Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 10, 1910, Page 4

f | | THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. H. DENU. C. E. CARSON. Entered n the Postoffice at Bemid)l, Minnesota, class mattor. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YFAR !N sDVANGE CITY OF BEMIDJI County Seat. Population—In 1900, 1500; 7000. Summer Resort—Hundreds of outsiders make their summer homes on Lake Be- midji. Fishing, boating and bathing ac- commodations are second to none in the United States. Area—Ten square_miles incorporated. Altitude—1400 feet above sea level. Water Power—2200 developed horse- power, Mississippi river. Water—Absolutely pure. Two artesian wells, ‘Water Mains—About seven. miles. Boating—500 miles by lake and river. Death Rate—>5.4 a thousand in 1908. Annual Rainfall—33.7 inches. Temperature—20 above, winter; 75 summer, mean. Sewer Mains—About thlee"xmles, Cement Sidewalks—Six and a half miles. Lakeshore Drives—Ten miles. Parks—Two. Water Frontage—-Ten miles, two lakes and Mississippi river. A Home Town—1600 residences. Taxpayers—1200. Churches—8. School Houses—Three. Bank Deposits—$750,000. Manufactures—Hardwood handles, lum- ber, lath, shingles, and various other industries. Great Distributing Point—Lumber prod- ucts, groceries flourffeed and hay. Postal Receipts—$17,000 for 1909, 10th place in state.outside of St. Paul, Minne- apolis and Duluth. - Railroads—Great Northern, Minnesota & International,' M., R, L. & M., Minneapolis St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie, Wilton & Northern, Grand Forks to Duluth, and Bemidji-Sauk Centre. Railroad Depots—Four. Passenger Trains—Twelve _daily. Hospitals—One. Distances—To St. Paul, 7230 miles; to Duluth, 167 miles. Hotels—Fifteen. Breweries—One. Sawmills—Four. Handle Factories—One. Wholesale Houses—Four. Banks—Three. Auto Garages—Une. in 1910, The total list of deaths in aviation accidents up to date is less than twenty. No one would willingly detract from the the glory of these gallant pioneers, but the public lacks discrimination in its sentiment. Cer- tainly neither the railroad nor steam nor electricity was advanced to an analogous degree of perfection with so few fatalities. Not a mile of steel rail but represents fatalities, hardly a bridge over a great river but includes several dead men in its cost. Along some parts of the transcontinental railroads the un- marked graves of obscure laborers are almost as numerous as the ties. As a county auditor R. C. Hayner has made good. An improved method has been adopted in the handling of county business, records that were in so termed lax condition, from all reports appear in proper shape to day, the back work that was much in evidence when he took the oath of office has all of it been brought right up to the minute according to reports from that office. And R. C. Hayner has done it. He has served the county well during his short term. It required hard and concientious work to accom- plish these results and a man who has done so much for the tax payers in so little time is at least entitled to serve another term as the county’s business head. SHALL YORKTOWN BE SOLD AS CEMENT? Certain ciiculars and other litera- ture of exploitation which are put out to encourage the sale of stock in the Jamestown Portland Cement Corporation, contain maps of York- town, Virginia, with the land owned by the corporation indicated in solid black. If the map-makers have not al- enthusiasm to prevail over accuracy, this corporation Seems to own the entire site of the battle of florktown. and proposes to dig it up and ship it away as cement. Surely, there must be many per- sons in Virginia sufficiently appreci- ative of historic associations to look into this matter promptly and care- fully. BEMIDJI’S DEBT OF GRATITUDE. Mr. “Nubs of News” man of the Grand Forks Herald arises to re- mark: “The Bemidji city council has decided not to begin any park im- provements this year, but these will be undertaken in the near future. The really important thing is that Bemidii has property now which will make an exceedingly fioe park when- ever the work is intelligently under- taken. The city borders the land for a long distance, and through the wise forethought of someone whose name ought to be graven in letters of gold in some suitable place, the whole lake front was reserved as a possession of the city. It can be improved whenever the spirit moves the people.” And let us hope that said spirit is hovering near. ' WHAT WOULD HE DO? At the last session of congress, 37,000 bills were introduced. Out cf these between 300 and 400 pass- ed and became laws, Among the bills which passed and are now laws, are these: Revising the railroad laws and creating an interstate commerce court. Establishing a postal saving bank system. Admitting New Mexico and Ari- zona as states, Appropriating $20,000,000 to complete reclamation projects. Creating a bureau of mines. Providing for the publicity ot campaign contributions. Surpressing the white-slave tratfic. Authorizing the President to withdraw from entry public lands as he wishes for conservation, Appropriating $250,000 for the use of the Tariff Board. Can you remember of a congrzss that has produced a better list of beneficial measures? President Taft has delivered the goods and with a congress that will never be noted for its harmony. If he can do this much with an unruly congress, what will be the result if the voters give him a real republican majority? ROOSEVELT DID RIGHT. Colonel Roosevelt never did a braver thing, nor one that deserves the admiration which he is receiv- ing from the nation, than his publicly announced determination not to sit by the side of a man who faces un- contradicted charges of fraud and still 1nsists 01 remaining a member of the United States senate. More humorous than anything else therefore, is the following from the Chicago Inter Ocean, a news- paper owned by the same Senator Lorimer: “A New York paper once stated that Colonel Roosevelt’s alternation, falsification and publication of a private correspondence several years ago was adequate cause for his ex- pulsion from any gentleman’s club in the country. A similar comment applies in this case. He played a dirty trick and was not ashamed. No principle of honor, no scruple of decency, once crossed his mind. It is sad, but it is true. “As regards the conduct of the Hamilton club, it is difficult to see how that organization can maintain itself as a gentlemen’s club when, on the order of a private citizen, its officers will go out of their way to insult a guest who has disarmed himself by trusting to the club’s hospitality. That they lent them- selves to a cowardly personal ven- geance, despite Colonel Roosevelt’s usual high professions ‘of moral motives, is shown by the nature of the political feud between Colonel Roosevelt and Mr. Lorimer, which, after seven years, culminated in this scurvy blow below the belt. «“The New York Bvening Post recently summarized . Colonel Roosevelt’s character as that of a man ‘who talks big and acts mean.’ Colonel Roosevelt replies: ‘Itis a lie. “Isit a ie? No, it is the truth, the sorry truth, and Colonel Roose- velt himself has proved it.” This from the Chicago Tribune more nearly fits the case: “Nothing Theodore Roosevelt has done in his public career has been more significent, more timely, nor more courageously right than his pre- emptory refusal to sit down to a public dinner with Wiiliam Lorimer, “Any man who clings to public office when his election is shadowed by fraud, as Lorimer has clung to the high office of senator, deserves the staggering rebuke he has re- ceived from Mr. Roosevelt. “A hide so thick that it has with- stood four confessions like those of Holstlaw, White, Beckemeyer and Link, hardly will flinch from the brusque treatment of the the Hamil- ton club. It may be doubted if anything less imperative would have been noticed. Mr. Lorimer does not withdraw readily. “Mr. Roosevelt has set an example which might be followed to the gen- eral benefit. If there was less com- placent acceptance among men of careers and personalities like Lori- mer’s there would be a good deal less uncleaa politics and unclean business. Honorable men should not be led by unthinking good nature into giving social recognition to men whose activities they know to be burtful and dangerous to the public welfare.” Knighted Actors. It is an odd fact that of the English actors knighted all but one had first to legalize the names under which they had won fame. The question arose with the first proposition to confer knighthood on a gypsy. It would be absurd so to honor one .John Henry Brodribb. Yet legally no such person as “Henry Irving” existed. No such obstacle had to be overcome when, on the occasion of Victoria's dtamoud jubilee, Squire Bancroft kuelt before his queen and arose sir squire. How- ever, the three actors knighted by King Edward bore cognomens of their own invenrion. Sir Charles Wyndham was born Culverwell, and Kir John Hare, Fairs, As for Sir [Terbert Beer- bohm Tree, his brilliant wife once put it **Tree’ is a fantastic thing we just tacked on. We're all pl.\lu Beerbohms —plain as brotber Ma —Argonaut, The Old English Prize Ring. In the latter days of the English prize ring innumerable expedients had to be devised to bring off a tight. A favorite plan was to pitch the ring on the borders of two counties. so that the question of magisterial jurisdiction might be rendered difficult. Another plan was to charter a steamboat and proceed down the Thames to some Jonely police forsaken spot in the marshes of Essex. For the memorable contest between Sayers and Heenan in 1860 a special train was run from Lon- don bridge to a secret destination. But the passengers, who comprised members of parliament, peers, pick- pockets, pugilists, clergy and. it is said. a few bishops. cheerfully took tickets simply marked “excursion.” They presently found themselves near Farnborough, in Surrey. where the fight occurred.—London Chronicle. A Cumulative Persian Story. A hunter finds some honey in the fis- sure of a rock, fills a jar with it and takes it to a grocer. While it is being weighed a drop falls to the ground and is swallowed up by the grocer’s weasel. Thereupon the huntsman’s dog rushes upon the weasel ani kills it. The grocer throws a stone at the dog and kills him. The huntsman draws his sword and cuts off tte gro- cer’s arm, after which he is cut down by the infuriated mob of the kazaar. ‘The governor of the town. informed of the fact. sends messengers to arrest the murderer. When the crovd re- sisted troops were dispatched fo the scene of the conflict, whereupen the townspeople mixed themselves up in the riot, which lasted three days and three nights, with the result that 70,000 men were slain. All this through a drop of honey. i Early Landholding. Nothing is clearer than the fac: that the system of landholding in the most ancient races was communal. Private right in land was for a long time un- known, the source of life being hald in common between the members df the tribe. Not only land. but all property that in any way had to do wita the general welfare, was looked upm as belonging to the whole tribe in|com- mon, no individual having the rifht to call it his own. Gradually and|after a very long time, under the old ré&gime, the right of private ownership pegan to creep in unti] at last it became the recognized rule pretty nearly 1’very- where.—New York American. ; The Front End. 1 A young couple had been mnrried by 8 Quaker, and after the ceremo}.y}he remarked to the husband: “Friend, thou art at the end qt thy troubles.” A few weeks after the man cBlne to the good- minister ‘boiling over with rage, having found his wife td be a regular vixen, and said: “I thought you told me I waspt the end of my troubles.” - “So I did, friend, but I did which end,”’ replied the Quaker., t say e i i L Aa e e e 5 | Pricked His Own Bubble. This story. found: in Rev. Dr. Henry H. Jessup's book, “Fifty-three Years in Syria,” seems to indicate that religious vagaries are as short lived in the east as elsewhere. A friend of Dr. Jessup, visiting Jerusalem, met a queer look- ing solitary stranger pacing the streets of the city. accosted him, and after the usual greetings remarked: “You are an American, I infer.” “Yes, I am,” replied the queer look- ing man. “And what are you doing here, if 1 may ask?"’ *“Ah, yes, I'm glad you asked. You see. I've come to preach the new doc- trine, that there is to be no more death. If men will only accept it, we'll abolish death, and there’ll be no more dying, nor graves, nor coffins, nor funerals. ‘We shall just live right on.” “But,” said Dr. Jessup’s friend, *sup- posing you should sicken and die, what then?” “Ob,” said the man, “'that would bust the whole thing?” { And it did. The poor delirious apos- tle died a few months later, and with him his “vew doctrine.” Couldn’t Think of It. The handsowme young plumber laid aside a piece of lead pipe and, ap-: proaching the beautiful kitchen maid, said: “You look awful good to me.” Go on: quit your kiddin',” she re- plied. “But I mean what | say.” “I ain’t got any rime to listen to you now. Can't yon see I'm busy ?” “Yes, but what's the use workin' when a fellow wants to make love to you? Say. if 1 make rhis job last so I can come back tomorrow will you have your work out of the way so we can talk things over? Yon're the purtiest girl 1 ever seet “If you rhi ron ¢can make a fool of ¥ talk you're mistaken.” “But 1 mean every word I say. I wiunt you to try to learn to love me.” “If you want to make love to me come around this evening. I'll be here.” “What! On my own time? What kind of a chump do you think 1 am?”’ —Chicago Record-Herald, Exact Thomas. Thomas Hoar, the devoted servant upon whom Gilbert White, the English paturalist, depended to carry out his garden plans and to look after his comfort in many ways, was noted for his exactn Mr. H. C. Shelley, in “Gilhert White and Selborne,” gives an amusing illustration. There was one occasion when Thom- as came to report, “Please, sir, I've been and broke a glass.” “Broke a glass, Thomas! you do thars" “I'll show you, sir,” he rejoined as he disappeared for a moment. Returning with a glass in his hand, he let it fall on the floor, remarking: “That’s how 1 broke it, sir.” “There, go along. Thomas: you are a great fool,” said his waster. adding to himself, “and 1 was as great a one for asking such a foolish question.” How did Impressed Her. “You will never ve able to make her believe that he is a liar. “1 wonder why?" “I believe that he once told her she was beautiful.”"—Houston Post. Backing. Borrowby—The scheme swould be a howling success if | could secure the proper backiu and— Grimshaw— The only backing 1 am doing this year Is out.—Puck. Integrity of life is fame’s best friend. —John Webster. WILLIAM BLACKSMITH Horse Shoeing and Plow Work a Specialty AllZthe work done here is done with a Guarantee. Prompt Service and First Class Workmanship. FouRth sS. NEW BUILDING sewind, Minw. BEGSLEY With $6 Cash Sale With $12 Cash Sale With $18 Cash Sale With $30 Cash Sale With $35 Cash Sale With $50 Cash Sale With $60 Cash Sale With $100 Cash Sale Big Value Silverware Free Callin and inspect our Beautiful New Silverware of French Gray Pattern which we give away free with the following cash purchases: 1 sugar shell in lined box, value 30c. 1 set sugar shell and butter knife in box, value 60c. Choice of 1-2 dozen Teas 1 dozen Tables 1 Berry Spoon in lined box 1 Cold Meat Fork in lined box 1 gravy ladle m lined box value 90¢ 1 Berry Spooa and 1 Cold Meat Fork, each in lined box, value $1.50. Choice of: 1-2 dozen Tables, 1 dozen Teas 1 Berry Spoon and Gravy Ladle, each in lined box value $1.80. 1 Berry Spoon, 1 Cold Meat Fork and 1 Gravy Ladle each in lined box, value $2.40 Choice of: 1 dozen Dessert Spoons, 1-2 dozen Table Spoons and Butter Knife in lined box, value $3.00. 1 set Knife and Fork in lined box, value $5.00. W. G. SCHROEDE DEALER IN General Merchandise Subscribe For The Pioneer There Are a Few Bargains left in city property. If you don’t think so, just read this and then let me show you the place. A fine, large, 10-room house, good cellar, stone foundation, fifty foot lot, good well, large barn, located one block from the lake, city water, cement walks and sewer by the place---for only $2100 and on terms that will open your eyes. This place will be sold within the next 10 days, so you had better see me at once. H. E. REYNOLDS Building Contractor and Real Estate Broker O’LEARY-BOWSER BUILDING ROOM 9, O Office Phone 23. i “House Phone 316. Bemidji, Minn.