me unduly curious if I ask to what denomination you be- long?’ asked the minister. “I sup- pose,” responded the other, “I'm really iwhat you might call a submerged Pres- byterian.” “A submerged Presbyte- rian?’ exclalmed the minister. “I should be glad if you would explain.” “Well, I was brought up a Presbyte- rian, my wife is a Methodist, my eldest daughter is a Baptist, my son is the or- ganist at a Unitarian church, my sec- ond daughter sings in an Episcopal choir, and my youngest goes to a Con- gregational Sunday school.” “But,” said the minister, aghast, “you con- tribute doubtless to some charch?’ “Yes; I contribute to all of them,” was the answer. “That's what submerges me.” Everybody should know that a boat’s painter is the rope which makes it fast, but this boy did not know ft. He ran aft and let go the ropes by which the painter’s staging was held. Meantime the captain was wearied with waiting to be cast off. “You rascal!” he called. “Why don’t you let go the painter?’ “FHe’s gone, sir,” sald the boy brisk- ly. “He’s gone—pots, brushes and alll” —London Standard. She Wanted to Know. A little woman with wilton carpet floral designs on her hat came into the uptown Pennsylvania ticket office the other day and buught a ticket for a point down the state. 8he gathered up her ticket and asked for a little folder because it had a ple- ture on it in colors of a girl waving goodby to somebody from the end of a train. Then she placed her ticket in- side her purse and the purse inside a little satchel and put the satchel inside her shopping bag, which she carried in a small alligator traveling bag. Just before she started out she inquired of City Passenger Agent Dillon, who had been waiting on her, “How long be- fore my train starts?’ “Youw'll just about have time to make it Dillon told her. “It leaves the Unfon station in about seventeen min- utes.” “Seventeen minutes,” she repeated, “and is that by central time or eastern time?”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. - Only One Alternative. A cynic was smiling at the extrava- gant attentions that are lavished by the rich upon pet dogs. He spoke of the canine operations for appendicitis, the canine tooth crownings, the canine ‘wardrobes, that occur in New York, and then he said: “How servants hate these pampered curs! At a house where I was calling one warm day the fat and pompous butler entered the drawing room and said: “‘Did you ring, madam? “‘Yes, Harrison. I wish you to take Fido out walking for two hours.” “Harrison frowned slightly. ‘But Fido won't follow me, madam,’ he sald. “‘Then, Harrison, you must follow Fido.”” Leaving Home. I would give a few words of encour- agement to any young man who may hesitate about leaving home. There is nothing In the world so good for a man, say, between twenty-five and thirty-five years of age, especlally if unmarried, as a visit to distant coun- tries, to learn other tongues, to see new sights and to experience strange ad- ventures, such as he may readily en- counter by throwing aside the restrie- tions of home lifé and taking up work abroad.—Frederic Shelford, B. Se., in Engineer. mem o Point Not Well Taken. “T observe,” said the editor of the magazine, looking over the manuscript that had been submitted to him by the aspiring author thereof, “that you have used the phrase ‘lean hours.’ How can there be such a thing as a ‘lean’ hour?” “Why not?” demanded the other. “There is such a thing as a spare mo- ment, isn’t there?”—Chicago Tribune. Good Advice. Never forget the advice of Themis- tocles. Said that ancient, “I would be- stow my daughter upon a man without money, but not upon money without a man.” Just change money for title and see the different reading: “I would bestow my daughter upon a man with- out title, but not upon title without a man.”—New York Press. Willing to Help. Tramp—Can you assist me along the road, mum? Lady of the House—Pers sonally I cannot, but I will unchain my dog, and I know he will be most pleased to do so. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can blw.- Beecher. ! Not Far to Go. The reporter. hurried up to the sceme of the accident. A workman engaged on some scaffolding had missed his footing and had fallen many feet into the street below. . Then the reporter went off to interview. the unfortunate man, who luckily had escaped with a very severe shaking and a few nasty bruises, and asked sympathetically: “Did you have vertigo, my man?” “Oh, no, sir; only about thirty-five feqt: "Quite far enough for me, though.” —Pearsons. A very large mastiff at one end of & leash and a very small girl at the other end formed a combination which at- tracted the attention of a casual pedes- trian in a quiet side street. The little girl doubtless thought that she was taking the dog out for an air- ing, but the big animal himself appear- ed to have the impression that he was the leader of the expedition, and, be- yond question, the balance of power was entlirely on his side. He dragge the girl along despite her scolding expostulations at a pace which kept her breathless. Suddenly, either from a whim of his own or because somebody had been in the habit of taking him there, he dart- ed through ‘the swinging doors of a corner saloon. The girl looked horri- fied; but, clinging determinedly to her end of the leash, she followed her charge, and as the doors swung shut behind her the casual pedestrian heard this exasperated remonstrance: “Oh, darnfound it! Don’t you know ladles don’t go there? It's only a place for men!”—Philadelphia Ledger. Queer Feeding. “Come and watch me feed my star- fish.” The curator of the aquarium led the reporter to a tank where a half dozen starfish tripped over the sandy bottom on slim brown fingers. “G@rub time, boys,” he said, and he dropped into the tank six mussels. ‘The fish ran to the mussels. Each ap- plied his stomach to the hinge at the back of the shell. Silence and immo- bility ensued. “The gastric juice of the starfish,” 8aid the curator, “is now -melting the hinges of flesh that hold the mussel shells together. Ah, look, there’s one melted now. There’s another. It's the most powerful gastric juice in the world.” One by one, their hinges destroyed, the mussel shells opened, and into the openings the starfish thrust their stom- achs. More silence, more immobility. Then, a little plumper at the heart, the starfish went tripping daintily off, but the mussel shells lay open and empty on the sand.—Cincinnati En- quirer. Old Time Drunkenness. In reviewing “The Early Married Life of Maria Josepha, Lady Stanley,” the London Spectator comments on the lght in which drunkenness was re- garded at the beginning of the nine- teenth century. There was a christen- ing of twins and rejoicing among the neighbors, tenants and laborers. “All the guests,” says Maria, ‘“were as drunk as I ever had the pleasure of seeing any one.” Among the laborers, however, “that extent of intoxication ‘was not reached which causes men to be swine.” Lady Sheffield, who received this ac- count of the festivities, replies: “I would have given a great deal to be present. - There is nothing I love 80| gmy much as such sort of festivities, where one has the satisfaction of knowing that one makes one’s friends happy as well as drunk.” In London, she de- clares, “when you give a ball you af- front many people, please a few, make many drunk and yourself miserable.” Clay and the Salary Grab. “Quinn,” said an old member one day, “I heard you worrying about the mileage. Did you ever hear the story of Clay and the salary grab?” “No,” 1 replied. “When Clay was speaker,” he con- tinued, “along about 1816, the crowd raised their salaries to $1,500 a year. There was a great howl all over the country, and when Clay reached home In Kentucky he found old one armed John Pope, a Federalist, out after his scalp to beat the band and all the Clay adherents ominously eflent. Worried and anxlous, Clay sought ont his old barber, who had always been enthusi- astic in his advocacy and who hap- pened to be an Irishman. ‘I trust I may count on your hearty support, as usual?” Clay asked. ‘Faith, Mr. Clay,’ sald the Irish barber, ‘I think I shall vote at this time for the man who can get but one hand into the treasury.’” —Buccess Magazine. Needed a Big Dose. The president of the Waiters’ club of & % New York in a recent argument on tip- ping said to his opponent sharply: “Your reply is altogether beside the point and irrelevant. It reminds me of & woman’s reply In a German court. This woman was accused of poisoning her husband. The prosecuting attor- ney said to her: | “‘You have heard the evidence. The body contained enough arsenic to kill ten persons. What have you to say? - “‘My husband,’ the woman answer- ed, ‘was a big eater.’ ” Trouble Ahead. Parke—Old man, we’ve known each other for years, and it does seem strange that our wives have never met. Don’t you think it would be a good idea to bring this about? Lane—Seems to me that's rather a hard way of dolng it. “Doing what?" “Getting rid of each other.”—Life. Throw a Brick on It First. Arctic Explorer's Wife — Goodby, John, dear. Arctic Explorer—Farewell, my love. Arctic Explorer’s Wife—And, John, be sure that the ice is perfectly safe.—Judge. A Ducal Estate. The park in which Chatsworth stands s a dozen miles in circumfer- ence. The facade of the house Is a length of 1,500 feet.—Pall Mall Ga- zette. ‘Whether riches really have wings or not, they certainly are hard to overtake on foot.—Dallas News. How to Fill Up Holes In Wood. It sometimes becomes necessary to fill up cracks or dents in fine wood- work, furniture, floors, ete. The fol- lowing is the hest way of doing it: ‘White tissue paper is steeped and per- fectly softened in water and by thor- ough kneading with glue’ transformed into a paste and by means of ochers (earth colors) colored as nearly as: pos- sible to the shade of the wood. To the paste caicined magnesia is then added, and it.is. forced Into the cracks or veryflm!ywthewoodm-tterdry ing retains its smooth surface. - - Sale of Seliool and tflthar Stae Lands BTATE OF MINNESOTA, State Audit- or's Office 'St. Paul, May 1, 1608. Notice is hereby given that on the days and dates and at the times and places herein stated-below in this notice, in the d |offices oz the county auditors of the re- spective counties named in the State of Minnesota, I will offer for sale the fol- lowing described unsold state lands, and the following described state lands, which have reverted to the state by reason of the non-payment of interest will also be then and there offered for resale. Fif- teen per cent of the purchase price and interest on the unpaid balance from the date of sale to.June lst, 1909, must be paid at the time of the sale. The balance of the purchase money can be paid at any time, In whole or in part, within forty years of the time of the sale: the rate of interest on the unpaid balance of the purchase money- will be four per cent per annum, payable in advance on June 1st of each year, provided the prin- cipal remains unpaid for ten years; but If the principal is pald before the expira- tion of ten years from the date of the sale the rate of interest on the unpaid balance of the purchase meney will be five per cent per annum; interest is-pay- able in advance on June 1st of each ye: Holders of certificates on Which the Interest payments are in default can have their certificates reinstated on payment before the sale of the interest in full to date and the penalties thereon, when the lands covered thereby will be withdrawn from sale. Purchasers of lands on which assess- ments for the construction of a Drain- age Ditch have been paid by the state are required to pay in addition to the 15 per cent of the appraised value the cost of drainage and interest added to date of sale, as provided by Chapter 366, General Laws of 1907. All mineral rights are reserved by the state. All sales made will be subject to the provisions of Chapter No. 299 of the General Laws of 1905. SAMUEL G. IVERSON, State Auditor. BELTRAMI COUNTY. 8ale at Court House, Bemidji, July 9, 1908, at 10 o’Clock A. M. UNSOLD LANDS. g A 34 PANTS OF BECTIONS. “tttruonoes *-djususo, e3u \ 2 3 2 w0’ SHIP) N’WK and NE% SE% .14 148 31 200 1 NWK ll\d NE% EWk. :}’E 122 81 129.60 $A NW& o Lot“ss Néviy S5 # SW3 and uw% 84..10 146 32 190.75 sEK NI NWY % nnd SEY% 6 146 32 240 2 147 32 12.25 2 147 7 4 147 32 40 16 147 82 200 20 147 32 40 27 147 82 40 4 147 33 40 &3 " iy £ o ct 148 32 587.85 NE’ NEY NWY, ;. Ny SEY B R T SE db % 4 148 38 40 7 $ 198 o 9 o3 Ei N I 2 S DB E LB 19 2 B sxém 8W% and i!v & n less R 36 146 33 200.84 NW% NEY, S‘/fi l;z Ny, NEW S Wi qu §EY% and St SEY, less R. .18 147 gs 494 141 164 147 33 320 % BEY, 20 Lots 2, 8 and 4, NE% NWY%, %nd Wi, SEY. % By Nwé"%m Loy u ‘and mmond B OER R R R OP OENN 3P B28IBIR L8888 - | -3 8% NE 3 v S e ot Y16 161 NW4 NEW and NEY NWY% . %« A Compromise. A ‘private soldier was taken to the guardroom for being intoxicated. He became excited. ‘“Sergeant, am I drunk?”’ he asked of the “noncom” in 34 53815 8 40 # 0 © 34 80 34 0 34 80 84 @ #oe 4 83.83 NWY, sgm. 36 148 34 4%0 4 148 35 TAT2 14148 35 40 15 146 35 40 % 22 146 33 40 Lots 1, 2 and NE, b 24 146 35 130.80 3 s 4810 30 148 I d 4 34 148 85 96.10 Lot 4 and qu 01 147 85 79.30 LAND. sy nx ¢ 148 81 50.25 N{?u NWy% and NEY 22 148 31 240 16 140 81 “son 88 148 82 1. 10 147 83 2575 By BWY . 22 147 32 80 E?E SEY% and NW¥ % 48 5 10 Fractional 36 148 33 803.70 NEY% and 86 lu‘g 120 Lots 5 ana U6 1t £ u 3 35 charge. “Yes-~take off your boots,” was the reply. “But excuse me, sergeant,” the de- Unquent continued, “I am only half drunk.” A well known divine whose theolog: dcal discourses draw crowded houses in all the principal cities accepted an Invitation to lecture in a small provin-, clal town, but discovered afterward that he had a prior engagement on the same date. . He accordingly apologized and offered to make good any loss the soclety might incur through his delin quency. A few days later he received a letter from the secretary assuring him that no harm was done and inclosing a handbill' which the divine is never tired of reading to his amused friends. “As the Rev. Mr. — {8 unable to give his advertised lecture on ‘Con- sclence,’ ” announced the bill, “four members of the B— minstrel troupe have kindly volunteered to perform in- stead a screamingly laughable farce entitled —. Any- person who has bought a ticket for the other enter- talnment may have’it transferred to this on payment of sixpence extra.”-- Tondon Tatler, When Explosives Explode. A popular notion that explosives will “go off” by any simple method is wrong. Many of the most powerful explosives imaginable may be kicked about, may. be set on fire or may be shot out of a gun, and unless the prop- er agency for exploding them is em- ployed they will not “go off”” and will do no damage. The reason for this may be explained by an illustration. Consider a grateful of coal. There is there enough of what we may call ex- plosive energy to throw a 1,000 pound weight through a foot of solid steel— if only it could be liberated. But there can be no explosion without oxygen, and the coal in the grate will not burn faster than the supply of osygen in the afr which reaches it will permit. If the coal could be furnished all at once with enough air te cause its complete burning, it would explode with as great violence as If it weie so much dyna- wite.—St. Nicholas. The Sun of the Blind. _ 1 have not touched the outline of a star nor the glory of the moon, but I believe that God has set two lights in my mind, the greater to rule by day and the lesser by night, and by them I know that I am able to navigate my lfe -bark, as certain of reaching the haven as he who steers by the North star. Perhaps my sun shiies not as yours. The colors that glorify my world, the blue of the sky, the green of the fields, may ot correspond exact- Iy with those you delight in, but they are none the less color to me. The sun does not shine for my physical eyes, nor does the lightning flash, nor do the trees turn green in the spring But they have not therefore ceased to exist any more than the landscape is annihilated when you turn your back on it—Helen Keller in Century. Harmless Joke. Place a spool of cotton in the in- slde pocket of your coat and, having threaded a needle with the beginning of the cotton, pass the needle through the front of the coat, unthread the needle and leave about two incles of the cotton hanging as if it were only 4 stray piece. The first person you meet will be sure to pick it off you, and his astonishment when he finds there Is no end to it will give plenty of innocent fun, : The Only One. Henry VIII of England, being at onc time at variance with Francis 1. of France, decided to send an ambassa- dor and to charge him with a very flerce and.- menacing message to this prince. He chose for this office” an English bishop in .whom he had great confidence ‘and whom he believed would be the most proper person to carry out his design. His prelate, be- ing informed of the nature of his mis- slon and fearing for his life should he treat with Francis in the haughty manner his master desired, represented to the king the danger to which he 'was exposing him and begged not to be sent on this mission. “Oh, never fear,” said Henry. “If the king of France should kill you, I will have the head of every French- man I find in my kingdom.” “I believe you, sire,” replied the bish- op, “but permit me to assure you that of all the heads you will cut off there 1s not one of them that will fit on my body as well as my own!” The Letter M. The Hebrew name of M was Mem, ‘water, and it is curious to note that the original form of this character in the most ancient manuscript is a wav- Ing line, which to the not too particu- lar anclents represented water. By some philologists the letter M as used by the Phoenicians is supposed to have come from a picture representing the human face, the two down strokes rep- resenting the contour of the counte- mnance, the V stroke signifying the nose, the two dots, long since disused, and a stroke beneath the V represent- ing the eyes and the mouth. The old Phoenician form of the letter does in- deed bear a comical sort of . resem- blance to the human face. The Cure. “You look glum,” said the husband of one clever woman to the man who had married her companion. “So would you if your wife studied geology and filled the house with stones until there wasn’t a place left for you to sit.” “Don’t worry about that,” was the cheerful reply. “Turn your wife's thoughts to astronomy. That will suit her just as well, and she can’t collect specimens.”—Sketchy Bit8. “SHAKE IT OFF, Rid Yourself of Unnecessary Burdens. A Bemidii Citizen Shows You How. Don’t bear unnecessary burdens, Burdens of a bad back are un- necessary. Get rid of them. Doan’s Kidney Pills cure bad backs; Cure lame, weak and aching backs; Cure every form of kidney ills. Lots of local endorsement to prove this, Clyde Johnson, living. at 1014 Bemidji avenue, Bemidji, Minn., says: “I had been feeling very miserable for sometime and I was enduring a great deal of suffering from kidney complaint, There was a pain in my back and during the early part of the day, I felt languid and tired-out, and the soreness caused me great discom. fort. I decided to try a reliable kidney remedy and went to The Owl Drug Store, and procured a box of Doan’s Kidney pills. I used them according to directions, soon the pains disappeared and that tired, languid feeling van: ished, I know Doan’s Kidney Pills to be a reliable remedy and can recommend them to anyone suffering from kidney complaint.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember tne name—Doan’s and take no other. BEMIDJI CIGARS Fora good smoke try the new cigar made in Bemidji and get a good 10c smoke, for a TOM GODFREY OR QUEENIE Manufactured by BURKHARDT CICAR CO. MERCHANTS BLOCK ask your dealer publication. DAILY PIONEER FOR LEGALS Attorneys and others having the handling of the publication of legal notices should remember that the Daily and Weekly Pioneer ccver the entire week, with regard to the legal publication of notices. 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