Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 1, 1908, Page 2

i A THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED NVERY AFTHRNOON, BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By CLYDE J. PRYOR. ‘Totered in the postofice at Bemidji. Minn., a3 second class matter. SUUUIPILI IV SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM AN UNDERHANDED INSINUATION. | Neither judge a man’s morals by the temperance button he weareth until thou hast searched his pockets to see whether there be not an Elk pin hidden therein. And when thou discovereth that a man drinketh not, and smoketh not, and flirteth not, restrain thine admiration, until thou hast found out what WORSE thing he doeth in place of these.—Minne- apolis Tribune. The above was taken from the columns of the Minneapolis Tribune and was undoubtedly written by some ‘‘Smart Aleck” who is not familiar with the fundamental princi- ples of the “Best People on Earth.” There are no ‘‘good fellows” who are more undeservedly maligned, or who are less understood, than Elks. They are a liberal, free hearted, charitable and highly moral “bunch” and the above article should call forth an apology from the Tribune management for the undeserved insinuations contained therein, BUY FROM HOME MERCHANTS. Just about now the mail order houses of our large cities, with an eye for the Christmas trade of the smaller cities and towns and of the farmers, are sending out their bulky and illusive catalogs by the thous- and. Experience proves that, tak- ing all things into account, to buy of such houses costs more and brings less satisfaction than to buy of the home merchant. Money sent out of town to these houses for what can be bought equally as well at home is just so much to check the growth and prosperity of the home town, and of the farmers and others who find in the town ready market for their eggs, butter and other produc Africans and the Locomotive. The children of the desert were filled #vith awe when first the silence of the primeval solitude broken by the puffing of the steam cugine. Down at the other end of the Cape to Cairo line the simple Matabele. wken first con- fronted by a locomotive, were certaln that the strange machine was worked by the labor of an indefinite number of oxen, which they assumed were shut up inside; hence, when the engine stop- ped, they gathered in curious crowds, walting to see the door open and the oxen come out, nor could they for many days be persuaded that the power of the locomotive could come from other than the strength of the ox. The Arabs of the Sudan, more imag- fnative than the Matabele, saw in the fire horses of the railway one of the Djinns of the “Arablan Nights” har- nessed by the magic of the infidel to the long train of cars. The steam en- glne was to them a living, sentlent being, of which belief there is curi- ous evidence in the fact that on one occasion a sheik made an impassioned remonstrance against the cruelty of making so small an engine draw so huge a train. Composite Names. “One of the differences between the east and the northwest,” said a Puget sounder, “is the names of places, and the Skikomishes, the Snohomishes, the Snoqualmies, the Wahkiakums and the lot of them give a man funny feelings, and when he runs across Bucoda, on the Northern Pacific railroad in Pierce county, Wash., he doesn’t know whethe er it Is Chinook or Siwash or what. Baut it is none of them—like Kenova, in ‘West Virginia, which is near the junc- tlon of Kentucky, Ohio and Virgiuia, or Delmar, where Delaware and Mary- land come together. Bucoda is a com- posite name, and its story is simple enough. When the Northern Pacific came in a town sprang up, and it must have a name. There were Indian names in plenty, but something more novel was wanted, so Messrs. Buckley, Coulter and Davis, all Northern Pacific officials, put their heads together first and their names later, and the name Bu-co-da was evolved, with an ety- mology very apparent to any one who 18 at all informed in terminology. Bu- coda it has remained, and it is not half bad as names go in the Puget sound country.” Cramp Rings. Formerly it was customary for kings of England on Good Friday to hallow certain rings, the wearing of which prevented cramp or epllepsy. They were made from the metal of decayed coffins and consecrated with an elab- orate ceremony, some detalls of which are still preserved. They were “highly recommended by the medical profes- slon” about 1557, for Andrew Boorde in his “Breviary of Health,” speaking of cramp says, “The kynge's majes- ite hath a great helpe In this matter in hallowing crampe ringes with- out money or petition” Occasionally cramp rings played a persuasive part in diplomacy. Lord Berners, our am- bassador at the court of Charles V., wrote in 1508 “to my lorde cardinall’s grace” for some ‘“crampe ryngs,” with trust to “bestowe them well, by God’s grace.”—Westminster Gazette. The Reason, “Why doesn’t Smith call in his fam- lly physieian? Has he lost confidence in him?” “No; the doctor has lost confldence in !mlthl"—mpplncott’s. e A Practical Joke. He was a wag and was passing a large draper’s shop in Manchester. There, drawn up, were three or four vehicles, and among them was a closed brougham with the driver fast asleep on the box. Evidently the mistress was inside the shop. Without a word the wag stole quickly up and, opening the carrlage door, carefully slammed it to. In an instant the coachman straightened himself up and gazed up the street as if he had never seen any- thing more intéresting to look at in his life. Then he stole a look over his shoulder and saw the wag standing, bat in hand, apparently conversing with some one inside the carriage. “Thank you, yes. Géod morning,” said the practical joker and bowed himself graciously away from the door, turning as he did so to look at the coachman and say, “Home!” “Yes, sir! Tch! Get up!” And away went the brougham home. Where that home was, who the mis- tress of the carriage was or what she did or said when she came out of the shop or what the coachman did or said ‘when he stopped at the door of “home” and found the carriage empty—all that only. the coachman and the lady know. —London Tit-Bits. A Beggar In a Basket. Perhaps the most curious use to which Mexicans put their baskets is to hold gamecocks. Sometimes the cock’s basket is woven for the purpose; often- er it is made from a sombrero, the wide, high crowned, straw hat of the country, into which the bird is put, a hole cut in the crown to give him air and the brim carefully tied down that he may not escape. The bullfight has been called the national sport of Mex- 1co, but cockfighting is much more uni- versal, for the humblest peasant may have his gamecock, which he keeps in a carefully made cage in his patio, watches with pride and tends with care. One of the str:mgest uses to which a basket has probably ever been put was the daily appearance in the streets of a young man carrying in a huge bush- el basket on his shoulders his great- grandmother, of unknown age, who held out a skinny hand to the passer- by for the centavo which was almost unfailingly given. Surely a trust in Providence could go no further.—Elea- nor Hope Johnson in Outing Maga- zine. Dreams of the Blind. In my dreams I have sensations, odors, tastes and ideas which I do not remember to have had in reality. Perhaps they are the glimpses which my mind catches through the veil of sleep of my earliest babyhood. I have heard “the trampling of many waters.” Sometimes a wonderful light visits me in sleep. Such a flash and glory as it is! I gaze and gaze until it vanishes. I smell and taste much as in my wak- ing hours, but the sense of touch plays a less important part. In sleep I al- most never grope. No one guides me. Even in a crowded street I am self sufficient, and I enjoy an independ- ence quite foreign to my physical life. Now I seldom spell on my fingers, and it is still rarer for others to spell into my hand. My mind acts independent of my physical organs. I am delight- ed to be thus endowed, if only in sleep, for then my soul dons its winged sandals and joyfully joins the throng of happy beings who dwell be- yond the reaches of bodily sense.— Helen Keller in Century. The Cheerful Undertaker. A most amusing thing occurred one evening upon our arrival at a small town in New Zealand. ‘We found awaiting us at the station the local carriage and pair, with the local un- dertaker as footman. He was garbed in his usual funereal suit of black, but he had substituted a white tie in or- der to relieve the situation somewhat, and, evidently with a desire to dispel any morbid impressions he might oth- erwise have created, he commenced to ‘whistle a selection of the most cheer- ful tunes he knew, while he held the door open for us and helped us into the carriage.—Clara Butt in Musical Home Journal. Cashing Up. “Have you ever played poker with your son-in-law?” “Only once,” answered Mr. Cumrox. “It wasn’t very satisfactory.” “Did he win?” “No; he lost. But it merely resulted in my having to write him a check so that he could indorse it over to me.”— ‘Washington Star. A Slander. Member of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union—Did you write this votice of my lecture on “The Demon Rum?”’ Editor—Yes, madam. Member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union—Then I would like to know what you mean by saying, “The lec- turer was evidently full of her sub- Ject.”"—Judge. Lucky. Rustic—What's the matter? Motor- ist—Matter! I can't get this car to go. Rustic—Then it's the lucky man you are, for just yesterday a motorist got nearly smashed to bits here because he couldn't get his car to stop. Her Dig. Miss Antlque—Just think. of-:the’ nerve of that impecunious teuow to. propose to me! Miss Caustique — Nerve? Why, fit. was absolute recklessness.—Milwaukee News. Considerate. Jasper—Whenever a great man dies Longhair writes a poem about him. Rasper—Well, 1 must commend his consideration in not writing it before the greut man dies.—Boston Globe. Diverging. Husband—I'm afraid I'm becoming cross eyed, my dear. Wife—The idea! Why do you think that? Husband— This thing of trying to look at my in- come and our expenses at, the same time is slowly but surely getting its work -in.—Chicago News. Caught Him. Mrs, Hoyle—I've found out where my husband spends his evenings. Mrs, Doyle—Where? Mrs. Hoyle—At home. You see, I had to stay in myself last nlght —Harper's Weekly. Cooking With Sunllgh!. Sun cooking—roasting and boiling by sunlight instead of coal or gas—has been going on for 300 years. There are sun stoves that roast a sirloin or boil a soup to perfection. They are only used, however, by scientists. A sun stove consists mainly of a mirror— a spherical mirror on a joint. There 1s also a reflector. The place for pot or plate is so situated that the mirror’s rays can be focused on it accurately. A German, Baron Tchernhausen, was the first sun cook. He began in 1687 to boil water, and in 1638 he had very good success at baking eggs. - Sir John Herschel and Buffton are -other fa- mous names associated with sun cook- ing. In California various sun cooks have boiled a gallon of water in twen- ty minutes, roasted meat in two hours and poached eggs in fifteen minutes— quite as good time as the ordinary fire makes. An odd thing about meat roasted by sun rays Is that it has an unpleasant taste. This is avoided by the insertion of a plate of yellow glass between meat and mirror. In all solar stoves the sheet of yellow glass fig- ures.—Cincinnati Enquirer. “Queer English Laws. “No statute law of England ever can be obsolete,” a legal journal says. “Once enacted, it continues in binding force until repealed.” If such be really the case, there ought to be some lively times ahead for several classes of the community. For instance, what will builders have to say to the act which penalizes any person who erects a house without at- taching to it at least four acres of land? This was one of “good Queen Bess’” laws, and it has most certainly never been repealed. By another unrepealed statute, which dates back to the first year of King James I, it is enacted that not more than a penny may be charged for a quart of the best old ale nor more than a halfpenny for a like quantity of small beer. The penalty for each in- fraction of the act is 20 shillings, so that if it were rigidly enforced it ‘would not need, apparently, a licensing bill to ruin the brewers. Then, again, a Catholic owning a horse Is still legal- 1y obliged to sell it for £5 to anybody who chooses to offer that sum for it.— London Graphic. The First Mourning Paper. The oldest known letter written on black edged note paper as a sign of mourning appears to be one dated Jan. 5, 1683. In Addison’s comedy of “The Drummer,” 1715, reference is made to the fashion in the words, “My lady’s mourning paper that is blacked at the edges.” A few years later Allan Ram. say, who died in 1758, speaks in one of his poems of “the sable bordered sheet” as a messenger of sorrow. Mann, writing from Italy to Horace ‘Walpole in 1745, says that it was uni- versally used in Florence at that time. The superior elegance of this Itallan note paper, with its narrow margin of black, explains its ready acceptance in this country, where it superseded the quarto sheet with a black border some- tlmes a quarter of an inch wide. In this way it probably gave an impetus to the fashion. But it is a mistake to suppose, as some have done, that the fashion was introduced from Italy.— London Answers. Caught Alive. A New Yorker, a big game hunter of many years’ experience, was lion shooting in Uganda. He had excel- lent luck. Nearly every day he posed In a complacent attitude beside a freshly killed lion, and his photog- rapher snapped him for the maga- zines. One afternoon ' the photographer, who was taking a nap In the hut, was awakened by a loud noise. He rose and looked out. Sprinting toward him from the jungle, hat gone and coat- tails flying, came his chief, and, with terrible roars and growls, a huge lion bounded at his heels. The photographer gazed spellbound at the strange and exciting picture. His chief, perceiving him, shouted: “Quick, quick! Open the door, Georgel T'm bringing him home alive!”—Washington Star. Spoiling a Tragedy. “If you don't marry me,” he said des- perately, “I shall kill myself.” “And write a note telling all abouf 1t?” queried the maid. “Yes.” “And hold my photograph in your other hand?” “I had thought about it.” “Well, just wait a minute,” she said, “and I'll borrow pa's pistol for you. My, but won't it be romantic?” But he faded. The Head of the House, It is folly to call the husband the head of the house; he Is not. It is but a courtesy title at best, since in truth he is but an incident in the home life, while the wife and mother is its whole existence. Literally the sun of do- mestic happiness rises and sets in the face of the wife and mother.—Clara Morris in Housekeeper. Not an Advertiser. “Did you hang up any misfletoe las’ Christmas?” asked Erastus kley. “'Deed. I didn’t,” answered Miss Miami ‘Brown. “I's got a little too much-pride to advertise foh de ordinary courtesies dat a lady has a right to ‘expect.”—Exchange. Widow (at washtub)—Are you posi- tive you love me? Suttor—Of course I am. ‘Widow—What's the matter? You haven’t lost your job, have you?— Pittsburg Press. Too much-is worse than want.—Ger- man Proverb. Trollope’s Recipe For Novel Writing. Mr. Trollope wrote immensely and never waited for inspiration. He sald the best recipe he-knew for novel writ- Ing was a patch of cobbler’s wax on his chair and to take great care he sat on it.—*“Leaves From a Life.” Long and Short. Farmer B.—This ’ere paper says they ain’t nothin’ f’r an appetite like a long tramp. His Wife—Land! They don’t ¥now what they’re talkin’ about. A thort one ¢'n sat just ez much.—Path- inder. In 1608 King James published his famous “Book of Sports” and, thinking to render the Presbyterian form of worship less Tigid, ordered that cer- tain of the sports therein comimended should be played in the several church- yards every Sunday at the close of divine service.- John Ross, a minister of Blairgowrie, adopted a novel method of withstanding the royal ordinance. He was a strong, athletic man and seemed much interested in the récrea- tions enjoined by the monarch. Foot- ball was selected by the parishioners of Blairgowrle from the list of “Sun- day games.” When the services of the charch were completed Mr, Ross ap- peared among his people in the church- yard ‘and joined them in their sport. None -of- the assemblage kicked more ‘eagerly at®the football than did the reverend incumbent. But constant misfortune seemed to attend him. Ev- ery kick missed the ball and fell heavi- Iy on the ankles of those who stood near. Apologies were promptly ten- dered and, of course, received, though every Sunday many of the parishion. ers returned home halting. Finally it was- agreed that on account of the minister’s.. awkwardness the games ishould be abandoned. Thus the in- genious divine gained his end and pre- vented compliance with the obnoxious order. Where Greek Met Greek. The marble clock in the dining room had just announced in mellow fones the hour of 3 a. m., when the wife of the plumber nudged him and whis- pered nervously: “Horace, there’s a hurglnr in the house!” “There is, hey?” answered the hus- band, now thoroughly awake. “I'll see about him.” With cunning stealth he got out of bed and tiptoed out of the room. For ten minutes no sound broke the awful stillness. Then the house shook with a crash. There was a century of si- lence. Then a chair fell, the front door slammed and a heavy bundle thumped down the front stairs and into the street. The terrified wife fainted, to be brought back to consciousness by the voice of her husband. “It’s all right, dear. I threw him out,” he chuckled as he turned on the light. “But the scoundrel had. only $4.30 in his clothes.”—Judge. How Mayne Reid Won His Bride. It was through his novel, “I'he Scalp Hunters,” that Captain Mayne Reid won a bride. He was thirty years old ‘when he met a damsel of thirteen, with whom he at once fell in love. The child took no notice of him, but he gave her the story to read. Two years later the young lady was at a public meeting where Captain Reid spoke on behalf of the Polish refugees. “An electric thrill seemed to pass through me as he entered the room,” she said afterward, and when the meeting was over she went up to him. “I leave for London on the next train,” he said hur- riedly. “Please send me your ad- dress.” “I do not knmow where,” she replied, with some embarrassment. He instantly handed out his card and was gone. A formal little note followed: “Dear Captain Reid—As you asked me to send you my address, I do so.” By return of post came the answer, “Only say that you love me and I will be | with you at once,” and then the reply, “I think I do love you.” Whittier’s Applause. In his declining years the poet Whit- tler was extremely absentminded. He attended a church meeting where there were a large number of persons. As his presence was known, it was deemed fitting by one of the speakers to quote the poet’s lines: I know not where his lslands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. Great applause greeted the quotation, and Whittier was noticed to join in the handclapping. “I suppose I must have had my mind on something else. I had no recollection of having written the verse,” he said apologetically when his attention was called to the author- ship.—Boston Post. Legal Fiction. Says Sir Henry Maine in his “An- clent Law:” “A legal fiction is the as- sumption which conceals or affects to conceal the fact that a rule of law has undergone alteration, its letter remain- ing unchanged while its operation has been modified. The fact is that the law has been changed; the fiction is that it remaing what it always was." Frenzied Financiering. Columbus Washington Johnson Smith —Wr’at’s de price er dem watermelons, Mr, Jackson? Mr. Jackson (cunningly)—Ten cents erpiece and I picks 'em; 20 cents er- plece and you picks ’em, Mr. Smif. Mr. Smith—All right, Mr. Jackson. I guesses I'll take ’em all, and you picks ’em, ef you please!—Puck. What He Wanted. “You are a poor young man?”’ “I am.” “Then what you want is a thrifty, economical wife.” “Not at all. What I want is a rich, Uberal wife.” In Luck, “I's no fun being married. My wife is coming to me all the time and asking for money!"” “You're lucky! I have to ask my wife always for money when I want any!” ‘When a man likes to see how near the edge he can walk without falling over, there is only one thing that will cure him—falling over. — Atchison Globe. STATE OF Onm. CITY OF TOLEDO, | oo Luo. OUNTY, Frank J. Chenew makes oath that he is senior pnrmer of the firm of J. F, Cheney & business in the Olby of Toledo, Ccunty and State aforesaid, and that sald firm will pay the sum of ONE-HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured hy tha use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANKJ, NEY. Sworn to before me and subscrsbed in oy p&encb. this 6th day of December, A. b ) A. W.GLEASON. (SEAL) NoTARY PUBLIC. Hall's Catarrh Cure is tlkeninmmally. and acts directly on.the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials free: 1, CHENEY @ 00.; Toledo, O. Sold b; Take Hall's Flmfly for constipation. - How to Flll Up Hnlu In Wood. It sometimes becomes necessary to il up cracks or dents in fine wood- work, furniture, floors, etc. The fol lowing 1s the best 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 calcined magnesia Is then added, and 1t is forced into the cracks or very firmly to the wood and after dry- ing retains its smooth surfaca TO CURE A COLD INONE DAY, - Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets: | Drugelsts refund money 1t 1t falls_tocure- E. W. GROVE'S signatureifs on each box. 25 Amendment of Articles of lnwrpor-l’an of Douglass Lumber Company. STATE OF MINNESOTA, } County of Beltrami, H. N. Douglass and J. J, Anderson, atter Deing duly and severaily sworn, eack. for himself deposes and under his 0ath certifies: That they are respectively the President and Secretary of the Douglass Lumber Company, a corporotion organized and existing under and by virtue of Title 2 of Chapter 34 of the General Statutes of tho State of Minne- sota for the year 1894 and the acts amenda- tory thereot and supplementary thereto. That on the 10th day of November 1908, at the office of the Douglass Lumber Company. in the City of Bemidji, Minnesots, at aspecial meating of the stockholders of said corpora: tiow, duly called for the expressly stated' purpose of amending Articles 1V, V and VI of the articles of incorporation of said cor poration, 50 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 col'gorlflon shall at any time be subject, at which meeting all the_stockholders of said corporation were Drosent, the following resolution was unani- mously adoptc ‘Resolved, That Article TV of the articles of incorporation of this corparation amended so as 10 increase the capital stock of -said corporation from $10.000 to 0,000 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 | s0 as to increase the highest amount of indebtedness or liability vo_which said cor- poration shall at any time be subject from to $50.000 so that said articles shall read as follows: ARTICLE 1V, The amount of the capital stock of this corporation shall be Fifty ‘'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 1n accordance with the requirements of the by- laws of this corporation, the same shall be deemed to be fully pald ‘and non-assessable. | The number ol shares of the capital stock of this corporation shall be five hundred || (500) of the par value of one hundred dollars (2100) each. ICLE VI, AR’ e highest amount of indebtedness or llnbmhy to which this corporation shall at y time be subject, shall not exceed the sum 01’ bey Thousand Dollars (50, In witness whereof, the said President and Secretary of said corporation have hereunto set their hands and affixed the seal of said corporation, this 17th day of November, 1908. (Corporate Seal) H. N. DOUGLASS, President. J.J ANDERSON, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn before me this 17th day of _November, 19 eal) Graham M. Torrance, lsour.v Public, Beltrami County, Minnne- sota. " My commission expires Sept, 10, 1910. State of Minnesota, Department of State. L hereby certify that the within instrument was filed for record in this office on the 27th day of Nov. A.D., 198, at 9 o’clock a m. and was duly rewrded in book Q3 of Incorpora- tions on page 641 “julius A, Schmahl, Secretary of State. 27762 Office of Register of Deeds, Beltrami County, Minn. 1 hereby certify that the within instru- ment was filed in this ofli(‘e for record on_the 28th day of November, A. D. 1908, at 3 o’clock p. m. and was duly recorded in book 3 of Mis- cellanous on page 5. J.0. Harrls, (Seal) Register of Deeds. Stops Falling Hair Destroys Dandruff AYER’'S HAIR VIGOR _ An Elegant Dressing Makes Hair Grow Does not Color the Hair Building plete line of lumber of all descriptions. fancy glass doors. Lumber and Material We carry in stock at all times a com- and bwlding material Call in and look over our special line of We have a large and well .assorted stock from which you can make your selection. WE SELL 16-INCH SLAB W00D S . Hilaire Retail Lbr. Co. BEMIDJI, MINN. BUY A GOOD LOT With the growth of Bemidji good lots scarcer and are becoming scarcer. We . still have a number of good lots in the residence 'part of town which will be sold on ; easy terms. For further I;Afl.iculars write or call Bemidji Townsite and Im- provement Company. H. A. SIMONS, Agent. Swedback Block, Bemidfi. The Da.ily Poneer 40c per Month e | Typewriter Ribbons The Pioneer keeps on hand all the standard malkes of Typewriter Ribbons, at the uniform price of 75 cents for all ribbons except the two- and three-color ribbons and special makes. T, [ s