Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 28, 1910, Page 2

& TRAILROAD TIME CARDS | Creat Northern No. 33 West Bound Leaves at 3:30 p. m No. 34 East Bound Leaves at 12:08 p. m No. 35 West Bound Leaves at 3:42 a. m m m No. 36 East Bound Leaves at 1:20 a. No. 105 North Bound Arrivesat 7:40 p. No. 106 South BoundLeaves at 7:00 8. m Freight West Bound Leaves at 9:00 a. m Freight East Bound Leaves at 3:30 p. m Minnesota & International __ No. 32 South Bound Leaves at 8:15 a. m No. 31 North Bound Leaves at 6:10 p. m No. 34 South Bound Leaves at 11:35 p.m No. 33 North Bound Leaves at 4:20 a. m Freight South Bound Leaves at 7:30 a. m Freight North Bound Leaves at 6:00 a. m Minn. Red Lake & Man. No. 1 North Bound Leaves \at 3:35 p. m No 2 South Bound Arrives at 10:30 a. m PROFESSIONAL CARDS ARTS HARRY MASTEN Piano Tuner ormerly of Radenbush & Co. of St. Paul Instructor of Viohn, 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 213 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. TOM SMART DRESS MAKING PARLORS © Orders taken for Nu Bone corsets, made to rder, also tailor made suits, coats, etc. PHYSICIANS AND SURCGEONS 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. Fhone 397 R. C. R. SANBORN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office—Miles Block A. WARD, M. D. ® Over First National Bank. Phone 51 House No. 60z Lake Blvd. Phone 351 DR. 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 R. E. H. MARCUM PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Mayo Block Phone 18 Residence Phone 211 INER W. JOHNSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Residence 1113 Bemidji Ave. Phone 435 Offices over Security Bank. Phone 130 DENTISTS R. D. L. STAN1TORN DENTIST, Office in Winter Bleck DR‘ J. T. TUOMY DENTIST 1st National Bank Build'g. Telephone 230 R. G. M. PALMER DENTIST Miles Block Evening{Work by Appointment Only LAWYERS GRAHAM M. TORRANCE LAWYER Miles Block Telephone 560 FRANK A. JACKSON LAWYER Bemidji, Minnesota ' E E. McDONALD * ATTORNEY AT LAW Office—Swedback Block, Bemidi, Minn. H. FISK . ATTORNEY AT LAW Office over City Drug Store. S S RS SV ./ . S 1. - SO SO N 5. S < SO 3.~ NSO SRS P S . V. . SN 1. SO S SO .2 J S R WO SO D OO 5 O~ P S T SO — e e P e Working it Out. The followiug note was delivered to a schoolmistress recently: “Dear Mum—l am sorry that John- ny won't be able to come to school to- day. He bas gone with his father to act as timekeeper. The sum you gave Johnny last night was, ‘If the road is one and a guarcer miles long how long will it take a man to walk that dis- tance twenty-six and a half times, his average rate of progress being three and three-quarter miles per hour? Johnny ain't a man yet. so as dad’s the only man in this house he had to go. They started at 4 oclock this morning, and dad said he’d tinish the sum in one day if he could manage it though it would mean bard going. Dear mum, uvext time you want any information please make it ‘woman, then 1 can do the sum and dad can go to his work.”—f.ondon Scraps, A Custom of the Balkans. He or she who enters a house for the first time is supposed in the Balkan countries to bring it good or bad luck for the whole rwelvemonth. This be- lief gives rise to a curious observance. The visitor before crossing the thresh- old picks up a stone (token of strength) or a green twig (emblem of health and fruitfulness) and lays it on the hearth. He also brings with him some grains of salt, which he casts into the flames, and then, squatting by the fireside, wishes his hosts *a prosperous year, a plentiful crop and many blessings.” Then as tbe grains of salt burst and crackle in the tire he utters the follow- ing quaint formula: "As 1 am sitting. even so may sit the hen and warm the eggs. As this salt splits, even so may split the eggs of the clucking hen and the chickens come forth.” Reptiles’ Eggs. Reptiles’ eggs are not very attrae- tive objects. In the case of crocodiles and many kinds of tortoises they are pale colored or white and resemble those of birds in shape. But the egg of the gopher tortoise is remarkable for its complete roundness. It might well be mistaken for a golf ball. Many snakes' eggs are soft skinned, brown as to color and look for all the world like a number of new potatoes.—Scien- tific American. Enthusiasm. The organist sent a little boy to in- quirg of the minister what the first hymn would be. *“Tell her.” said the minister, *1 would like ‘Carol, Broth- ers, Carol." " The little boy thought he said “*Howl, Brothers, Howl.” and told the organist that the minister’s selection was “Yell, Brothers, Yell.”—New York Times. Runs In the Family. Mr. Agile (to Mr. Stoutman, running for a car)—Hello. old boy! 1 thought you were too lazy to run like that. Mr. Stoutman (languidly)—Easily ex- plained. my dear boy. Laziness runs in our family.—Lippincott’s. Suspended Animation. “What is suspended animation?” *“It’s what happens at an afternoon tea when the very woman they have been talking about enters the room.”— Puck. Cramped. Knicker—How large is their subur- ban place? Bocker—ILarge! Why, they have to have folding beds for the flow- ers —New York Sun. Bless the fools! What would we do if every one were wise?—Antrim. DEEDS, NOT WORDS Bemidji People Have Absolute Proof of Deeds at Home. EXPERT DOUBTS RAIL FIGURES Witness for Shippers Testi= fies at-Rate Hearing, EXPENDITURES VERY HIGH Advances in Operating and Mainte- nance Accounts Declared to Be Un- precedented Compared to Earnings. Asserts That Valuation of Termi- nals Are Fully Double the Actual Cost of the Same. Chicago, Oct. 28.—The shippers who oppose prospective freight rate ad- vances attacked certain valuations placed on their property by railroad witnesses when E. J. McVann, man- ager of the traffic bureau of the Oma- ha Commercial club, took the stand be- bore the interstate commerce com- mission. Witness reduced the repro- duction valuation of $3,300,000 placed on the Burlington road’s terminal property at Omaha by General Man- ager Ward. The assessed value, wit- ness stated, is $831,205. “This,” con- tinued Mr. McVann, “is about 25 per cent less than the actual value, which makes the latter about $1,000,000. 1 found the railroads in Omaha paid about 50 per cent more than the actual value of the land, so Mr. Ward’s esti- mate would have to be cut in two to give the correct value.” Continuing, witness declared similar conditions obtain at St. Paul, Minne- apolis and Duluth. The roads at those points, he said, have paid more than the actual value for their terminal lands. Mr. McVann centered his tes- timony on the Burlington, the Santa Fe, the Chicago and Northwestern and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroads, which, he said, were the governing factors in the Western rail- way affairs. “In examining the operating ex- penses of these four roads,” said the Omaha traffic expert, “I found there had been an unprecedented jump in operating expenses in 1910—I say ‘un- precedented’ because none of the rail- road witnesses would say that the in- crease was abnormal.” Railroad Reports Analyzed. From examination of railroad re- ports to the interstate commerce com- mission witness found the Santa Fe maintenance account increased 25 per cent in 1910 over 1909 and its trans portation account advanced 23 per cent in the same period. The main- tenance account of the Northwestern road increased 22% per cent and the transportation account 21.b per cent in 1910, as compared with the preceding year. The Burlington’s maintenance account increased 16.5 per cent and the transportation account 17 per cent. Mr. McVann said increased business normally would show an increase in operating expenses before an advance in maintenance expenditures. He made this statement in contrast to the fact that the Santa Fe’s maintenance ac- count increased more than its trans- portation account in-1909-10. “That might be explained,” he said, “by the purchase of construction ma terial for future use.” After discussing items of gross profit, percentage of empty cars hauled by the roads, and the increase in the minimum carload weight, Mr. McVann, the sole witness at the morn- ing session, gave his opinion of the proposed increased freight rates. “It is my honest opinion,” he said, “that the proposed increases in freight rates will not increase the revenue of the railroads but will decrease it by It's not words but deeds that|its effect on business in a stoppage of prove true merit. The deeds of Doan’s Kidney Pills, - For Bemidji kidney sufferers, Have made their local reputation: Proof lies in the testimony of Bemidji people who have been cured to stay cured. Mrs. L. {Kane, [615 Fourth St., Bemidji, Minn., says: “I was afflicted with kidney trouble for a number of years, My system was filled with uric _acid + that my kid- neys failed to remove and I was often bothered by a shortness of breath. A few weeks ago I.procured a supply of Doan’s Kidney Pills and I am well pleased with the re- sults I have thus far received from their use. T intend to continue taking this remedy.” (Statement given in August 1907.) GOOD WORK. Mrs. Kane was interviewed on October 6, 1910 and she said: “I am glad to again endorse Doan’s Kidney Pills. They effected a com- plete and permanent cyre in my case.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New Vork, sole agents. for the United States. Remember the name — Doan’s— and take' no other. ey the movement of goods.” PRISONERS’ PACT A FAILURE One Pleads Guilty to Save Other, but Both Are Convicted. Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 28.—John Boss and Patrick Daily, held in jail for lar- ceny, cut cards to see which should plead guilty and take the blame for their joint crime. Daily lost, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one year in the state reformatory. Boss won, went to triai, was found guilty despite Daily’s testimony on his behalf, and was sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary at Walla Walla. Boss told of the prison pact after sen- tence had been passed on him. MAY DELAY HIS EXECUTION Attorney for Dr. Crippen Enters an Appeal. London, Oct. 28.—Solicitor Newton has entered an appeal in the court of criminal appeals from the verdict of the criminal court which found his client, Dr. Hawley H. Crippen, guilty of the murder of his wife and sen- tenced him to death on Nov. 8. It is probable the hearing on the appeal will be expedited, though it may be necessary to postpone the ex- ecution. Italian Aviator Killed. Rome, Oct. 28.—Another fatal aero- || plane accident occurred on the mili- tary grounds at Centoselle when Lieu- tenant Sagliette’s machine fell while he was planing to the ground, instant- ly killing the lieutenant. Those who saw the accident could give no cause for it. The Talkative Barber. “The talkativeness of barbers long bas been the subject for puns and Jokes,”™ sald a barber. *I bhad always fancied the matter one of recent origin until the other day. You know in my profession we have a great deal of spare time. Well, the other day | was sitting on the bench waiting for the shaves aud bair cuts 1o come in and | to while away the time was glancing | through a copy of Plutarch’s *Arche- laus.' Imagine my counsternation when 1 happened on a line reading: ***A prating barber asked Archelaus how be would be trimmed. He an- swered, “ln silence.”’ “Well, that got me. 1 never knew they even had barbers that long ago. 1 always supposed the ancients let their whiskers grow and that they wore curly locks as long as their to- gas, but it seems that the barber is an ancient relic and that his talking | proclivities are a matter of history. I'll bave to give it to the humorists there. “But, sar.” he whispered, “that man- icure girl over there has got us beat to a frazzle. 1 wonder if there’s anything in Plutarch about her.””—Kansas City Star, The Sunny Side of Superstition. That there is anything genial, cheer- ing or therapeutically valuable about superstition may seem a tall smte-l ment, The adjective generally associ- ated with it is “dark.” On the con- trary, there is something very bright- ening about a four leaf clover. Who is wot a little more of an optimist for picking up a horseshoe? What lone- ly farmer's wife, stormbound ou a winter afternoon. with unwelcome lei- sure on her hands, but feels a little qQuickening of the pulse as she drops ner s 1d beholds them sticking up in the earpet or discovers that she has laid au extra place at the table? Compauy signs are the commonest and welcomed of all superstitions. The ws. the needle, the disheloth, the . the Saturday sneeze, all inculcate hospitality and reward it by au unex- pected visitor. If the needle slants as it stands up in the crack of the floor it foretells a gentleman. Run, young daughters of the house, and put a blue bow in your bair!— Atlautic Monthly. IMPERIAL UNIVERSAL This Stove Weighs 540 Ibs. Without removing a bolt or nut you can take this stove apart so that the longest remaining piece will weigh less than 200 pounds. Look at our window display and see for yourself that what we say is true. This stove has no equal and is fully guaranteed to do more than any other stove can accomplish, as to it’s heating and fuel saving qualities. Let us demonstrate its further advantages to you. GIVEN HARDWARE CO. COPYRIGHT 1910 BY KUH, NATHAN & FISCHER CO.; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED We aren’t through with a Sincerity Suit or overcoat until you're through with it. - It’s still our property and the price you paid is still your property until you're sure that you have had every bit of seryice that you can reasonably expect for the money you invested. We want you back next year. Have you seen some of the new overcoats that were just shipped to us? Couldn’t sit tighter to the neck and shoulder if the cloth were laid on with a trowel. Fabries both plain or fancy to suit your fancy. A little better, not a little more. Suits $15 to $30 Overcoats $15 to $30 Model Clothing Sto e