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

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON, BEMIDII PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By CLYDE J."PRYOR. Wotered in the pogtofiice at Bemidil. Minn., a8 second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM SHOULD JAIL A FEW WHO ARE CARELESS WITH FIRES. State Land Commissioner Iverson has issued a report regarding the loss from the terrible forest fires on the Iron Range, which is to the effect that the flames did no damage whatever to the timber lands belong- ing to the State of Minnesota. As soon as the fires would per- mit, the Land Commissioner sent deputies to investigate the damage. They found that the fires had-only traveled over the same paths that previous fires had done, and the immense trees for which Minnesota is so noted, were uninjured. The state owns millions of acres of timber lands worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Any loss to them would mean a serious loss to the state. Private lumbermen in Saint Paul have also sent out men to estimate the fire damage. These men all report that all of the good timber has escaped with but little damage done. The Weyerhauesers of Saint Paul, the largest lumber owners in the world, were unharmed by the fires. The results of the bad fires this fall should be a lesson to those hunt- ers and campers who go out in the woods and kindle fires, and who are in the habit of leaving the fire with- out extinguishing the flames, many of just such acts being directly responsible for conflagrations that did much dhmage. The fire warden law should be diligently enforced. There is a severe penalty provided for the vio- lations of the provisions of the law forbidding the leaving of fires, etc., and it is the duty of all officials to see that these provisions are enforced. If a few careless people should be put in jail for sixty or ninety days, the example would undoubtedly result in much good, and act as a great preventative measure. TWO SMALL VILLAGES DESTROYED BY FIRE Soaking Rain Then Puts an End to Burning Forests, Marinette, Wis., Sept. A soak- ing rain has extinguished the many forest fires in Marinette county which had grown more menacing than ever. Before the rain came the small towns of Goll and Kinsman, on the Wiscon- sin and Michigan railway, were wiped out and the six or eight families in each place had to flee for their lives. They came to Marinette. The town of McAllister was saved by the resi- dents, assistzd by volunteers from Marinette. The loss to the N. Ludington com- pany, Senator Stephenson and the Sawyer-Goodman company in standing timber will be large. Other companies on the Menominee river also lost heav- {ly in standing timber. Millions of feet of pine and hard wood were burned over. All this will have to be put in this winter and it will be a great boom to the logging business. Most of the companies will have to double their output of timber to pre- vent it from being destroyed by the ‘worms next summer. TRAIN GUARDS SHOT DOWN Thirty Men Secure Big Booty in Rus- sian Holdup. St. Petersburg, Sept. ' /.—A success- ful train robbery has been executed by a band of thirty men near Vilna. No definite statement of the exact amount of the booty has yet been made, but it 1s estimated to vary between $50,000 and §100,000. In addition to this money there was on board the train valuable registered correspondence and the day’s receipts from all the railroad stations between the frontier and Vilna. The guard on board the train consisted of six men only. The rob- bers took possession of a small station before the arrival of the train and shot down the train guards as the en- gine slowed up. They kept up a con- stant fusillade during the robbery to Intimidate the passengers, a number of whom were wounded by broken glass. Caleb Powers Joins the Church, Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. '4.—Caleb Powers, the Kentuckian who spent eight years in a Kentucky penitentiary In connection with the Goebel assas- sination case before being pardoned by Governor Willson, was baptized in the Baptist church at Jellico in the presence of 500 persons. ‘Twenty of the Crew Perish. Launceton, Tasmania, Sept. : d— The British ship Loch Finlas, from Port Pirle, South Australia, for Callao, was wrecked off Foster island and twenty of the crew of twenty-four were drowned. The other four men ‘were picked up by a passing steamer. The ship sank suddenly. 2 _The Voics of Fame. At American author of some Hote ‘was passing a summer in New Hamp: shire. One ddy he received word that a distinguished Englishman was visit- ing in the country town and would like to call upon the author, of whom, he added in his note requesting an audi- ence, he had heard. Somewhat flattered, the author won- dered to himself who had spoken to the disfinguished Englishman about him. “Some Oxford dignitary doubtless,” he reflected pleasantly, “or possibly some London publisher or eritic,” and he awaited the stranger’s arrival with interest. “So you had heard of me,” he ven- tured after the usual greetings had been spoken. .~ “Well, that is odd. Might I ask who”— interrupted him. “Oh, yes!" he said. *“I heard all about you before I got here. The por- ter on the Pullman told me that you were the very man to come to to ask about the best route to Niagara and what hotel I'd better stay at.”” Paying Visits In Australia. In Australia a wonth's visit to a country house would be uothinz. Two months—three months—sis months—as long as you like would not be consider- ed too long, other things being equal. Nobody thinks of dates. To write and invite you from the 15th to the 30th would be rude. You are asked to stay as long as you like. Or else you ask yourself to stay as long as you like. Or even—to face all the contingencies— you neither ask nor are asked. You simply go. And, having arrived, you remain, for the one unfailing commodi- ty of an Australian country house is welcome. Everything else may give out. If you stay long enough there is sure to be a time when there are no servants, no milk, no vegetables, no meat but mutton, or even no water, but the thoughts of guests going away will never enter the minds of the host and hostess. Good nature, gayety, in- formality—these are the leading notes of life In every Australian country house.—London Globe. The Old Trade. “H’m!” ejaculated the governor as he perused the card of the newly arrived prisoner. “I see you are a commercial traveler?” ‘The man assented. “That presents something of a diffi- culty. You know, my man, everybody here has got to work. Now, what trade will you take up? You can be a mat- maker, a tailor or a shoemaker. Per- haps yowd like to make brushes or baskets”— “Excuse me, sir,” interrupted the prisoner, “but I think I'd much rather stick to my old trade.” “Well,” said the grave and reverend seignior, “we always like prisoners to work at their own trades when possi- ble. But"— “Oh, that’s simple!” interrupted the prisoner eagerly. “I should like the chance of going round selling on com- mission the things the other fellows make.”—London Seraps. Got the Best of Carlyle. The Rev. Thomas Alexander, a Pres- byterian minister, long resident in Chelsea and well known as a brother Scot, was most anxious to know Car- Iyle, but had no opportunity of getting an introduction to him. One day in the King's road he saw Carlyle com- ing in his direction and took advan- tage of the opportunity by going up to the sage and saying, “Thomas Carlyle, T believe?” Carlyle’s reply was, “Tom Alexander, 1 know!” They became good friends, and later Mr. Alexander wrote to Carlyle for a subseription to- ward a school building fund, and Car- Iyle wrote back a refusal in doggerel, whereupon Mr. Alexander replied that if he did not send him £5 he would sell his poetry to a collector or publish it. The £5 was at once forthcoming. Hopeless. Martha, endeavoring to Instruct a would be housekeeper in the mysteries of pudding making, was overheard. “Yer jes’ takes some bread en”— “But how much bread, Martha?” “Oh, jes’ what yer needs, Miss Min, en den yer puts yo' milk on it"— “And how much milk, Martha?” “Well, yer mus’ use yer jedgment 'bout dat, Miss Min.” “But T haven't any judgment, Mar tha.” “Well, de Lord he'p yer, Miss Min, ’cause I can't.”—Travel Magazine, A Pointer. “You can always tell an actor whose season has not been prosperous,” said Mr. Stormington Barnes. “How?” “He won't talk with you five min- utes without saying that the public doesn’t appreciate arL"—Wushlngton Star. You've Met Him. “How do you like your new neigh- bor?” “Oh, he's the kind of man that saves his longest story to tell while we are holding the front door open for him to go.” Right on the Job. Indignant Citizen (to office boy)— Your confounded paper had an out- rageous attack on me this morning, and— Office Boy (briskly)—Yessir. How many copies will you have? To Borrow. Grimsey—What is the psychological moment? Cholley—It is when you get a tlp on a dead sure thing and do not happen to have the money to back it up.—New Orleans World. Modesty is only another name for #elf knowledge.—Hare. Moving Pictures. Moving picture cameras are remark- able pieces of mechanism. The films are only three-quarters of an inch wide. These are in rolls, sometimes 800 feet long. When taking pictures the camera man reels off these rolls just ®8 rapidly as they are unreeled when thrown upon the canvas for the spec- tator, at a rate of ten or twelve films 8 second. Moving-pictures are simply 2 number of views thrown upon a Wwhite sheet one after another 8o rapid- 4 ut:nt the eye cannot detect the inter v But his visitor }. e A‘rongcu Twls 2 A mefiiber of the Playefs club whose simple deligit in life Is collecting, old blue china returned the other day from England and as usmal aftet such a trip had ;some new blue treasure got on one of his customary. off the beat- en path tramps. He showed it freely, talked about it efoquently, but always when asked where he found it evaded answering. Finally one who had noted several such evasions said to him: “You've reached the very worst stage of the collector’s mania. You refuse to tell the place of your treasure house for fear of rival looters.” “You are wrong as to my motive, but right as to the fact that 1 won't tell. I can’t, but I'll write the name for you.” Laboriously he wrote on a card this fearsome thing: “Mynyddyslwyn.”, As his questioner stared with startled eyes at the nerve shattering word the collector explained that it was the true and lawful name of a parish in Mon- mouthshire, near Pontypool, England. —New York Sun. The Funeral Sponge. . “If you attend a Persian funeral they hand you at the door a small, fine sponge.” The speaker, a popular-un- dertaker, smiled. “It Is amusing to think of,” he said. “Imagine it—by means of these sponges all the mourners’ tears are collected and preserved in tiny vases of crystal. They are used afterward as medicine, for they are thought to have wonder- ful healing power. During the serv- ice each mourner keeps his sponge ready, and every tear that wells into his eye is sopped up before it has a chance to escape. The undertaker tip- toes politely about, he extends tenta- tively the crystal vase, and those who have anything to add to its contents squeeze their sponges solemnly there- in. Then, with a bow of acknowledg- ment, the undertaker tiptoes op his ‘way, extending -the vase politely, now to the right, now to the left, murmur- ing in his gentle and soothing voice: ‘““‘Have you shed, sir? Madam, have you shed? ” Too Scarce to Throw Away. “They pipe water now through the burning Australian desert that lles be- tween the coast and the Kilgoorlie gold flelds, a distance of about 250 miles, but in my day in that forsaken coun- try water was the scarcest commodity known,” said a San Francisco mining engineer. “It was often hard to get emough water for drinking purposes, and the man who was reckless enough of his money to buy a bucketful for a bath was the talk of the community. I once indulged in this luxury, and after I had finished I noticed that the water was carefully collected again by the vender. “‘What are you going to do with it? I asked the man. ‘Sell it to some other fellow for half price, he answered, ‘and after that I'll sell it several more times, for, you see, it's too scarce, mis- ter, to throw away after only one or two men have washed in it.’” A Modest Request. The young man and the girl were standing outside the front door, having a final chat after his evening call. He was leaning against the doorpost. talk- ing in low tones. Presently the young lady looked round to discover her fa- ther in the doorway clad in a dressing gown. “Why, father, what in the world is the matter?” she inquired. “John,” said the father, addressing himself to the young man, “you know 1 bave never complained about your staying late, and [ am not going to complain of that now. But for good- ness’ sake stop leaning against the bell push and let the rest of the family get some sleep.” Sweet Revenge. - ° Mrs. Shopper (after inspecting every- thing in the store)—I don’t see any- thing here that suits me. I suppose I may as well go down to Stacys’ and see what they have. They usually have a good assortment. Salesman—Here's a card of one of their salesmen. Won’t you kindly ask for him? Mrs, Shopper — Ah! yours, I presume? Salesman—No, madam, he has owed me $10 for the past three. years.— Puck. A friend of Highly Practical. “Your business college for young la- dies seems to be all right.” “It is all right.” “Do you give the girls a good practi- cal business training?” “In reply to that question I can only say that 60 per cent of our graduates marry their employers the first year.” —Louisville Courier-Journal. Absent Treatment. “What is the matter with Mrs. Spicy? I saw her sitting on her porch as I came by gritting her teeth and looking daggers into vacancy.” “Her husband is a half hour late. and she is giving him absent treat- ment.”—Chicago Journal. Excelsior. Uncle—And what will you do when you are a man, Tommy? Tommy— I am going to grow a beard. Uncle— Why? Tommy—Because then I won’t have nearly so much face to wash.— Harper's Weekly. Getting Personal. ~ “How does a man get a ‘game leg.’ pa?” “Well, you see”— “Is it by getting into a game and baving it pulled?’—New York Press. An ugly criticism-makes more noise than a good book.—Talleyrand. S W Foiled. “Ah!” sald Bragley, with a view te 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 his own good fellowship.” “That’s so. He lost his own health In drinking other people’s.”—Baltimore erican, 2 Ext aerdnm'y Converition Meets Jn ‘New York City. _New York, Sept. ' s—An extraor- dinary ~ gathering assembled here, made up of ‘delegates from. various parts of the country, to take part in a four days' conference. They came on the brake beams of freight cars, on the “blind baggage” of the swift ex- press or straggled in over dusty roads. They profess to represent the coun- try’s workless and to. constitute the “first’ national convention of the un- employed.” J. Bads How of St. Louis, kuuwn as the “millionaire hobo,” is at the head of the organization. It was through How’s efforts that the plans for the convention were completed. Many prominent men were invited to deliver addresses, among them President Roosevelt, William J. Bryan, Judge Taft and John E. Redmond, the Irish leader, who is at present in this country. All the gentlemén named have excused themselves on the ground of other engagements. Mr. men who have been asked to speak would attend the convention. FIFTY ARRESTS MADE. Sunday Blue Laws Being Enforced at Portland, Ore. Portland, Ore., Sept. 3.—Fifty store and shopkeepers, representing prac- tically every class of business except- ing saloons, were placed under arrest Sunday in this city in an effort to { put into effect a blue law which has been resting undisturbed on the stat- ute books of the state since it was en- acted some fifty years ago. The store- keepers gave bail in the sum of $50 each and returned to the peaceful pur- suit of their business. No attempt was made, and it is understood none will be made, to enforce actual clos- ing of stores until the constitutional- ity of the law is tested. The law under which the arrests were made was passed by the legisla- ture in 1864 and makes it unlawful to conduct on Sunday any class of busi- ness except drug shops, livery stables, bakeries and butcher shops. TWEEDMOUTH RESIGNS, Lord President of British Council Retires. London, Sept. fs.—Lord Tweed- mouth, lord president of the council, has resigned office on the ground of continued “ill health.” His mental condition, however, shows improve. ment. It was announced in London on June 6 that Lord Tweedmouth had been ordered to take the rest cure in the country owing to a sudden nervous breakdown. This nervous collapse was held partly accountable for Lord Tweedmouth’s indiscretion in the cor- respondence with Emperor William with regard to the naval policy of Great Britain while he was first lord of the admiralty, Dynamite Blows Five to Atoms. Scranton, Pa, Sept. ‘J—Three Americans and two Itallans were ‘hlov:n to pieces in an explosion of 'dynamite while working at Cross Keys ‘cut, along the Delaware, Lackawanna | and Western railroad near Tobyhanna. The five men were tamping a hole céntalning eighteen inches of dyna- fafte. Wilson to Go on the Stump, ‘Washington, Sept. ¢J.—Secretary Wilson of the depariment of agricul- ture, after a call on the president, an- nounced that he would make a number of speeches in the West during the campaign. He will start on his tour Oct. 18. Pleasant. Mistress—Now, remember, Bridget, the Joneses are coming for dinner. Cook—Leave it to me, mum. I'll do me worst! They'll never trouble yez again!—Illustrated Bits. RHEUMATIC FOLKS! Are You Sure Your Kidneys Are Well? Many rheumatic attacks are due to uric acid in the blood. But the duty of the kidneys is to remove all uric acid from the blood. Its presence there shows the kidneys are inactive, Don’t dally with ‘“‘uric acid solvents,” You might How sald he hoped other well known | go on till doomsday with them, but until you cure the kidneys you will never get well. Doan’s Kid- ney Pills not only remove uric acid, but core the kidneys and then all danger from uric acid -is ended, Here is Bemidji testimony to prove it. Mrs, Mary A. Cochran, living at 1014. Mississippi Ave., Bemidji, Minn., says: “I had been suffer- ing from rheumatism for over ten years and was troubled with this complaint for so long that I never expected to get relief. My kid- neys were badly disordered for two or three years and despite the many remedies I tried, I did not get any better. At last Doan’s Kidney Pills were brought to my attention and I procured a box at the Owl Drug Store, I have been using them for some time and there1s a great improvement in my condition. Doan’s Kidney Pills helped me more than any remedy previously tried and I am feeling much better. 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. G DIARRHOEA] | _ There is no need of anyone guffer- 7 long with this for to fect & quick cure it is only neces- )try&fihlhwdmuni _ Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy In fact, in most cases one dose is sufficient. It never fails and can be relied upon in the most severe and dangerous cases. It is equally val- uable for children and is the means of saving the lives of many children each year. In the world’s history no medicine has ever met with greater success. PRICE 25¢. LARGE SIZE 50c. English. The following illustrates Louis Phi- Uppe’s idea of England and the Eng- lish. He one day asked Hugo if he had ever been in England and on re- ceiving a negative reply continued: “Well, when you do go—for you will go—you will see how strange it is. It resembles France in nothing. Over there are order, arrangement, symme- try, cleanliness, well mowed lawns and profound silence on the streets. The ! passersby are as serious and as mute as specters. When, being French and alive, you speak in the street these specters look ‘back at you and murmur with an inexpressible mixture of grav- ity and disdain, ‘French people!” When I was in London I was walking arm fn arm with my wife and sister. We were conversing in a not too loud tone of voice, for we are well bred persons, you know, yet all the passersby, bour- geois and men of the people, turned to gaze at us, and we could hear them growling behind us: ‘French people! French people! ”"—*“Memoirs of Victor Hugo.” Rossini and the Drum, When Rossini’s “Gazza Ladra” was performed for the first time the drum in the orchestra not only excited much comment, but caused the enemies of the composer, whom they denounced as a “foolish inventor of unmusical noveltles,” to threaten Rossini with bodily violence. One young man, a pupil of Rolla’s, gained admission to the composer’s presence and declared that art had been so violently outraged by the inventlon that he must kill the offender. He drew a weapon, but con- sented to listen to argument, He had been a soldier, and when the composer asked him why there should not be a drum where there are soldiers he sheathed his knife. ‘“Promise me, though,” he said, “that you will put no drums in your future music.” Ros- sini promised, but forgot. This {s a Republican campaign of reason, mot rant; of argument, not agitation. Mr. Taft, the candidate, makes its effective advocate. The pore the country sees of his personal- #ty the more assured is Republican yic- tory. - Lumber and Buxldxng Material We carry in stock at all times a com- plete line of lumber and bwlding material of all descriptions. Call’in and look over our special line of fancy glasl doors. We have a large and well assorted stock from which you can make your selecton. WE SELL 16-INCH SLAB W00D St. Hilaire Retail Lbr. Co. BEMIDJI, MINN. ANCHOR CEMENT BLOCKS OUR. CLAIMS:; Continuous Air Space. 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