Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 20, 1910, Page 3

PROFESSIONAL CARDS ARTS HARRY MASTEN Piano Tuner Formerly of Radenbush & Co. of St. Paul Instructor of Vioiin, Piano, Mando- lin and Brass Instruments, Music furnished for balls, hotels. weddings, banquets, and all occasions. Terms reasonable. All music up to date. Phone N. W. 535, or call at 218 Third Street, upstairs. HARRY MASTEN, Plano Tuner LENN H. SLOSSON PIANO TUNING Graduate of the Boston School of Piano Tuning, Boston, Mass. Leave orders at the Bemidji Music House, 117 Third St. Phone 319-2. Residence Phone 174-2. RS. T. SMART DRESS MAKING PARLORS All Work guaranteed to give satistaction. have summer quilts, also dress patterns, tallored waists, underskirts, corset covers, trimmings, etc. Bring Your Orders to T. BEAUDETTE Merchant Tailor Cleaning and Pressing a Specialty 314 Minnesota Avenue PHYSICIANS AND SURCEONS R. ROWLAND GILMORE PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office—Miles Block R. E. A. SHANNON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGECN Office in Mayo Block Phone 396 Res. Phone 397 R. C. R. SANBORN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office—Miles Block A. WARD, M. D. * Over First National Bank. Phone 51 House No. 601 Lake Blvd. Phone 351 R. A. E. HENDERSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Over First National Bank, Bemidji, Minn. Office Phone 36. Residence Pone 72. R. E. H. SMITH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Winter Block DR. E. H. MARCUM PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Mayo Block Phone 18 Residence Phone 211 DENTISTS R. D. L. STAN1TUN DENTIST Office in Winter Block R. J. T. TUOMY DENTIST Ist National Bank Build's. Telephone 230 R. G. M. PALMER DENTIST Miles Block Evening;Workiby Appointment Only LAWYERS RAHAM M. TORRANCE LAWYER Telephone 560 FRANK A. JACKSON LAWYER Bemidji, Minnesota E. McDONALD * ATTORNEY AT LAW Office—Swedback Block, Bemidji, Minn. H. FISK * ATTORNEY AT LAW Office over City Drug Store Miles Block TOM SMART DRAY AND TRANSFER SAFE AND PIANO MOVING Residonce Phone 58 618 America Ave. Offlce Phone 12 EW PUBLIC LIBRARY Open loa. m. to 8 p. m, daily except Monday; 2 p. m. to 6 p. m. Sun- day. Miss Beatrice Mllls, Librarian. M. MALZAHN & CO. * REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE FARM LOANS, RENTALS FARMS AND CITY PROPERTIES 407 Minn. Ave. Bemidji, Minn i DY BISIAR & MURPHY FUNERAL DIRECTORS 117 Third Street - Oayphone Might phones 118, Oalis-Answered-at Al Heurs DEATHWATCH BEETLES. Their Tapping Stands For Courtship and Not For Warning. Much mental anguish- could have been saved to past generations and Some not so very far past if people bad: known that the mysterious tap- ping of the “deuthwatch™ stood for courtship and not death. A writer in the Scientific American explains that the various species of the beetle anobi- um and their bigger relatives of the genus xestobium not only attack furni- ture, but so completely riddle the ‘whole woodwork of old houses by their borings as to render the structures un- safe. Indeed, a beam that has- been tenanted by these insects for a num- ber of years is little better than an outer shell containing a mass of wood dust. The xestoblum is the common degthwatch, while the anobium also is in the habit of making a tapping sound. ‘The nocturnal tappings of these in- sects, distinctly audible in a room where there Is an otherwise complete absence of nolse, has for many centu- rles been regarded by the supersti- tious as n warning of the approach of death. This uncanny interpretation of a mysterious sound Is scarcely surpris. tng when it is remembered that only In recent years have uaturalists dise covered IS true enuse The little heetle been found in some secluded spot, jerking Its hard head at regular intervals upon the sur- face of the waod beneath it. So far (a8 ean be told, its rappings constitute a kind of courtship ritual. Obviously they have no conunection with the lat- ter end of maukind. A RAIN OF FIRE. The Great Meteoric Shower Scared Falks In 1833. In Scharf's “Chronicles of Baltimore” there is.a vivid description of the star- ry bailstorm, the tiery meteoric show- er, of 1833, and old tiles of newspapers are made luminous at that date with the jmpressions-of editors aund contrib- utors. Oune writer sald it was the grandest and most charming sight ever presented to the vision of man. Awak- ened from sleep, he sprang to the win- dow, thinking the house was on fire, but wheu he looked out he beheld stars, or fiery bodles, descending like “torrents.” The shed “in the adjoin- ing yard to my own,” he wrote, *‘was covered with stars, as I supposed, dur- ing the whole time.” Professor Olm- stead of Yale college thought that the exhibition was the finest display of celestial fireworks that had been wit- nessed since the creation of the world, although he, too, while knowing its character, was sufliciently imbued with the theological spirit of the time to believe that it was a solemn portent that carried a divine warning. One editor whose comment upon this phenomenon was.probubly more quoted than any other he ever made said: *We pronounce the raining tire which we saw on Wednesday iorning an awful type. a forerunner, a merciful sign, of that great and dreadful day which the inbabitants of the earth will witness when the sixth seal wills be opened. Mauy. things occusring in the earth tend to convince us thut we are now in the latter days.” That A Prince Edward Island ‘Legena. There is a delightful legend among the people of P’oint Prim to the effect that when the English attacked the French fort at that place a chain ball from one of the attacking vessels cut the steeple from the old church located on the very point. In falling it toppled over the promontory and carried the bell which it contained into the sea. Dwellers along the point ‘affirm that from time to time the sound of that bell-comes over the waters at eventide and that its phantom tone Is ever a warning of a fierce storm or sowe im- minent danger to these who make their living by the spoils of the ocear Admitted. She—Oh, I have no doubt you love me, but your love lacks the supreme touch -unselfishness. “What makes you say that?” “You admit it. You want me for yourself alone, you say.” The Utopia of today is the reality of tomorrow.—Passy. Safe Ground. “Every big millionaire likes to tell how he got his first thousand dollars.” “Yes: he’s usually on safe ground there.”—Pittsburz Post. There are still a number of graduates from the 1910 Class, who have not called to see my collection of Graduating Photos. Those who have called have had added to their collection a good photo- } éraph to show you. [ Baltimore and Soft Crabs. " The genuine soft crab, or Brachyura baltimoriensis, is the most delicate as it is the most delicious of all victuals: It will no- ‘more bear transportation than a zephyr or a daffodil, The mo- ment it is taken from its native deep it begins to lose beunce and flavar, and once it has left the Chesapeake littoral it is no longer eatable. That is why the soft crab is a superb delicatessen in Baltimore and a bitter disappoint- ment everywhere else. So sensitive is: it, indeed, to climate and handling ! that it is impossible to get a decent soft crab anywhere west of the first tollgate on the Frederick road. In Pittsburg, where embalmed soft crabs are offered in the gilded lobster pal- aces, thejr flavor is that of glucose. In Chicago the soft crab is a mere curiosity, to be gaped at, but not eaten, Baltimore alone has-the genu- ine article, and it is fortunate for Bal- timore that it cannot be transported. If it were possible to ship soft crabs the whole earth would bid for them, running up their price to $1, $5 and perhaps even”to $100 a dozen.—Bal- timore Sun. A Teacher In the Making. She was a popular young normal student who had been to a party the night before, and as a consequence was “not prepared” in the geography class. The woman instructor, true to her-method of drawing upon the general knowledge of a student rather than to permit a failure, after eliciting two or three inconsequential “stabs” from her fair but jaded disciple, asked for the products of China. The victim brightened. “Tea,” she asserted, preparing to sit down.” “Yes, and what else?” encouraged the instructor. The young woman smiled with sweet hopelessness. “Now you can mention others, I am sure. Just think about it.” “Tea,” drawled the flutelike voice of the pretty girl, “and,” puckering her forehead with an intellectual tour de force, “and laundry work.”—Youth’s Companion. Quick Cure. Once there was a man who made life miserable for all he met by eternally harping about his aches and pains. He would discourse on the subject of his dyspepsia, and he would almost in- terrupt a religious service to tell of his rheumatic symptoms. If he had a stitch in his side he had to pester his friends with it, and a headache helped him make everybody unhappy. At last .a bright young woman, to whom the man applied for sympathy, cured him of all his ailments. ‘When he was in the midst of a cata- logue of his sufferings she .said sweetly: “Yes, it is strange how many of these things afflict a man as he begins to grow old.” That man never even had a symptom after that.—Wilbur D. Nesbit in Judge. When Men Were Branded. A curious relic of bygone times, prob- ably the only one in England, still stands at Lancaster castle. It is a strong iron lholdfast, into which the prisoner, who in olden time had been sentenced to be branded as a malefac- tor, had his hand thrust and locked. The branding iron after being made red hot at the end was pressed against the “brawne of the thumb,” and on be- ing withdrawn the letter M branded on the unfortunate prisoner’s flesh in- dicated from henceforward that he was a malefactor. The ceremony was performed in the presence of the judge and jury and in open court, and the brander invariably turned to the judge after be had done his work and ex- claimed, “A fair mark, my lord!” It is over 100 years since the instrument was last used on two men sentenced to imprisonment for manslaughter. His Maiden Speech. It is related that when the Earl of Rochester in the reign of Charles II. rose to make his maiden speech in the house of lords he said: “My lords—my lords, I rise this time for the first time —the very first time. My lords, I &- vide my speech into four branches.” Here there was an embarrassing pause of some seconds. “My lords,” the earl then ejaculated, “if ever I rise again in this house you may cut me off, root and branches and all, forever.” _The Devil's Sonata. Tartini, the great violinist, after din- ing indiscreetly, dreamed that he-had made a bargain with the devil for his soul. To prove his powers the evil one seized a violin and played a sonata-of exquisite beauty. Tartinl awoke with the ringing in his ears, committed the musie: to paper and published it as “The Devil's Sonata.” The Verdict. . “How did your act take amateur night?” “Great! When I sang the first verse they yelled ‘Fine! and when T sang the next they velled ‘Imprisonment! ” —Baltimore Sun. His Main Want. Earnest but Prosy Street Corner Ora- tor—I'want land reform, I want housing reform, I want educational reform, I want— Bored Voice—Chloroform.— Manchester Guardian. Proud of It. The Lady—Poor tramp! Have youw anything in your life to be proud of? The Hobo—Yessum. I never beat no- hody out of no laundry bill.—Cleveland Leader. Give, If thou canst. an alms; if not. afford instead of that a sweet and gen- tle word.—Robert Herrick, Faction. “When a bachelor gets a better hait,” [{ says the philosopher of folly, “he gets better quarters, anyhow.”—Cleveli#nd Leader. Her Earache. “What's the matter with you this morning; Delia?’ asked Mrs. Wise: “Oh, ma'am, tbis mornin’.” = R “Ah, you should 'be careful, Dell “Allthe keyholes 1 this house are. ICONSULTED 0N OHID SITUATION Candidate for fiovemor Sees: Colonel Roosevelt. HAS LETTER FRON TAFT i Judge Kincaid, Said to Be Regarded Favorably by Buckeye State Pro- gressives. Spent Sunday With the President at Beverly, Mass.—Num- ber of Other Notables; Visit Roose- velt’s Office in New York City. New York, July 20.—Colonel Roose- velt had a long talk with Judge Kin- caid of Toledo, O., and it was general- ly understood that political conditions. in the judge’s home atate came in for | discussion. Judge Kincaid, who spent Sunday with President Taft at Bever- ly, Mass., has been suggested for Re- publican nominee for governor iIn Ohio, but has indicated a desire:to re- main on the bench.. He declined to velt. " Judge Kincaid, it was known, had a letter from Presient Taft to:take with him into his conference with Colonel Roosevelt. As to the letter’s contents, however, no one had an inkling, Much interest in the judge’s talk with Mr. Roosevelt, in its bearing upom the Ohio political situation, was manifest- ed among the many waiting to see the former president at his office. The visits of Judge Kincaid, one of the candidates for governar, first to the president and then to Mr. Roose- velt—both visits on the eve of the state convention at Columbus—were Tegarded as unusually significant. It was understood that Judge Kincaid's nomination was favorably regarded by James A. Garfleld and the so called progressive wing. Many Visitors. See Roosevelt. The .anteroom at Colonel Roose- velt’s office was packed to the doors before his arrival and continued in a state of congestion throughout the morning. Other visitors were Con- gressmen Cocks, Foelker and Young; Jacob Riis, Seeretary of State Koenig and Senator Elsberg; William Will- iams, commissioner of immigration, and his predecessor, Robert Watchorn, who arrived together, and Congress- man Slemp of Virginia. President David -Starr Jordan of Le- land Stanford university also was an early caller. & Senator Elsberg, after his talk with Colonel Roosevelt, said Colonel Roose- velt took sides with none of the. fac: tions-in this state and-that the colonel: told him he wanted to. work for_ har- mony Colonel Roosevelt sald concerning the Ohio gubernatorial situation that he would not take a hand in the nom- ination of any candidate there or any- where else. The colonel said his. only interest was. that of a private citizen and he would only act as such. is Georges-Agassiz Is Dead. New York, July 20.—Word was' re- ceived in this city of the death of Georges Agassiz, a nephew of Louis Agassiz. Georges Agassiz was a colo- nel in the Swiss army and one of the leading military authorities of Switzer- land. Like his distinguished: uncle Colonel Agassiz was fond of the nat- ural sciences. PEOPLE. WE KNOW They Are Bemidji. People, and What They Say is of Local Interest. When-an:incident like: the- follow- ing occurs right here at home, it is bound to carry weight with ourli readers. So- many strange stories g0 the rounds of the press: are pub- || lished as facts, people become skep- tical. On one subject skepticism is/| rapidly - disappearing. This is due| to the actnal experience of our_ citi- zens, and. their public utterances regarding them. The doubter must doubt no. more.id the face of such evidence as this. The public state- ment of a reputable citizen living right at home, one whom you can see-every day, leaves no ground for the:skeptic to stand.on: ¥ Mrs. J. E. Cahill, 817 Minnesota Ave., Beminji, Minn., says: "I never| had any serious trouble from my kidneys, but a few months ago I began: ito suffer from pain through the small of my back and other(| symptoms pointing -to kidney ' dis- |} order, I had heard so much about Doan’s Kidney Pills that I con- cluded to give them a:trial and pro- cured a box at the.Owl Drug Store, I took:them according to directions,, was, cured: andshiave ‘been in goods health since. I am well pleased with the. results' that followed the use of Doan’s: Kidney: Pills in my|| case and:have: no-hesitation - in‘ re- commending them to other sufferers from kidney complaint.” For sale by all dealers. Price.50 replied the seryant,(*5% i girl, “’tis the terrible earaches} have | New ¥ork, ited talk of his visit with Colonel Roose- IS TIRED' OF LIFE ABROAD Mrs. Ava Willing Astor Longing for New York, July 20—According to information which. has just reached here from England Mrs. Ava Willing Astor is to return from abroad ne: month to spend a short time at New- port .with her brother, J. R. Barton ‘Willing, at his villa there. When Mrs. Astor went abroad several months ago it was reported that she would make her permanent home. in England and weight was added to this rumor by the fact that she took a house in Lon- don shortly after reaching there. A change must have come over the beautiful Mrs. Astor- lately, for it is announced that she is getting home- sick and tired of her life abroad. She friends again and especially desirous of spending part of the summer at Newport, where her former husband and son Vincent, who are now at Colonel Rhinebeck, are expected almost any day. Friedrichshafen, Germany, July 20, —The: gas woris of the Zeppelin Air- ship company were demolished by an explosion. Jured. FACIAL Defects QUICKLY CORRECTED The chief surgeon of the Plastic Surgery Institute quickly rights all wrongs with the human face or features without knife or to the entire satisfaction de- light of every patient. Thework is as lasting as life itself. Ifyou have a facial irregularity of any kind write Plastic Surgery Institute Corner Sixth and Hennepin MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. « D, 5.5. &ARy. | Excursion Bulletin Every day to Sept. 30. Low Round Trip Summer Tourist Fares to Eastern Canada, New York and New England: During July every Friday, [{low rates by train and steamer to Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland and Buffalo. July 20 to 24. Annual Pilgrimege to St. Anne de Beaupre, Que., and return. Usual low fares. Sept. 2 to 9. Congress Montreal. Mrs. Ava Willing Astor, Now Abroad, Said to. Be Homesick. Eucharistic Do You Use Ice? We deliver it into your refrigerator For $2.00 a Month Tolephona No. 12, TOM SMART E. R. GETCHELL Watch for announcement of other excursions. For particulars apply to A. J. Perrin, Gen’l Agent, 430 West Superior St., Duluth, Minn. Do You Own Any Real Estate? This is usually about the first question asked when you come to a new location. Her Old Friends. Eva one ought to own a piece of property, if only a building ry lot.- No investment is so save or certain to enrich its owner within a few years as desirable real estate ina rapidly growing city. K“ Ym"- E 9 00 Bm”fi with its beautiful Lakes, Homes, p ' Churches, Schools, Prosperous Banks and Substantial Wholesale and Retail Establishments. The superior railroad facilities and extensive trade territory enjoyed by BEMIDJ, insure for it the attention of investors of large means and the location within the next few years of many additional lines of industries. Lot Us Show You How Easy 2,500 ist, 2 pe 2cauired MONTHLY PAYMENT PLAN at 8 per cent. wme “s for FULL information or Call on M. A.SIMONS at Bemidji, our localiagent. Bemidji Townsite & Improvement Co. 404 New York Life Building longing to be back among her Astor’'s country home at Zeppeiin Gas Plant Destroyed. Seven persons were iu- ST. PAUL MINNESOTA The “Don’t Need To” Theory In a recent debate at Reno Mr. James Jeffries failed to convince Mr. John Johnson. Some seven or eight years ago Mr. Jeffries was the leading man in his line of work. Business was good and his profits were big. Having all the money he could handle at the time he concluded to take a rest. To be sure, he planned to get in the field again at the proper time. But everything was rosy and there really seemed no good and sufficient reason why he should spend so many hours a day keeping his muscles lithe and strong and his wind good and his heart and nerves in trim. Eventually the meeting with Mr. Johnson was arranged. Mr. Jefiries was still tolerably content with what he had done. (Brother, a has-done is about as bad as a has-been. Mr. Jefiries did not care to stand up in the training ring and punch and take punches. He did not see any necessity of practicing side-steps and feints and rushes. y He knew all about them. Why, seven years ago he had done all of that he ever needed to do. Mr. Johnson did not overlook the boxing and the wrestling and the clinch- ing and the sidestepping, etc. As a result, Mr. Jeffries received Mr. Johnson’s compliments on the point of the jaw and his business career closed. Advertising a business is the training of that business. Advertising keeds a business healthy. It tones up its liver, strengthens its biceps, steadies its heart and keeps its nerves in order. . ‘ Oncein a while a man decides that he is doing so much business that he can stop advertising for a while and run on momentum. Momentum is the gradual process toward a full stop. The momentum business is usually prematurely full-stopped by the straight left jab of the well-trained competitor who finds his opening in the fifteenth round. If you want to stay in business stay in the advertising field. . No matter how much business you may be doing, keep up the energy that makes it. : You might as well cut off your legs because you are running well in a foot race as to cut off your advertising because your business is too good. You might as well tell the insurance man that you are so healthy you will drop the policy for a few years as to stop advertising because the orders are piling up. “Don’t need to,, is the eventual preliminary to “can’t do it.” The only man who don’t need to advertise is the man who has retired from business. The only policy holder who doesn’t need to pay his premiums is dead. Mr. Jeffries doesn’t need to train any more. He is licked. 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