Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 7, 1910, Page 6

It Presence of Mind. A visitor to an insane asylum was walking in the grounds when a man came up to him and entered into con- versation. After walking about for some time, discussing topics suggested by the place, the two set out on a tour of inspection, the man, apparently an official, inviting the visitor to go over the asylum. At length they reached the foot of a flight of steps. up which the guide led the way, and at the top the visitor found himself out upon the roof, a height of more than a hundred feet from the ground. As they gazed below his companion startled him sud- denly by proposing to see who could jump farthest toward the grounds! Not until then had it dawned upon the visitor that his guide was wmad. Mer- cifully he was a man of ready wit, and his wit saved the madman's life. “Oh, anybody can jump down,” said the vis- itor. “Let us go down and see who can jump to the top.”” The madman thought it a good idea. and, retracing their steps, the two began their jump from the earth instead of from the roof. The Mammoth Cave Rat. The cavern rat found in the Mam- moth cave is of a soft bluish color. with white neck and feet. It has enormous eyes. black as night. but quite unprovided with an iris. These eyes are perfectly insensible to light. and when the experiment has been made of catching a cavern rat and turning it lovse in bright sunlight it blunders about, striking itself against everything, is unable to provide itself with food and finally falls down and dies. 1In its native depths, however, it is able to lead a comfortable enough existence, us its enormously long whisk- ers are so extremely sensitive that they enable it to find its way rapidly through the darkness. The principal food of the cavern rat consists of a kind of large cricket of a pale yellow color and, like most other cave dwell- ers, itself perfectly blind. The Lilies. Two thousand years ago it was sup- posed that water lilies closed their flowers at night and retreated far un- der water, to emerge again at sunrise. This was Pliny’s view, and it was not impeached until the English botanist John Ray in 1688 first ‘doubted its veracity. The great lily of Zanzibar, one of the grandest of the lily family, opens its flowers, ten inches wide, be- tween 11 in the morning and 5 in the afrernoon They are of the richest Toyal blue, with from 150 to 200 golden ens in the center, and they remain apen four or five days. It is not gen- erally known that there are lilies that have nocturnal habits—night bloomers as well as day bloomers. They are very punctual timekeepers, too. open- ing and closing with commendable reg- ularity. Kindness. Kind looks, kind words. kind acts and warin bandshakes, these are sec- ondary means of grace when men are in trouble and are tighting their un- seen battles.—Dr. John Hall. Hearing the Silence. Little Phyllis was at a concert. The leader rapped. and the buzz of conver- sation ceased. *“Oh. mamma,” ex- claimed Phyllis, “listen to the hush!”— Exchange. HIDDEN DANGERS. Nature Gives Timely Warnings That No Bemidji Citizen Can Afford -to Ignore. DANGER SIGNAL NO. 1 comes from the kidney secretions. They will warn you when the kidneys are sick. Well kidneys excrete a clear, amber fluid. Sick kidneys send out a thin, pale and foamy, or a thick, red, illsmelling urine, full of sedi- ment and irregular of passage. DANGER SIGNAL MO. 2 comes from the back. Back pains, dull and heavy, or sharp and acute, tell you of sick kidneys and warn you of the approach of dropsy, diabetes and Bright’s disease. Doan’s Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys and cure them permanently. Here’s Bemidji proof: Mrs. L. Kane, 615 Fourth street, Bemidji, Minn., says: ‘I was a sufferer from kidney complaint for a number of years. Doan’s Kidney Pills have given me the greatest re- lief and I am willing to recommend them, as I am confident anyone who uses the remedy will receive benefit, My trouble seemed to be of a dropsi- cal nature and I suffered much from rheumatic pains throughout my body. My system seemed to be filled with uric acid and I felt gener- ally miserable. I at last procured Doan’s Kidney Pills at the Owl Drug Store and through their use received marked benefit.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name — Doan’s— and take no other. BRIEF FILED IN " BOYGOTT FIGHT Buck Stove and Range Case in Highest Court. GREAT [ISSUE INVGLYED Jurists Will Be Called Upon to Decide the Question Whether Any Number of Men May Do What One May Lawfully Do—Brief of American Federation of Labor Has Not Yet Been Submitted. Washington, Oct. 7.—Probably the greatest labor fight waged in years in the supreme court of the United States was opened when Daniel Dav- enport and J. J. Darlington, as attor- neys for the Buck Stove and Range company of St. Louis, filed its side of the famous controversy over the “we don’t patronize” list of the American Federation of Labor. : The case will come up for argument before the court probably next week. The brief was an outline of the argu- ments to be presented orally at that time. The brief for the American Federation of Labor, which objected to any injunction in the case, has not been filed. . The supreme court of the District of Columbia issued a broad injunction against the American Federation of Labor to prevent it from boycotting the Buck Stove and Range company, which was charged jvith operating an “open shop.” The court of appeals of the District modified the decree of the lower court. It was this modifica- tion that formed the basis of the argu- ment presented to the court. Brief of Stove Company. “The sole argument for the right to boycott rests on the proposition,” says the brief, “adopted as true in the opinion of Chief Justice Shepard, that what one man may lawfully do any number of men may lawfully agree or combine to do. But the right | of an individual to withhold his cus- tom from persons who deal with A is as unquestionable as his right to withhold his custom from A himself. ‘Within reasonable limits any person may express disapprobation of an actor in a theater, but a combination of persons to hiss him and to have others to do it would be unlawful.” “We submit,” adds the brief, “that tender consideration for the possible contingent future right for a wrong- doer should not be carried so far to withdraw present protection from the injured party against the wrong actu- ally being inflicted upon him.” The history of the case was summed up by the two attorneys as showing an “undisguised and unanimous com- mon effort to-.coerce the complainant into submission to their demands by attacking and seeking to destroy its business and to accomplish its finan- cial ruin as the penalty of refusing to submit to their dictation.” BRODERICK DENIES CHARGES Legislator Says He Did Not Buy Votes for Senator Lorimer. Chicago, Oct. 7.—State Senator “Big John” Broderick, who is under indict- ment at Springfield on a charge of bribery in connection with the elec- tion of Senator Lorimer, took the wit- ness stand in the senatorial investiga- tion and entered a general denial of | the charges. Broderick was questioned on direct examination by Attorney Hanecy, rep- resenting Senator Lorimer. The legis- lator denied that he had promised to give, or had given, any money or other valuable thing to State Senator Holstlaw or any other person in con- nection with the election of Mr. Lor- imer. ' ALL TRAFFIC IS DELAYED Long Continued Rainfall in Middle Western States. St. Louis, Oct. 7.—Almost unprece- dented rainfall has continued for the last sixty hours over the southern parts of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana and throughout Arkansas. Railroad and interurban traffic on many lines is at a standstill. Cairo, 111, reports a downpour of ten inches. Trains from the Southwest arriving in St. Louis are from three to five hours late owing to flood conditions. ALL MEN IN SHAFT ESCAPE Fire Breaks Out in Colliery Near Dan- ville, 1l Danville, Ill, Oct. 7.—Fire broke out in Hartborn’s coal mine near this city and for a time it was feared that 150 men were in peril, but all of them were able to make their way out safely. The fire was confined to the lower level and the manager says as the mine is fireproof there is no danger. Ambassador’'s Wife Very IlI. New York, Oct. 7.—Baroness Hen- genmueller, wife of the Austrian am- bassador to America, is critically ill in her apartments in the Hotel St. Regis, where she had been stopping with her family for the past week. The nature of her ailment is not known, but it was admitted that her family is greatly alarmed. The National Flag. The first display of the national flag at a military post was at Fort Schuy- ler, on the site of the present city of Rome, N. Y. The fort was besieged early in August. 1777, The garrison was without a flag, so one was wade according to the prescription of con- gress by curting up sheets to form the white stripes. bits of scarlet cloth for the red stripes. and the blue ground for the stars was made from a piece of the blue cloak belonging to Captain Abraham Swartwout of Dutchess county, N. Y. This flag was unfurled over the fort on Aug. 1777, The national flag was first unfurled in battle on the b wine Sept. 11, 1777, The flag was first hoisted over a foreign stronghold June 28, 1778, when Captain Rathbone of the American sloop of war Provi- dence captured Fort Nassau, on the Babama islands. Captain Paul Jones was the first man to display the Amei ican flag op an American vessel. Th flag was made by the women of Ports- mouth, N. H., for the Ranger. which was ftitted out at that port for Captain Jones. The Ranger sailed from Ports- mouth on Nov. 1, Buried Landscapes. One of the most curious results of geological exploration is the discovery of “buried landscapes.,” by which is meant parts of the former face of the earth now covered under later depos- its. but yet retaining so many of the original features that the geologist ean ideally reconstruct the scenes that would have been presented to the eye of man if he had been present amoug them. Sometimes buried landscapes exist in countries now densely inhabit- ed. Investigation bhas shown that one lies beneath the region in England known as Charnwood forest. The rocky projections seen there are the peaks and aretes of a buried mountain chain belonging to the old red sand- (14 OW can I appear best always—at the smallest money cost?”’ This is a mighty important question to you. heart of the clothes question. s of the Brandy- ) stone period. Neveral d rent phises in the history of this landscape have been traced. At oue time it coutained salt lakes and desert expanses. In its modern form it is a pastoral region, with. barren. stony tracts and rocky eminences where the ancient moun- tains project through the soil.—Detroit Free Press. * Whistler as a Horseman. Boggs, a cadet cavalry officer at ‘West Point ncademy. was an assist- ant in the riding hall. On one occa- sion he overheard Whistler;, who thor- oughly disliked to ride. objecting stren- uously to the horse brought for his nse. The horse. he argued. was too heavily built and much too large for a man of his size. Whistler, with much vehemence, urged the man next him to “swuap.” The man with whom he wished to exchange horses was of } muscular-build and a “pretty generous size” and bis horse a lightweight an- imal, so it seemed to Whistler that it wonld be a “most fitting exchange.” “Oh, don't swap! Don’t you swap. Mr. Whistler” cried the dragoon. “Yours is a war horse, sir!"” “A war horse!” exclaimed Whistler. “That settles it. T certainly don't want him." “Yes, you do, sir,”” reiterated the man, *He's a war horse, I tell you, for he'd rather die than run.”—Century. Corrected His Error. With the Germans the absentminded college professor is a stock source of witticisms, One of these deeply absorbed gentle- men, sitting or a rear seat, thought he kunew a person sitting in front and was about to speak to him when, the stran- ger by chaunce turning a little, the pro- tessor saw that he was mistaken. Nevertheless, touching bim on the shoulder, he remarked politely: “You will excuse me, but yo the person | thought you wer are not " Copyright 1910 It’s not the first cost that counts. lies in the care of the selection. no fear that you will pass our present offerings. And the first cost of clothes made by The House of Kuppenheimer =the kind we sell, admittedly the finest garments procurable, made specially for us —is no greater than that of ordinary clothes. them out of your reckoning. Let us show them to you to-day. Men’s and Young Men’s Suits and Overcoats $18 to $30. Gill Brothers THOMAS BAILEY FOR SHERIFF I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Sheriff of Bel- trami County to be voted on at the general election Tuesday, November, 8th 1910. Thomas Bailey. The House of Kuppeaheimer Chicago It strikes right at the We can best help you answer it. An unworthy garment is the most expensive in the end. The secret of dressing well at a minimum expense If you select wisely and well—we have You certainly can’t afford to leave