Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 17, 1908, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED MVERY AFTHRNOON, A A A A A A A A A A Ao BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By CLYDE J. PRYOR. Entered in the postofice at Bemidil. Minn., 28 second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM _— PROSPERITY IN THE NORTHWEST. The experts of Wall street are looking to the West and South to restore the business of the East to its normal condition. They say that despite the fact that there has been an advance of ten to thirty points in stocks since last October the gain is not altogether satis- factory; that in some measure it has been the result of effort on the part of powerful operators. ~Much of the rise is credited to the natural rebound following the slump when securities fell below their intrinsic value. Then, too, capital that was in hiding after the flurry is being brought out again and the increased supply of money seeking invest- ment has facilitated the efforts of those behind the movement in the stock market, but the result has not been wholly satisfactory. ~“Nothing will do more,” says Henry Clews, “toward pulling the country out of the ‘Slough of Despond’ than a good harvest.” The financiers of Wall street are in error when they imagine that the country is in the “Slough of De- spond.” The people of the North- west certainly have no cause for lamentation. They depend upon nature and their own intelligent effort for their wealth, and they have not looked in vain to either. Providence has been very generous to those living in the Northwest. ‘They are not aware that they are in a “Slough of Despond.” The farmers and merchants all are enjoy- ing the bounty acquired during years of plenty and thrift. Their prosperity has too much depth to be seriously affected by surface dis- turbance. The wave that engulfed Wall street last fall was nothing more than a ripple when its effect reached Minnesota. Wall street should cheer up. It should not mistake its own surround- ings for those of all the nation. The securities piled away in its vaults have practically the same intrinsic value as before the flurry. If there is any shrinkage the loss represents values that did not exist. The people of the nation are richer today than ever. They are produc- ing more wealth than at any time in the history of the country. There is nothing fictitious about the pros- perity of people who annually are taking billions of wealth out of the ground. Wall street may pine for a return of high prices for stocks—its conception of prosperity—and imagine the country is in the “Slougk of Despond,” but the rest of the nation, particularly the Northwest, is not worrying. The profits of the East are con- fident that a good crop would do much toward relieving the situation. If it is any consolation to them they may rest assured that the prospect never was better in the Northwest. Conditions at present are unusually favorable. The spring weather and condition of the ground have been ideal for getting the crop started. There is an abundance of moisture everywhere and the outlook never was brighter for a bumper crop. If the financiers of Wall street will have patience a few weeks longer the farmer of Minnesota and the Northwest will let them have all the money they need, on approved seurities. § ELECTRIC RAILWAY MERGER One 8lated to Ocour In Wisconsin Shortly. Oghkosh, Wis.,, July 1}—It ig re- ported from what is belleved to be authentic information that one of the bfi est electric railway mergers ever taking place in Wisconsin i8 slated for Oshkosh soon. I3 18 said that the property of the Winnebago Traction company and the property of the Eastern Wisconsin Railway and Light company will be taken over by a syndicate of which John I Beggs of Mliwaukee is at the head. The report has it that the for- mal transfer will take place Aus. 6, when the Winnebago Tractien com- pany’s property is scheduled to be 8ald under a foreclosure judgment or- ‘dered in circuit court. ‘Two Resouers Meet Death. ‘Winnipeg, Man, July 1,—While rescuing a boy who had fallen into an abandoned hole left by the builders for the foundation of the big steel rallway bridge at Lethbridge, Alberta, George H. Thompson of North Dakota and Fred Rob, an Englishman, met death, being suffocated by a flow of |gas. Other rescuers are in a serious ‘condition. . - The South Sea Whiskers Trade. “In the south seas whiskers is a rarl- ty,” said a sailor. “Most of them there Maoris has hairless faces, like a girl’s. ‘When a young Maori, at the age of six- ‘teen or so, finds himself endowed with whiskers he- blesses the day when he ‘was born, for now, by tar, he knows his whiskers will keep him from want in his old age. “Puzzlin’, ain’t it? T'll explain it out to you. “The Maori chiefs down Tahitl way wears a complicated headdress, and a necessary part of this here headdress 1s a lot of stiff tufts of white whiskers. The headdress makers pays for white whiskers their weight in gold. “So, you see, old fellers with snowy spinach is in demand in the south seas. Contractors keeps herds of these old fellers, the same as drovers -keeps sheep, and reg'lar in June and Decem- ber the semiannual shearin’ comes off. “The curly white harvest is loaded on to pirogues, and the contractors puts out over the roarin’ coral reefs, and from island to island sells to the chiefs big handfuls of that there snowy fluff for its weight in French gold.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat. The Bottle at Ship Launches. Down to Charles II’s time it was customary to name and baptize a ship after she was launched, sometimes a week or two after. The old Tudor method used for men-of-war was still in use. Pepys’ “Diary” shows that. The ship was safely got afloat, after which some high personage went on board with a special silver “standing cup” or “flaggon” of wine, out of which he drank, naming the ship, and poured a libation on the quarter deck. The cup was then generally given to the dockyard master shipwright as a me- mento. When did the present usage of naming and baptizing a ship before she is sent afloat come in? I trace the last explicit mention of the old method to 1664, when the Royal Katherine was launched (see Pepys). The first men- tion of smashing a bottle of wine on the bows of a British man-of-war that I have found is in a contemporary newspaper cutting of May, 1780, de- scribing the christening of H. M. 8. Magnanime at Deptford, but nothing is hinted that it was then a new custom. ~London Notes and Queries. Almost at Rest. A kind hearted but somewhat close fisted man who was sorely afflicted with a consclence came to a friend, holding a visiting card in his hand. He looked deeply tfoubled. “I know,” said he, “this man wants to borrow money. I know he will drink it. What am I to do?” “It is perfectly simple,” sald ~the friend. “Send down word that you are out.” “I cannot,” he said. “I have never told a lle in my life.” - “Then,” said his friend, “lend all your money to me, and you can tell him you haven’t a penny in your pocket.” After some hesitation the kind heart- ed man complied and, having seen his caller, returned. b “Well,” asked his friend, “are your consclence and mind at rest?’ “Not quite, man,” he replied, “but they will be as soon as you have given me my money back.”—Bellman. He Writ. A well known dramatie critic visiting Stratford on Shakespeare’s birthday and, hearing the clangor of the bells which, from their tower in the old church where the poet lies burled, awoke the little town to its devotions approached a wintry headed street sweeper in front of Irving’s inn and sald: “Who is the fellow they’re mak- ing this fuss about? I see you have'| Bhakespeare hotels, Shakespeare gin- gerbread, and only the other day I saw a man driving to town some pigs called ‘Shakespeare’s best’ Who is he —the fellow who lived in that tumble- down shanty yonder?’ The “oldest In- habitant” megaphoned his ear and, wheezing, replied, “I think he writ.” “Oh, he writ, did he? What dld he write—books, confessions of a deer stealer, magazine articles—what? *I think he writ for the Bible.” A Decorated Interior. Mrs. Graham is an estimable lady whose hobby is house decoration. One day the lady was careless enough to drink o glass of red ink, believing it to be claret. She was a good deal scared when she discovered her mis- take, but no harm came to her. The doctor who was summoned, upon hearing what had happened, dry- ly remarked to her, “Mrs. Graham, there’s such a thing as pushing this rage for decorated Interiors too far.””— Argonaut. Memory Training. If men only realized how great an asset in life is a retentive memory they. ‘would take care to see that their chil- dren’s were properly trained. The simplest method consists in learning every day a few lines by heart. Nome of our faculties can be trained so easily as that of memory.—Stuttgart Familienblatt. Her Choice. “What would you do, dear, if T were to die?” asked Mrs. Darley fondly. “I don’t know,” replied Darley thoughtfully. “Which is your cholce— burial or cremation?’—London Mail. A Surgical Operation, 'The customer raised his hand, and the barber, pausing in the operation of shaving him, inclined his head. “Str?” “Give me gas,” said the customer.— London Globe. 2 Find the cause of each wrinkle on a man’s face, and you will find It was- put there by worrying over something that worrying could not help.—Atchl- son Globe. A Loud Kiss. Bob Footlite (actor)—Faflure? I should think it was! The whole play 'was ruined. Bhe—Gracious! How was that? B. F.—Why, at the end of the last act A steam pipe burst and hissed me off the stage. A Lark. -What a lark it .would be I an egg came down the chimney!- No, it wouldn’t, unless it was a lark’s ©gg, and even then not untll It was hatched. Tombs of the Patrlarchs. No spot in all Palestine is so jealous- ly guarded as the haram or sacred area built above the cave where, ac- cording to tradition, lle buried the bodies of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah. This haram Is Inclosed within a double wall, an outer one of Arab workman- ship, dating from the fourteenth cen- tury, and an inner very massive one ‘with many buttresses, which compe- tent authorities ascribe to the days of the Herods, No Christian or Jew is, except by very special permission, al- lowed within these walls. The most the “unbelievers” may ordinarily do is to ascend from the street to the sev- enth step on one of the staircases be- tween the walls. At a spot near the stair is a stone with a hole in it, down which, 1t Is sald, a long Bedouln lance can be thrust its whole length without reaching any obstruction. This, the Jews believe, reaches to the sacred cave itself, and in its neighborhood they assemble every Friday to mourn and pray, as they do before the wall of that other haram—the temple area ~—in Jerusalem.—Philadelphia Ledger. Proving His Honesty. “You say you have confidence in the plaintiff, Mr. Smith?” “Yes, sir.” “State to the court, if you please, what caused this confidence.” “Why, you see, sir, there’s allers re- ports ’bout eatin’ house men, and I used to think”— “Never mind what you thought. Tell us what you know.” . “Well, sir, one day I goes down to Cooken’s shop and sez to the waiter, ‘Waiter,’ sez I, ‘give’s a weal pie) ‘Well, just then Mr. Cooken comes up, and sez he: ‘How do Mr. Smith? What ¥ye going to have? “‘Weal ple, says I. ‘Good,’ says he; ‘I'll bave one tu’ So he sets down an’ eats one of his own weal ples right afore me.” “Did that cause your confidence in him?” “Yes, Indeed, sir; when an eatin’ house keeper sets down afore his cus- tomers an’ deliberately eats one of his .| own weal pies no man can refuse to feel confidence. It shows him to be an honest man.”—London Scraps. A Philosopher In a Cyclone. “I believe in optimism,” said the cheerful citizen, “but there {s a limit even to that. I saw a man the other day whose house had been carried away by cyclone, and he was the most cheerful clitizen in town. ‘Why,’ I said, “I thought you had lost your house? “T did lose it he replied, ‘but thar ‘wus nobody in it but me at the time, an’ thar wuzn't a hair o’ my head hurt. The cyclone lifted the house high, all but the ground floor where I was sleep- in’ peaceful in my bed, an’ T hain’t never seen nor hearn o' that house sence! An’, anyhow, I didn’t have any fire insurance on it an’ wuzn'’t able to put up a lightnin’ rod, an’ ef the wind hadn’t took it away who knows but lightnin’ would ’a’ hit it, an’ I've got the rheumatism so bad I couldn’t run in case o’ fire’ "—Atlanta Constltution. g Dream Troubles. “Once when I was blue,” sald a busi- ness man, “a friend told me I was wor- rying over imaginary troubles. Hi cheered me up’ with a yarn about his little nephew. This little fellow’s sis- ter sald one morning: “‘Oh, Gussle, I had such a lovely dream last night! I dreamed I was at a cake shop, and I had such loads of good things—ice cream, ple, strawberry shorteake, chocolates, jelly macaroons, kisses and lots of other things besides.’ “The little boy’s eyes glistened. He smiled with delight. “‘And what was I eating? he asked eagerly. “‘Oh, you wasn't there, Gussie.” “Then, overwhelmed with sorrow, lit- tle Gussle hid his face In his hands and ‘wept bitterly.” Hercules’ Labors. The twelve labors of Hercules were: To slay the Nemean lon; to kill the Lernean hydra; to catch and hold the Arcadian stag; to destroy the Eryman- thian boar; to cleanse the stables of King Augeas; to destroy the cannibal birds of Lake Stymphalus; to capture the Cretan bull; to catch the horses of Diomedes; to get possession of the girdle of Hippolyte, queen of the Ama- Zons; to capture the oxen of the mon- ster Geryon; to get possession of the apples of the Hesperides and to bring up from the infernal regions the three beaded dog Cerberus. Small Boy (noticing the Phi Beta Kappa key hanging from the minis- ter's watch chain)—Did you find it again, or is this another? Minister—Why, my little man, what do you mean? I never lost it. BSmall Boy—Oh, mother said you had lost the charm you had when you were young.—Judge. Saw Things. Oculist (trylng various glasses)—How do they look now? Bee them any bet- ter? Mr. Wunmore—Well, the green giraffe I can shee firsh rate, but that red el’phant an’ the purple ’potamus still look kinder—kinder blurred.~ Puck, Sympathy. “What made you kick Jimpson “He called me an ass.” “Oh, well, kicking is a characteristic of asses, but I shouldn’t think you'd want to confirm Jimpson’s statement 80 quickly.”—London Telegraph. Why It-Was There. Aunty—Tommy, I put three ples in here yesterday, and now there is only one. How Is that? Tommy—Please, it was so dark, aunty, I didn't see that ml—P/flnch. Selwyn’s Curlous Taste. George Selwyn had a strange but not uncommon ‘passion for seeing dead bodles, especially those of his friends. He would go any distance to gratify this pursult. Lord Holland was laid up very 11l at Holland House shortly be- fore his death. George Selwyn sent to ask how he was and whether he would Mke to see him. Lord Holland an- swered: “Oh, by all means! If 'm alive tomorrow I shall be delighted to' see Ggrge. and I know HELD 70 BE ILLEEAL Exchange of _[Yl;l:oad Transpor tation fo% Advertising: TEST CASE ;’1};;5“”. COURT fod Bt Government Wi’nn Suit to Prevent Carrying Out/of Contract Entered Into by “Publishers of Munsey’s Magazine andia Common Carrier. Chicago, July,1 .—“If it be lawful transportation for advertising then it would be lawful to do the same in every tramsaction and the railroad business might'lawfully become one of barter and sale, limited only by the demand.” { In a decision handed down by Judge C. C. Kohlsaat|in the United States circuit court, frem which the above i§ quoted, the jurist enjoined the issu- ance of transportation by the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway company to the publishers of Mun- sey’s magazine in exchange for adver- tising. ! The decision was rendered in a test case in which the federal authorities brought suit to prevent the carrying out of a contract entered into in Jan- uary, 1907, between the railroad com- WHEN HER BACK ACHES A Woman Finds All Her Energy and Ambition Slipping Away. Bemidji women know how the aches and pains that come when the kidneys fail make life a burden. Backache, hip pains, headaches, dizzy spells, distressing urinary troubles, all tell of sick kidneys and warn you of the steaithy approach of diabetes, dropsy and Bright’s disease. Doan’s Kidney Pills perman- ently cure all these disorders, Here’s proof of it in a Bemidji woman’s words: Mrs. Edward Jewett, living at 1112 Park Ave., Bemidji, Minn., says: “I am recommending Doan’s Kidney Pills and from my actual experience I know them to be a reliable remedy. 1 did not take them as carefully as I might have, but still the results received were satisfactory. - The attacks always come on with a dull ache in my back and while they were at their height, I felt weak and mis- erable. I sent to the Owl Drug Drug store and procured a box of Doan’s Kidney Pills. Thep helped me- right away and I am well pleased with the results received.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s and take no other. Chas.E. Lewis & Company STOCKS, BONDS, GRAIN 412 Dept. T. Chamber of Commerce, MINNEAPOLIS Invite personal interview and correspond: ence relative te rchase and sale of all classes of securities, grain, provisions, cot- ton and coffee. : Chicago and New York correspondents: Bartlett, Frazior and ington; S. B. Bartlott, Reasior and Carrington; . B Members all principal excharges. W I..Hendersono SUCCESSORS TO HENDERSON, Bassrorp & Co. GERMANIA LIFE BLDG., ST. PAUL, MINN- Stock, Bond % Grain Brokers “No speculating on our own account.” Our clients receive our entire attention. Members of Chicago Board of Trade OUT-OF-TOWN SPECULATIVE AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. Marfield Tearse:Noyes Grain Commission WIRE US whon placing ordors for “fatnros” Thor. oughly satisfa co nssured. Con- Signed grain given speoial attentions Chicago Office: 729 Postal Telegraph Bidg. Duluth Office: 303 Board of Trade Bldg. Minneapolls Office: 5l Chamber of Commerce & MERRITT Investment Brokers and S pe cialists 1 Copper Stocks Outof town investment and confi- dental accounts solicited | Prompt and Accurate Service in all Markets. Private wire connections with - all Mining Stock Markets | ST. PAUL, MINN TR 7 to make the ¢xchange of railroad’ pany and Krank A. Munsey & Co providing for the issuance of trip tick ets or mileage to the value of $500 in |: consideration of certain advertising Bpace in the publications of the maga- zine company. The contract was al- leged to be a violation of the Hep: burn law. Rallroad Company’s Defense. The petition charged that the ac- tion of the railroad company in issu- ing such transportation constituted a violation of the prohibition against the acceptance of any compensation fer transportation “greater or less or dif- ferent” from that named in the pub- lished rates. The railroad company insisted that it received a full money value, based on schedule rates for the mileage or tickets issued, and dented that it was committing a violation of the law. In passing upon the question of compensation the decision says: “The question as to the value of the advertising is a contested one. Mani- festly there can be no fixed price placed upon it. The number of cop- fes issued, the character of its sub- scribers and very many other ques- tions enter into the estimate of its worth, It is, therefore, impossible to say what its cash market value is ex- cept by comparison with other adver- tising rates. It cannot be said that the evidence is conclusive or even convincing on this point. If it is taken at its cash value why should the transportation be limited as specified in the contract? If the magazine is paying $500 to the defendant why does it accept transportation both of less and different value than it would accept 1f it bought its tickets with money? It seems fair to conclude that either the advertising is of less thap cash value or the advertisers are grossly imposed upon by the railroad.” Too Much For General Butler. After the battle of Chickamauga an enthusiastic Confederate went about the streets of New Orleans accosting every man who wore the blue with, “Didn’t Stonewall Jackson give you blazes at Chickamauga?” General But- ler called the exultant Confederate be- fore him and told him he could either take the oath of allegiance or go tc Ship island for two years. The Con: federate deliberated, but finally agreed to take the oath. When he had sworn to support the constitution, he turned to General Butler and exclaimed, “Now we are both loyal citizens, ain't ‘we, general?” “Well, I trust so,” sald General But. ler. . “Then,” said the jubilant Confeder- ate, “I want to ask you if Stonewall Jackson dldn’t glve us blazes at Chick- amauga ?’'—Argonaut. Terrapin In London. A smart American, one of the fresh kind, drifted into the Hotel Cecil In London with a party of five and or- dered with pomposity a la dos arrogant Americans, a la Parls: “Say, waiter, 1 want six portions of Maryland terra- pins, an’ 1 want ’em served with the bones. Do yow understand?” In three or four minutes thé walter reported, “Sir, we have the pleasure to serve terrapin with grand sherry, but not with the bones.” “What in the mis- chlef did you do with the bones?’ “The bones? I will ask the cook if you wish.” “Never mind. We will have soras en brochette.”—New York Press. Make bread the same way every baking day. Use the same oven. Sometimes the bread is Eood, sometimes it makes the family kick. You're using ordinary flour—that’s why. Don’t blame the cook. Poor bread is neither appetizing nor satisfying. V It dries up quickly, Part of the batch is thrown away. That’s wasteful. Occident Flour is always the same, for the price is a few cents higher so that we can always buy the best hard wheat—use only the best of the wheat kernel—the most expensive process and the most expert millers —So that— Occident Flour always makes good bread—Better bread than ordinary “flour and more of it. There is true saving in paying a few cents more for Occident Flour for Occi- dent Flour bread is eaten to the last crumb. It’s your grocer’s favorite. Ask him, He is authorized to guarantee satis- faction or refund your money, Insist on this label. Watch fot# 2 Just to remind you of the importance of sav- ingyourteeth. That’s my business. DR. G. M. PALMER BUY A GOOD LOT With the growth of Bemidji good lots are becoming scarcer and gcarcer. We still have a number of good lots in the residence part of town which will be sold on easy terms. For further particulars write or call Bemidji . Townsite and Im- provement Company. H. A. SIMONS, Agent. Swedback Block, Bemidji. 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