Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 19, 1909, Page 2

| | | | T THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED NVERY AFTERNOON, BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By CLYDE J._PRYOR. Runtered In the postofice at Bemidji. Minn., a8 second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---85.00 PER ANNUM &7 The Action of a Spinet. I The spmet instrument was an Im- provement upon what was known as the clavichord, the tone of which, al- though weak, was capable, unlike that of the harpsichord or spinet, of in- crease or decrease, reflecting the §nest \gradations of the touch of the player. 1In this power of expression it was ‘without a rival until the pianc was in- vented. The early history of the clavi- jehord previous to the fifteenth century ‘wests in profound obscurlty, but it is sald that there is one bearing the date 1620 having four octaves without the D sharp and G sharp notes. The spinet was the invention of the Venetian Spi- metta. The action is unique. The in- strument is similar to a small harpsi- chord, with one string to each note. [The strings are set in vibratlon by polnts of quills elevated on wooden uprights known as jacks, and the de- pressioqy of the keys causes the polnts to pass upward, producing a tone sim- Alar to that of a harp. Springs are used to draw the quills back into position. Phe keyboard is arranged in a manner after the present modern piano. Apartment House Life. | T know you say you can’t help living In a flat, but you could help it if you 'weren’t too lazy to live in the suburbs; There is no real home life possible ‘without children—not one, but two or three—enough to keep the young moth- er too busy to make beliéve she be- longs to’the smart set. And apart- ments are either too small for that or the landlords won't tolerate children at all. And then there is no neighbor- hood life. It's a good thing to have gossipy neighbors. You're more apt to be careful of the way you live. I always think of apartment house 1tfe as a sort of joke on socialism—a dot of strangers under one roof with gust two mutual interests, a dumb waiter shaft and an artificial palm. iAnd 'm bound to say that I think it s responsible for a heathen race with no children. Children mean sacrifice, and it's sacrifice that make good men and women.—Amelia E. Barr in New York World. A Scoop. i John L. Toole, the famous English comedian and practical joker, and Mr. Justice Hawkins, who was afterward Lord Brampton, were great friends. ‘They were at supper together one even- Ang discussing the events of the day. The judge incidentally mentioned that he intended on the morrow giving the man he had been trying fifteen years because he deserved it. As Toole was leaving he blandly in- quired: “Oh, would you mind my calling at the newspaper offices and telling them about that fifteen years? It will be a tip for them — exclusive information, you know=-and will do me no end of good with the press.” “@Good gracious! No, sir!” exclaimed the judge, who took the precaution of accompanying Toole to his hotel and seeing him safely to bed. Woman's Spur. “‘The scent was excellent that frosty morning. She walked across the field, holding her riding skirt free of her patent leather boots and silver spurs.”” ! “Spurs?” shouted the editor. “What alls you, man?”’ “Spurs?” the puzzled author repeat- #d. “Don’t they wear spurs nowadays? X know they used to.” “Women never wear spurs unless they ride astride. They wear one spur —one only, What good would a second ‘be, except to tear the clothes?” “I see,” said the other. “A natural error, wasn't it?” “Only a natural error for an igno- ramus. But the usual writer of sport- ing storles is an ignoramus. I rarely read a sporting story but I come across some error quite as blatant as this of yours.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Forced Draft Realism. “How is it that Scribbler's novels thrill with such vital, gripping, realis- te portrayal of human passions?” ask- ed Danks, “Well,” sald Hanks, “when he gets ready to write a novel he orders a gen- eral house cleaning, sends for the plumber to fix the gas jets and for the tinner to fix the stovepipes, bids his Ittle daughter to stay at home to practice five finger exercises, hires a street plano to play German, Irish and Itallan national airs in front of the thouse and tells his wife that her fam- Aly 1s not as good as his own. Then he sits and takes notes of what happens.” —Brooklyn Life. i Adam’s Appls. | The projection in the front of the throat in men, denoting the position of the thyrold cartilage, Is- styled “Adam’s apple.” It develops rapidly feually when the volce “breaks,” be- ing comparatively small in both chil- dren and women, The name arose from the tradition that when Adam ttempted to swallow the apple in paradise it stuck in his throat, giving to the swelling since seep in all s adult male descendants. { A Great Man. ) “Father,” said little Rollo, “what 1s ‘a great man?” great man, my son, is one who . manages to gather about him a whole fot of assistants who will take the blame for his mistakes while he gets ithe credit for their good ideas!” f Not Wholly Personal. | ‘A.—You have used the word “donkey” several times in the last ten minutes. Am I to understand that you mean anything of a personal nature? B.— Oertainly not. There are lots of don- Keys in the world besides you. To learn obeying is the fundamental ,hrt._o! zoummz.—c;r_lyh. R < Threo Royal Toai The “Greville Memoirs” tells this story of King Willlam IV, of England and the Duke of Cumberland, his brother: “During dinner loud voices were heard, which soon became more vehement. Both brothers had drunk more than usual, and the duke had lost his temper and his head. Then for the first time King Willlam sus- pected the idea which from that time ‘was never out of Duke Ernest's mind— that he ought to be the next king of England should no male children sur- vive his brother, Willlam IV. The duke, rising, said: ‘Call in the suit. I am proposing a toast. The king’s health; God save the king’ The suit came in and drank it. Then the duke said, ‘May I also, sir, propose the next toast? ‘Name it, your grace, replied the king. ‘The king’s heir, proudly said the duke, ‘and God bless him!" “A dead silence followed. Then the king, collecting all his energies and wits, stood up and called out, ‘The king’s heir; God bless her!” Then, throwing the glass over his shoulder, he turned to his brother and exclaimed, ‘My crown came with a lass, and my grown will go to a lass! Every one noticed that the duke did not drink the toast. He left the room abruptly.” A Kind Hearted Waiter. A surprising experience was that of a lady who received a bit of advice on table etiquette. She is sufficiently free from vanity to tell the story herself. She says: I know that I am not a person of impressive appearance. I am inclined to be short and stout and to dress plainly. Still, I had hoped that I had an alr of acquaintance with polite so- clety. But now I shall be more mod- est than ever in my idea of the impres- slon I make upon strangers, At my first meal at the hotel where I passed last summer I was pleased with the face of my waiter. It was radiant with kindliness and good na- ture. I began my dinner with soup and fish. As the waiter set them in front of me he glanced at the persons of fashionable appearance who were my neighbors at table. His kind heart ‘was suddenly struck with the fear that I might make an unfortunate impres- slon on them. He bent down and whispered in my ear: “Bat your soup first.” Grooming. Anciently man thought more highly of his horse than of his womenkind. But woman, as it chanced, was crafty. “Why does he esteem his horse be- yond his wife?” she asked herself and resolutely faced the task of finding out. Her first answer was: “The horse will carry a heavier load.” Her next: “The horse doesn’t talk back at him.” But nelther of these, somehow, im- pressed her as being correct. “Most likely,” she declared at length, “it’s in the grooming. Well, I'll just be ‘well groomed myself and see.” It was a lucky guess, and from that time forward woman’s position rose relatively until in our day the horse has scarcely a look in even at the borse show.—Puck. Her Darling’s Desire. “My darling,” said a fond mother, ‘who believed in appealing to children’s tender feelings instead of punishing them, “if you are so naughty you will grieve mamma so that she will get ill and have to lle in bed in a dark room and take nasty medicine, and then she may dle and have to be taken away out to the cemetery and be buried, and your— The child had become more solemn, but an angelic smile overspread his face at his mother’s last words, and, throwing his arms about her neck, he exclaimed: “Oh, mamma, and may I sit beside the coachman ?”—London Queen. The Age of Man, It is generally admitted by scientists that men lived on the earth contempo- raneously with the big nosed rhinoc- eros, which became extinct about the beginning of the glacial perfod. That period, so high an authority as the late John Fiske assures us, probably began not less than 240,000 years ago and came to an end 80,000 years ago. How long man existed on the earth prior to the glacial period we have no means -of knowing.—New York American. Puzzled. Mrs. Gaswell—Who is that man who looked at you as if he knew you? Mrs. Highsome—He 18 a man who has done some professional work for me once or twice. He's a chiropodist. Mrs. Gaswell—Chiropodist? Oh, yes; I've heard of them. They don’t-believe in foreordination, do they ?—Chicago Trib- une, To What Base Uses, Eto. One of our State street brokers re- celved a note from a customer bear- ing the cryptic message, “Richard III., act 1, line 138.” Turning to the pas- sage he read, “Now, by St. Paull” and next moment he had given the order.— Boston Transeript. Useless Prayers. An earnest young preacher in a re- mote country village concluded a long and comprehensive supplication by say- ing, “And now let us pray for those who are dwelling in the uninbabited portions of the earth.” Willing He Should Know. A certaln boastful man asserts that he knows how to play on two cornets at once, and the neighbors say that they do not object to his knowing how, but that he had better not try to do it. The man who is always trying to find out what people say of him is sel- dom happy.—Chicago Record-Herald. Foretelling the Future, Mrs. de Style—So your baby girl is 1= 7777 His Conufideii, “What is the difference,” asked:the man with the erratic eyebrows, “be- tween a tall, stout man whose wife has purchased for him a pale pink smoking jacket with yellow facings and a pocket that is utterly out of con- venlent reach at a dry goods store late in the afternoon of the day before Olristmas, after having put off the pur- chase for two weeks because she had to attend half a dozen bridge parties, and a large, jovial Russian nobleman who has been convinced of the broth- erhood of man and who is devoting himself to the laudable work of con- verting the people on his estates?’ “How’s that?’ asked the man with the dilatory mustache. The man with the erratic eyebrows repeated the query, and the other man, of course, refused to answer, saying that if he replied to hypothetical ques- tlons he must demand an expert’s fee. “Oh, well,” explained the man with the erratlc eyebrows, “it is simple enough. One pays for the present and the other prays for the peasant.”—Chi- cago Post. A Martyr to the Fox. . A fox can climb almost as well as a cat and will often be found lying in trees and on the top of ivy covered walls.. High walls covered with ivy often surround private residences in hunting districts. One of these do- main walls caused the tragic death of a hound in the south of Ireland a few years ago. There was a belt of trees with thickish undergrowth close up to the wall, and the hounds were running a tired fox hard through this belt. Suddenly the cry ceased; there were the unmistakable growling and worry- ing which proclaim a kill. The mas- ter jumped off his horse and pushed his way through the undergrowth. On getting to the pack, instead of finding a dead fox he saw to his horror one 'was easy to understand what had hap- pened. The fox had got over the wall by the help of some ivy, and the hound had tried to jump over after him, but, falling back among the others,- had been killed before they realized their mistake.—London Standard. The End of the Chase. Two ladies, friends of the superin- tendent, were visiting a hospital for the insane. -During the noon meal the superintendent remarked that the door of the violent ward was being repaired and that the guards would have to be unusually watchful until it was fin- for a stroll down the beautiful lane leading up to the main building. Sud- denly they heard footsteps as of some one running behind them and were horrified on looking around to see a di- sheveled, wild eyed man pursuing them. One of the women quietly stepped to the side of the road. The other, screaming at the top of her volce, ran down the road with the ma- nfac close upon her heels. At last, spent with running and gasping with fright, crouching in anticipation of the blow which she was expecting, she waited her fate. The man, panting and grinning, tapped her lightly on the shoulder and said: “Tag! You're it.”—Cleveland Leader. Mohasmedan Serenity. A Mohammedan people enjoy one great advantage over all others—they never suffer from the anticipation of that which is to come, and, as-a natu- ral result, they can always enjoy the present, although only a few hours may separate them from disaster or even from death. Their implicit be- lef in an ordained future imparts a dignified repose and outward calm to all their actions. Thus, in spite of the trials and troubles which threatened the state during my stay at Fez, a smooth surface of unchangeable seren- ity velled the inner thoughts of every Individual, from the sultan to the ne- gro at his gates.—Blackwood Magazine: London Street Noises. A hundred years or so ago nd pun- ishment could have been worse than that of subjecting the victim to the inferno of modern London noises if they had then existed. Dropping wa- ter on the forehead, torturing with tweezers, setting food before the starv- ing culprit—out of reach—all of these were exquisite and refined forms of horror, but they all pale before a night and a day in a modern London street. —Town and Country. His Defense. Cobble—You certainly have a good cook. By the way, where do you get your servants? Stone—From our neigh- three weeks old. "My, how time files! Mrs. Gunbusta—Yes. thirty years from now she will be twenty-one years old.—Sphinx, No Vices. Nell—I don’t suppose Mr. Sillicus has any vices? Belle—Vices! Why, he be- longs to a glee club, .an amateur the- atrical soclety and writes ‘| Philddeiphta Record. Just think {in {Other tribes bearing that name. bors. When we hear of a good one among them we offer her more money. to come with us. Cobble—But, my dear fellow, s that honorable? Stone —Why not? Can you develop a sense of honor with a poor digestion?—Life. Quite a Difference. First Comedian—What’s the differ- ence between a beautiful young girl and a codfish? Second Comedian— Give 1t up. First Comedian—One has o chance to become a fall bride and the other to become & ball fried.— Brooklyn Eagle. Superabundance, “Did that manager discover any hu- mor in your play?” “Yes,” answered the gloomy author. “He sald the whole thing was a joke.” —Hxchange. ‘The Best Lullabies. The motherly woman who has raised half a dozen children can beat all the divas that ever “dove” at singing Ilul- lables that really lull. — Galveston News. Ben ‘Franklin was the oldest signer. ?f the Declaration of Independence. Married by Blood. Z In the island of Banquey there is a tribe of Dusuns differing widely in language, religion and customs from Mar- riages are performed in the forest in the presence of two familles. There 18 no public gathering or feast. The rite conslsts in transferring a ) of blood from a wooden Eknife in mflr- of the man’s leg to imilar cut in the woman's leg. ~After marriage the man takes the bride to her home, SR | sworn in as Towa’s governor. Book learning, strictly speaking—that is, learning solefy from books—leads one into many a hole. In “The Balkan Trall” Frederick Moore tells the story of an Itallan official of the Ottoman bank who hadtaught himself English and was enraptured at the chance to practice it on/English people. It was withymuch pride that he ad- dressed us atgsupper, but we did not recognize the/language he spoke and expressed in French our unfortunate ignorance offforeign tongues. “That is your own tongue,” said the Itallan, but even of this statement we understood not a word. He drew a pencfl from his pocket and on the back of a letter wrote: “I am speaking English.” ‘We were astounded. “Perhaps I do not pronounce cor- rectly,” he wrote next. “I have learned the noble language from books.” The hilarious Englishman in our party gave the unhappy Itallan his first real lesson at once. He %00k the pencil and wrote: “Always pronounce English as it is not spelt. Spell as it is not pro- nounced.” The Bite of a Rattler. The Cherokee Indians’ cure for the bite of a rattlesnake is at once so com- mon sense and scientific as to merlt a widespread acceptance. Its common sense lies in the fact that the victim has or ought to have the necessary implement always at hand, there need not be an instant’s delay, and that it is the scientific plan goes without saying because it carries away the poison at once. The Indian at once, when bit- ten, drawing his knife, pinched up the part bitten and cut it out, then, seek- ing the nearest stream, not often very far away, plunged the leg in the run- ning water and kept it there until all bleeding had ceased and, as my in- of the best hounds torn to pleces. It|formant, an old man, told me, seldom suffered any il effects. Usually, as we know, no physician can be reached or reliable remedy had until the case is too far gone for any effort to avail, but with a knife and, if not a running stream, water enough to keep the wound well washed and the blood flowing I believe ther: would be fewer deaths following ratilesnake bites.—Forest and Stream. How to Settle Bil There is a young Harlem matron whose mental equilibrium is upset the first of each month by the prospect of letting her husband see the size of the ished. After dinner the ladies went | bills that come in for food, drink and for her own personal adornment. Her four-year-old daughter offered her a valuable suggestion the other day as to the simplest means of settling bills. examining with a clouded brow a bit of paper, inquired: “Is it a nice letter, mamma?” “No; it's a nasty big bill, dearie.” The child’s bright eyes closed as if she were searching her innermost soul for some word of comfort. Suddenly she flashed a glad look at her mother, and her voice had all the brilliancy of one volcing an inspiration: “Mamma, jes’ tear it up. Then you don’t have to pay it.”—New York Press. The Retort Aqueous. occasionally a rift of humor. said that at the time of the Johnstown flood a grocer to whom one of the citi- zens owed for an overlong time a good sized bill for provisions while floating along on the top of the waters in a raft made of two window blinds and a skylight caught sight of his delinquent debtor whirling around in one of the pools of the eddying current clinging to a large hogshead. “Ah, there you arel” cried the grocer, businesslike to the last, “Been look- Ing for you for several days. When are you going to pay that bill?” “Can’t say just now, Sands, old man,” returned the unhappy debtor. “I'm having all I can do to keep my head above water these times.”—Har- per's Weekly. 3 An Anecdote of Renan, Renan while traveling alighted at Naples. One morning a servant of the hotel came to him and said that as she had heard the preacher at the cathe- dral make use of his name many times she would be thankful if he would choose for her a number in the lottery about to be drawn. “If you are a saint,” safd she, “the number is sure to be a good one; if you are a devil, it will be still better.” Renan smiled and chose a number, but he never knew if the servant was lucky. Tangible Asset. “I believe I'll promote a transporta- tion company.” “Land or water?” “The latter, I think, For the former I’d need rails and right of way, but in a_ water proposition I'll have an ocean to start with.”—Bxchange. For Future Referenca. “That lawyer is very tricky,” said Mr. Cumrox. “I wouldn’t think of meeting him socially.” “Neither would I” answered Mr.| Dustin Stax, “but you might give me. his office address.”—Washington Star, .~ A Correction. “Your halr wants cutting badly, sir,” sald a barber {nsinuatingly to a cus- tomer, > A “No, it doesn’t,” replied the man in the chair. “It wants, cutting nicely. You cut it badly last time.” - Almost Personal. Celestine — And has Mr. Pryors church such a small congregation? Hilda—Yes, indeed. Bvery time, he says ‘“dearly beloved” you feel as if you had received a proposal.—Bohe- mian, Governor Carroll Inaugurated, . Des Moines, Jan. 15.—Before an au- dience composed of members of both houses of the general assembly, field officers of the Iowa national guard, ‘state officials, -prominent men from every part of Iowa and'a large con- tingent from Des Moines roll took the oath of office and was TO CURR A COLDINONEDAY, Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. it 1t fails to. . BEWGEO VAR tidheture s on cech 1ow 5o & : The small child, seeing her mother | Beware of Ointments for Catarrh thatContain Mercury. 1 as mercury will sure] smell and completely derange the whole sys- tem when entering it through the mucous Even {n the midst of horror there 1s | & It is | When Hypnotized Tramps Meet Death. ~ A No, 1, the well known tramp, states that riding upon the truck beams be- tween the wheels of a flying passenger train or even of a slower going freight train i8 exceedingly difficult. The fly- ing cinders deluge the eyes and at times make breathing almost impossi- ble. More than this, he says that un- less one strictly watches himself one 18 in danger of becoming hypnotized. The rhythmically pounding wheels jolt- ing over the joints of the rails have a ‘way of insistently commanding atten- tion that is extremely dangerous. This noise, sharp and repeated with devilish persistence, can hypnotize the unwary, he says. Often he has had to use ev- ery resource of will power which he has in order to ward off the effects of this endless and mind compelling “click, click, click.” He belleves that many a tramp who has fallen to his death from the trucks has been first hypnotized in this way. This 18 per- fectly sound psychology, and the proba- bility of such hypnotlsm will be in- dorsed by any good specialist in this sclence.—Bohemian Magazine. Not on the Programme. Two stout old Germans were enjoy- ing their pipes and placidly lstening to the strains of the summer garden orchestra. One of them in tipping his chair buck stepped on a parlor match, which cxploded with a bang. “Dot vas not on the programme,” he said, turning to his companion. ‘Vat vas not?”. “Vy, dot match,” & “Vat match?" # “De match I valked on.™ 2 “Vell, I didn’t see no match. Vat aboud it?” “Vy, I walked on a match, and it ‘went bang, and I sald it vas not-on the programme.” The other picked up his programme and read it through very carefully. “I doa’t see it on the programme,” he sald. “Vell, I said it vas notion the pro- gramme, didn’t I?” . “Vell, vat has it got to do mit the programme anyway? Egsplain your- self.”—Ladles’ Home Journal. 2 Her Chin. Dawson—The facial features plainly indicate character and disposition. Im selecting your wife, were you governed by her chin? - Spenlow—No, but I have been ever gince we married. Her Ears In Danger. Susie had left her toys about the kitchen. Mother (picking them up)— Susle, if you leave these things about the kitchen again I'll box your ears and throw them in the ash pit. None but the contemptible are ap- Pprehensive of contempt. — Rochefou- cauld. destroy the sense of Such articles should never bb used except on prescriptions from reputable phy- siclans. as tho damage they do is tem fold to the good you can possibly Hall's Catarrh Qure, manufnctured Cheney & Co., T erive from them. by F, J. ‘oledo, O., contains no mer- cury, and is taken internaily. acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Halls 10’ s‘ ‘Ullsbzrlr‘h Ui‘"bg be aken Intern- 0., by F. J. Cheney sts. Price 75c per bottle. ily Pills for Constipation. - A Violin For a Vane. One of the most curious vanes to be Seen on any church in Great Britain 1s that at Great Gonerby, a parish ad- Joining Grantham, in Lincolnshire. It is in the form of a fiddle and a bow and is unusvally large. Its history 1s a curlous one. Many years ago a peasant resided in Great Goner- by who eked out a modest livellhood by performing on an old violin, which was almost a part of his life. At last he decided to emigrate and out in the far west prospered and became a rich man. One day he sent to the clergy- man at Great Gonerby a sum suffi- clent to build a church and attached to the gift the curlous condition that a metal replica of his old fiddle and bow should be on the summit of the edifice. The gift was accepted, and the vane may still be seen on the church. FACTS ABOUT - THE CROUF THE FIRST SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT. Some Interesting Information for Young Mothers---How to Guard Against the Disease. The great danger from croup is fully re- alized by most mothers of young children. There are many, however, who do not know that an attack of croup may.be prevented by proper treatment as soon ag the first symp- toms appear. The first indication of an attack of croup is hoarseness. The child becomes quite hoarse; this is followed by a rough cough that has something of o meial- lic sound and has been compared to the crowing of a cock. Give Chawberlain’s Cough Remedy according to the printed directions with each bottle as soon as the child becomes hoarse, or even after the croupy cough appears, and it will prevent the attack. Tt is, in fact, a certain cnre for croup, and has never been known to fail, but it is better and safer to give the remedy be- fore the at'ack of croup is fully developed. Tt then saves suffering for thechild and anx- ety for its parents. There is no danger in giving this remedy freely, 2s it contains no opium or other narcotic. It is the standby and sole reliance in many thousands of homes and never disappoints those who de- pend upon it. There are women who took this remedy in childhood, now giving it to their grandclildren, and with the same uni- form success. It always cures and is pleas ant to take. Club Storlies. Two storles are told of the time when the Athenseum club, while its clubhouse was undergoing renovation, was hospitably taken in by the Unit- ed Service club. One was of a distinguished officer who, after a vain hunt for his um- brella, was heard to mutter, “That comes of letting those — bishops into the club!” The counterblast is to the effect that when an Athenseum man, while his club was still the guest of the. other, asked for -the librarian, the answer was, “Please, sir, he is in the dining voom carving the roast beef!” ¢ Took Him at His Word. Gradgrind (to his employees)—No- body but me is to touch that clock. Nobody is to begin or leave off work except as it indicates the time. Fore- man—Yes, sir. Gradgrind (the next day)—Why, the day is one-fourth gone and nobody’s at work! What does this mean? Foreman (meekly)—You forgot to wind the clock, sir.—London Fun. IBUY A GOOD LO_Tl With the growth of Bemidji good lots are becoming scarcer and scarcer. We still have a number of good “lots in the residence !part of town which will be sold on - easy terms. For Sale at Barker’s Drug Stere For further particulars write or call Bemid}i Townsite and Im- provement Company. H. A. SIMONS, Agent. Swedback Block, Bemid}i. Typewriter Ribbons ~ The Pioneer keeps on hand all the standard makes of Typewriter Ribbons, at the uniform price of 75°cents for all ribbons except the two- and three-color ribbons and special makes.