Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 29, 1908, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY- PIONEER A A A A AR AN AN AN PUBLISHED EVEBY AFTERNOON, BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING 00 By CLYDE J. PRYOR. Entered in the postofice at Bemidjl. Minn., a5 second elass matter. srrnmenneeeoone, SUBSCRIPTION--$5.00 PER ANNUM B oo S R WOULD BAR POLITICS FROM NATIONAL GUARD. Two farreaching propositions affecting the organized militia are being considered by the war de- partment, says a telegram from Washington, It is being agitated that the ad- jutants general of the states should be given a permanent term of office, limited only by good be- havior and good health, and that all commissioned officers should be appointed without the assistance of an election. While the depart- ment realizes that it has no direct way to enforce its belief, the Min- nesota soldier boys may rely upon it that many officers will exert all proper influence throughout the states and territories to bring these changes about, and it is the confident belief among these offic- ers that the changes are bound to come, sooner or later. The proposal to do away with " company and regimental elections will touch the Minnesota boys in a tender spot. They have been ac- customed to look upon this as a sign of their superiority, and as the great distinguishing mark between them and the regulars. Moreover, they have always gone about their duties conscious that they could sooner or later “get at” officers who made life unpleasant for them. It is contended that, although this power may make the boys feel their importance, it does not help discipline. Eating Test For Cooks. In a certain employment agency ten cooks out of a job waited one after- noon last week for a situation to turn up. Presently a well gowned woman who was short of servants applied at the desk for the desired help. The manager referred her to the ten cooks, The woman Interviewed each of them in turn with unsatisfactory results. “Not one of them,” she explained to the manager of the agency, “likes to eat the things that we like.” “But what difference does that make?” asked the manager. “They are no doubt good girls for all that.” “Yet they wouldn't suit me,” the wo- man replied decisively. “My family have very pronounced tastes in cook- ery, and my experience has taught me that only a cook who likes the same dishes that we like can prepare them satisfactorily. That is a matter of sim- ple common sense. It stands to reason that any dish a cook likes will turn out better than one she doesn’t like; eonsequently I will do the work my- self tll I find a girl whose tastes agree with ours.”--Philadelphia Ledger. Nature and the Barnacle. In the barnacle we have a unique and wonderful case of a creature that ©an afford as age comes on to dispense with the eyesight that was so useful in youth. For the young and old barnacle are as different one from the other as flshes from seaweed. In the heyday of life the barnacle swims about the sea, seeking its food with the ald of its eyes and generally leading a roaming existence. Later in life, how- ever, It grows tired of this aimless wandering and settles down to worry ships’ captains by attaching itself to the keel of thelr craft and defying the much advertised powers of various pre- ventive paints. Once, then, the barna- cle has become a fixture, whether on ships or sharks, its eyesight Is of no more use. It cannot seek its food, and it cannot shun its foes, for it mever more will move. Therefore its eyes become superfluous and, according to nature’s invariable rule in such_cases, disappear. . 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:ls 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 Bqueeze their sponges solemnly there- in. Then, with a bow of acknowledg- ment, the undertaker tiptoes on his way, extending the vase politely, now to the right, now to the left, murmur. ing in his gentle and soothing volce: “‘Have you shed, sir? Madam, have you shed?' ” Needed a Big Dose. The president of the Waiters’ club of New York in a recent argument on tip- ping said to his opponent sharply: “Your reply is altogether beside the point and irrelevant. It reminds me of @ woman’s reply in a German court. fFhis woman was accused of poisoning her husband. The prosecuting attor- ney said to her: “*You have heard the evidence. The body contained enough arsenic to kill ten persons. What have you to say? -"uy husband,” the woman answer- 4, ‘was 8 M¢ eater)” :| money.—Atchison Globe. A Wedding Decoration. The Senate’s Hole in the Wall. "~ | ‘Whether it was a mistake or & joke ‘When' the nineteenth century was as or simply an example of bad taste 13| yet only half grown, senators applied a question that is still puzzling most{ customarily for their toddies at the so of the passengers. But no matter| called Hole in the Wall, a small ecircu- about that. It certainly was a floral | lar room just off the postoffice of the masterpiece. Full four feet it stood | upper house. The latter body then |’ from the ground, in the form of a| occupied what is now the chamber of cross. Roses white and roses red| the supreme court, and the postoffice composed the body of the cross, and | was across' the mair corridor of the dainty white blossoms = and green | building on the same floor. leaves formed the trimmings. In the| wearer of the toga found himself in center the word “Peace” was spelled | need of a “snifter” he had only to out in rosebuds. cross over to the mails department Everybody in the car admired the | and pass through it to the little efr- it: ta_in';l. (Clayton Erb. offering, and when the boy set it| cular room aforesaid, which was about iz lant and ta) h down on the floor all leaned forward | the size of a pantry. The Hole in the] TflEY PLEAD 'NOT fimLTY‘ Nefs::i ll)vli‘;ri: npuck?:g ":,‘{:,t‘”h;vz been destroyed by fire. The loss was about $125,000.. The fire will not in- terfere with the working of the plant. to examine it more closely. At length | Wall was the first senate restaurant, one old gentleman stood up and read- [ and the bill of fare for edibles was Justed his glasses in order to get a | short, though to the point. There.was 3 ‘ better look at it. ham, ‘guaranteed to have been smoked | Victim of 8hooting at Country Home “That i3 a mighty pretty posy | for six months, a veritable sublimation yowve got there” he sald, * “Who,| of the pork product; there were corned ‘may I ask, is dead?” beef and bread and cheese, but very The boy giggled. little else. They served, however, as “Nobody 't I know of,” he said.|an accompaniment for the fluids, azd “This ain’t for a funeral; it’s for a| When the Hole was crowded, as was wedding.” often the case, senators ate their sand- The old gentleman sat down heav-|{ wiches outside, in the postoffice.— ly. ‘Washington Post. “Good Lord!” he said. “What idiet ever ordered ‘Peace’ inmseribed on a The Aurora Borealis. wedding decoration?” The aurora borealis, or mnorthern The rest of the passengers smiled,| light, is° something thdat we have all and many of them, being married;| heard about, but very few, perhaps, wondered as well, but nobody ventur-| can give any explanation of it. No ed an explanation.—New York Times. | one definitely knows what causes it, but the scientists are pretty well agreed that it is due to electricity. A certain Margaret Wilson of West- | They believe that the light is made by minster, who was an inveteraté snuff | the recomposition of the positive and | tician, national guardsman’ and lieu- taker, enjoined that a quantity of [ negative electricity always in the up- Sooteh soutr shonld o placed i, bor-| pers andrlower Jstrata-of air:, rospes || oo dat8cL W, Durhasi, the Re- coffin. She also.ordered that the ar | tively. M. Lenstrom made an inter- rangements connected with her funer | esting experiment in Finland in 1882, al should be as follows: “Six men to| his object being to determine the na- be my bearers who are known to be | ture of the aurora. He had the peak the greatest snuff takers in the parish | of a mountain surrounded by a cop- of 8t. James, Westminster. Instead of | per wire, pointed at intervals with mourning, each to wear a snuff colored | tTn nibs. When he had charged the beaver hat, which I desire may be| wire with electricity a yellow light bought for the purpose and given to | appeared on the tin tips, and an ex- them. Six maidens of my old ac-| amination of the light by the spec- quaintance to bear my pall, each to| troscope revealed the greenish yellow carry a box filled with the best Scotch | ray ‘that is a marked feature of the snuff, to take for their refreshment| aurora. This evidence among sci- as they go along.” Snuff was also to! entists iy almost convincing, for it 4 - 31 be thrown on the threshold of de-|is by means of the spectroscope that ceased’s dwelling before the cortege| we discover the constituent parts of passed out, snuff was to be strewn on | the sun and the stars.—Exchange. the ground at every twenty yards in Tl Wb, LA advance of the coffin, and the officiat- “Thou Diest on Point of Fox. ing clergyman’s fee was to be propor-| Fox blades were celebrated all tionate to the quantity of snuff he | through the sixteenth and seventeenth consumed during the ceremony.—Lon- | centuries for their excellent temper, don Globe. and mention. of: them- is- frequent in English drama. This is their history: ]| man and Politician and Husband of One_ of -the Defendants—Tragedy Followed Bitter Family Quarrels at Country Home of Captain Erb. 1. courtroom here today the unusual 1 spectacle was presented of two_sis- ters called upon to plead to the charge of compassing the death of the hus- law of the other. Both of the women | 1 pleaded not guilty. Death and Snuff. Pennsylvania is focused on the. trial. her sister, Mrs. Catherine Beisel They are each charged with volun- m and involuntary manslaughter, 21 What the Peruvians B | ance of $397,267.25 on hand the relief | corporation which had charge of the distribution of the funds donated to T uN TH'AL San Francisco at the time of the earthquake and fire of 1906 will turn | this money over to the varlous char- | istence the first of the year. When a C‘lll'ged Wl'fll Death of Cap=| its extstence the corporation aistrib. uted $9,553,140.76, < Was Prominent National Guards- GRA'N AND PROV'S‘ON PRIcEs $1.07; May, $1.09% @1.09%. On track —No. 1 hard, $1.104%; No. 1 Northern, Media, Pa., Dec. 29.—In a crowded | $1:09%; band of the oné and the brother-n- | and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.10%; No. $1.077%; Dec., Owing to the prominence of the|July, $1.09%. -Flax—To arrive and on victim In the case, Captain J. Clayton | track, $1.46%; Erb, who was a well known poli-| $147%: publican leader, interest throughout | choice steers, $5.50@6.50; fair to good, $4.50@56.25; good to choice cows and One of the defendants in the case is | helfers, $2.25@4.50; veals, $5.00@5.50. Mrs. Florence Erb and the other is | HOEs—$5.50@5.85. $4.50@5.00; spring lambs, $6.50@7.00. - 03; May, $1.06%; July, 98% @98%c; Sopt., 93%e. 6lc; July, 61@61%ec; Sept., Oats—Dec., 49%sc; May,-51%@51%c: July, 46%c; Sept., 39%ec. Pork—Dec,, Butter—Creameries, 22@31c; keys, 16c; o 13c. still have a number of good $3. ern cattle, $3.60@5.65; stockers and feeders, $2.70@4.80; cows and heifers, * Baldnce in Frisco Relief Fund. San anclaco, Dec. 20.—With a bal- - 1s?” This is gen th first the doctor asks. He knows what a slusgm?fit?ar :leans ""fi?flwfi : tlaaetn headaches, rl;liii&t;% abt;acks mdlgftmn, ImpAlsrfi R}oodi,f are prompt good liver s Of _e r’s Pills.. ’l'heniollowhlsadvice m. & ; ““How are your bo able organizations and go out of ex- During Fertilizing Plant Destroyed. St. Toseph, Mo, Dec. 20—The fer- Lumber an,d Building Material Wee carry in stock at all times acom- plete line of lumber and bwlding material Minneapolis. Wheat: -of all descriptions. Minneapolis, Dec. 28.—Wheat—Dec., e 5 Call in and look over our special line of fancy glass doors. - We have a large and well assorted stock from which you can make your selection. No. 2 Nortaern, $1.07%@ 07%; No. 8 ‘Northern, $1.04%@ 06%. - Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Dec. 28.—Wheat—To arrive 2 WE SELL 16-INCH SLAB W00D St. Hilaire Retail Lbr. Co. BEMIDJI, MIRN. Northern, $1.09%; No. 2 Northern, $1.07%; May, $1.09%; Dec., $1.44%; May, St. Paul Union Stock Yards. 8t. Paul, Dec. 28.—Cattle—Good to Sheep—Wethers, yearlings, = $5.50@5.85; Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Dec. 28.—Wheat—Dec., $1.- BUY A GOOD LOT With the growth of Bemidji good lots are becoming scarcer and scarcer. Wg Corn—Dee., 57¢; May, 61%c. 4.75; Jan, $16.32%; May, $16.571%. dairies, 1% @25¢. - Bggs—30c. Pouitry—Tur- chickens, 11%ec: springs, Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, Dec. 28.—Cattle—Beeves, 65@7.70; Texans, $3.60@4.45; West- lots in the residence [part of town which will be sold on easy terms. ed. There was. a certain Julian del Rei, $1.50@5.00; calves, $6.50@9.00. Hogs A unique idea of the future state | believed to be a Morisco, who set up a —Light, $5.10@5.85; mixed, $5.50@ was that of the ancient Peruvians.| forge at Toledo in the early part of 6.10; heavy, $5.50@6.15; rough, $5.50 Pu-ti ulars i As the disembodied soul winged 1fs|the sixteenth century and became fa- @5.70; good to choice heavy, $5.70 Box tunthet o witsor'éall way to eternity it emcountered two|mous for the excellence of his sword @F.16; pigs, $4.00@5.10. Sheep, $2.60 rocks, upon one of which it must| blades, which were regarded as the @4.85; yearlings, $5.00@6.20; lambs, - needs rest. The cholce was deter. | best of Toledo. That city had for many $4.50@.60. Bemidjj_ Townsite and Im- mined by the morality of the life in|ages previous been renowned for|. the flesh. If it rested upon the left| swordmaking, it being supposed that hand rock it was instantly translated | the Moors introduced the art, as they to “Po,” or oblivion, a state analogous | did so many good things, from the | to the Nirvana of the orient. If|{ east. through early misdeeds, however, the| Julian del Rei’s mark was a little unhappy spirit was guided to the right | dog, which came to be taken for a fox, hand rock it entered into a purga-| and so the “fox blade” or simply “fox” torial hell where fiends grated away | for any good sword. See “Henry V.” the flesh from all the bones in sue- | act 4, scene 4, “Thou diest on point of cesslon, after which the skeleton was| fox.” The brand came to be imitated reclothed and sent back to earth for| in other places, and there are Solingen another try. There was no haste | blades of comparatively modern manu- about this grating process. It took | facture which still bear the little dog’ something over 10,000 years. of Julian del Rei—London Notes and | that. Captain Erb was shot by Mrs. Queries. Beisel after a bitter family quarrel at Red Gables following a long series of The first recorded production of & A Royal Snike Slaugntaners domestic _dissensions. Captaln Erb play in Australla took place in June| The “secretafy bird” is one'of the|pnaq forbidden his sister-inlaw to visit of the year 1789. It was called “The | most precious: birds in South Africa.|the house, but she was admitied by Recrulting Officer.” The proceeds ot | It is royal game, and any person de-| yMrs Frh, Returning to his home un- the first pay night (some £20) went to | Stroying one is liable to a fine of £50. | expectedly Captain Erb found his sis- the family of a man who had been| Majestic looking birds, they stand | ter-indaw there and ordered her:from drowned. In January, 1796, a rough | about three feet high and generally g0 | the house. A quarrel and the. shoot- and ready playhouse was opened, and | in pairs. They are of drab color, With | ing followed. 'The. charge against the public had to pay a shilling a | black, feathery legs, and are valued| Mrs. Erb is that. of belng an acces- head for admission, The payments | for their propensity for killing snakes. | sory tothe shooting. were made in kind, wheat, flour or | Where the secretary bird is seen there| Mrs. Beisel's plea s selt-defense rum taking the place of the usual cur- | are sure to be many reptiles about.|and Mrs. Erb denies any complicity rency.—London Standard. The bird beats down its adversary|in the ‘shooting. ~Servants will be _— first with one wing and then with the | called upon to testify to the relations Disappearing Home Life. other, at the same-time trampling on | of the deceased and the two defend- The flat dweller ought not to keap s | it With its feet until the snake is suffi- | ants and to the occurrences on the dog, prefers not to keep a cat, cannot | clently stunned to catch it by the[day of the shooting. have a garden, has no chance of keep | head with its claws. Then the bird Since the tragedy Mrs. Beisel has ing house, has no possible place for | rises far up in. the air and drops its| been confined in jall, but Mrs. Erb memories and, most emphatic 6f all;-| vietim to the ground, to be killed. By | has been out on ball. The latteris a has no use or accommodation for | this means thousands of venomous | beautiful young woman, a fine eques- bables. Although it may be possible | reptiles are destroyed.—London Scraps. | trienne and’ has been.preminent in to -make homes without Kkittens or soclety. bables or flowers or memories or RAID ON'GTESEQUARTEH cupboards, the spirit of home is hard to woo and win without any of them.—~ Frisco Police Capture Scores of Al- leged Gamblers. Fortnightly Review. Go Right at It. “I g'pose you likes 'em better dan| San Francisco, Dec. 29.—One hun: “Of course you know that germs | mules.” dred and sixty Chinese were taken into communicate sickness?” “Well, de diff'unce is dat a mule | custody by the police during a sudden “Yes,” answered the man who s ap- | kicks wif his hin’ feet an’ de automo- | rald which was made on the various prehensive about his health, “and the | bile is me’ -1i'ble~to -butt ‘same "as" a | gainbling places of the.Chinese quar: | | worst of it is that they get right down | goat."—Washington Star. ter. This is the largest capture made to business in their communications, _— in any raid of the last few years. All instead of employing the sclentific cir- Busy Woman. .prisoners, were booked for violating cumlocution of the medical profes- Every monthly magazine carries as|the antigambling ordinance. The sion.”—Exchange. many as two continued . storfes:in:it. { new. _chief of -police, . “Jesse Cook, who. —_— When a man takes’six’it'means: that | 1s: familiar. with -the-Oriental"guarter, Trying to Make a Hit. his wife 1s carrying twelve continued | led the police. Judge— Do you acknowledge the |stories in her head in. addition to e T TR charge brought before the court of | doing the cooking and trying to find sElZE BRIT[SH STEAMER throwing your wfe to the ground and | out how much the new hat cost worn _ knocking her head repeatedly against | by the woman next door.—Oil City [ Chinese Cruisers Capture Vessel That the floor? Prisoner (evasively)—I was | Derrick. Ran Down Junk. d B Hongkong, Dee, 29.—The British Economical. steamer Taion wa$: captured by two only trying to make a hit with her, your honor.—Judge. i S She—I'm going to give you back our | cpinese cruisers near Kumchuk. The A Substitute. engagement ring. 1 love another. He—{ rogcon for the capture Is belieyed: to “I am sorry, my dear sir, but I neg- | Give me his name and address. She— | yjo 5 the fact that the steamer sev- lected to bring my surgical instru- | Do you want to kill him? He—No, T| ora) months ago ran down a junk and ments with me.” want to sell him the ring.—Plck-Me-UP. | growned a theatrical company which {"“That will be all right, doctor. The was on board. Further developman&s plumber who has been working in the from the capture are expectvd. 3 cellar -has left his tools ' here.”—Ex- — Jehange. MRS. J. CLAYTON ERB. by shooting on Oct. 6 of Captain Erb at his ‘country home, Red Gables, at Village Green,; Delaware county. Me- dia is the county -seat of -Delaware ‘county. Australia’s First Theater. Natural History. “Whah is you been workin’?” asked Miss Miami Brown. “Up to one o’ deshere garridges whar dey keep de automobiles.” Toast and Cheese, Make some rich milic toast and spread out on a flat dish. Cover with a thick S layer-of grated cheese and put in the The Fatted Calf. oven tlll the cheese melts and browns. That mighty unfair trick of killing | —Harper’s Bazar. ithe fatted calf for the prodigal causes |_more family rows than anything else on earth except the division of father’s MANY VILLAGES AFFECTED Chinese Rebel Against Order Prohibit- ing Opium Planting. Amoy, China, Dec. 29.—The riots which “started on Saturday with the- refusal of natives to obey an order prohibiting the planting of opium pop- pies now affect twelve villages. Twen- ty miles west of Tungan 2,000 men are reported under arms. They have ‘withdrawn to the Belin mountains and the authorities have asked one vice- roy at Foochow- for -additional.troops A Spong “The worse of Spongely 1s he never pays anything,” said Grabbles. “Oh, doesn’'t he, though? Ask him to Out of a great evil may come a great | pay you a visit and see” retorted good.—Italian Proverb. Hicks. How to FIII Up Holes In Wood. It sometimes becomes necessary to Martha, endeavoring to instruct a Al up cracks or dents in fine wood- | WOuld bé housekeeper In the mysteries work,p furniture, floors, ete. The fol- of pudding making, was overheard. lowing 18 the best way of doing ft:| . Yef jes’ takes some bread en”— White tissue paper is steeped and per- “But how much bread, Martha?’ tectly softened in water and by thor- | “Ob, Jes’ what yer needs, Miss Min, ough kneading with glue transformed |°8 den yer puts yo' milk on 1t’— Into o paste and by means of echers | (AR ROV mach MG NANGRT | Monkreonl s B8 o (earth colors) colored s, nearly-as pos- | _‘Well, yer mus ‘;‘,‘“ ver jedgment | ok 8 the o vere houseliecner and thoe sible to the shade of the wood. To the | Pout dat, Miss Min.” . tire family. Every packuge guaranteed paste calcined magnesia is then added, | “But I haven’t afy. judgment, Mar B e e e oty mfimr}’,‘&{‘u and | ¢ ur friends. Hopeless. Are You Looking for a Pudding? and it Is forced Into the cracks or |tha.” ten very firmly to the wood and after ary- “Well, de_Lord hsv'zl yer, Miss Min, | Far flavors at STATE OF Ou.m. UITY OF TOLEDO, Frank J Oheney ‘makes onth thifi he 1is senior partner of the firm of J. 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