Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 16, 1910, Page 6

117 3rd Street / midji and surrounding country. sell it to you on time. the money to pay cash for it. a cash price on monthly payments. We are going to give you the greatest Piano Bargains that were ever given in Be- We are going to give you the lowest cash price on every piano in the house and will If you intend to buy a piano sometime do not put it off just because you do not have We are giving you the Kimball Piano at il I of Kimball Pianos same terms. payments. Note these prices: Regular $450 Kimball Piano $375 Regular $425 Kimball Piany $350 Regular $400 Kimball Piano $325 Regular $375 Kimball Piano $300 Regular $350 Kimball Piano $275 - Regular $325 Kimball Piano $250 Regular $300 Kimball Piano $225 Above prices include Stool, Scarf and Book. We also have several used Pianos, which will be sold on the Organs, new and second-hand, at factory prices on monthly Remember, these prices are the lowest on pianos that ever was or ever will be offered in Bemidji or surrounding country. Wholesale and Retail Bemidji Music House " Phone 319-2 W. BISIAR, Manager. Bemidji, Minn. WAR ON QUACTK GRASS. Infected Fields Should Be Given Care- ful Attention. By the tiwe this article gets to the readers the grain will be sown and nothing can Le done Lo quack grass in | grain fliclds until just after harvest time. Fields infected with quack grass on which corn, flax, millet or buckwheat is to be pianted should re- eerve the careful sttention of the far: mer from mnow nntil planting time Other work is urgent but these fields should receive cureful and regular at- tention. These crops that are planted QUACK GRASS. late give the farmer a special chance to deal the quack grass some blows that aid very materially in eradicating it. If the ground was fall plowed and the grass shows up strong, the best thing to do in most cases is to plow it again at a different depth than before. Thig will turn the green part under. Follow the plow with the disc, running it shallow, the idea being to pulverize the surface 2oil and allow the ground to warm up so that the roots under- neath will decay. Discing should be repeated often enough to keep the surface pulverized and the grass from showing green above ground. In no case should the land be worked when too wet. Such severe treatment as this kills much of the quack grass and weakens the rest. It the ground is now planted to corn or potatoes in hills and harrowed sev- eral times before cultivation begins and the cultivation is frequent and thorough, c: being used to hoe out any quack gr that is not reached by the cultivator, much of the quack grass will have been killed. Another .year or two of careful treatment— good farming—should make the work complete. 1f flax, buckwheat or mil- let is planted, the plan should be to plow as soon as the crop is removed and treated in fall and spring about as outlined above. Small spots may be smothered out by covering with tar paper or plowed and planted to cab- bage or tomatoes. The careful thor- ough cultivation necessary to insure a good crop of cabbage or tomatoes will kill the quack. Good diversified farm- ing with careful attention to details will eradicate quack grass. There is no easy and cheap way to kill quack grass. It does not pay to do a large amount of work on a quack grass fleld unless the work is well directed and thoroughly and carefully done. Begin to work your ground now and be per- sistent enough to keep it up.—A. C. \ Arny, Minnesota Agricultural Collage. \ 3 PR R R * £ L A Minnesota poultry house < < should be warm, dry, light and < & well ventilated without < <+ draughts. Neglecting any of < < these requirements is liable to % destroy the usefulness of a < < flock of birds for the entire <+ season. <+ % L E R T P FEED FOR THE DAIRY COw Fodder Corn Will Result in Larger Cream Checks. ‘While farmers are figuring on their grain crops they should plan on rais- ing feed for their dairy cows if they expect to get larger cream checks than they did last year. Plan on set- ting aside a few acres for fodder corn or silage and then some time during the suminer estimate the cost of build- ing a silo. - If it !s decided not to build one the corn can be harvested and shocked preparatory to winter feeding. 1f possible the soil chosen for a crop of fodder corn should be a sandy loam—a soil that is warm and easily cultivated. The land should be well manured to supply humus plant food. It last year’s clover land is used it will be found that manure will im- prove the crop if thoroughly applied as a top dressing. Fall plowing, one year with another, is better for corn than spring plowing, as shown by ex- periments at the Minnesota experi- ment station. Such a crop on spring plowing, however, will do well. Ensi- lage is, of course, preferable to corn fodder. Many of the cows at the ex- periment station have been fed on corn fodder the past winter instead of hay and have done very micely. In one of the station barns ensilage and corn fodder were used and not a spear of hay. The result was pleasing.—G. P. Grout, Minnesota Agricultural Col- lege. Short Course for Teachers. The Minnesota department of agri- culture at St. Anthony.Park, St. Paul, will open a short course for teachers on June 20, and continue it for six weeks, The Sneezing Prayer. The custom of following a sneeze with a prayer goes so far back into the past it 1s next to impossible to say when It actually began. According to Strada, the custom originated among the As- syrians, who, through an opinion of the danger that attended it, after the act of sneezing made a short prayer 4o the gods. The Romans after sneez- ing cried out, “Jupiter, help me!” The custom is mentioned by Homer, the early Jewish writers and others and is found among many savage tribes. The Original New Zealanders. The original New Zealanders were known as the most ferocious cannibals and the most warlike savages. They were big, gaunt fellows, of immense muscular force and great sagacity. ‘These savage New Zealanders, though they ate thelr enemies, Interred thelr own dead, and they believed that the third day after burial the heart sepa- rated itself from the corpse and was carrled to the clouds by an. attendant spirit. The Ills We Are Heir To. There are three modes of bearing the flls of life—namely, by indifference, which fs the most common; by philos- ophy, which is the most ostentatious, and by religion, which is the most ef- fectual.—New York Press. - e Blunders of the Types. Ever since the introduction of type- setting errors, welrd or comical, have emanated from printe: offices. The mistakes are not always to be shoul- dered on to the compositor, for bad handwriting must be taken into ac- count. Here are a few instances of actual blunders collected by a proof- reader in the course of his daily work: “His blushing bride” was transform- ed Into “his blustering bride.” A major was stated to have “served with destruction in the army.” The writer thought he used the word “dis- tinction.” “The Galley I Love” was the descrip- tlon of a picture entitled “The Galley Slave.” Speaking of theatrical folk, a critic wrote that “nearly all have husbands or wives” The paragraph printed read “hundreds of wives.” ‘“They sailed for three days around the cape and finally slaughtered a small Italian” should have been “sighted a small island.” One more In conclusion. “He takes delight In talking on his family shame” was a shameful thing to say when “favorite theme” was meant. A Three Legged Bison. In 1867 Small Eyes, a Blackfoot who had come down from the north and Joined the Arapahoes and lived with them, told Black Kettle, a Cheyenne in George Bent’s lodge, about .having killed, between the Cimarron and Beaver creek, a tributary of the north” fork of the .Canadian, a buffalo bull which had only one hind leg. Accord- ing to Small Eyes’ story, it dld not ap- pear that the bull had lost one of its hind legs, but rather that it never had had more than one. The hind leg was very large, seemed to be in the mid; dle of the body instead of at one side, and there was no sign of any missing leg. It looked as if the two hind legs which the buffalo ordinarily has had in some way fused together. The war party with which Small Eyes was traveling was passing along near a hollow when the bull came up out of it, and some of the men ran ahead, got around it and shot it with a gun. It was not able to run fast, but rather hobbled along.—Forest and Stream. Saved by a Photograph. A very remarkable incident occurred at Rio de Janeiro. : A passenger on board ome of the large Iiners took a photograph of the harbor. It Included a small yacht ‘which had salled in the morning with two men in her, but returned in the evening with one only. The survivor sald his companion had fallen over- board, but his statement was-‘not be- -lleved. He was tried and sentenced to death. The matter had by this time come to the éars of the photdgrapher, who remembered that the picture had been taken on the day of the “crime” (or accident) and that the scene em- braced a yacht. On~ examining' the print more carefully he noticed a small speck on the sail and in order to de- termine what it was had an enlarge- ment made. It proved to be the figure of a man falling, It was shown to the authorities at once, and the condemned man was released. Dropsical Oysf ‘With a sneer the oyster opener point- ed to a brownish smear upon a Saddle Rotk shell. “Some fool,” said he, “has been try- ing to fatten up a batch of Saddle Rocks with cornmeal” You might as well try to invigorate flowers with corned beef hash, But it is a common &10p to.belleve that cornmeal or oal: meal will fatten oysters. I-continuaily find oysters with their shells stained with those grains. It makes me laugh. As a matter of fact, there is no such thing as fattening oysters. All you can do 1s swell them up with water, pre- cisely the same as water swells a sponge. You put them in fresh water, which, being less dense than the soff they are accustomed to, by the princl-; ple of osmosis penetrates and distends thelr tissues—gives them, as you might say, dropsy. For my part, I don't like fattened oysters.”—New Orleans Times- Democrat. F="""" "Three Royal Toa; The “Greville Memoirs” tells ‘thia 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 idéa 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, Willilam IV. The duke, rising, said: ‘Call in the suit. ‘I am proposing a toast. The Kking’s health; God save the king’ The sult came in.and drank it. Then the duke sald, ‘May I also, sir, propose the next toast?” ‘Name it, your grace,’ replied the king. ‘The king’s heir, proudly sald the duke,‘and God bless him! “A dead silence followed. Then the king, collecting all his ‘energles 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 srown will go to a lass” Every one noticed that the duke did not drink the toast. He left the room abruptly.” A Kind Hearted Waliter. 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: e y 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 air of acquaintance with polite so- clety. But now I shall be more mod- eat 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 walter 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- sion on them. He bent down and ‘whispered in my ear: “Bat your soup: first.” “Puzzied, Mrs. Gaswell—Who is that man who looked at you us {f he knew you? Mrs. Highsome—He is'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 belleve in foreordination, do they I—Ohicago Trib- ane, 2 S To What Base Uses, Eto. One of our State street brokers re- cefved 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 lln\; the order.—. Boston Transcript, The Concertina. ‘The accordion, which was a develop- ment of a previously existing aeolina, was Invented in 1829 by a Viennese named Damian and consists, as every one knows, of a small pair of bellows and a range of keys which regulate the admission of wind to metal reeds. The | accordion sounds notes in one key only. The concertina proper was invented on the same date by Charles Wheatstone, who later became a famous man of science. It seems curious that a man whose reputation rests chiefly on his electrical- work and discoverles, wha was one of the earliest men of science to make experimeénts in connection with submarine cables and who, more- over, was an extraordinarily skillful decipherer of cryptographic writings, should also have dabbled in musical inventions. But, as a matter of fact, Wheatstone’s musical work preceded his scientific discoverles. He went straight from school to the business of manufacturing musical ln\struments, ty-seven, that he took out his patent for the concertina. But he was more interested In the scientific principles on which musical instruments are con- structed than in music itself, and his acoustical and wmusical experiments soon drew him into the path which led to his many electrical discoveries.— London Globe. . An Emended Sign. Many a householder at the mercy o1 the painter will find a_bond of sympa thy with the students’of Stanford uni San Francisco Chronicle. fraternity hous#s on the campus were in. the process of being cleaned up iz preparation for the receptions and luncheons to be given to visitors on the day of the big football game. A man got the contract to paint one of the houses white with the understand Ing that the job must be done and dry and it was in 1829, at the age of twen-| versity. in the incident taken from the The score of |' by A Tqay ter maKking a rasi start the painter asked permission t hang out his sign. His request was granted, and he put up a conspicuouy, announcement over the front porch “These Premises Being Painted by Blank Blank.” Then the work dragged. He would come one day and stay away two. Sc the impatient collegians added to the slgn until the announcement read: “These Premises Being Painted by Blank Blank, Now and Then.” For a Bride’s Dowry. There is a very pretty custom in some of the northern parts of Europe. There the white poplar in good sofl Increases a shilling in value every year. The trees are generally cut down at the age of twenty years, as they are then supposed to have attained their full growth. When a daughter is born in the fadiily of a well to do farmer the father as soon as the sea- son permits plants a thousand young trees, and these are to constitute the dowry of the maiden, “which grow.as she grows and increases in height and value as her virtues and beauty in- crease.” Out to Work. “What soclety needs is a clearing houte.” | “What do you mean?’ “I wish I didn’t have to go to the Van Squawks’ ball next week. The Van Squawks wish they didn’t have to ask me, Why can't we exchange certificates and call the thing even?”’ —Kansas City Journal. ¥ Why He Barked. A witness in an irish court talked so loud that Charles Philips, who was counsel on the other side, said, “Fel- low, why do you bark so furiously?” “Because,” sald the man, looking hard at Philips, “I think I see a thief!""| | Lyast‘ Nigh:t of the Quaker Medicine Gompany | At the Armory Hall Bean Guessing Contest Open to All The Moabite Stone. The so called Moabite stone was dis- | covered by the Rev. F. Klein in 1868 among the ruins of Dhiban, the ancient Dibon, The stone was of black ba- salt, rounded at the top and bottom, two feet broad, three feet ten inches high and fourteen inches in thickness, but was unfortunately broken by the Arabs, whose cupidity had been arous- | ed by the interest that was taken in it by the explorers. The fragments were afterward collected and lakoriously fitted together, and the stone Dow stands in the Louvre at Paris. The Inscription of thirty-four lines is in Hebrew-Phoenician characters and ap- pears to be a record of Mesha, kihg of Moab, mentioned in II Kings iii, refer- ring to his successful revolt against the king of Israel.—New York Ameri- can. A Model Friend. ‘What true friendship consists in de- pends on the temperament of the man who has a friend. ‘It is related that at the funeral of Mr. X., who died ex- tremely poor, the usually cold blooded Squire Tightfist was much affected. “You thought a great deal of him, 1 suppose ?” some one asked him. “Thought a great deal of him? I should think I did. There was a true friend! He never asked me to lend him a cent, though 1 knew well enough he was starving to death!” Useless Prayers. An earnest young -preacher in a re- | mote country village concluded a long and comprehensive supplication by say- fng, “And now let us pray for those who are dwelling in the uninhabited portions of the earth.” Willing He Should Know. A certain 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 knowlng how, but that he had better not try to do it.