Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 9, 1909, Page 4

| ! | Stomach Trouble. Your tongue is coated. Your breath is foul. Headaches come and go. These symptoms show thaj your stomach is the trouble. T¢ remove the causeis thefirst thing, and Chamberlain’s Stomach anc Liver Tablets will do that. Easy to take and most effective. For Sale at BARKES'S DRUG STORE DOINGS AMONG BEMIDJI'S COUNTRY NEIGHBORS Live Correspondents of the Pioneer Write the News from Their Localities. Graceton. June 8. John Hanyo was a business caller at Warroad Wednesday. Church services were held at Calvert Canfield’s home last Sunday. J. C. Prosser of Roosevelt visited his daughter of this place Sunday. Several of our people went down to Pitt to attend church Sunday. The Ladies’ Aid met at the home of Mrs. Ferguson Wednesday. Officers were elected. F. M. Sweigart returned on Saturday from Crookston, where he acted as a witness to the proof of Mrs. Thompson. Pat Ganyo went to Warroad Wednesday to make final proof on his claim. F. M. Sweigard and Calvert Canfield went as his wit- nesses. We are informed that C. L. Dickenson is about to take charge of the postoffice and also put in a stock of goods at Graceton. We hope so, as it will be much more convenient to be able to purchase our goods at home than elsewhere. Wilton. June 9. Services were held in the Luthern church Sunday. C. F. Rogers made a business trip to Fosston last week. Mrs. George LaTulippe and son, George, spent Sunday in Crookston. Earl McMahan and Andrew Rygg visited at the Rygg home last Sun- day. T. O. Melby and family spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives here. Mrs. George Forte and Mrs. John Clemmer were shbpping in Wilton last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Patterson made a business trip to Bemidji last Wednesday. - Mrs. Robert Ernst and Mrs. T. Brennan called on Mrs. Frank Pat- terson Sunday. Milton Farnham returned from Minneapolis, where he has spent the last two months. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Bowers and family spent Sunday afternoon at the home of J. C. McGhee. A large crowd attended the ball game in Shevlin, Sunday between Wilton and Shevlin. The game was 12 to 9 in favor of Wilton. BLAGK HANDERS ON TRIAL Nineteen Italians in Court at Fair- mont, W. Va. Fairmont, W. Va.,, June 8.—With counsel table piled with knives, re- volvers and other paraphernalia of an elleged Black Hand society nineteen Italians, arrested two months ago in A raid, were placed on trial before Judge Mason in the circuit court. Orazio Parabelli, nineteen years old, whose . initistion into the society cavsed the arrests, is the principal witness for the state. The boy claims he was foreed to join the organization under penalty of death and compelled lo pay $25. Assassinated From Ambush. Pittsburg, June 9.—While returning home from a picnic at Oakland Park, near Uniontown, Pa., in company with Mrs. Fannie Rodgers, Charles Fro- man was assassinated. Five shots were fired at Froman from ambush, four of them taking effect. Mrs. Rodgers was arrested charged with being an accessory lo the murder. Ed Callahan Still Alive. Lexington, Ky., June 9.—Ed Cal- lahan, the feud leader, who was shot during an attempt to assassinate hi¢ tamily, is still alive, but he is par alyzed from the waist down and like ly to die at any time. Members of the Callahan clan are said to be gather g at his house and a reopening of feud troubles is expected. Earthquake Shock Registered. ‘Washington, June 9.—An earth- quake, officially estimated as 4,000 miles distant, possibly in either the vicinity of Northern Chile or the Aleutian islands, was recorded at the weather bureau. The shock was well dofined and of moderate intensity. " Order Shows Remarkable Growth, Detroit, June 9.—Reports read by Sovereign Clerk John T. Yates at the opening of the biennial convention of sovereign camp, Woodman of the ‘World, showed a remarkable growth of the order during the year 1908. The sovereign camp is the lawmaking bedy of the order and will bw in ses- sion here for ten days. MRS. ANNIS TO BE MARRIED Widow of Captain Hains’ Victim to Quit the Stage. New York, June 9.—Mrs. William E. Annis, who is appearing in a mu- sical specialty at a New York theater because she was called on to support herself and her two little children sfuce the slaying of her husband by Captain Peter C. Hains, Jr., announces that she is to be married to a pros: perous real estate broker. “I have only been on the stage a week,” she said after she had re- WILLIAM E. ANNIS. sponded to several curtain calls, “and it is all very nice and the audiences are very kind to me, but I want my own home, where I can have my children and be with them. The hope for a return of the happiness which was mine before Mr. Annis was killed is only a dream, but the man who I am to marry sympathizes with me thoroughly and I know that if any- thing is possible he will accomplish it. STORM RAVAGES _ PORTION OF SPAIN Saores of People Killed ana Immense Damage Done, Madrid, June 9.—Belated reports tell of terrific havoe wrought by a storm that ravaged the districts of Durango, Arratia and Lasierra, caus- ing immense damage to property and sveat loss of life. ¢ A deluge struck the town of Cerun- tes when the annual fair was prog- ress. The town was filled with peo- ple and the crowds were unable to reach shelter. The meagre reports say that scores were drowned. Hundreds o cattle were killed and their bodies strewn about with the hu- man corpses. At Montemayor a crowded church was destroyed and it is feared many were killed. The storm was the most extensive in years, but owing to the almost complete prostration of telegraph lines details of the damage are lack- ing. Thousands are said to be shelter- less and an appeal has been received for aid. The government has sent a com- mission to the devastated district to Investigate. QUARTER OF A MILLION LOSS Over a Hundred Buildings Burned at Presque Isle, Me. Presque Isle, Me., June 9.—The fire which ravaged this town destroyed 126 bulldings, with an estimated loss of $250,000. No person was injured serfously. The conflagration is the worst of its kind In Maine since 1903, when the town of Houlton, also in this county, lost about as many buildings. Aside from ten potato storehouses, the Con- gregational church, Masonic hall and the Canadian Pacific railway freight station the fire here was among resi- dences, Many tons of potatoes were burned. The ruined area covers about half a square miile and includes North Main street, Allen street, Third street, Blake street and South street to Main street. Between 500 and 1,000 people are homeless. IN BAD SHAPE PHYSICALLY Jack London Outlines Gloomy 8ketch of His Condition. Honolulu, June 9.—In the letter te Dr. E. 8. Goodhue, Jack London, nov- elist, outlines a gloomy sketch of his physical condition. He specifies five different diseases from which he has suffered and tells of being relieved of two of them by operations in Sydney, hut says he still has malarial fever, while nervous affliction has wrecked his strength and prevents him frome doing any work. ° SAID TO BE SHORT $40,000 New Haven Bank Employe Placed Under Arrest. New Haven, Conn.,, June 9.—Fred- erick H. Brigham, head bookkeepe:. of the Merchants National bank this city, was arrested charged with embezzlement. It is sald the short- age will reach $40,000. Brigham is about forty-seven years old and mar- rled. He had been in the employ of the bank eighteen years. Turks to Occupy Urumiah. 8t. Petersburg, June 9.—The corre- spondent at Constantinople of the Novoe Vremya says in a dispatch that the commander of the Fourth Turkish army corps has been instructed to occupy Urumiah, in Persian Armenia, and he has sent out advance detach- ments on the road to Tabriz. SIX ARE GIVEN JAIL SENTENGES Judgment Passed in Cincin-| nati Bucketshop Case. USED MAILS TO DEFRAUD Court Declares Government Absolute- ly Proved That the Defendants Con- spired to Misappropriate Funds Placed in Their Hands by Custom- ers—Are Said to Have Divided One Million of Public's Money. Cincinnati, June 9.—Lewls W. Fos- ter, John C. Gorman, Walter Camp- bell, A. C. Baldwin, Edwin Heil and J. M. Scott were each sentenced to six months in jail and & fine of $200. They were convicted of using the United States mails to further schemes to defraud in conducting a bucketshop. Judge Thompson overruled a motion for a new trial. Attorney Outcalt moved for a stay of execution in or- der to appeal the case to the United States circuit court of appeals. Mean- time each of the defendants will be at liberty under $5,000 bond. The defendants operated the buck- etshop known as the Odell Brokerage company. Willlam J. Odell came to Cincinnati from Savannah, Ga., with $10,000 cash and opened a bucketshop. He soon had branches in all the prin- eipal cities and towns in the West and South and his business was the largest of the kind in the country. ‘When Odell died a few years ago he left an estate valued, it is sald, at $2,000,000. All the six defendants were clerkg and telegraph operators for Odell. They continued the business. Judge Thompson, in passing sen- tence, sald the government had abso- lutely proved that the defendants had not. only appropriated the $300,000 cash assets of the Odell company, but had deliberately conspired, under the guise of a bucketshop, to misappro- priate the money placed in the com- pany's hands by customers. The de- fendants reorganized the Odell Broker- age company with a capital of $250,- 000, of which only $19,000 was paid in, and the institution was always in- solvent in their hands. Yet the pub- Hc furnished the defendants with more than $1,000,000, it is sald, to divide among themselves. The prose- cution, it is said, was actively assist- ed by the Chicago board of trade. BREAKS ENDURANGE RECORD Balloon University City Remains in | Air Long Period. Indianapolis, June 9.—The balloon Untversity City, John Berry of St. Youis pilot and Paul McCullough alde, which landed at Lockout Moun- tain, Ala., broke the endurance record, previously held at forty-four hours, and no doubt has won the national distance race of the Aero Club of AAmerica, which started from Indian apolis late Saturday afternoon. ThTe exact time made by the Uni- versity City is not yet known. The distance from Indianapolis to the landing point is nearly 375 miles, The distance record is 852 miles, made in 1907 by the German balloon Pommern, starting at St. Louls and landing at Asbury Park, N. J., winning the James Gordon Bennett cup. Fire Threatens Lumber Plant. McCloud, Cal., June 9.—A fierce for- est fire is sweeping toward the big plant of the McCloud River Lumber company and a crew of fifty men has been sent out on a lumber train with tanks of water to attempt to check the flames. The fire is within half a mile of a powder magazine belonging to the company and containing a car- load of explosives. “Thou Diest on Point of Fox. Fox blades were celebrated all through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for their excellent temper, and mention of them is frequent in English drama. This is thelr history: There was a certain Jullan del Rel, believed to be a Morisco, who set up a forge at Toledo in the early part of the sixteenth century and became fa- mous for the excellence of his sword blades, which were regarded as the best of Toledo. That city had for many ages previous been renowned for swordmaking, it being supposed that the Moors introduced the art, as they dld so many good things, from the east. Julian del Rel’s mark was a little dog, which came to be taken for a fox, and so the “fox blade” or simply “fox” for any good sword. See “Henry V. act 4, scene 4, “Thou dlest on point ot fox.” The brand came to be imitated in other places, and there are Solingen blades of comparatively modern manu. facture which still bear the little dog of Julian del Rei—London Notes and Querles, Courtship In Ireland. An Irish boy marries when he has a rid house and an Irish girl just when she pleases. Sometimes she so pleases while yet her years are few; at other times she is content to wait upon wis- dom. In the latter case, of course, she makes a wise choice, but In the for- mer almost always a lucky one, for luck is the guardian angel of the Irish. “You're too young to marry yet, Mary,” the mother saild when Mary pleaded that she should grant Lau- rence O'Mahony a particular boon. “If you only have patience, mother, Il cure meself of that fault” was Mary’s reply. “And she's never been used to work, Laurence,” the mother said to the sultor discouragingly. “If you only have patience, ma’'am,” was Laurence’s reply to this, “I'll cure ‘her of that fault” And he did too.— Seumas MacManus in Lippincott’s. ‘When Jim Bridger, the one time fa. mous scout of the plains, grew old he thought he would like to retire from the somewhat arduous life of a plains. man and settle down to the ease of “the east,” which to him meant Mis- sourl. So he used his best endeavor to find a competent man to fill his place and went back to Missourl. A year or two passed, and one day Captain Russell, the commandant .of the post which Bridger had left, was surprised to see ‘the old scout heave in sight. When he came in the cap- - tain asked: “Well, Bridger, what brings you back here?” “Captain,” said Bridger, “I want to 80 back to scouting again.” “Indeed? Why, I thought you had settled down in the east for the rest of your life!” “Well, cap’n, I'll itell you how it is. I went back to old Missouri, and 1f youw’ll believe it they’ve got a railroad station within ten mile o’ the old place —yes, sir, a railroad station! And, ‘what’s more, they've'got a ranch now in every four mile, I tell you what, cap'n, the air ain’t pure down there no more!” “Is that possible? But I thought you'd like the good things to eat they have down there. You like good things to eat, I remember.” “Good things to eat! Why, cap'n, 1 didn’t have a br'iled beaver tafl the whole time T was there!” an “Old Man” “Speaking of new men,” safd the boss of the skyscraper builders, with a twinkle, “comical things happen even up here, the same as in a theater, Sometimes in rush seasons there ain’t enough. hands to go round, and we have to take 'em green as the hills. I had one once, a kid from Vermont, a whale of a kid, with bones like a horse and eyes awful anxious to please— eyes that made you like him. He’s one of the best men I've got now, but then he was green as God made him.” The foreman stopped to chuckle. “‘Go up to the eighteenth floor, I told him one day, ‘and bring down an old man.’ I was busy at the time, and when I saw the kid stare I sald kind of sharp that if that old man wasn’t here in five minutes the whole blamed building would probably go to smash. This was just my way of making him hustle, but he thought I meant it word for word. He went up on the run, and in a few minutes he came down with a sputtering, clawing old feller held like a vise in his arms. “‘He was the only old man on the floor,’ said the kid, ‘and he wanted to stop and argue about it, but from what you said I knew what it meant, so I just grabbed him and came. “You see,” the foreman added kind- 1y, noting my puzzled expression, “an old man happens to be the name of a tool we use.”—Everybody’s Magazine. Making Caricatures. The way in which some artists ean distort features without making them unrecognizable is certainly very re- markable. Thomas Nast possessed this faculty to an extraordinary de- gree, and he had a very peculiar way of adding new faces to his mental photograph gallery. "When a fresh subject would arise in politics, for in- stance, he would invent some pretext to call upon him at his office or house and hold him in conversation as long as possible, studying his features. ‘When he took his departure he would purposely leave his cane. Once out- side, Nast would make a hasty pencil sketch on a card and would usually find that his memory was deficient as to some detail. He would then return, ostensibly for the cane, and another look at the vietim would enable him to perfect his sketch. After that he had the man forever. When Joe Kep- pler was alive he used to make fre- quent trips to Washington for the pur- pose of seeing statesmen whom he wanted to draw. He was very clever at catching likenesses and scarcely ever referred to a photograph. A Wonderful Bird. One day a wonderful bird tapped st the window of Mrs. Nansen's (wife of the famous arctic explorer) home at Christiania. Instantly the window was opened, and In another moment she covered the little messenger with kisses and caresses. The carrier pi- geon had been away from the cottage thirty 16ng months, but it had not for- gotten the way home. It brought a note from Nansen, stating that all was going well with him and his expedition in the polar region. Nansen had fasten- ed a message to the bird and turned it loose. The frall courier darted out into the blizzardly air. It flew like an arrow over a thousand miles of frozen waste and then sped forward over an- other thousand miles of ocean and plains and forests and one morning entered the window of the waiting mistress and dellvered the message which she had been awaiting so anx- {ously. Fire Terms In Japan. Fires In Japan are so common that this destructive agency has established itself as a national institution, and a whole vocabulary has grown up to ex- press every shade of meaning in mat- ters fiery. The Japanese language has special terms for an Incendiary fire, an accidental fire, fires starting from one’s own house, a fire caught from next door, a fire which one shares with oth- ers, a fire which is burning to an end, the flame of a fire, anything—for in- stance, a brazier, from which a fire way arise; the side from which to at- tack a fire in order to extinguish it; a visit of condolence after a fire, More Wheat to Come. A Chinese doctor, as a punishment for causing his patient’s death, had to pay ten loads of wheat. While carry- ing the grain he was met by a man who asked him to come and treat & slck member of his family. “All right,” said the doctor, “I will be there short- 1y, but in the meantime you may be getting your barn cleaned out.”—Scrap Book. o Nothing. “Nature plans well for mankind’ needs.” “I should say so. What could ‘& more convenient than ears to To the Romans belong the honor of having produced the first European cookery book, and, though the author- ship is uncertain, it is generally attrib- uted to Caellus Apicus, who lived un- der Trajan, 114 A. D. Here are two recipes from this ancient collection: “First, for a sauce to be eaten with bolled fowl, put the following ingredi- ents into a mortar: Aniseed, dried mint and lazer root. Cover them with vine- gar, add dates and pour In liquamen (a distilled liquor made from large fish which were salted and allowed to turn putrid In the sun), oil and a small quantity of mustard seeds. Reduce all to a proper thickness with sweet wine ‘warmed, and then pour this same over your chicken, which should previously be bolled in aniseed water.” The second recipe shows the same queer mixture of Ingredients: “Take a wheelbarrow of rose leaves and pound in a mortar; add to it brains of two pigs and two thrushes boiled and mixed with the chopped up yoke of egg, ofl, vinegar, pepper and wine. Mix and pour these together and stew them steadily and slowly till the per- fume is developed.”—Chambers’ Jour- nal, Which Foot Walks Faster? You may think this a very silly ques- tion to ask, but it isn’t. It is a simple, demonstrable fact, which you ecan prove to your 6wn satisfaction in a very few minutes. If you will take a pavement that is clear, so that there will be no interference, and walk brisk- ly in the center, you will find that be- fore you have gone fifty yards you have veered very much to one side. You must not make any effort, of course, to keep in the center, but if you will think of something and endeavor to walk naturally you cannot keep a dlrect line. The explanation of this lies in the propensity of one foot to walk faster than the other, or one leg takesa longer stride than the other, causing one to walk to one side. You can try an experiment in this way by placing two sticks about eight feet apart, then stand off about sixty feet, blindfold yourself and endeavor to walk between them. You will find it almost impos- sible, Why Not Be an Egotist? There is much mistaken sentiment as to the sin of egotism, The fact is ego- tism 8 not & sin. On the other hand, it 1s somewhat of a virtue and an in- dispensable element in all real prog- ress, Some phases of egotism are un- pleasant to the beholder and unfor- tunate for the possessor, but if all ot self love, or, rather, the love of other people’s admiration and good will, wers to be extinguished there would be little to hold society together and less to glve impetus to the great enterprises which spring from individual thought and culminate in personal profit.—Les- lle's Weekly. The Retort Courteous. A lady passing through the negro quarter in Mobile, Ala., heard an old woman chanting a dirgelike tune. “Auntle,” she observed, “that is a mournful song you are singing.” “Yassum,” was the response, “I knows it's mo'nful, but by singin’ dat song an’ ‘tendin’ to my own business T spects to git to heaben.” Freedom of the Press. The battle for a free press in the full modern sense was fought out be- tween 1764 and 1771, beginning with the prosecution of Wilkes for attack- Ing Bute in the North Briton and end- ing with the successful resistance to the proclamation by which the com- mons had forbidden the publication of their debates. Six printers who had Infringed the proclamation were sum- moned to the bar of the house. Five obeyed, and the. messenger of the house was sent to arrest the sixth. The lord mayor sent the messenger to prison. The house of commons sent the lord mayor to the Tower, but he was released at the mext prorogation, and the day on which he left the Tower marked the end of the last attempt to silence the press.—New .York Amerd- can, The Real Version, Napoleon sat inadvertently upon a smoking cannon and scorched the seat of his white trousers. “I cannot turn back now,” he mut- tered to an aid as he hastily dismount- ed. “I have burned my britches be- hind me!” ke This historic expression has been grossly corrupted by later writers.— Pathfinder. Vicissitudes of a Picture, The vicissitudes of Leonardo da Vinei’s plcture, “Last Supper,” re- minds a correspondent of the strange experiences of Holbein’s “Iield of the Cloth of Gold,”” which may be seen any day at Hampton Court palace. After the downfall of Charles I, Crom- well in order to raise funds proposed the sale of certain pictures, this among the number. The bargain was already made, but when the would be pur- chaser came to Inspect Holbein’s mas- terplece he discovered that the head of Henry VIIL had been cut from the canvas, He naturally withdrew his offer, and the picture was preserved to the nation. On the restoration a nobleman confessed to having com- mitted the theft for love of art and his country, and he returned the missing head, which now occupies its original position in the canvas. The circle made by the knife is still plainly visi. ble.—London Chronicle. Cold Storage Rats. The attendant came out of the cold storage room with an awed look. “Rats are wonderful,” he sald. “We thought modern plumbing would abol- ish them, but they live in the clean light and dryness of the best modern plumbing more comfortably than they did in the damp and filth and darkness of the past. We thought the modern ship would abolish them, but the Lu- sitania has as many rats as had the Columbus caravels. And here”— He made an awed gesture. “And here I find rats in our cold storage rooms at temperatures that freeze the breath and cause it to fall in the form of snow. To and fro they prowl. Their coats are thick and warm like fur, and, with frost on their whiskers, they feed heartily on meat hardness,” k | and game frozen to rocklike spectacles over?’—Washington H&ald. | —Exchange. 5 TR Asked Too Much. In R. F. Johnson’s book, “From Pe- kin to Mandalay,” the author tells the story of a poor Chinese scholar noted for his piety, who heard the voice of an invisible being who spoke to him thus: “Your piety has found favor in the sight of heaven. Ask now for what you most long to possess, for I am the mossenger of the gods, and they have sworn to grant your heart’s desire.” “I ask,” said the poor scholar, “for the coarsest clothes and food, just enough for my daily wants, and I beg that I may have freedom to wander at my will over mountain and fell and woodland stream, free from all world- 1y cares, till my life’s end. That is all I ask” Hardly had he spoken than the sky seemeéd to be filled with the laughter of myriads of unearthly volces, “All you ask,” cried the mes- senger of the gods. “Know you not that what you demanded is the high- est happiness of the beings that dwell in heaven? Ask for wealth or rank or what earthly happiness you will, but not for you are the holiest joys of the gods.” The Ungrateful Cuckoo. To hear the cuckoo’s cheery note you might think he had the clearest con- sclence in the world. He can have nef- ther memory nor moral sense or he would not carry it off so gayly. We say nothing of the “raptores,” who are a race apart, but the most disreputable of birds, as a rule, are guilty of noth- ing worse than peccadillos. The jack- daw will steal for the mere fun of the thing, for he can make no possible use of plate or jewelry, and sometimes un- der temptation may make a snatch at # pheasant chick. Sparrows are, of rourse, notorious thieves, but they rank @o higher in erime than the sneaking pickpockets. But the cuckoo, so to speak, is a murderer from his cradle. He violates the sanctity of a hospitable hearth. His first victims are his own foster brothers, and before he tries his wings on the first flight he is imbrued In fraternal blood, like any Amurath or Bazajet.—London Saturday Review. Emerson's memory. Emerson was a notable sufferer from the vagaries of memory. His biogra- pher relates that he met him one day in Boston apparently at a loss for something and asked him where he was going. “To dine,” said Emerson, “with a very old and dear friend. I know where she lives, but I hope she won’t ask me her name.” And then he proceeded to describe her as “the mother of the wife of the young man —the tall man—who speaks so well,” and so on, until his interlocutor guess- ed to whom he was referring. Even the names of common objects often failed him completely. On one occa- slon when he wanted an umbrella he said: “I can’t tell its name, but I can tell its history. Strangers take it away.” This falling of Emerson led to a pathetic scene when he attended Longfellow’s funeral and remarked as he gazed at the coffin, “He was a sweet and beautiful soul, but I bave entirely forgotten his name.” He Preferred Mules. One of the pet hobbies of Senator Christopher Magee was his newspaper, the Pittsburg Times. He kept the pa- per well to the front, and it was a credit to modern journalism. One morning the Times had been scooped on a railway wreck. . “Senator,” asked an intimate ac- quaintance, “how do you console your- self on the loss of that wreck story this morning?” “By congratulating ourselves,” he an- swered quickly, “that we are among the number who missed that 1l fated train.” On another occasion as the senator was approaching the Times building on Fourth avenue he noticed a crowd gathered about a wagon which was filled with huge rolls of newspaper. A wheel was caught in a deep rut in the pavement and could not be budged. “Senator,” laughed a friend, “they managed at last to get your paper into a rut” “Yes,” answered Mr. Magee, his eyes twinkling with good humor, “and I'm not trusting to men to get it out again, but to mules.”—Philadelphia Press. Vanity of Men. In a woman’s club, over tea and clgarettes, a group of ladies cited many, many instances of the foolish vanity of males. “Take the case of bees,” one said. “Because the queen bee rules the hive, because she is the absolute mistress of millions of subjects, man up to a few hundred years ago denled her sex. He called her the king bee. “Pliny wrote somewhere, ‘The king bee is the only male, all the rest being females’ And Moses Rusden, beekeep- er to Charles II., stoutly denied, in or- der to please his royal master, that the large bee, the ruler of the hives, be- longed to the gentler sex. “Even Shakespeare couldn’t bear to think that the bee of bees, the largest and wisest and fairest, the hive's ab- solute lord, was a female. No, all the proofs notwithstanding, Shakespeare called her a male. Don't you remem- ber the lines— “Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom, They have a king and officers of sorts.” —New Orleans Times-Democrat. Casualties Expected. During one of Speaker Cannon’s bit- ter political fights in his district in Il nois the opposition resorted to desper- ate tactics. Among other things friends of Uncle Joe were summarily dismiss- ed from positions they held In the pub- lc service. Some of his friends be- came alarmed at this, and one of them called on the speaker at his residence and said, somewhat excitedly: “Joe, Smith and Jones have just lost thelr positions in the postofice. What are we going to do about 1t?” - Uncle Joe took another puff at his cigar and then answered, with a benev- olent smile: “Nothing. If you go Into battle, you have got to expect to have some dead and wounded.” A Precaution. “Young man,” said her father, “I don’t want you to be too attentive to my daughter.” “Why—er—really,” stammered the timid young man, “I had hoped marry ber some”— i “Exactly, and I'd like to have you marry her, but if you’re too attentive to her you won't have money enough to do it.”—Liverpool Mercury. will not mince Baking Powder must give you satisfaction. It must prove that it is the equal in every way —and superior in some—to all other baking powders, or you musthave your money back. “You cannot set your standard of qualitytoo high to suit us. Insist on Calumet and don’t let your grocer give you a Substitute. Received Highest Award World’s Pure Food Exposition Chicago, "07. WANIS ONE CENT A WORD. HELP WANTED, WANTED—Goad girl for kitchen work and general work in ho tel Inquire at Blocker Hotel. WANTED—Good girl for general housework. Inquire at Hotel Blocker. WATNED—Good lady cook for hotel work. Inquire at this office. WANTED — Dishwasher at Chal. lenge hotel. FOR SALE, FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. FOR SALE—Seven-room house at 1111 Lake Boulevard. Inquire of Henry Stechman, 719 Bemidji avenue, FOR SALE—Two lots, new cottage, nice location offer wanted. H. A. Bliler. 1217 Bixby Ave. FOR SALE—One 6-horse Grey gasoline engine, for sale cheap. Floyd Brown. FOR SALE—Cheap, saddle pony, by Bisiar & Murphy, 117 3rd street. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—The barn known as the S. P. Hayth barn at the rear of the postoffice. Inquire at 406 Minnesota Avenue. _ MISCELLANEOUS. B i ovuuu ST w VY PUBLIC LIBRARY—Open Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays 2:30to 6 p. m., and Saturday evening 7:30 to 9 p. m. also. Library in basement of Court House. Mrs. Donald, librarian. Want‘ Ads ' FOR RENTING A 7 PROPERTY, SELL- ING A BUSINESS OR GCBTAINING HELP ARE BEST. Pioneer