Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 16, 1910, Page 4

14 THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEFT SUNBAY BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. H. DENU. ,0. E. CARSON. Entored ln the Postoffic SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YFAR !N 2DVANGE 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 ten.miles. Boating—500 miles by lake and river. Death Rate—5.4 a thousand in 1908. Aannual Rainfall—33.7 inches. Temperature—20,: above, winter; 75 summer, mean. Sewer Mains—Aboutifive miles. Cement Sidewalks—Twelve miles. Lakeshore Drives—Ten miles. Parks—Two. Water Frontage--Ten miles, and Mississippi river. A Home Town—1600 residences. Taxpayers—1200. Churches—8. School Houses—Four. Bank Deposits—$800,000. Manufactures—Hardwood handles, lum- ber, lath, 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—Three. Passenger Trains—Fourteen)daily. Hospitals—One. Distances—To St. Paul,] 230 miles; to Duluth, 167 miles. Hotels—Fifteen. Breweries—One. Sawmills—Four. Handle Factories—One. ‘Wholesale Houses—Four. Banks—Three. Auto Garages—OUne. in 1910, two lakes A HEART TO HEART TALK. The city of Bemidji is passing through the greatest crisis in its history. The Indizn bureau of the De partment of the Interior has caused an uvpheaval of our domestic affairs and none can say what the ultimate result may be. This much we know: We are in danger of losing our saloons and apparently nothing save an act of congress can restore .them. It is not an experiment on the part of the government. The same thing has been done in other states and when the Indian bureau puts the saloons out of business, they are out to stay, The Pioneer has stood and will continue to stand so long as its pres- ses revolve for the advancement and the prosperity of Bemidji. It has tried to boost Bemidji and Beltrami county and we believe it would be hard to find an issue of this paper where we have not had something to say in favor of this, the greatest part of the great north- west. We have endeavored to chronicle the progress of the city and county; we have extolled its virtues, reveled in its commercial triumphs and given freely of our space in behalf of every commenable object. We have expressed indigation over the high handed methods adopted by lawless agents armed with doubtful authority from the government; we have recited the injustices perpetrated upon the saloon men and we have warned them of impending disaster. But at all times we have tried to print a newspaper. If, by printing the conclusions of government officials and reciting the determination of the Indian bureau to enforce an obsolute Indian treaty objectionable to a majority of the inhabitants, if by printing these things the Pioneer has caused the government at Washington to take the action it has, then those who seek to discredit this paper may have some grounds for complaint. We do not believe that |printing the news honestly and without bias shingles, and various other! is a discredit to the town, or could in anyway alter the -action of - the United States government. We sympathize with those men who have had their property unjustly desiroyed and we believe that the action of the government at Bagley yesterday’ in decending upon the law abiding saloons there, licensed by the village and the very govern- ment under whose authority men smashed up the places, was rank in- justice and a gross outrage closely { akin to anarachy itself. We sympathize with the saloon- keeper who has conducted a pro-| per place well within the limits of the law. We respect many of Be- midji's saloonkeepers and we hope that if they are compelied to give up the saloon basiness, they will go into some other line of busi- ness and remain in Bemidji. The Pioneer has no word to say as to what effect the closing of the saloons will have upon the town, but it assumes the optimistic attitude that if the saloons do close Bemidji will continue to be one of the great- est little towns in the state of Min-[ nesota. If we err it is only with the best| of intentions and as soon as respect- able citizens can show us how we can better serve the city and county whose prosperity is so vital to our { own existence, so soon shall we cor- rect our mistakes. Criticism has reached this office that by printing the news as we bhave, Bemidji has been made the ob- ject of the government’s wrath. Of course this is not true and the de- signing politicians from whose minds spring this subtle attack, will, we be- lieve, come far from delivering the intended blow. A newspaper certainly 1s one the potent factors in the upbuilding of a town. The Pioneer believes it has| a right to expect the business men to look at the question in a fair, honest light, giving this paper the credit it deserves At Kelliher it was a case of off again, on again. gone again. Women have won in the state of Washington. Ditto matrimony. Mr. Funkley came within 98 votes of renting his resxdence to a colored family. Those government agents certainly are having a regular old Carrie Na- tion of a time. If that Indian treaty was where the liquor men wish it was, it wouldn’t last long, i It might be worse. . Think what bappened to Spooner and Baudette. The fire didn’t pick out the saloons, | but took everythmz. Fredrick Domin of Peoria, Illinois is the father of 22 children, eight of them being twins.” Ponder over Fred having to buy bacon at forty cents a pound. The Carrot Cure. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, refer- ring to the true eflicacy 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 severely 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 served 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 preventlng sleep.—Pall Mall Gazette, He Smoked. “What a smell of smoke is about! Do you allow your husband to smoke in the parlor?” “He doesn’t, morning"”— “You are very wrong to allow any exceptions whatever, my dear woman. You ought not to allow him to smoke undér any possible circumstances, even once.” “But, my dear woman, this morn- ing he simply had to smoke. His coat was on fire.”—New York Journal: as a rule, but this grant.—Hosea Balloun. i A RUSSIAN" SPY, Trepoff's Ruse to Get at the Plans of the Nihilists. When the. famous General Trepoff! was only at the beginning of his career Vera Sassulitch was his invalu- able assistant. Trepoff was the detested enemy of the nihilists, and he was very anxious to obtain inside information as to their doings and plans. Suddenly one day in 1878 he was fired at while driving through the streets of St. Petersburg by no other than Vera Sassulitch. She ‘was at once seized by the soldiery and was charged with the attempted mur- der of Trepoff, being tried in the ordi- nary manner; but, to the amazement of the public, she was acquitted! On her release the nihilists gathered about her, desiring to admit such a friend of the people to their closest ac- quaintance. In this way she was ad- mitted to all their private circles and was made acquainted with their se- crets. These she at once communi- cated to the Russian government. The truth was that the whole business, in- cluding the attempt on his life, was faked by Trepoff himself. and it was simply a clever ruse to get from the nihilists what could not be got in any other way. Thereafter Vera Sassu- litch played the part of government 6py on innumerable occasions. ANSWERED BACK. Ready Reply of a Ragged Turk to a Scot In Kilts. During the troubles at Crete in 1897 the Seaforth highlanders were landed to help to restore order. Their advent, dressed in the familiar kilts, created a great sensation, as the natives, who themselves wear a kind of kilt. had never seen British soldiers in such a costume. An amusing incident occurred one day when a party of Seaforths were marching through a small, wretched looking village. As usual, the inhabit- ants turned out to stare at the sol- diers, and one of the highlanders with a view to raising a laugh among his comrades shouted out to a group of Turks, *“Gae hame, ye dirty black- guards, an’ scrub yersels.” Imagine his astonishment as well as that of the remainder of the highland- ers when a ragged and evil looking Turk shouted back in reply, “Go home yourself, Scottish dog, and cover your- self up!” It was afterward discovered that this Mohammedan had spent sev- eral years in London and so learned the language. — I'rom ‘“Anccdotes Soldiers In Peace and War,” by J. H Settle. Oratorical Effects. I once heard Everett, whose plat- form oratory was the acme of Ameri- can art. His language was unimpeach- able. But his every word, and not only his every word, but his every gesture, was unmistakably prepared. He seemed to gesticulate not only with his bands, but with his legs. He even planned scenic effects beférehand, Having- to deliver-a Fourth lof July oration, he introduced a veteran of 1812, put him in a conspicuous place and told the old man to rise to him at his entrance into the hall. The old man did as he had been bidden. Ev- erett apostrophized him with “Vener- able old man, sit down! It is not for you to rise to us, but for- us to rise to you.” The veteran said afterward: “Mr. Everett is a ‘'strange man. He told me to rise when he came into the hall, and when I did rise he told me to sit down.’—From - Goldwin ' Smitb’s Reminiscences in McClure's. The Lightning Rod. Though Franklin will continue to receive the homnor-that' is' his- due as the inventor of the first practicallight- ning rod, the study of atmoSpheric electricity goes back at least to the time of Tullius Hostilius, who perished in an attémpt to “draw fire from the sky.” A learned priest of the name of Divisch- is- said to have erected the first lightning' conductor in . Europe. He set it up at Prendiz, Bohemia, in 1754, and it was 130 feet high. Though ‘the Emperor Stephen and the Empress Maria Theresa publicly proclaimed their confidence in the inventor, a most disastrous drought that afflicted the country ‘a year later was ascribed by the superstitious populace to the newfangled device, and Divisch was compelled to take it down. It is not probable that Franklin was acquaint- ed with Divisch’s experiment. Wrong End of the Milk. One morning while trade was slack and he had settled himself in the store chair for a few minutes a north side grocer was interrupted by the entering of a very small daughter of Africa, who, bracing herself in the middle of the store, said, “Mam wants some scum milk,” whereupon she received the asked for amount of skimmed milk. The grocer had just settled himself for another rest when he was again interrupted by that selfsame bottle of ink: “Mam don’t want this. She want that what’s scummed off the top.”— Indianapolis News. Postic Justice. “Pa, I've just been reading about poetic justice. - What does that mean?” “Listen, my child, and you shall hear, Once there was a man who swindled me out of a lot of money in an irri- gation scheme. Well, he became a vic- tim of poetic justicee I have just heard that he died of water on the brain.”—Judge. Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul, and the heart of man knoweth none more fra- Little Pitchers. Tn a certain. small town there are two young women whose favorite oc- cupation has been to discuss the af- fairs of their neighbors. Having met for that purpose one afternoon. they found themselves blocked in the in- dulgence of their pastime by the pres- ence of the small daughter of the hostess. A slight indisposition of some sort prevented sending the child out of doors, so they were forced to put up with her presence, doing their best, however, to nullify it. Something eatable was produced and an absorbing new game invented which she could play quite by herself, so they breathed freely and began. The talk at length reached a point involving the latest scandal of the neighborhood and the retailing of some inside information which must not become public property. A hurried look at the chilé on the floor found her apparently so occupied with her game that it seemed quite safe to go on if one observed a decent discretion. Volces were accordingly lowered and direct allusion veiled. but when the matter had been thrashed out to their satisfaction the child raised her eyes and remarked with deliberation and emphasis: *“1 hear, T know, I understand, and I'll blab!”—New York Times. Books and Their Care. Books on shelves may be seriously injured if packed too tightly. When quickly pulled out for use the top of the book is likely to come off. More- over. the constant pressure, if too great, will Jousen the whole back in time and the friction in putting upon and t1akinz from the shelf mars the covers. On the other hand. a reason- able amount of Iateral pressure is If placed on the shelves the leaves tend to c.pen and adirit dust, dampness and conse- quent mildew. In the case of heavy volumes the weight of: the leaves will be found resting on the shelves if the books are placed too loosely. This is likely to nutke the backs concave. Badly painted shelves are another source of injury to books. Care should be taken when paint or varnish is used that the surface is perfectly smooth, hard and dry when the books are put in place and that the surface will re- main so during variation of tempera- ture or humidity.—House Beautiful. * An Anecdote of Pope. There is an old auecdote of Alexan- der Pope concerning one of the old watermen who were employed for many years in rowing Pope on the Thames. Pope was in the habit of baving his sedan chair lifted into the punt, If the weather was fine he let down the glasses; if cold he pulled them up. He would sometimes say to the waterman: *John, I am going to repeat some verses. Take vare to remember them the next time 1 go out.” When that, time came Pope would say: - ) “John, you of 7" “I have forgotten them, sir.” “John, you are a blockhead. I must writé them down for you.” John said that no one ‘thought of saying when speaking of him; “Mr. Pope,” but that he was always called “Mr Alexander.” whére are the verses I told "“The Orugmal Encyclope: The first’ reil encyclopedia -was Pliny’s “Natural History.” This work -an extensive one, numbering some thirty seven volumes and dealing with all the then known facts of the world. Pliny, who died A. D. 79, collected the data for his work in his leisure inter- :vals. while engaged in public ‘affairs. The ‘“Natural History” was for its time an amazing production, treated of some 20,000, facts and was of very high au- thomy throughout the entire middle ages. _Forty-three editions of the work were printed before the year 1536, and no scholar’s library was considered complete without it.—New York Amer- ican. Wakeful Night. A rather imaginative Washington lady decided she bad insomnia. She couldn't sleep, she said. One morn- ing she was more than usually de— pressed. “What’s the matter, dear?” asked the husband. . ‘“Another sleepless night?” . “Worse than that” she replied gloomily. *“I1 did manage to drop off to sleep, and I' dreamed all the time I was asleep ‘that I was awake.”—Phil- adelphia Saturday’ Evening Post. Made the Rhyme. “Carpet” rhymes with no single word, but some bold poet dared to evade the difficulty thus: “Sweet maid of the inn, ’tis surely no sin to toast such a beautiful bar pet; believe me, my dear, your feet would appear at home on a nobleman’s carpet.”—London Answers. “ Cynical. “The course of true love doesn’t al- ways run smooth.” sighed the young widow. “That’s right,” rejoiued the old bach- elor. “Sometimes it ends in mar- riage.”—Chicago News. Many Meanings. , Traveler—Some expressions in the Chinese language have as many as forty different meanings. Little Miss—Same way in English. “You amaze 'ne. Mention one.” “Not at home.” The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor and the poor who have the magnanim- ity of the rich.—Saadi. An Indian’s Jok Indians extract no little quiet enjoy- ment from .what seem to them to be oddities in -the speech, manners and customs of white people. An Arapa- hoe stepped into the store of a trader one day to purchase some tobacco. The trader’s son was in charge of the place. Now. this son was at that em- barrassing stage of growth when the voice is changing. so that he never could tell whether tenor tones would issue from his lips or babylike fal- setto or de profundis bass. On this occasion when the Indian asked for tobacco the youth's bass notes held the right of way, though they were speed- ily followed by-ascending tones up to a squeaky falsetto. He asked the Indian, *“Will you have fine cut tobacco or a plug?’ beginning in a growl and ending in birdlike so- prano. The Arapahoe listened gravely to this vocal variety and then without a smile reversed the process and, beginning with the youth's highest note and end- ing with his lowest, scaled, “I think I’ll take some plug.’—Southern Work- man. “Exercise and Rest.” ‘What is the relation between exer- cise and rest? Work is that at which we must continue, whether interesting or not, whether we are tired or not. It used to be thought that the prime requisite of rest was the use of facul- ties other t.an those involved in the labor of the day. But there is such a thing as fatigue which goes deeper than daily work. We can work so hard as to become exhausted—too ex- hausted for any kind of work. Per- haps this is will fatigue. It is coming to be regarded as fundamentally true that rest from such fatigue demands continuity; that, for example, four pe- riods of fifteen minutes each of rest is not the equivalent of one hour's rest; that a man who goes on a vacation and takes half an hour of his business work every day is doing the same thing as the man who had a horse with a sore back. He kept the saddle on only a few minutes each day. but the sore did not have a chance to heal. Rest periods must be sufficiently con- secutive to overcome consecutive fa- tigue.—Luther H. Gulick in North American Review. Cheerfulness and Cholera. A cheerful disposition is held by some doctors to be the best protection against cholera. When this disease first \lsited Paris in 1832 a notice was g the inhabitants ‘*‘to r as possible all occasions of melancholy and all painful emo- tions and to seek plenty of distractions and amusements. Those with a bright and bhappy temperament are not likely to be stricken down.” This advice was largely followed, and even when chol- era was claiming over a thousand weekly victims the theaters and cafes were thronged. The epidemic was in some quarters treated as a huge joke, and plays and songs were written aroungd it. Rochefort wrote a play, “Le Choléra Morbus,” which proved a big ‘success, and another production on the:same lines, “‘Paris-malade,” also bad a long run.—London Chronicle. Ether Topers. Ether is consumed by gallons. to get drunk on in a small par¢ of Scotland. The origin ot this peculiar ami limited abuse is strange. ‘In 1848 ‘& bad’ epi- demic of-cholera broke out in*Glasgaw. Among:those. flying from it were some who came back .to Draperstown their’ native place. With them they brought’ a cholera mixture which they: .found |- A rageally | “exceeding comforting.” doctor, knowing that the comfort pro- ceeded from ether, laid in a ‘wholé cask. He made his fortune and start: ed the babit that lasts till yet. Ether is sold over counters in Scotland, the penny a drink. An old ether toper can drink two or three ounces a day,-but one-half ounce is one big dram.in wa- ter. The drinker gets hilarious in & minute. It is far wilder and more dangerous than glcohol. How Tortoise Shell Is ‘Worked. The soldering of two pieces of tor- toise shell together is effected by means of hot pinchers, which, while they compress, soften the opposed edge of each piece and amalgamate them into one. Even the raspings and pow- der produced by the file, mixed with, small fragments, are put 'into molds and subjected to the action of boiling water and thus made into plates of the desired thickness or into various arti- cles which appear to have been cut out of a solid block. Inconsistent. A man who took his infant daughter to be baptized told the clergyman to call her Venus. “But I refuse to call her Venus,” said the clergyman indignantly. “Ve- nus is the name of a pagan goddess.” “Well, how about your own girl, Diana?” said the man. Hair Raising. Husband—I feel in the mood for reading something sensational and startling—something that will fairly make my hair stand on end. Wife— Well, here is my last dressmaker’s bill. Her Career. “Well, has your college daughter de- cided upon her career?” “Yes; he has blue eyes, brown hair and works in a hardware store.”— Louisville Courier-Journal. Carries On. ‘Woggs—So young Saphead@ and his father are carrying on the business? Boggs—Yes. The old man does the business, while young Saphead does the carrying on.—Puck. - B L e ———— AWAKE NIGHTS Children were intended to sleep nights. When they are wakeful and fretful, it is time to worry. Kickapoo Worm Killer (the delicious candy tablets) is a great medicine for children. It cleans the system of poisonous sub- stances which cause sleeplessness. It removes acids which impoverish the blood; it tones up all of the functions; it makes strong healthy children. Price 25c, sold by druggists every- where. KNOWN VALUES PUBLISHERS CLASSIFIED ADVERTIS- G ASSOCIATION PAPERS E ARE MEMBERS Papers m all parts of the States and Canada. Your wants supplied—anywhere any, tm:}e :ty the bauthmedmms in the country. . et our membership lists—Check papers you want. We do the rest. - Publishers Olassified Adverming Associa- tion, » uffalo, N. Y. New-Cash-Want-Rate ',-Cent-a-Word _Where cash accompanies copy we will publish all “Want Ads"” for half- cent a word per insertion. Where cash does not accompany copy the regular rate of one ceut a2 word will be charged. SVERY HOME HAS A WANT AD For Rent--For Sale--Exchange --Help Wanted--Work Wanted -=Etc.--Etc. HELP WANTEL WANTED—Competent girl for gen- eral housework. Good wages; steady position. Mrs. Wm. Mc- Cuaig, 903 Bemidji avenue. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Dry dressed poultry. Turkeys, geese and chickens. No. 1 turkeys and peese 16¢, No. 2 14¢ per pound. No. 1 chickens 12c, No. 2 10c per pound,. 8 to 10 in box. F. O. B. Mclntosh. A. Paquain, R. No. 1, Brooks, Minn. or phone McIntosh. FOR SALE—Team of mares, 1,400 Ibs. each, with fold for sale to- gether with harness and sleigh. Cheap. Two miles northeast of Popusky. Jacob Christensen. WANTED TO EXCHANGE— Good $30 Columbia Phonegraph with twenty records for a good Kodak. Enquire at once at 517 Oak St. FOR SALE—Large piano cased organ; cost $135. Will sell for $50 if taken at once; easy terms if desired. M. E. Ibertson. FOR SALE—160 acres of good clay land three miles from Bemidji if * 1nterested call on Frank Hitchcock 714 13st. Bemidji Minn. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procare any kind of a rubber’ stamp for yon an short ' ‘notice.! FQR; SALE—Househnld iurmture at reasonable prices. - Inquire at rooms 4 uid 5 Postoffice block} FOR SALFE—Driving hiorse, buggy, Cutter and harness cheap iftaken at once. H, Sweet, Nymore. FOR SALE—Large ‘coal _stove. Can be seen at ’l'om Smln s stor- age house. FOR SAI;E—Bugéy. sifizh harness, baby cab, tent, Eighth and America. FOR SALE—One heater cheap- John Wilmann. ] FOR RENT. FOR RENT—Four room cottage at $8.00 per mo. Inquire of H. M. Young. FOR RENT—House 1103 Miss. Ave. Inquire of H. M. Young. House for rent. - Frank Lane. LOST and FOUND LOST—Pocket book between Red Lake Depot and Brown’s restaur- ant, finder return to this office. 1 # MISCELLANEOUS The Rev. Irl R. Hicks Alamanac for 1911, that guardian Angels in a hundred thousand homes, is now ready. Not many are now will- ing to be without it and the Rev. Irl R. Hicks Magazine, Word and Works. The two are only one dollar a year. The Alamanac is 35c prepaid. No home or office should fail to send for them, to Word and Works Publishing Com- pany, St. Lotis, Mo. WANTED—Man with years of ex- perience and good bank and other references wants work in store or office. Speaks German. Call or write 900 America Ave. ——y