Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 28, 1910, Page 3

e ) - Stingy Queen Bess. Every one who ever aid anything for Queen Bess seems to have been left with a bad debt on his books, So we find an untfortunate John Conley writing to Sir Robert Cecil that for the last two years he had been for £100 for “beeves for the army complaining that * ome ordet Le taken I shall be undone.” Sir Ed- ward Hastyngs. after spending his life in serving the queen, had to | wife's jewels and 1 her majest) bestow something upon me in this my wn his Iatter age”™ So badly was the teet that Leat the armada provisioned that Francis Drake had to s at Plym- outh ninety b ot rice, and the un- fortunate after ten years' sed payment, “rice being an extraordinary victual not al- lowed for the n Nor did common soldiers fare better. The chief ansie- ty of all Elizabeth’s ministers ought. in her view, to have been how to save most money.—London Telegraph. Eating For the Love of It. Pawlow has given epicureanism in eating strong scientific support, and many of II e Fletcher’s ideas find orthodox jus tion. The first rule of dietetic conduct, according to Fletcher, is to eat only wheun one is hungry and to eat only the things from which one anticipates enjoyment. He also teaches that one must eat in the way that gives the greatest sensual pleasure— that is, by thorough chewing and tast- ing; also serenity of mind. pleasant surroundings at a meal. congenial friends, pleasurable conversation—in fact, everything that adds to enjoyment aids digestion. In other words, the process of digestion furnishes a beauti- ful illustration of the influence of mind upon matter. The inspiring stimulus is not mechanical. but psychic. The preliminary essential to the orderly as- similation of food is the keen desire for it.—McClure's A Paradoxical River. On the African shore, near the gulf of Aden and connecting the lake of Assal with the main ocean, may be found one of the most wonderful riv- ers in the world. This curiosity does not flow to but from the ocean toward inland. The surface of Lake Assal itself is nearly 700 feet below the mean tide. and it is fed by this para- doxical river, which is about twenty- two miles in length. It is highly prob- able that the whole basin which the lagoon partly fills was once an arm of the sea which became separated therefrom by the duning of loose sand. The inflowing river has a limited vol- ume, being fullest. of course, at high | tide. and has filled the basin to such an exteni that evaporation and supply exactly balatce each other. Copyright Hart Schaffner & Marx v o | He Saw She Saw It. As the man who writes little items for the paper sat getting himself titted with a pair of shoes the other day he jsaw this bappen. A woman was get- ting waited on by a clerk who wore on the third tinger of his right band a Idiumund twinkler weighing at least a rat and a quarter. He hadu’t al- vs worn a ring of that sort. It was new to him He took a great deal of tpride in his new ring. Oh, how it sparkled when the light was just right! Once or twice he got so interested in twisting it around on his finger with { his thumb to a positioh where it would be wost easily noticed by the wotnan customer that he forgot to tinish lac- | ing up the shoe she was trying on. But he had succeeded in bringing the jewel to ber attention. She had a gharp, leathery, suffragettish face and a disposition to speak right out on things. ~] see it,” she remarked in a refrig- erated tone. "It's very pretty and at- tractive. You wear it with a good air of abandon too. 1 admire it exceed ingly. After you've finished toying with it 1 wish you would go ahead and show me something else—some- thing with not quite such a narrow toe.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Closing the Incident. Pulsatilla—Your latest young man, 1 hear, has written a play or two. Has he produced anything yet? Euphorbia —Y-yes: the last time he called he pro- duced a diamond ring.—Exchange. The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.—Emerson. His Maternal Grandma. A devoted father after a day’s ab- sence was met by his two little sons. “Have you been good boys?” Silence. *Have you been good boys?” “No, papa; I called grandma a bad word,” said five-year-old, turning scar- let. “Is it possible? your grandma ?”" *I called her a human being.” The father, with a mighty effort, maintained his gravity and closed the scene decorously. *I must forgive you for once, but remember if you ever call your grandmother a human being again I shall have to spank you.” Stated a Fact. “Do you see the horizon yonder where the sky seems to meet the earth?” “Yes. uncle.” “Boy, I have journeyed so near there that 1 couldn't put a sixpeuce between my head and the sky.” *Oh, uucle. what a whopper!”’ “It’s a fact, my iad. 1 hadn’t one to put.”—Pearson’s Weeklv. = S TR What did you call The Term *“Bully.” The term bully in the days of Shake- speare had quite a different meaning from that which it has at present, be- ing an expression of endearment and good fellowship. Some suppose that the word. when it is used in approval. is derived from the Dutch boel or Ger- man buhle, which stands for the Eng- lish lover. The harsher use of the word is. however, to be traced to bel- low, the root of bull, with a signifi- cance of noisy blustering. A Frank Reply. A kind local lady went to Columbus to distribute helpful literature to the convicts in the penitentiary. “What are you in for, my poor fel- low ?" she inquired of the first prisoner she saw. “Because 1 can't get out' he an- swered. Then she moved on to the next cell.—Toledo Blade. SR Chilly! “My dining room is the hottest place on earth. I wish I knew what to do ta cool it."” “Did you ever take a friend home to dinner when your wife didn’t expect it?”—Buffalo Express. If He Has Sense. Singleton—Is a man safe in getting married on fifteen a week? Wedmore —No. but he's comparatively safe from getting married.— Boston Transcript. A Matter of Vision. “Marie, didn't |1 see the baker kiss- ing you this morning?” “Madam herself is the best judge of her eyesight."—Pele Mele. The true aim of art is to embody man’s thought concerning nature.—W, M. Rossetti. Weighing Machines. Weighing machines and scales of some kind were in use 1800 B. C., for it is said that Abrabam at that time “weighed out” 400 shekels of silver, current money, with the merchant to Ephron, the Hittite, as payment for a plece of land, including the cave and all the standing timber *in the field and in the fence.” This is said to be the earliest transfer of land of which any record survives and that the pay- ment was made in the presence of witnesses. The original form of the weighing scale was probably a bar suspended from the middle. with a board or shell suspended from each end, one to contain the weight, the other to contain the matter to be weighed The steelyard was probably 1 so called from the material of which it was made and from its former length. It is also known as the Roman bal- ance and is of great antiquity. Vi (t R\ W 4 The Sninning Mule. Samue! Cromptun, a boy of sixteen, copled the best. features of the spin- ning machine invented by Hargreaves and Arkwright, added to them some of his own and. after three months of anxious and secret experimenting, pro- duced the first spinning mule, so called because it was a kind of hybrid be- tween Hargreaves' jenny and Ark- wright's water frame. The raw ap- prentice Iad was, however, no match in cunning for the corton lords, who soon found out the secret of his new machine and shamelessly robbed him of the fruits of his ingenuits. Many years afterward, it is true, they used their inflnence to secure for him a par- liament grant of £5000. but he was then a broken hearted and disappoint- | ed man. to whom the money came too | late to be of any real service. The Human Riddle. Onevof the strangest problems of our inexplicable nature is the choice of evil and the rejection of good. even after long experience has proved that misery and evil are synonymous, Vir- tue, it is true, does not always exempt from sorrow, but crime must ever be wretchedness. Hope loses its balm, and fear acquires a keener sting. The present is anxiety, rhe past remorse, the future is despair, and yet the way- ward man drinks the bitter cup when the sweet is offered to him and launch- es his boat upon an angry sea, where storms' attend his course and ship- wreck terminates his voyage, rather than glide down the smooth current of a tranquil stream where peace pilots him on the way and happiness waits him on the shore.—Exchange. His Turn Came. Ben Darvis defented President Madi- son for election to the Virginia house of delegates after Madison had left the White House. *Old Davis, who seldom wore a coat. was sitting on a rail fence on the roadside in Greene county one morning when a young man dressed in dapper fashion and evidently from the city passed by. *Good morning.” said David, with the proverbial Virginia politeness, To this the stranger paid no atten- tion. In a few minutes, however, he came to a fork in the roads and was evidently in doubt which way he should go. He retraced his steps to where Davis still sat on the fence and | asked him with great politeness if he could tell him which way led to Stan- | ardsville. Davis made no reply. “Will you please tell me,” the young man repeated, “which road I take to get to Stanardsville?” “You can,” said Davis stolidly, “take any d—d road you please.”—Popular Magazine, to the Hart are the things i THOMAS BAILEY FOR SHERIFF I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Sheriffjof ' Bel- trami County to be voted on at the general election Tuesday, November, 8th 1910. Thomas Bailey. IIEGLER & ZIEGLER GO, “THE LAND MEN”’ INSURANCE FIRE = LIFE = ACCIDENT | Real Estate in All s Branches FARM LANDS BOUGCHT AND SOLD Go to Them for Qnick Action . Office--Schroeder Building YOU probably don’t give much thought way your clothes are made; , the kind of surroundings in which the work is done, the class of workers em- ployed, the care taken in designing the garments, the quality of the fabrics; the chances are you don’t think much about these things. 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