Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 9, 1909, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTNRNOON, - BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By CLYDB J._PRYOR. Wntered in the postoffice at Bemidjl. Minn.. a8 second class matter. FOUUUUUUT T UUIRMVSUIIIVSVEVIAVER RS SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM —_— “TOWNSHIP OPTION,” NEXT MOVE (?) Though county option has been given its quietus, the agitatian for something drastic in the liquor sup- pression line is by no means dead. Township option, it comes on good authority, is to be the next play of Dr. Palmer and his followers, and a bill proposing it is to be offered shortly in one of the houses. While less extensive in its territorial scope, it is said to be even more drastic than the county option act, its main feature being a minority petition scheme, that will enable any small clique to apply the lid to any small municipality in the state. It is said to be Dr. Palmer’s last card, and if he fails—well it may be the last of his job and the $4,500 that he is said to receive annually from the league. WILL “BOB” BE A CANDIDATE? The presence of R. C. Dunn about the capitol and the legislative halls the past few days has revived the talk concerning his probable connection with the next republican guberna- torial campaign, but the Princeton man could not be induced to dis- cuss it. “It is rather early to talk politics,” was all he would say. In the house Thursday the former state auditor was the center of an admiring crowd of legislators. Over in the senate the greeting was just as cordial. All joined in making his visit a pleasant one.—St. Paul Dis- atch. It is the opinion of many who keep close “tab” on matters political that Governor Johnson will again be a candidate to succeed himself, in 1910; and there are those who assert their belief that “Bob” Dunn can defeat the St. Peter man, if there is ever another gubernational contest between them. While “‘Bob” will not say he will not be an active candidate for the republican nomi- nation in 1910, the possibility that he may again “get into harness” is causing the Hon. Frank Day some worry. It is more than likely that Dunn will be “smoked out” before the legislature adjourns, and it would be no surprise to the writer if he formally declares his candidacy before summer is far advanced—or decisively states that he is out of the question as a gubernational possibility, once and for all time to come, In the last “scrap” between Dunn and Johnson, Beltrami county gave “Bob” a majority of nearly 900. T T galt Lakes, i The Great Salt lake is gradually dry- ing up, and the inhabitants of Salt Lake City seem quite surprised. They ought not to be. All salt lakes owe their salinity to the fact of their hav- ing no outlet, and a lake Without an outlet is a dying lake. Nor is death usually long delayed, speaking geologleally. Lakes Koko Nor and Lob Nor were undoubtedly extensive inland seas not so very many decades ago, yet Sven Hedin found them reduced to mere acrid puddles set In the midst of well nigh limitless salt deserts that once were their beds. The terrible Taklamakan desert, too, in which Hedin nearly died of thirst, ‘was once the bed of just such a lake. B0 also were the salt deserts of Persia. forthern Tibet is studded with salt es In process of desiccation. The ‘Aral and the Casplan seas were at one time far more extensive than is now the case, proving that they, too, are un- dergoing the inevitable process of des- iccation to which all such bodles of ‘water are sooner or later invariably subjected.—St. Paul Pioneer Press, Negro Eloquence. Bome years ago one of Texas' widely known statesmen who is now dead Wwas passing along a street in Dallas when an old colored man who had once belonged to him approached, took off his hat and passed a hand over his Wwhite wool as he asked: “Marster, gin de old man 50 cents.” “Dan, you are a robber.” “How?” asked the astonished darky, opening his eyes, around which rough- ghod age had walked. “Didn’t you see me put my hand in my pocket?” “Yes, sah.” “Well, you old rascal, you rob me of the pleasure of giving you money with- out being asked.” The old man received a dollar. . Bow- ing almost to the ground, while tears came out and coursed through the aged prints around his eyes, he replied: “Marster, wid—wld such a heart as you hab and wid Abraham and Isaac and de Lord on your side I don’t see ‘what can keep you out of heaven.” A Life Note. “Life is what we make it,” sald the philosopher. “Alas,” exclaimed the practical ome, “that we can’t make it a million]” We ask Providence to make us thankful for what we receive and then go to figuring on just how much Provi- dence is going to send us.—Atlanta Constitution. Agricultural Division VERY growing plant is a little factory. The green coloring matter of the leaves, or chlo- rophyll, is the engine. The sunlight is the power that makes the engine go, and the air, water and some of the substances in the soil are the raw materials. Under the stimulating Influence of sunlight the chlorophyll takes the ecar- bon dioxide gas of the air and the wa- ter, nitrogen and minerals which the roots send up in the form of crude sap and tears them to pieces. Then it puts them together again in hundreds of different ways. It makes them into the starch of the potato or the sugar of the sugar beet. It puts them together in another way and makes the hard, horny gluten of a kernel of popcorn or the tough fiber of a cornstalk. By ¥1G. II—THE GROWTH OF CORN ROOTS. building them up in still different ways it makes the hard wood of the oak or the delicate petals of a rose. Man, with all his skill and machinery, has never been able to make any products half so wonderful as are being made every day in every fleld on your farm. If plants are to grow rapidly and produce large yields, they must be well fed. About half the dry weight of a mature plant is wade up of carbon. Practically all of this comes from the carbon dioxide of the air. Every acre of wheat will use a ton of this gas or all that is in a layer of alr three miles deep over the acre. The constant mix- Ing of the air by the wind is always bringing fresh supplies within reach of the plant. The farmer does not need to concern himself with the supply of carbon di- oxide, for every time he buflds a fire or even breathes he is adding to the store of this material in the air. The smooth upper surface of a leaf Is both air and water tight. On the underside, however, are many small openings, which are really the mouths of the plant. It is through these tiny holes that carbon dioxide is taken into the leaf to be used by the chlorophyll. In making starch and other products out of carbon dioxide and water some oxygen is given off. This passes out through the openings in the leaves. Thus you see that plants breathe in much the same way as animals do, only they give off oxygen, the product which is used by animals, and take up carbon dloxide, the gas which is breathed out by animals. In this way plants make animal life possible. Ani- mals give off carbon dioxide and manure as waste products. Plants tear these waste products to pleces and 'by rebullding them make them once more into food for the animals. Next to carbon hydrogen and oxy- gen are the foods that the plant uses In largest quantities. BSince water is composed of these elements, the sup- ply will be plentiful as long as there is plenty of water in the soil. There is one element, nitrogen, which forms a considerable part of the plant, that is harder to get. While three-fourths of the air is nitrogen, the plant does not seem to be able to use it in this form. The only kind of plants that can use the nitrogen in the alr at all are the legumes, such as clover and alfalfa. Certain bacteria that live on the roots of these legumes have the power of changing the at- mospheric nitrogen - into forms in which the plant can use it. We shall study more about this process later. Nitrogen is one of the most impor- tant plant foods, and it is one that is very often lacking. If the plant can- not get a sufficlent supply of nitrogen it will be stunted, will stop growing early, and the yield will be very much reduced. Since all the crops, with the exception of the legumes, must get their nitrogen from the soil, the farm- er must see to it that there is a plen- tiful supply there if he wishes to ob- tain a large yleld. If you will drop a little rich black sofl on a hot shovel some of it will go up in smoke. The part that burns i3 humus and is made up of vegetable.and animal matter which is partly de- cayed. This humus contains large amounts of nitrogen, and from this source the greater share of this' ele- ment used by the plant must come. If your sofl is black, spongy and well supplied with humus there is little danger that the plant will go hungry for nitrogen. One of the best ways to keep a fleld in this condition is to ap- ply liberal quantities of barnyard ma- nure. Another way is to plow under green crops, especially clover. Some- ‘times it is necessary to buy nitrogen for the plant in the form of commer- cial fertilizers, but this is a very ex- pensive way of obtaining it. Even when the plant is given all the nitrogen it can use it sometimes fails ' Home Course In Modern Agriculture I1.—How Plants Eat and Grow By C. V. GREGORY, Copyright, 1908, by American Press Association . Jowa State College to do well. This is because it cannot get-as much of the mineral elements as it needs. . Too much nitrogen in proportion to the amount of mineral elements causes the plant to “go-all to vines.” There will be an excessive growth of leaves, but the yleld of grain will be small. Take an car of corn or a bunch of hay and burn it. The ashes that are left are the mineral parts of the plant. These cannot be obtalned from air or water, but must come from the soil. Some of the most important of these are iron, which is the substance that helps to build up chlorophyll, and sul- phur, which is found in the nitroge. nous parts of the plant. There are a number of others also, all of which are present in the soil in such large amounts that there will probably al- ways be all that the crops can use. Two of these minerals, however, po- tassium and phosphorus, are not 8o plentiful. When the plant cannot get enough potassium the grain will not be filled out well. If-there is too little phosphorus, especially in the case of fruit trees, the development of fruit is checked. Adding barnyard manure to the soil helps to. keep up the supply of these two materials. On farms where little stock is kept or where grain has been raised continually for years and little attention paid to the soil it is sometimes necessary to apply phosphorus and potassium in the form of commercial fertllizers. In the eastern part of this country there are many farms that have be- come so badly run down that crops will not grow at all unless they are fed with commercial fertilizers. These are very expensive, and it often takes nearly all a farmer makes to pay his fertilizer bills. These farms would never have become so worn out if they had been properly cared for. Leaving plowed ground, ‘especially on hillsides, exposed for several months during the fall and winter allows much plant food to wash away. Growing the same crop year after year wears out the land rapidly. Different crops require different kinds of food. By changing crops from year to year no one food material is used to excess and the others wasted. By keeping as much stock on the farm as possible, saving the manure carefully and spreading it on the flelds before it rots or leaches away and by using leguminous plants to gather nitrogen the soil can be kept well supplied with plant food. It is much more profitable to feed the crops in this way than to buy plant food on the market at excessive prices. Usually, however, the plant is hungry for the mineral elements: not because they &Ye not in the sofl, but because they are in a form in which it cannot get at them. The roots of the plant spread all through the sofl in search of food. If you will look at. a lttle root through a magnifylng glass you will see that it 18 covered with root hairs. It is through these root hairs that the plant takes up food from the goil. There are no openings directly into them, but the walls are so thin that the water can soak through to the {nside. Solid sub- stances, of course, cannot get in, so that the plant food must be dissolved In water before it can get into the roots and so up to the chlorophyll, which is waiting to bufld it into seeds or leaves. “ If the soil has been worked untfl it i1s fine and loose each little particle, FIG. IV—MAGNIFIED SEOTION OF UNDEB- BIDE OF LEAP SHOWING BREATHING POBES—A, A, A. will become surrounded by - water, which will readily dissolve the plant food from it. If, on the other hand, the goll is in the.form of chunks and clods very little of the plant food can bae dissolved. The plant food that is on the inside of a clod might as well be out in the road or over on ome of the neighbors’ farms. Some of the potassium and phos- phorus .will not dissolve even when brought in contact with water. It takes a long contact with the air to cause chemical " actions which will change it into a soluble form. Con- tinual stirring of the soil hastens this change. Thorough stirring also loos- ens up the ground so that air caniget down to the roots. Without ald they will stop growing and the entire work of the plant will stop. The yellow:ap- pearance of a patch of corn in a low place where the ground is water sogk-~ ed 1s due to lack of air about the “There were seven of the twelve,” said one of the discharged jurors in speaking of the matter next morning, “who didn’t want to sleep themselyes and wouldn't let the rest of us sleep. ‘Whenever-we dropped iInto a doze they came around and shook us till we were wide awake again.” “And you bad to submit, I suppose, for they constituted the majority ¥’ “Yes. They were a rousing majority,” said the hollow eyed juror, With a pén- sive attempt to be facetic : Tribune. - lb. “A Present. -~ “That’s a very fine parse you have, Henry.” “Yes. My wife gave it to' me.on my Dirthday.” - “Indeed! Anything in 1t7” "Yea; the bill for the purse.’” Qne: Exception, The Husband (during the guarrel)— You're always making bargains,” there eVer a time when you 't} an ‘Wife—Yes, sir; on my we “|agatn.” i “Yis, mim,” returned’'Bridget meek+ “What excuse have you to ofter?/ You know I told you that Mr. Sub-| bubs: must catch that early/train, andy punctuality at breakfast is absolutel; necessary,” said the lady. “Sure an’ Of overshlep’ mesilf,” said Bridget. i “That’ 18 no’ excuse,” sald the m§1 tress. - “I gave -you an alarm cl only yesterday.” “O1 know: that, mim.” X ect] tlons, and finarcial upon the Pries 75 per bottle. old by alld Tako Hul's Baudiy Bl o comstimation. “Did you wind it up?’ “01 dia.” “And didn't it go off 2" “Sure an’ 1t 414 that. It made a tar- rible n'ise.”” “Then why didn’t you. get.up?” “Sure, mim,” responded Bridget tear- fully, ‘“4t was that. t'ing that’s made all the throuble. Ol niver shlep’ & wink all night waitin’ for it to go off} an’ whin it did Ol was that toired OL couldn’t move.”—Harper's Weekly. To Cure Wrinkigs. *Look at a paralytic if you think ‘wrinkles incurable,” said a beauty doc- tor. “On the side he is paralyzed all his wrinkles disappear. Though he be sixty or seventy, his profile on that paralytic' shows us how to cure our wrinkles—namely, by keeping our fa- clal muscles still If we keep. our faces in perfect repose, never laughing when the comedian sings his best song, nev- er weeping when wife or sweetheart dfes, we will have no wrinkles what- ever. The skin wouldn’t wrinkle if it were not exposed. The skin of the body 1is much:disturbed by action of the muscles underneath—as at ' the knee, for instance—yet this unexposed skin never wrinkles. Not being ex- posed to the bad influence of sun and wind, it has not lost the oil and the elasticlty . of childhood. And thats where I come in with my creams and' unguents and' massages.” —New Or- leans Times-Democrat. Taming Pattl. Pattl was to sing on a certain date at Bucharest, but at the last moment she declined to leave Vienna. It was too cold; snow everywhere; she woul not risk catching her death of cold, M. Schurmann, the impresario, was in despair until a brilllant inspiration came to him. Quickly he telegraphed to the advance agent in- the Rouma- nian capital: “At whatever cost Pattt must receive an ovation at Bucharest statlon from the Itallan aristocracys Bend me by return the following wires ‘The members of the Italian and Rou- manian nobility are preparing to give Mme. Pattl a magnificent reception. The ministry will be represented. Pro- cessions, torches and bands. Tele- graph the hour of arrival’” The ad- vance agent carried out this instruc- tion;, and when the telegram dictated to him over the wires arrived in Vi- enna it was handed to Pattl, with the desired effect. “How charming!” she murmuted. “What time do we start?” His Wonderful Invention. Australia, as 15 well known, i in- fested with rabbits, a most destructive a man-invented: the following plan: You go out into the fleld from which' the rabbits are ‘to be removed. You saw down a-tree, and on the slant of Then you keep very quiet, so that the rabbits will come back from thelr bur- rows and feed -as usual. When & farge enough number has collected you clap your hands sharply. The effect will be electric. The rabbits will jump in haste for their burrows. At least one 1s sure to mistake the black spot for his hole and make for it. Invaria- bly he will dash his brains out. This process, repeated often enough, is warranted to exterminate the rabbit forever. ‘The reports do not say whether there are any rabbits left in ‘Australia. = Twin Place. One day an old gentleman who found the Java village at the World's fair very absorbing at length. confided in a young man standing near. “It's powerful nice to watch,” he said, “but I may say I should be better on't if I was a trifle better posted. My jogras phy’s a leetle rusty, and it's truth and fact ‘that I don’t jestly know whers Java is. Now, where is it?" “Oh,” said the young man, with the assured quiet of one who knows, “just a little way from Mochal”—Argonaut, . Making [t Easler. Little Jean’s dolly had met with an accident, and her mother had procured 8 new head for it. The removal of the old ‘head proved ‘to be a rather difficult task, - which Jean =watched: with great interest. “I'm afraid, Jean, I can’t get this ©0ld head off,” said the mother. Jean’s face glowed with the light of an inspiration as she said: “Never ‘mind, mamma; just take the body off.” - . A Teaser. “There s one subject on which it 18 difficult to keep up interest?” “What particular subject is that on ‘which it is difficult to keep up inter- est?” £ “The mortgage of my house.” To the Point. Hiderly Aunt—I suppose you wonders | ed, dear little Hans, why I left you s¢ abruptly in the lane. I saw & man, and, oh, how I rah! Hans—Did you get him?—Fliegende Blatter. Ammthyomhmufiu be old in hours if he has lost Do tme, —Bacon. How’s This? & ‘We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case o Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Oatarrh Oure. E; E.J. CHENEY & C0,, Toledo. O. We, the undersigned, have known K. J. COheney for the last 15 years, and believe him honorable in. all business transac- lly able 1t An: oblisations made by his Arm. o oot 88 A Ay Molodo, S ale Druggists, Toledo, o Halls Ontarsh Giire s gmxf internally: surfaces of the system. Testimonials B:Illt?’g side 18 the profile of a youth. So the| and multitudinous pest. Not long ago’ the stump- you palnt a black spot. || |ASKS DAMAGES OF Osoar Hammerstein Sues New York Press and [ts Editor. New York, Feb, &-—Oscar Hammer- stein, manager of the Manhattan Op- era House, through his attorney: Delmas, Towne and Spellman, insti- tuted two clvil suits for Iibel against the New York Press and John A. Hens __O8CAR HAMMERSTEIN. nessey, managing editor of that news- paper, alleging damages in: each case of $100,000. The statement charged as libellous was contained in a pub- lished letter severely reflecting upon Mr. Hammerstein, SENTTOFINANCE COMMITTEE Bill Increasing Canal Bond lssue to $500,000,000, = ‘Washington, Feb. §.—The senate committee on interoceanic canals voted to send to the committee on finance the Hopkins bill increasing the authorization for the issue: of oa- nal bonds from $135,000,000 to $500,- 000,000. This action was taken on the theory that an appropriation in excess of the amount named. in the original act in-itself acted to increase the limit of cost of the Panama canal and therefore it was a Qquestion with which the finance committee was best qualified to deal. _ The bill introduced by Representa- tive Mann (Ill) to provide for the government of the canal zone and which entirely reorganizes the canal commission was discussed informally by the senate committee on inter- oceanic canals. It was decided that it Involved too great a change for con- sideration in the time that remains of the present session and no action will be taken on the bill. Case Thrown Out of Court. Chicagd, Feb. 8.—The case against the three Rhodus brothers—Edward, Birch and Thomas—charging them with using the mails to defraud, was thrown out.of court by United States District Judge Landis. Demurring to the indictment the' defendants de- clared that the allegations of fraud had no-basis in fact and in this con- tention ‘they were upheld by the court. $200000 | oerioER SUSPENDED _ FOR SIX MONTHS Giptaln analtt,fiugll Found Gullty of Infoxication. —_— Gibraltar, Feb. ' —Captaln Edward F. Qualtrough of the battleship Geor- 8la, having been: found guilty by courtmartial of being {intoxicated while on duty and of condnct preju- dicfal to the good of the navy, has been suspended from duty for six months, with an additfonal punish- ment of the loss of ten numbers in rank. Rear Admiral Sperry, comman- der-in-chief of the Atlantic battleship fleet, has approved the findings of the conrtmartial, but the secretary of the navy must take official action on the recommendation for loss of numbers. Captain Qualtrough has been de- tached from the fleet and ordered home. He will go as a passenger on *he Georgia. Lieutenant Commander George W. Kjine, who was. placed in command of' the Georgia, will con- tinue in .command on the homeward Journey.. GERMAN FLOODS SERIOUS Reports.of Loss of Life From. Various Localities. 5 Berlin, Feb. .—The flood: situation in Germany, resulting from heavy rains and melting snow, still is. seri- ous. Many cases of loss of life con- tinue to be reported - from various parts of the country. The lower sections of Frankfort- on-the-Main -are” flooded. A terrific hurricane raged in the Rhine valley and demolished the Wiesbaden ma- chinery hall and other buildings in course of erectlon for an exhibition this summer. The river police of Cologne have stationed steamers at various points along the River Rhine to give assistance as required. The Elbe, the Main and the Oder are also rising. Several villages are cut off from communication from the outside world and are threatcned with partial destruction. The Elbe is carrying down great masses of ice, which have partly destroyed the scaffolding of the new bridge being erected at Dres- den. The Mulde, a, confluent of the Elbe, has flooded the country areund Dessau.s The Oder is rising rapidly and many barges frozen. into the ice several weeks ago are threaterted with destruction. | At Discuss Oil T-ust Cases, ‘Washington, Feb. —District Attor- ney Sims of Chicago and James H. ‘Wilkerson of the same city, special counsel for the government in Stand- ard Oil cases, were at the White House. They came to Washington to confer with Attorney General Bona- parte and Frank B. Kellogg. special counsel, regarding certain phases of the action rending against the big ofl combine. TO:CURE A COLDINONE DAY, Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Drwflsts refund money if it falls tocure E. W. GROVE'S signature is on each box. 25c. Typewriter Ribbons ThePioneer keeps on hand all thé standard makes of Tyi)ewrit,ér Ribbens, at the uniform price of 75'cents for “all ribbons exeeptr the two- -and three-color ribbons and .special makes. LOSING THER JOBS SOUTH AFRICAN NATIVES BE- COMING CIVILIZED. Witch Doctors and “Offended” Ancestors Giving Way to The following letter was received by the publisher of the “Naledi Ea Lesotho,” a pa- r.ppbli-l;d z!‘:n At:na Basato at feting, Sonf rica, and translated b; him mfi forwarded to the Clumberhiz Medicine Co., Des Moines, Towa: “Since 1 subscribed to a news r ['have found true health. I have en bone-throwers be- cause I am tired of them. When achild is sick-they say it is bewitched and' that its ancestors have caused its illness because of .some duty which its parents have failed to do towards it, and they say you must slangh- ter a sheep and anoint the child with its bile. I do mot believe this any more be- cause I have found a medicine in the news- paper._ I can swear that in case of colds and whooping cough, which does so much harm to_children, I have never found Chamber- Iain's Cough Remedy to fail. I advise you to buy it now and you will never have occa- sion to go to bone-throwers, who are bound to say that the cause of this. illness is witch doctors or offended ancestors and you have to slnnihter a sheep to cleanse the sjgk and y to have your house sick-proof even be- lore your child s cured.” F. M Monsstery, 0. 1. . For Sale at Barker’s Drug Store "Harry Mitchll | ang 1 d fadtton or Mo Vay ¥ 1 tention - to custo; of trade among the best-dressed men in Minneapolis, 8t. Faul and Duluth, and I.never fail to please. Out-of-town men can write me for samples and measure- ment blanks. I can make clothes for men whom I have never seen-just as well as 1 do for my clty customers who ‘come. into the store. Please.call in my stores or write for samples. . Minne- gpolls store, 310 Nicollet avenue: St ul - Store, 406 Robert street; Duluth . Store, 18 B Superior street. Yours truly, HARRY MITCHELL, In wrifing for sgmples please address your 1 mi:p;%‘nxy Hiieen: $i0 Nicolier Aven I8, ? LECTRIC ,fzmon E BITTERS ANDKIDNEYS Y