Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 2, 1910, Page 2

. POPULATION “cent, 8§ compared with 1,166,582 in ARRIVING FOR BIG CONGRESS Delegates and Visitors Be- gin to Register. PRESIDENT BAKERON HAND Considerable Speculation Indulged in as to Whether President Taft on Monday Will Attract a Larger Crowd Than Colonel Theodore Roosevelt on Tuesday—Arrangements for Con- servation Gathering Complete. St. Paul, Sept. 2—The conservation clans are gathering. Bernard N. Bak- er of Baltimore, president of the Sec- ond National Conservation congress, has arrived in St. Paul to preside over the big meeting from Sept. 5 to 9 in- clusive. With him came Captain J. B. White of Kansas City, chairman of the executive committee and one of the powerful guns in the movement. Saturday, Gifford Pinchot, who has been traveling part of the way with Colone! Roosevelt, is expected to ar- rive. Minnesota aifld\.}‘?m:thwestern dele- gates will begin tcv.¥egister, present their credentials and ¢t their official badges at once. The in"“{:; it ors who will crowd the stiov¢ts and habitations and hostelries of the~ €4y ds on its way. It will be a tossup . S to whether the president of the Unit- ed States, with the prestige and cir- cumstance of his high positien, will ‘Cfil“"vh“‘c'fl the matter?” said his friend. draw a greater crowd on Monday than | wgyye yo* been stricken dumb?” Colonel Roosevelt on Tuesday, with The prisor ¥ raised his handcuffed his remarkably popular following. hands. “Very wearly,” he said.—Lon- Arrangements for the congress are don M. A. P RS now entirely up to the local board of t Mmanagers. Thomas R. Shipp, execu- : "~gle Gentleman tive secretary, and James C. Gipe, as- R:gv: ag:ligg:rdl F;;;" ?q‘ and ‘Doc’ sistant secretary, have sent out their bave'parted c‘ompuny :"éou‘ldn't you last credentials and written thefir last get along " H letters, after six weeks of rapid fire “No'um; least I couldn’t. D'ye oow work in the breezes that blow about the second floor of the state capitol. And now, if activity centers anywhere in the rush of preparations, the cen- ter of the whirlpool will be at the Auditorium, where the five days’ ses- sions will be held. ~ NO SUFFRAGIST SPEAKER President Bak;‘- Re‘{usg.neques,_ at i Conservation Congress. St. Paul, Sept. 2.—Despite the per- sonal inclinations of B. N. Baker, pres- . week.” ident of the National Conservation “Ob, to be sure! He's round. but congress, to look with favor on the he's jes' boa’din' with me now.”— | woman suffrage movement the suf- fragists of Minnesota will not be 1 b- resented on the list of speakers at the coming congress. In reply to Mrs. S. A. Stockwell of Minneapolis, president of the state suffrage organization, President Baker has written that he cannot put a suf- fragist speaker on the programme. OF NEW YORK Estimate of City’s Inhabitants Given as Over Four Million. Washington, Sept. 2.—The popula- tion of Brooklyn, N. Y., is 1,634,351, an increase of 467,769, or 40.1 per 1900. The population of Yonkers, N. Y., 1s 79,803, an increase of 31,872, or 66.5 per cent, as compared with 47, 931 in 1900. ) The population of Elmira, N. Y., is 37,176, an increase of 1.504, or 4.2 per cent, as compared with 35,672 * 1900. Following its announceme" population of Brooklyn +° reau will make a - Ve poralation of G f'fifig‘f\,@e"-‘ of b developed by NEW Y({rk E:S intimaticw < 0% census. No L4 2% ftd ‘the ‘exact figures has Deen iiven wut, Lit it is known that e censud bureau has prepared an ~“estimate of growth, based upon the increase shown between 1900 and 1905, which was something over 32 per cent, by which the present popu- lation would be over four and a half million—in exact figures 4,563.604. A HEAVY RAIN AT DEVILS LAKE Severe Wind Aids in Causing Consid- erable Damage. Devils Lake, N. D., Sept. 2—This city has been visited by a cloudburst, an inch and three-quarters of water falling in twenty minutes. Thousands of dollars damage was done, as the tasements of the whole city were flooded, the business section being hit hardest, goods stored in the base- ments being ruiaed. A high wind, which accompanied the rain, aid considerable damage throughout the county, blowing down windmills and small buildings and damaging outstanding threshing ma- chines. At the lake the high sea damaged boathouses and cribbing built by the hiological station for housing fish. Wealth on Intoxicated Man. Clinton, ITa., Sept. 2.—Searching the pockets of Myron O’Meara, found in a Clinton saloon intoxicated and evident- 1y a victim oi assault, the local po- lice found $1,072 cash and more than $5,000 in certificate of deposits on the Clinton County bank. Etiquette and Danger. “Ezra,” said the farmer's wife, *1 wish you wouldn't lean your elbers on th* table.” “Hub,” sneered the farmer, “gettin’ fastiderous, ain't you? Mebby you'll be warnin’ me nest to keep my knife outen my mouth an' tellin’ me not to cool my tea in my sasser. But my granther kep' his elbers on th' table, apn’ so did my father, an’, by heck, I'm goin® fo lean on it as hard an' as long as I dun please, so there!” Whereupon he leaned hard, so hard that the ancient table suddenly col- lapsed and sprawled out its legs and went down with a frightful crash of crockery. *Well, you've gone an’ done it now!" screamed the old lady. *“That’s a pret- ty mess, ain’t it? Ef you'd bhad th’ sense of a chipmunk you'd bave know- ed th' reason I didn’t want you to lean on th' table wuz 'cause th' legs wuz rickety. An' | guess a little etiquette wouldn't hurt you none anyway, Ezra Doolittle. to say nothin' of savin’ $2 wuth of family crockery.” And the disgusted farmer stumbled out from the scene of wreckage and chased a harmless tramp three miles down the road with an ax handle.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. Handicapped. Englishmen use their hands compara- tively little in conversation, but Krench- men use them a good deal. Quaintly enough, Parisians have a very keen sense of the exaggerated way in which the southern Frenchman and the Ital- ian belp on what they have to say | with their hands, and this accounts for the following story: An Italian railway thief was caught redhanded in the train, handcuffed and brought to Paris. As he was walking out of the Gare de Lyon between two detectives a friend met him. “Hello!” he said. **Where have you { been this long time, and how are you?”" ‘The prisoner looked at him pathet- “¢ and shook his head. that low down nigger just ma’ied ."%¢ fo’ my money?" t “No?” 1 said. “Yas'm. He saw all them things in my pa'lor, silber butter dishes and crayon portraits that you and the othe' white ladies’ gi' me, and bhe just thought be was goln’ to set in ‘there and 3toks while I washed and fned | ¥ And 1 had a big burlal iusurance, too. and be knowed that. So I jes' natch- ully tu'ned him out’* ... - “Yes,” 1 said. “But I thought I saw | him going in your back gate l:xsr| Lodles' Howe Journal. i Beginning of the Germ Theory. Agostino Bassi, I tountry 0¢t5, the north of Italy, early in the last l century was the starter of the gerty theory of disease, At that time a pe- culiar disease was killing the &ik. worms, bringing ruin to the whole si; country of Italy. Bassi, by the wmicro- scope, dlsqovered the germ which is ‘thB cause of the disease. The germ ‘ater yvgs named Botritis bassiana Bassi belfeved and stated that hum - diseases were afso caused by g 4" Bassi’s work was soeered at a- % poohed by his fellow men A Pooli- cians, and be failed to r ‘M physt- impression, thereby I ““&:r:fl:";i;\ for Italia. I\_ew b ] fl’thgss‘ } Tk < B wThe .0 ey Tstands, - the » «®tibdr ‘from the OriHtys” is " 7 'tidh fn the British house of ofMiont Yho ‘can say he sits for 200 18lahds. ‘Only. sixty of the islands are thhatted, but the constituency em- ‘Gritces more than 66,000 people. The Orkneys were once given by Norway to Engtand as security for a queen’s dower and never redeemed. In the islands the voters must go to the polls by boats, and in some cases the distance to be traveled is eight miles. First Aid. “MNow,” said the professor, ‘“‘suppose you had been called to see a patient with hysterics—some one, for instance, who had started laughing and found it impossible to stop—what is the first thing you would do?" *Amputate his funny bone,” prompt- ly replied the new student.—Houston Post. Did Her Best. “We're always careful about these contiguous diseases,” said Mrs. Lap- sling. “When Johnny had got well of the measles we bought some sulphur candles and disconcerted the nouse from top to bottom.”—Chicago ‘Lribune. An Advantage. “So you prefer servants who speak English imperfectly ?” “Yes,” replied the housewife. “If I don’t understand what they say I am not obliged to dismiss them so fre- quently.”—Exchange. Suspicion. Once give your mind to suspicion and there is sure to be food enough for it. In the stillest night the air is filled with sounds for the wakeful ear that is resolved to listen. The Common Complaint. Probably this expression is used oftener by people than any other: “Ev- Yorksl Men’s Fingers. A Yorkshire man and a Lancashire wan were couversing together the other day. The Lancashire manp said to the Yorkshire man, “Well, Bill, do You know the best way to tind a York- shire man's lost fingers?" “No." says Bill. “Well, I will tell you what happened at our place the other day. Yorkshire Dan had two of his tingers cut off Wwith a steam saw, and they got lost among the sawdust, and two of my mates were down on their hands and knees looking for them when the fore- man came up and asked what they were doing. One of them said: **We are looking for Dan's tingers.’ **0h, come out ot the road.' said the foremaun. *That's not the way to tind a Yorkshire man's tingers,' at the same time taking a shilling out of his pocket and throwing it among the sawdust, when the two tingers at once popped up after it " “Ihere! said the foreman. *That's the way to find a Yorkshire man's lost tingers.” "—Pearson’s. Very Different. Mrs. Bronson-My husband is plain spoken. He calls a spade a spade. Mrs Woodson—S8o does mine, but 1 must de- cline to repeat what he calls the lawn mwower.—Boston Globe. s T Providing For His Guests. Two men stopped at the store of a haberdasher who displayed in his showcase a job lot of collars at 5 cents apiece. Omne of them bought two dozen. in sizes ranging from 15 to 17%. His friend politely controlled his sur- prise at discovering that the broker wore five cent collars and inquired only wbout the elastic neck. The purchaser said: “We live in the suburbs. Friends who visit us and remain overnight unespectedly want clean collurs the next morning. It depletes my own stock too far to keep furnishing these. 1 can't always supply a comfortable size either. Of course the collars nev- er come back. Since I discovered the scheme of tive cent collars 1 cap pick up anybody. take him home with me and inform him that he need not bring any luggage. hecause one of my wife's bepeficences includes five cent tooth brushes for the wayfarer."—New York Sun. Many Real Estate Snaps We have arranged to sell some of the most desirable residence and business lots in the City of Bemidji at Special Prices until September 10. Cash or easy payment plan. For description and prices apply to H. A. Simons or address Caustic. The Girl-What's your opinion of women who imitate men? The Man-- They're idiots. The ¢iirl—Then the imitation is successful. — Cleveland Leader. Bemidji Townsite & Improvement Co, 404 New York Life Bullding ST. PAUL MINNESOTA Peevishness covers with Its dark fog even the most distant horizon.—Rich- ter. S FAl , - TWO DAYS . Al 4 " week. surnmer suit you will be Suits that sale to $20 erything is blamed on me."—Atchison Globe. B ———— s Y e e 1 — e TS o 2 rm s Y GILL BROTHERS Last Opportunity | T0 BUY SUMMER SUTS AT| | I A% Y1 these garments must be sold by 10:30 Satur- day night, because we begin to sell new {all goods next . In view of the necessity of an absolute and immedi- ate clearance, we have gathered into three big lots every present use for them or not. £ Every suit in this sale will be serviceable next year, and some can be worn for winter wear. Suits formerly sold for $27.50, $30 and| sold for $20, $22.50 and |sold for $12, $13.50 and $35, reduced in the final| $25, reduced in the final |$15, reduced in the final Popular Priced Clothiers acrifice P DAY AND rices | SATURDAY o2 and marked them all at prices so low that impelled to buy them whether you have Suits Suits that formerly Suits Suits that formerly sale 'to’ sale to $15 Mothers bring your boys here for their school suits as we are showing a complete new stock for fall at prices that will interest you. GILL BROTHERS $8.75