Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 10, 1910, Page 7

| n A Chante to Make Money. A young man who bad been out of employment for some time and to whom money had become a stranger stood on the Walnut street bridge over the Schuylkill gazing down at the water. Suicide was in his mind, but he was afraid to seek death by drowning and only contemplated it when he realized that he had no money to purchase poison, a rope or something of the sort. As he was standing there a well dressed man accosted him, “Young man. do you want to earn $47" he said. “Four dollars!” gasped the unfor- tanate, to whom the sum sounded like a million. “Lead me to it he said. “Come along.” said the stranger as s the bridge. young man followed, a new ning from his eyes. The stranger led the way to a room on a side street off Walnut. “Here we are,” he said. “Well, how am 1 going to earn those $47" asked the young man. “Well, you see, I'm a little hard up for cash,” said the stranger, *and I'm going to sell you a pair of five dollar shoes for a dollar!"—Philadelphia Press. The Carrot Cure. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, refer- ring to the true efficacy of carrots as a cure for wounds (a tradition which was certainly not handed down from Crecy), writes to Dr. Hunt in 1863, telling him how a man’s heel, which was severe'v wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg, was treated by Dr. Bigelow, who did nothing but keep the wound open and made the patient use for this purpose a little plug of carrot, which seemed to agree with him very well. Another more modern medical au- thority says that for delicate persons an excellent supper vegetable is a fair sized carrot, boiled whole so as to re- tain its aromatic properties, then split into quarters and warmed afresh be- fore being erved hot. It acts as a nervine sedative while being cordial and restorative. A sense of mental invigoration will follow, and the di- gestion of this estimable root will be readily performed without preventing sleep.—Pall Mall Gazette. Pzacock Plumage. However much milliners may ad- mire the plumage of the peacock and however much they may desire the money it brings, superstition prevents many of them from using it. “Rather than give peacock feathers house room 1 would lose my best cus- tomer.” one milliner declared. “I have done it more than once. Women who want their own materials made up have brought peacock trimming, and when I positively refused to handle it they went away angry and looked for somebody else to work up their pea- cock feathers. But no doubt they had ,a long chase. because two-thirds of the milliners feel just as I do about peacock feathers.” “But why?” asked a woman who carried a peacock feather in her hand bag. “It's bad luck, that is why,” said the milliner.—New York Sun. No Paprika In Her Bones. A Hungarian restaurant in New York became famous for its culinary triumphs, and many visitors to the city became acquainted there with the mysterious dishes produced in Hunga- rian kitchens. In one of these parties several years ago was a young matron from the far west, who, anxious to ex- tend her culinary knowledge and see- ing how her husband relished one of the courses of the meal, asked the head waiter for the recipe for the dish. “T can give it to you, madam,” was the courteous reply, “but you can’t make it.” “And why not?” asked the sightseer. “Because you must be Hungarian. It might come right for an Austrian, but an American never. You must have paprika in your bones.” And, taking that high ground, the request was refused.—New York Tribune. Across the Hall. “Say, Snibbs, let me use your phone, will you?” “Sure. yours?” “It’s all right. I want to telephone to my wife that I'm going to bring a man from out of town to dinner.” “Well 7" “He's sitting in my room now, and I hate to have him watch my face when my wife tells me what she thinks of the proposition.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer. What’s the matter with An Essay on Man. What a chimera. then, is man! ‘What a novelty, what a monster, what " a chaos, what a subject of contradic- tion, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, a feeble worm of the earth, depository of the truth, cloaca of un- certainty and error, the glory and the . shame of the universe.—Pascal. Pretty Healthful. The Stranger—Is this healthy neighborhood? The Native—You bet it is. Thar ain’t bin a death here in years, 'ceptin’ the undertaker. an’ he died o’ starvation.— Harper’s Weekly. i a pretty Good Luck. “What luck did that sheriff who went out after Stagecoach Charley have?” “Purty good.” replied Three Finger Sam. “Charley didn’t ketch him.”— Washington Star. ‘When the tastes are purified the , morals are not easily corrupted.—Os- borne. 4 Know the Stars In the Dragon? Winding in and out between the stars of the Great aud Little Dipper is the constellation of the Dragon. The tip of the tail lies between the pole star in the Little Dipper and the | pointers in the Great Dipper, but much néarer the latter and only a few degrees below the pointers. The rest of the constellation, outlined with faint stars, curves downward and around the Little Dipper. when with | a finai ceil it terminates with the two brizht stars Gamma and Beta. which mark the head-of the Dragon, or, in fact, its eyes. Aratus in describing the constellations speaks of the Dragon as “with eyves oblique retorted, that askant cast gleaming fire.” Its leading star, Alpha. near the tail of the Dragon and halfway between Mizar (the middle star in the handle of the Great Dipper) and the lowest star in the bowl of the Little Dipper, is known by the name of Thuban. ! Four thousand years ago it was the pole star.—Mary Proctor in Chicago Tribune. Does Your Cat Cough? Poor pussy! As if the immemorial charges against her of keeping us awake o' nizhts and of eating canary birds whenever she gets the chance were not enough. the doctors have just discovered that for years she has been responsible for the spread of diphthe- ria. Dr. G. J. Awburn of Manchester, England, having traced an epidemic of this disease in a suburb of that city to a pet cat Dbelonging to one of his patients, has found, after much clever investigation. that all cats are pecul- iarly susceptible to diphtheritic affec- tions of the throat. He has therefore recently been warning all families who own cats to watch them carefully and if they develop coughs to forbid their being hugged and petted. Dr. Awburn further recommends that if the cough persists and the cat begins to grow thin to have the animal de- stroyed at ouce. The only really safe way. he says, is to let the first wheeze be pussy’s death warrant.—New York World. P Left to a Worse Fate. The business man was sitting in his office thinking of starting for home when a suspicious looking person came in with a leather bag in his hand. “If you dow’t give me £5,” said the visitor, coming at once to the point, “I will drop this on the floor.” The business man was cool. is in it?” he asked. : “Dynamite.” was the brief reply. “What will it do if you drop it?” “Blow you up!” “Drop it!”” was the instant com- mand. “My wife told me when I left home this morning to be sure to send up a bag of flour, and I forgot it. I guess it will take just about as much dynamite as you have there to prepare me for the blowing up I'll get when she sees me" “I'm a married man myself,” said the dynamiter and quietly slipped out. —Illustrated Bits. “What Shied at the Price. A noted painter said at the Art club in Philadelphia, apropos of picture prices: “I am glad there are not many buy- ers like an old farmerin Center Bridge, A very distinguished etcher, sketching in Center Bridge. made a study of the farmer’s barn. The farmer happened to appear and said he'd like to have the sketch. “‘Ef ’tain’t too dear, he added cau- tiously. “‘Oh. said the etcher, who makes $12,000 a year. ‘I won't charge you anything for the sketch, but’— “His eye lighted on the pigpen. “‘But I'll tell you what. You can give me one of those nice little pink sucking pigs there.’ “‘Why, man, said the farmer with a frown, ‘do ye know what them pigs is worth? They're worth a dollar apiece.’ ”—Exchange. Strong on Length. Richard Carle engaged as cook a Swedish giantess who proved unsatis- factory. On departure she asked for a written testimonial. and Dr. Carle presented her with the following: “To whom it may concern: I have lately had in my employ Hulda Swan- son, who was engaged to cook for a family of three and do such other things as would be possible when not cooking. TUnder this head might come a little dusting and dishwashing and answering the doorbell. Taking all these things into account, I wish to say that Hulda is absolutely the tallest cook I ever saw.”—Success Magazine. The Poet Again. He had .ong hair and a pensive look. He wrote a poem entitled “Why Do I Live?” " He signed it Augustus and sent it to a magazine. The editor wrote him as follows: “My dear Augustus, the reason why you live is because you sent the poem by mail instead of bringing it person- ally.”—Paris Modes. A Harsh Order. On the beach near an English town a sign bearing this legend was nailed to a post: “Notice.—Any person passing beyond this point will be drowned. By order of the magistrate.” I s U S U A Great Help. Scribbler—I understand your wife is of great value to you in your work: 1 nad no idea she was literary. Scrawler —She isn’t. but she never attempts to straighten out my desk.—Philadelphia Record. A bad man is worse when he pre- tends to be a saint.—Bacon. — Managing the Weather. It may safely be said that control of the weather by sorcerers was al- together disbelieved in by very few persons in the sixteenth century. But if the belief was held wmore strongly along one coast line than another it was around the Baltic rather than elsewhere. As late as 1670 a traveler tells us how, being becalmed off Kin- land, the captain sent ashore to buy a wind from a wizard. The fee was 10 kroner (say 36 shillings) and a pound of tobacco. The wizard tied a woolen rag with three knots in it to the mast. Untying the tirst knot pro- duces just the wind they waaot, south- west. That slackening, untying knot No. 2 revives it for a time, but knot No. 3 brings up a fearful northeaster, which nearly sinks them. *‘Qui nescit orare, discat navigare,” was a much quoted phrase. True enough of one traveler, it would appear, seeing he is reported to have prayed during a storm: “O Lord, | am no common beg- gar. 1 do not trouble thee every day. for I never prayed to thee before, and if it please thee to deliver me this once 1 will never pray to thee again as long as I live.”—Atlantic Monthly. Norway’s Love For Bjornson. What Bjornson was to his own people is best made clear by an inci- dent which occurred at his beloved Aulestad not long before he was forced to start on his final journey to Paris in search of another lease of health and life. A regiment passed | Tribune. the place in the course of a tanen- ver. Its commander sent word ahead to the poet asking bim to review the soldiers as they marched by. Bjoru- son stood ou the veranda of his house, surrounded by his entire family—a man who had never held any public ; office, mind you! As the troop ap- proached on the highroad below offi- cers and men gave the salute due to a commanding general or a member of the royal house. But this was oot all. From the rapidly moving ranks rose one mighty shout after another—a spontaneous outburst of devotion and i gratitude such as it has been granted very few men the fortune to inspire. —Edward Bjorkman in American Re- view of- Reviews. Working Him. “l want the office, of course,” said the aspiring statesman, “but not unless I am the people’s choice.” “We can fix that, too.” said bis cam- paign manager, “only you know it’s a good deal more expensive to be the people’s choice than it is to go in as the compromise candidate.”—Chicago Friendship. 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