Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 5, 1910, Page 8

New-Cash-Want-Rate ', -Cent-a-Word Where cash accompanies copy we will publish all “Want Ads” for half- cent a word per insertion. Where sash does not accompany copy the regular rate of one ceuta word will be charged. SVERY HOME HAS A WANT AD For Rent--For Sale--Exchange --Help Wanted--Work Wanted --Etc.--Etc. HELP WANTED. % WANTED— Girl for general house work Good wages. Small family. Mrs. F. J. Welch, care of Hotel Markham. FOR GALE. FOR EXCHANGE—§1,000 stock of General Merchandise. Will exchange tor Bemidji property or farm land. J. H. Grant. FOR SALE—Large piano cased organ; cost $135. Will sell for $50 if taken at once; easy terms if desired. M. E. Ibertson. FOR SALE—160 acres of good clay land three miles from Bemidji if interested call on Frank Hitchcock 714 13st. Bemidji Minn. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. FOR SALE—Glass Ink welis— Sample bottle Carter’s Ink free | with each 10c ink well. Pioneer office. FOR SALE—Buggy,isingle harness, baby cab, tent, Eighth and America, FOR SALE—English perambulator. Inquire 423 Bemidji.avenue. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—S5 room house, five blocks from post office. Inquire 1I6 3rd. St. FOR RENT—Two rooms, 518 Bel- trami avenue. LOST and FOUND LOST— Pocketbook on Beltrami avenue, betwteen 9th St. and Mid- way store. Pocketbook contained receipt for money order and small amount of morey. Return to Mrs. A. Lord, 903 Beltrami Ave. LOST—Between Owl Drug Store and Miles’ corner, $2.50 gold piece in pin form. Return to Abercrombie’s confectionary store. MISCELLANEOUS WANTED — By young married couple furnished or unfurnished room with board for the winter. Private family prefered. Wife willing to assist housework. Best of reference. Address Albert Lellmann. No. 733 Van Buren St. Minneapolis. WANTED—to rent modern house or flat or 2 or 3 unfurnished rooms heated. Answer by giving price and location of rooms. Address box 501—Bemidji, Minn. - can accommodate two or three gentlemen in my appartments 5 in the Winter Block. Steam heat and bath. E. H. Jerrard. Want Ads FOR RENTING A PROPERTY, SELL- ING A BUSINESS OR GBTAINING HELP ARE BEST. Pioneer HIS SUPERB NERVE It Enabled Him to Loll In Luxury With Not a Cent of Cost. CRUSHING A HOTEL KEEPER. The Beau Was Elegant In Dress and Exquisite In His Bluffing and Played His Part Well—Never Known to Pay a Bill Under Any Circumstances. “Misery loves company,” quoted Mr. Tabb, an old time Virginia gentle- man, the other night. “There’s a great deal of truth in that old saying. “Some forty or fifty years ago there was a celebrated Virginia character, well known in Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia, whom I shall call Beau Smith, because Smith wasn’t his real name. Beau Smith was not only noted for the elegance of his dress, but also for his absolute disregard of all financial obligations. He was never known to pay a bill under any circam- stances. “Beau entered tne office of the old Monumental hotel, in Baltimore, one night, registered, and upon being as- signed to one of the best suits of rooms in the house, for he would be satisfied only with the best, he proceeded to make himself thoroughly at home and settled down for a long stay. He or- dered champagne by the case and ci- gars by the box for the entertainment of such friends as might visit him in his apartments and, in short, lived as though he had willions behind him. The proprietor of the hotel, Mr. Guyer, had heard of Beau. but he could not believe that he would deliberately run up such a large bill if he had no inten- tion of paying it, and he hesitated about speuking to such an elegant gen- tleman about such an ioelegant thing as money, but after Beau had been a guest at the Monumental for more than a month and bad said nothing about paying his bill Mr. Guyer summoned up his courage and had Beau's bill made out and sent up to him. In a few moments Mr. Guyer received a polite but urgent message from Beau, asking him to come to his apartments at once. *¢1 sent for you, Mr. Guyer, said the inpecunious beau, ‘to show you a most remarkable document which has been sent up to me from your office. 1 don’t wish to complain of your clerks, sir, but 1 dislike being annoyed in this way. Will you kindly look at that and tell me what it is? “*That is a bill, Mr. Smith,’ said Guyer as soon as he recovered his breath. “‘So 1 observe,’ responded Beau, ‘but, Mr. Guyer, it is made out against me.’ ** ‘Certainly,’ replied the hotel man. ‘It is our account against you for board and lodging. wines, cigars and other extras for the last month, and 1 would be glad if you'— “‘Why, my dear sir,’ interrupted Beau, laughing. ‘you surely never ex- pected me to pay this bill? “*l most certainly did and do ex- pect you to pay it answered Mr. Guy- er firmly. “‘But, dear sir, said Beau gently, ‘you knew who I was when 1 came to your house. “Mr. Guyer admitted that he did. ** “Then. you know,' continued Beau, ‘that 1 have never been known to pay a bill to any one. and no one in his senses ever expected that I would. Now, my dear sir, 1 beg of you to de- stroy this ridiculous document and see that 1 am oot annoyed again with such foolishness.' **‘Do you intend to pay this bill or not? demanded the hotel proprietor sternly. ***I do not. replied the Beau quietly. “‘Very well, then, 1 will sue you, sir’ **That is your privilege, sir.’ **‘And 1 will get a judgment, too, said Guyer angrily. *“You will get more than that, Mr. Guyer,’ responded Begwu calmly. ‘You will get yourself laughed at by the en- tire country for being so foolish as to imagine that you c¢ould collect a bill from Beau Smith. Pray do not sub- ject yourself to such ridicule.” “Guyer hesitated; he knew he would be laughed at unmercifully by every one, and, then, too, he could not help but admire the colossal cheek of Smith, so he sat down again and lit a fresh cigar. *Mr. Smith," satd he, ‘T'll tell you what I will do. If yo® will move over to the City hotel and play this same game on old man Barnum [I'll give you a receipt in full for all that you owe me and say no more about it.’ ** ‘Receipt the bill, Mr. Guyer, an- swered Smith coolly. ‘I had been stop- ping with Mr. Barnum for a month prior to coming to your house, and he also promised to give me a receipt in full for what I owed him if I would move over here and play the same trick on you.’ "—Philadelphia Ledger. Dry Cleaned Them. “Why is your grandpa’s face band- aged?” asks the lady next door. “He was sleepind in his big chair,” explains the little girl, *and Willie turned the nozzle of the vacuum clean- er against his whiskers.”—Life. An¢ Peck Was Silent. Peck—I really think. my dear, that Miss Brown will make our son a good wife. Mrs. Peck (snappily) — And what, sir, do you know about good wives?—Boston Transcript. Two-thirds of life are spent in hesi- tating and the other third in regent- ing.—Souvestre. T U GREAT SALT LAKE. An Immense Fresh Water Sea Some Thousands of Years Ago. In glacial times Great Salt lake was a magniticent fresh water lake the size of Lake Huron—that is, about 18,000 square miles—and bad its outlet into the Port Neuf, the Snake and the Co- lumbia rivers. This was at least 10,000 years ago, but since that time the eli- mate has become arid, and not enough water has fallen over the Great basin to supply that lost by evaporation. Consequently the lake has ceased to flow frowm its outlet and gradually dried up from over a thousand teet deep to tifteen feet and from 18,000 square miles in area to less than 1,700. It is now seventy wmiles long and about thirty wide, but is beautiful still and is the home of myriads of sea birds and other waterfowl. It is the great resort of the people of Utah, for from 3,000 to 5,000 visit its shores daily in the summer, and many bathe in its waters. The lake contains about 7,000,000,000 tons of salt. When the lake is high the salt is so diluted that it bas gone down to 11 per cent. When it is low, as it was not many years ago, it reached satura- tion which for the mixed ingredients of the water is 36 per cent. There is nothing mysterious about it any more than there would be about a teacup with a teaspoonful of salt in the bottom. If a tablespoonful of water were put in the cup on the salt it would taste very salty, but if the cup were filled to the brim with water it would not. The salt has come from the water of the rivers flowing into it since it ceased to flow from its outlet. All river water contains salt, and the an- nual evaporation of from two to five cubic miles of this water leaves large quantities of salt behind, and so it has accumulated for thousands of years. A DREAM JOURNEY. 1t Was a Very Long One, but It Took Only a Few Minutes. “Dreams are curious things,” re- marked the amateur psychologist. ‘“Iime does not seem to enter into their composition at all. For instance, the other day 1 was sitting on the porch of a hotel with a friend of mine smoking after lunch. It was a drow- sy day, and conversation lagged. Pres- ently I saw my friend nodding in his chair. He had dozed off, holding his lighted cigar in bhis left hand, which was folded over his right. His left hand relaxed, and the end of the cigar came in gentle contact with the right band, inflicting a slight burn. **The devil it won’t!" exclaimed my friend, waking with a start. “The sentence sounded so incongru- ous that I burst out laughing. ‘Won’t what?’ 1 asked. **How long bave 1 been asleep? he asked. : **‘Not more than a couple of min- utes,’ 1 replied. . *‘It doesn’t seem possible,' he said. ‘During that time | had a dream that pretty nearly took me around the world. 1 sailed for Southampton, did England, France, Switzerland and a part of Italy, then through the orient to India. It was in India that I be- came much interested in one of the native snake charmers. He had the snakes crawling all over him and of- fered me one to fondle. I told him I was afraid it would bite me. He as- sured me that it wouldn’t, and 1 took the reptile in my band. It promptly fastened its fangs in me. I said, “The devil it won’t!” and dropped it, and then I woke up.’ *1 explained the episode of the light- ed cigar,” concluded the amateur psy- chologist, “and we both ‘laughed.”— New York Sun. Southey’s Industry. Southey probably deserves to rank as the most industrious of authors. In the greater part of his life he spent fourteen hours a day in composition. He had six tables in his library. He wrote poetry at one, history at anoth- er, criticism at a third, and so on with the other subjects upon which he was engaged. He once described to Mme. de Stael the division of his timé—two hours before breakfast for history, two hours for reading after, two hours for the composition of poetry, two hours for criticism, and so on through all his working day. *“And pray, Mr. South- ey’ asked madam. “when do you think ?”—London" Chronicle. “Come Across.” “Do these Englishmen understand American slang?" “Some of them do. Why?” “My daughter is to be married in London, and the duke has just cabled me to come across.” “Well?” “Does he want me or my wad?’— Philadelphia Bulletin. Two Tales In One. Six-year-old George's father had tak- en him to a circus, and that night the mother asked her little son what he had seen. “Mamma,” said George, all excite- ment, “1 saw a great big 'I'phant with two tails, and he was eatin’ with one of ’em.”—St. Louis Times. Sarah’s Request. Doctor (to his cook. who ig just leav- ing)—Sarah, I am very sorry, but I can only give you a very indifferent character. Sarah—Well, sir, never mind. Just write it like you do your prescriptions.—Stray Stories. Justice discards party, friendship and kindred and is therefore represent- ed as blind.—Addison. " IRAILWAY HEAVY SUFFERER Great Damage to Milwaukee Line by Forest Fires. Butte, Mont., Sept. 5.—Division En- gineer Osgood of the Chicago, Milwau- kee and Puget Sound railway esti- mated that his road has suffered dam- age to the extent of $1,000,000 as the result of recent fires in Western Mon- tana. Nine miles remain to be cov- ered before the coast line of the St. Paul system will be opened again. ac- cording to Mr Osgood, which work will be completed by about Sept. 6. Overland traffic has been blocked since Aug. 2i. Of the twenty-two bridges burned all have been repaired but eight. FIRES ARE UNDER CONTROL Little Damage Done to the Forests in Idaho. Ogden, Utah, Sept. 5.—District For- ester E. A. Sherman received the fol- lowing dispatch trom Supervisor Da- vid Barnett of the Traghee forest, Ida., who has been at the Island Park fire in that district: “Fire under control, practically out of danger. Will relieve all men ex- cept a safe number of reliable men and forest officers for patrol until rain. No damage done to property and not great deal to forest.” Much Timber Burned in Hills, Deadwood, S. D., Sept. 5—At Red- fern, where the worst forest fires have burned, it was necessary to backfire to prevent the destruction of many miles of the best timber in the Hills and even here a stretch of over seven miles long is burned over, while at Custer Peak more than 2,000 acres of timber have been destroyed. For- tunately most of the fire area was free from ranches or private property. Many Uses of Sand. The sands of the sea are singularly useful. They are of primary impor- tance in glassmaking. They have an fmportant place in warfare, as a bank of sand twenty inches thick is proof against modern ritle shots. The elec- trical properties of sand show that it has positive electricity, although a rod of silica, the chief constituent of sand, is negative. The singular drying effect which oc- curs when a stretch of wet sand is pressed by the foot is due entirely to an alteration in the piling of the sand grains. Normally the grains are close together, but abnormal piling Is brought about by pressure of the foot, the space between the edges of the grains being enlarged and the water drained away. If the pressure of the foot is continued the sand becomes wetter than ever, the partial vacuum quickly bringing water from the sur- rounding sand. In quicksand the moving character Is thought to pe due to the imprison- ment between the grains of gases from organic matter.—Chicago Tribune. Caught. A shopwalker in a large business, noted for his severity to the assistants under him, one day stepped up to a counter from which a ladylike person had just left unserved. “You let that lady leave without making any purchase?” he asked an- grily of the meek looking young man responsible for the handkerchief de- partment sales. “Yes. sir. I™ “And she ten minutes “Doubtle: but, then, you see”— “Exactly. 1 sasw that. in spite of all the questions she put to you, you rare- ly answered her and never attempted to get what she wanted.” “Well, but"— “You need not make any excuse. 1 shall report you for carelessness."” “Well, I hadn’t what she wanted 7" “What was that?" “Five shillings. She wuas canvass Ing for subscriptions to an encyclope dia.”—London Globe, s at your counter fuily Her Excuse. Widow (to dressmaker—You must really wair awhile for payment for the mourniny dresses. We are still too sorrowful to consider finaucial matters. LAWYERS RAHAM M. TORRANCE . 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