Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 30, 1908, Page 4

AN “A-B-C” ADVERTISING - CONTEST T0 BE PUT ON The Daily Pioneer Will Give One Dollar in Cash Each Week to Some Good Speller Who First Sends in Cor- rect List of Misspelled Words. The Pioneer will, within the next few days, inaugurate what is known asan “A. B. C. Advertising Con- test,’ the same to continue, once each week, in the Daily, for eight weeks. Throughout the ‘“‘ads” of the different merchants of the city will be several intentionally mispelled words, which are changed each week that the ads are run in the paper, and the changes are so made until the eight weeks have passed. ‘The Pioneer will pay one dollar in cash, each week, to the person who will send in the first corrected list of the misspelled words in the ads, stating in whose ad the words were found and what the words were. It will be necessary to read each advertisement very carefully, in order to find the misspelled words and therein lies the value of the ads as trade-pullers. Noonein any way connected with the Pioneer will be allowed to enter this contest and everything connected with the contest will be conducted ina fair and impartial manner. So dig up your spelling.book and |post up o spelling. The Law on Estrays. Here is some information that nearly everyone residing on a farm has need to know some time or other: Stock out of the possession or control of its and doing damage is said to be an estray. The finder of an estray within seven days may notify the owner and re- quest him to pay all charges and take such estray away, but if the owner is unknown he may within ten days, file the notice with the town clerk who thereupon transmits a copy thereof to the register of deeds who records 1t in a book designated “Estray Book.” If the estray is of less value than five dollars, the finder must also give posted notice in the town, but if the value exceed five dollars he must publiéh the notice for four weeks in some news- paper. The notice must describe the ani- mal as near as may be; must name the residence of the finder and tell where and when it was taken. If the estray is worth more than $10 the finder should also cause it to be appraised by a justice of the peace and the certificate of such justice is to be filed with the town clerk. If the owner or person entitled to possession does not ap- pear within ooe year thereafter and pay all lawful charges against the same, including care, it is then to be sold at public auction. If itis appraised at ten dollars or less, it need not be sold but the person finding it becomes the owner there- of. owner, Fosston Superintende::t Resigns. Word has been received from Fosston that Prof. C. S. Yeager, sup- erintendent of the Fosston pub'ic schools, has tendered his resignation to the school board at that place and would leave Fosston just as soon as his successor could be gotten on the ground. Supt. Yeager was in receipt of a flattering offer from Brown’s Valley, this state, and after due considera- tion decided toaccept it. Conferring with the local board oo Tuesday. his request to be relieved from his duties was voted down, but at a meeting of the board the following morning his resignation was finally accepted, conditional upon his re- maining until a successor can be secured to fill his respounsible posi- tion, which may be a matter of a few days only, when he will leave to assume his new charge. Professor Yeager is well known in Bemidji, having visited here sev- eral times, accompanying his scholars who play basketball and football. Mr. Yeager is a thorough educator, and his removal from the northern part of the state is re- gretted. Held Successful Sale. The Ladies’ Aid society of the Norwegian Lutherian church report that their sale in the the church last Thursday afternoon was well patronized and they wish to thank those who participated in the affair in any way. Do your holiday Shopping at Ber- man’s great sale. A Trying Moment. Professor Leopold Schroetter was called to see the Crown Prince Fred- erick in 1887 before Sir Morrell Mac- kenzie had reached San Remo. The prince, evidently suspecting the worst, turned to Schroetter after the examina- tion and said, “I request the truth as | to my ailment.” Schroetter hesitated { and made an effort to direct the con- versation in another direction, but Frederick insisted. “I am a soldier,” he said, “and can look death in the eye. I ask you now plainly, to the point, Is my complaint cancer?" Schroetter could hardly contain himself, and years after the scene when he re- called it be spoke of it as the most painful In his life. He conducted the erown prince to a chair and asked him to he seated. Then he said, “Your im- perial highness, you are suffering from a serious complaint, and it is possible that it may develop into carcinoma, but that cannot be determined posi- tively at this moment.” Frederick be- came deathly pale, but never for a | moment lost bis self control and smiled | grimly when he thanked the physician | for his honesty. 1ne Brave Butterfly. Here s an unorthodox story of King Solomon: One day a butterfly sat on the king's temple and boasted to his wife. “If 1 chose I could lift my wing and shiver this building to the ground,” he swaggered. Solomon, overhearing, sent for the boaster. “How dare you?” he thundered. The butterfly groveled, “I did it to impress my wife,” he pleaded. The great monarch was fin- stantly appeased and let him go. “What did Solomon say to you?’ gasp- ed a quivering wife five minutes later. “Oh, he begged me mnot to do it,” sald the butterfly airily. And Solomon, again overhearing, smiled.—Chicago News, Our Invitation Once each week we pay for this space for the priv- ilege only of inviting you once to again to become a depositor of our bsnk. The person who reads about us:fifty- two times a year ought to know usat least fifty two times better than il he had read of us but once. Tue betier he knows us the more likely he is to like us and our business methods. Your account, large or small, is urgently solicited and respectfully invited. The First National Bank of Bemid The Frenchman Looked Innocent. Some time since, in a Tremont street store * in. Boston, a mervous little Frenchman brushed against a pretty trifie of vase ware valued at about $14 and succeeded in getting several score more pieces out of it than had |- gone into its making. The floorwalker led the abashed Parisian aside and politely explained. that the broken vase must be paid for. Monsieur fetched a handful of small silver and copper, mostly foreign, from his pocket when he was told the value of the trifle. “Mon’ Dieu,” cried the Parisian, “70 francs!” -At this he took out his bill book and discovered a fifty dollar ex- press draft, which the floorwalker in- stantly seized upon, to the ‘unspeak- able horror of its owner. After deducting the value of the vase the former handed the man his ghange and dismissed him with.a floor- walker’s blessing. The express draft reached the bank in due time, with four others as fraudulent, but the vol- atile little Frenchman had departed southward with. the swallows.—Bohe- mian Magazine. Followed Suit. On the day of the admission of M. Rostand to the French academy the author of “Cyrano” and “L’Aiglon” gave a breakfast to a few of his friends, the guest of honor being Mme. Bernhardt. The actress was dressed in a handsome gown, which had been made expressly for the occasion. At the end of the breakfast she arose and in an impressive manner took a glass, held it high and said, “I drink to the greatest of French dramatists, M. Ro- stand, and I drink after the Greek manner!” She then poured the con- tents of her glass over her head and gown. Two of Rostand’s small sons were sitting at a side table wearing new velvet suits, also made for the ocea- slon. In the silence which followed Bernhard’s dramatic tribute the elder of the boys arose and, imitating her manner, said, “I drink to the greatest of poets, my papa, and I also drink in the Greek fashion!” and straightway deluged himself and his small brother with the contents of his glass. A Scene Not In a Play. An extraordinary scene took place in the Princess’ theater, London, on the night of the first production of Charles Reade’s great play, “Never Too Late to Mend,” Oct. 4, 1865. During the prison scene a large quantity of water was thrown over Miss Moore, who took the part of Josephs, the character done to death by the warders. One of the crities, Mr. Tomlin of the Morning Ad- vertiser, rose from his seat and pub- licly protested against the unnecessary cruelty. This aroused almost a riot among the audience, and the action of the play was stopped for some con- siderable time. Fuel was added to the fire by George Vining, the lessee of the theater, who was playing the part of Tom Robinson and who made a most imprudent speech, in which he prac- tically insulted every critié present, with the result that the theater was left severely alone by the press for méiny months. The play, however, turned out to be a popular success and had, for those days, the phenom- enal run of 140 performances. Reading In Bed. “Boys and girls under eighteen should be strictly forbidden to read in bed,” says the Lancet, on the author- ity of Dr. Hugo Feilchenfeld of Ber- 1in, who declares that in the case of young persons whose eyes are not fully developed the practice is likely to induce myopia. While young peo- ple run the greatest risk, the Lancet thinks that reading in bed fs unde- sirable for persons of any age and states that “in the case of aged, anx- ious, worried and bedridden people, to whom it would seem cruelty to deny what may perhaps be almost their only luxury, for fear of inducing some slight error of refraction, care should be taken that the light is sufficiently brilliant, the eyes being shaded from it, and that the patient lies on his back with head and shoulders raised.” Wellington’s Tact. There was an army of generals as- sembled at Paris in 1814, and when the various Austrian and Prussian gener- als who had been beaten by Napoleon came crowding round the Duke of Wel- lington and expressing lots of compli- ments to him for having never been beaten by the French the duke pleas- ed them immensely by saying, “Ah, but you know I never met Bonaparte, and I have always looked on him as being as good as 40,000 men. How Indians Catch Monkeys. In South America the Indians take a cocoanut and cut a hole in each end just large enough for the monkey’s paws. Then they fill the middle of the nut with sugar. When a monkey comes across the shell he thrusts in one paw and, finding sugar, he pushes in the other. He closes both paws on the sugar and then will not remove either for fear he shall lose the sugar. Then, while he cannot use either paw, he is easily caught. A Chinese Story. A Chinese barber while shaving a customer’s head drew blood and put one of his fingers on the place. Again he made a cut and put down another finger, and so on until he had no more fingers free. “Ah,” said he as he paus- ed in his work, “a barber’s trade is dif- ficult. We ought to have a thousand fingers!”—Scrap Book. Apt Pupil. “Didn’t I see the grocer’s boy kiss you this morning, Martha?” “Yes'm. But he ain’t to blame, ma’am. *Twas the iceman set him the bad example.” Ungallant. © “My face is my fortune, sir,” she sald. “Well,” he replied, “poverty is no dis, grace, but it's awfully inconvenient at times,” ¢ The Wicked Husband. “Wlhy does a man lie to his wife?” asks a woman writer. Dear me, does he?—Duluth Herald A moral, sensible, well bred man will pot insult me. No other can.—Cowper. Baking Powder The Voice of Fame. An American author of some note was passing a summer in New Hamp shire. One day 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 distinguished Englishman about him. “Some Oxford dignitary doubtless,” he reflected pleasantly, “or possibly some London publisher or critic,” 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 1 ask who"— But his visitor 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 month’s visit to a country house would be nothing. Two months—three months—six 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. Yon 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, na 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 mewly arrived prisoner. “I'see you are a commercial traveler?” The man assented. - “That presents something of a-diffi- culty. You khow, my man, everybody here has got 't work. Now, what trade will you také‘up? You can be a mat- maker, a tailor or a shoemaker. Per- haps you'd like to make brushes or baskets”— “Excuse me, sir,” interrupted the prisoner, “but 1 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. Amendment of Articles of Incorporation of Douglass Lumber Company. STATE OF MINNESOTA, } 55, County of Beltrami, H. N. Douglass and J. J. Anderson, after being duly and severally sworn, eack for himself deposes and under his oath certifies: That they are respectively the President and Secretary of the Douglass Lumber (‘ompany, a corporotion organized and existing undet and by virtue of Title 2 of Chapter 31 of the General Statutes of the State of Minne- sota for the year 1893 and the acts amenda- tory thereof and supplementary thereto. ‘That _on the 15th day of November 1903, at the office of the Douglass Lumber Company. in the City of BemidJi. Minnesota, at a special meeting of the stockholders of said_corpora- tiot, duly called for the expressly stated purpose of amending Articles 1V, V and VI of the articles of incorporation of said cor poration, so as to increase the capital stock and the number of shares thereof, and to increase the highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which said corporation shall atany time be subject, at which meeting all the stockholders of said corporation were present, the following resolution was unani- mously Ar]o‘fzed: . “Resolved, That Article IV of the articles of incorperation of this corporation be amended so as to increase the capital stock of said corporation from $10.000 to 250,000, and that Article V of said articles be amended 50 as to increase the number of shares of this corporation from 100 to 500 shares, and that Article VI of said articles be amended 50 as to increase the highest amount of indebtedness or liability to_which said cor- poration shall at any time be subject from ¥y K)‘Sfifi)m so that said articles shall read as follows: ARTICLE IV. The ‘amourt of the capital stock of this corporation shall be Fifty ‘I'nousand Dollars (850,000), and shall be paid in in such amounts and manner, and at such times as its Board of Directors may require, and when said stock, or any part thereof, is once issued in accordance with the requirements of the by- laws of this corporation, the same shall be deemed to be fully paid and non-assessable. ARTIULE V. The number of shares of the capital stock of this corporation shall be five hundred (500) of the par value of one hundred dollars (8100) each. ARTICLE VI, The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which this corporation shall at any time be subject, shall not exceed the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars (§50.000).” In witness whereof. the said President and Secretary of said corporation have hereunto set their hands and afixed the seal of sald corporation, this 17th day of November, 1908. (Corporate Seal) H. N. DOUGLASS, A President. J.J ANDERSON, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn before mé this i7th day of November, 1908. (Seal) Graham M. Torrance, Notary Public, Beltrami County, Minnne- ota. sota. My commission expires Sept, 10, 1910. [ hereby certify that the within instrument -'was filed for record in this office on the 27th day of Nov. A.D., 1908, at 9 o’clock a m. and was duly recorded in book Q3 of Incorpora- tions on page 647. Julius A. Schmahl, Secretary of State. . oomvee Office of Reglster of Deeds, Beltrami County, Minn. I hereby certify that the within instru- ‘ment was filed in this office for record on_the will sell courageously. MAIL ORDERS PROMPT the pice. buyers to start their Anything listed here forwarded imine- diately, postage prepaid, upon receipt of Ideal Gifts for Christmas ’ Have you thought about it? Counted the shopping days before Christmas? There are not so many left—and there are also many presents to buy. You will probably recall how rushed and anxious you were as Christmas drew near last. year—maybe had to make a selection in a hurry that was not as satisfactory as it might have been. This little notice i just a reminder to you that it is time to begin planning. Let our store help .you—you will find many a beautiful and exquisite article here now that will be gone later. We have prepared for the big Christmas trade—have bought courageously and BUYING DIRECT FROM THE MANUFAGTURER, WE SAVE THE MIDDLEMAN'S PROFIT---WHIGH 1S A SAVING TO YOU OF (5 T0 20 PER GENT 14K Gold Filled Gents’ Vest Chain $6.75 No. 5440 G;lsnranteed $3.75 to $I12 14K Solid Gold % years . Genuine Full Cut per set of si DIAMOND Only $4.00 in case LY FILLED— chased of us A cordial invitation to visit our store is extended to you. It is becoming a general practice for experienced and tasteful Christmas Lists at Geo. T. Baker @ Co.’s Located in City Drug Store Sterling Silver Tea Spoons x Solid Gold HAND ENGRAVING on articles pur- Gifts bought now will be laid away un- til you want them. $3.75 No. 1820 Roman Finish FREE. Near the Lake The Mule’s Delusion. The pack wule is quite as much an Institution as the tcam mule and fs absolutely indispensable in the moun- tains. Mule packing is a fine art, and with a well trained animal and a skfll- ful packer you can safely transport anything from a piano to a bag of oats, When the ker has finished his job in an artistic manner, the animal may buck or back, kick or rear or roll, but he cannot rid himself of his burden, and he finally gives it up in despair. After two or three experiences he will submit to his destiny and fall into line with the rest of the train every morn- er. A well trained pack mule is at- means It gets loose he will step quietly put of line dnd wait until the pack- master-comes along to tighten 1t.” The most serious objection to the mule, which you sometimes find in hu- man beings also, is the delusion that he can sing. One who has never heard e mule solo cannot appreciate the ex- tent of his mistake; but, like every- thing else about a mule, his song is strictly original. It belongs to no other animal. No one can describe and no one can Imitate it.—New York Malil, Mixed Pickles. Bishop Knox once explained that “Mr. McKenna’s sword was an over- loaded pistol which, being hung up in a tight corner lest it should burst, pre- tended to be dead until it got up an®@ trotted home on the frlendly back of the bishop of St. Asaph.” But it is in political debate, especially in the house of commons, that the mixed metaphor fourishes most luxuriantly. “The flood- gates of irreligion and Intemperance are stalking arm in arm throughout the land.” “This bill effects such a change that the last leap In the dark was a mere flea bite”” “That is the marrow of the educational act, and it will not be taken out by Dr. Clifford or anybody else. It is founded on a gran. ite foundation and speaks in a voice not to be drowned in sectarlan clam- or.” ‘“The question of moisture in to- bacco is a thorny subject and has long been a bone of contention.”—Manches- ter Guardian. Magic and Poison Rings. The ring began when man thrust his finger through a hole in a pretty shell and later learned to make rings of jet. The ring is very magical. Lord Ruthven, who helped to kill Riccio, gave Queen Mary a ring which was sovran against poison, and she gener- ously replied with the present of her father’s wonderful jeweled dagger, of French work, no longer in existence. Whether Ruthven tooled with this magnificent weapon in the affair of Riccio or used a cheaper article is un- certain. At all events, Mary based on the ring that was an antidote to pol- son a charge of sorcery against Ruth- ven. The judges of Jeanne d’Arc re- garded with much suspicion her little ring of base metal, a gift from her parents, inscribed with the sacred names Jesus Marie. It was usual to touch the relies of saints with rings. Jeanne d’Arc said that her ring had touched the body of St. Catherine, whether she meant of the actual saint or a relic of the saint, brought from Sinia to Fierbois. The ring might contain a rvelic or later a miniature. I fear that I do mnot be- leve in the virtues or vices of poison rings. Our ancestors practically knew no poison but arsenic, and Carthagin- ian science can scarcely have enabled Hannibal to poison himself with a drug contained under the stonme of a ring.—Andrew Lang. 28t day of November, A. D, 1008, at 3 o'clock D.m. ad was duly resorded in book 3 of Mis- cellanous on page 7. 3.0, Harrls, “®ead) ‘Register of Deeds- Our Debt to Champlain. We of the eastern United States, and, above all, the dwellers in New Eng- land, owe to Champlain smore than Lm be cheerful, “it's my wife.” Ing to receive his load from the pack- | ways proud of his load, and if by any | 1 Northern New York aud Zngland were fields of | his exploration, and it was he who charted the coasts of the north Atlan- | | tie nearly to Connecticut, making sur- | veys that have not been greatly alter ed to this day. Three hundred years ago, at the point of Quebec, then cov- ered with nut trees, Samuel de Cham- | plain set his men to work to cut down these trees, saw boards, dig cellars | and make ditches to construct a h:\bfl‘ itation. Before the coming of Cham- ! plain Canada had yielded to tbe French vast quantities of furs and skins and | had enriched many a trader. but it re- | mained for this great explorer to see | in Canada something moré than a, { mere ground for the trapper and | | trader—a nome for people, a veritable | ! new France. In the accounts of his | voyagr s he described with enthusiasm | the land. its people, its animals, its | timber, its plants and its minerals, and on these products he based prophecies of a great future for this land.—Forest and Stream. | Imagination. “Just slap down a sketch of a drunk- en husband sitting in a wretched hove: of a home,” requested the newspaper editor, hurrying into the apartment of | the lazy staff cartoonist. i The artist carelessly complied and | sprawled back in his chair. “Don’t you think it would fill out better if you were to sketch in a ta- ble and an empty whisky bottle?” in- i quired the editor, gazing at the bare | figure. | “Oh, the readers will imagine the | booze part of it, all right!” “Well. how about adding a broken hearted wife and a couple of ragged children?” “Unnecessary. The readers will | readily imagine all that as part and parcel of such a scene.” “Then,” ejaculated the editor, tear- | 1ng the sketch to bits, “then the read- ers can imagine the drunken man.”— ‘Washington Post. Mary Was Spoiled. A doctor in one of the West Phila- | delphia children's homes tells the story of a woman who came to him one day in a most perturbed state of mind. She had taken home her daugh- ter of five years the week previous, after a stay of a year in the home, | and found she had an elephant on her hands. “Oh, sir,” she sald to the doc- tor, “whatever can I do with Mary? | You have made her far too grand for her own home. Why, the first day she was back she refused to be dressed in [ the morning till she had a bath; then she would eat no breakfast whatever because she wanted fruit and some ‘serious food’ first, and, last of all, she put a saucer of water at her place at the table and she dips her fingers in that every few minutes. Sure, doctor, I don’t know what I'll do,” and the woman passed out, shaking her head as if the problem was certainly too much for her.—Philadelphia Record. The Poor Member. “Brother Lastly,” said the spokes- man, “I have an unpleasant duty to perform. There is a report that you have sald that one of the best and most worthy members of our congrega- tlon is unable to attend service often on account of not having good enough clothes. We have come to ask the name of that member. We don’t know of any such person, and a report of that kind is likely to reflect upon us as a congregation that does not look after its poor but worthy members. Will you tell me who it 1s?” “Certainly, brethren,” replied the Rev. Mr. Lastly; with a brave attempt WANIS |ONE CENT A WORD. HeLP WANTED. Wanted—Girl to learn typesetting. Apply at once to the Pioneer. Splendid opportunity to learn to become a compositor. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. FOR SALE—Horses and harness. S. P. Hayth, back of postoffice building. FOR SALE—One fine violin, at 32 Tenth street. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—Three front rooms in Blocker block. Apply No. 508 Minnesota avenue. NS SV ' MISCELLANEOUS PUBLIC LIBRARY—Open Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays 2:30to 6 p. m., and Saturday evening 7:30 to 9 p. m. also. Library in basement of Court House. Mrs. Harriet Campbell librarian. WANTED—Good roll top desk. Inquire at Pioneer office. . Ads Want FOR RENTING A PROPERTY, SELL- ING A BUSINESS OR CBTAINING HELP ARE BEST. Poneer y (