Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 19, 1910, Page 4

THE BEMIDdI DAILY-PIONEER PBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON-EXCEPT- SUNDAY BY THE BEMIDJ] PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. H. DENU. Q. E. CARSON. Minnessia, 88 second Entored 11 the Pestattice at clat SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YFAR ' sDVANGE CITY OF BEMIDJI t. ‘P::::aytifi‘_m 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 feetJabove sea level. Water Power—2200, developed horse- power, Mississippi river. Water—Absolutely pure. Two artesian wells. ‘Water Mains—About ten.miles. Beating—5007miles by lakeZand river. Death Rate—5.4 a thousand;in 1908. Annual Rainfall—33.7 inches. Temperature—20}. above, winter; 75 summer, mean. Sewer Mains—About/five miles. Cement Sidewalks—Twélve miles. Lakeshore Drives—Ten] miles. Parks—Two. Water Frontage—Ten Smiles, - two lakes and Mississippi river. A Home Town—1600 residences. Taxpayers—1200. Charches—8. School Houses—Four. Bank Deposits—$800,000. Manufactures—Hardwood jhandles, lum- ber, lath, shingles, and various other industries. Great Distributing [Point—Lumber prod- ucts, groceries flour,‘feed and hay. Postal Receipts—$17,000 for 1969, 10th place in statefoutside 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. Passenger Trains—Fourteen}daily. Hospitals—One. Distances—To St. Paul,| 230 miles; to Duluth, 167 miles. Hotels—Fifteen. Breweries—One. Sawmills—Four. Handle Factocies—One. ‘Wholesale Houses—Four. Banks—Three. Auto Garages—One. in 1910, Orders may come and orders may go but the saloons go en—for awhile, anyhow. 2 Is it going to be shown that the only good thing about Minneapols policemen is their uniforms? No one denies the Minneapolis Journal’s statement that Dr. Cook really did succeed in reaching the summit of the humbug class. Without saying anything about the railroads, there is some consol- ation in the fact that when an aeroplane is wrecked but one person usually is killed. MINNESOTA IN THE CORN BELT. There was a time when Minnesota was regarded as being too far North to produce good corn and it was be- lieved that wheat always would be the main crop of Gopher State farms. At the great Northwestern Live Stock and Grain Show, which has just come to a close in South St. Paul, after what probably was its most successful run, it was demon- strted that Minnesota bids fair to take high rank in corn production before many years have passed. Professor Andrew Boss of the state agricultural college speaking before an audience of 1000 persons in the live stock pavilion in South St. Paul said in part: “Minnesota has earned for herself an enviable position among those states included within the - famous corn belt of the United States, and her rank and importance in the pro- duction of this grain is growing yearly. *'Our state was for many years re- garded as too far north to rroduce the higher grade of corn. It is tak- ing patient effort, but this belief is being eradicated gradually from the minds of our farmers. They have been afraid to stake their profits on a corn experiment, and it has fallen to the lot of the state experiment stations to prove beyond doubt that the soil and climate of Minnesota are favorable to the production and. good yield of the best corn grown. “ The experiments carried on for a period of ten years-with test seed,! have-shown an average of ‘62 bushels to the acre in rotation plots and 52 bushels field grown. - Instances of 100 bushels to the acre in counties in northern Minnesota are rare aund, in fact, wherever corn has been properly planted and -cared for, the yield has been creditable.” Minnesota’s growing greatness as a live stock and grain state never was more impressively -empbasized than at the show just closed. Wil- liam Magivny, manager, was hugely pleased at the large number of visit- ors. He considered it a good sign of the prosperity and advancement of the Northwest that so many ex- cellent exhibits should have ‘been made at the show this vear. One of the features at the show that attracted much attention was the Minnesota Car. This ‘big pas- senger coach which has been pro- vided by the Great ‘Northern Rail- way company is filled with the pro- ducts of the farm, mine and forests of Minnesota. This car is to tour the:Eastern and Southern states and probably will travel 10,000 miles be- fore it returns to St. Paul. The idea of the Minnesota car is the result of a speech which Louis W. Hill, presi- dent of the Great Northern made be tore the Consolidated Publicity Bureau last February. Mr. Hill said he would provide the car ‘if the state would equip it. “ALL EYES ON BRAINERD” If there is not a proper readjust- ment of official representation by the next session of the Minnesota legis- lature it will not be the fault of the newspapers of this part of the state. With the two powerful dailies of Du- luth pounding away at every issue and backed by almost a united northern press a campaign 'of publi- city is on which will leave no fault to be found with the newspapers if reapportionment and other desirable things should be lost to northern Minnesota. In yesterday’s Duluth Herald:a column was devoted to clippings from papers that have been boosting this part of the state. ‘We reprint some of them. . .GOOD, WORTHY PURPOSE. Pine River Sentinel: Now letus turn some of that enthusiasm lately used in politics to some good worthy purpose. "“All Eyes on Brainerd” and let it be true in every sense of the words. s «CHANCE FOR THE NEWSPAPERS. Floodwood Broadaxe: Now that election is over, the newspapers of this section might well devote their surplus energy and a liberal amount of space to the cause of advertising the agricultural possibilities of Northern Minnesota. ASKED ABOUT THE FACILITIES. Little Falls Transcript: “All eyes on Brainerd” is the slogan adopted by that city relative to the meeting of the Northern Minnesota Develop- ment association in that city Dec. 1 and 2. The slogan1s a good one but what about being able to see] Brainerd after all eyes are turned that way? What about the pros- pects of having sufficient light at that time to see Brainerd? RUDDER OF THE LEGISLATURE. MiddleRiver Pioneer:}The conven- tion of the Northern Minnesota De- velopment association to.be held at Brainerd Dec. 1 and 2 will virtually decide upon what measuresare to be passed at the coming legislature for the bettering of Northern Minnesota. Embracing as it ' does thirty-one counfies— the whole' north half of the state—with an unbroken front the association will be able to pre- sent its demands to the legislature so strongly that they cannot be got- ten away from. * DECIDE LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM. Long Prairie Leader: The North- ern Minnesota Development associa- tion holds its" regular meeting at Brainerd early in December. It will without doubt be the largest at- tended meeting the association has ever held. Many matters of impor- tance to Northern Minnesota are to come up for discussion and the legis- lative program of the, association this winter is. to be decided on. Many prominent men, not members of the association, from the south part .of the state and from other states, are to be present. ARTISTS’. EMBLEMS. In Whistler’s Butterfly Could Be Found the Monogram J. W. The mystic emblem or device of a sort of Whistlerized butterfly was -adopted in the sixties by the eccentric ‘genius James Abbott Whistler, who changed his name later to James Mc- Neill Whistler. Close study will reveal that this pe- -culiar seroll is really a monogram of J. W. The earliest of the etchings to bear the butrerfly is *“Chelsea Wharf" (1863). but wany paintings and etch- | dings after that date are signed *Whis- tler.” Artists have sometimes signed their pictures in some distinet form instead of their names. It generally was done when the name might suggest some emblem or symbol. Thus Hieronymus Cock demarked two fighting cocks on his panels; Mari- otto Albertinelli signed a cross with two interlaced rings, referring to the sacerdotal duties to which at one time -of his life he devoted himself: Martin Rota, a wheel: Pieter de Ityng. a ring with a diamond: Glovanni Dossi. a bone: Del Mazo Martinez. a hammer: Lionello Spada. a sword. Sometimes caprice dictated the selec- tion, as when Jacopo de Barberi used the caduceus, or Mercury rod: Hendrik de Bles an owl. Lucas Cranach a crowned serpent. Cornelius Engel- ‘brechtsen a peculiar device resembling a weather vane and Hans Holbein a ‘skull. HIS GREAT IDEA. The Tin Plated Tomato and the Moral That Goes With It. A good theory that won’t work isu'i half as good as a poor one that will. Twenty years ago a young man just out of colleze had a great idea. He was going to tin plate tomatoes. There was to be no more troublesome paring and cooking and canning to preserve tomatoes throughout winters. It would be necessary only to drop a nice ripe tomato into his tinning solution and it would come out coated with tin and would keep for twenty years. In fact. there wasn’t any reason why it should not keep forever! The young inventor figured it would cost him 50 cents a gallon to make this tinning solution. It surely would sell for $2 a gallon. Every one eats tomatoes—that is. near- ly -every one. Everybody would eat them if they could always have a nice tin plated tomato lying around. He ought to sell a million gallous a year. That would be a profit of a million and a half dol— Well, no tin plated toma- toes are on the market yet. and the man who invented them is still making only, $15 a week. The moral of this is that whenever you hear of a great idea that is going to reform or uplift the world make sure that it is not of the tih ‘plated tomato brand.—Chicago Tribuue. . . A Lottery Romance.. A few years ago, as the date for the -drawing of the annual Christmas lot- tery at Madrid was approaching, a poor mechanic of Corunna was awakened three consecutive nights by the num- ber 125,869, apparently spoken in his .ear. So impressed was he by the repe- tition of the incident that he wrote down the number and jocularly said to his wife, “That number will win the first prize in the great lottery.” “Then why don’t you buy the ticket?” this wife answered jokingly as she Jooked at the figures. *“Why, see, if you add them together they just come to my age. I shall be thirty-one on «Christmas day.” The ticket. after much trouble, was found (it had been reject- «ed a few minutes earlier by a wealthy citizen of Corunna) and bought, and ‘before many days had passed the me- «chanic and his wife were made jubi- lant by the news that the ticket had ‘won the first prize of £200,000.—Lon- «don Globe. B The Red Shirt. The origin of the *‘red shirt”—worn a8 a blouse by English women in the sixties, when Garibaldi was a popular idol throughout Great Britain—is suffi- ciently curious. When the celebrated filibuster was warring in- the South American republics he was anxious to obtain a distinctive and. above all, economical uniform for his followers. He learned that a local dry goods store had an immense “job lot" of these garments, worn by the ‘sala- deros.” or cattle slaughterers. of the great South American cities. The *bar- gain sale” appealed eloquently to the leader’s purse, and he led his men to victory in the_butchers’ shirts, which are now the accepted emblem of the “risorgomiento” of United Italy.—Lon- don Globe. A Little Temperance Tragedy. “Don’t drink any more, John. You've got too much already.” + “No, I haven’t.” “Yes, you have, and you’ll be drunk again.” “Aw, what do’ you want to worry about that for? It’s me thdt has the headache next morning.” 3 “I know, John, but it's me that has the heartache all the time.”"—New York Times. ’ The Price of Love. Says an advertisement in the London Express: “Mary—Waited three hours at appointed spot until questioned by suspicious policeman. If'this is the price of love it is too heavy a one for me to pay. Farewell. Potts.” BATTLES WITH LOCUSTS. in 1780 an Army Was Arrayed Against the Ravaging Pests. Since the days of the pharaohs the locust has been an unmitigated plague. Pliny relates that in many places in Greece a luw obliged the inhabitants to wage wuar against the insects three times a year—i. e. in their various states of egg, larvae and adult. In 1749 locusts stopped the army of Charles XII., king of Sweden, as it was retreating from Bessurabia after its defeat at Poltava. The king at first imagined that he was being assailed by a terrific hailstorm, In Transylvania in 1780 the ravages of the locusts assumed such disastrous proportions that the army had actually to be called out to deal with the pests. and whole regiments of soldiers were employed gathering them up and put- ting them into sacks. A weird. uncanny looking customer is the locust. The general color scheme of his body is a kind of indefinite green, relieved by pink legs and wings of a whitish color. Two huge, blank. unmeaning eyes give an expression of utter imbecility to the insect’s counte- nance. To atone in a measure for their de- structive proclivities the locusts are edi- ble. The Arabs are particularly fond of them. Camels, to which they are given after being dried and roasted between two layers of ashes, look upon locusts as great delicacies. The flavor resembles that of crabs, and in Bagdad they are consumed so extensively as to affect the price of meat.—Stray Stories. RIVERS OF ALASKA. The Waterway Wonders of This Im- mense Territory. Were the rivers not navigable there would be little done in the interior of Alaska today. IFirst used by the pros- pector in his poling boat and the trad- er. with his little steamer, they have become the meuns of opening up every camp that has been struck in the in- terior of Alaska. The Yukon is very shaliow at its mouth. which is about seventy miles in width across its delta. There are places 400 miles from the mouth of the river where the biggest Atlantic liners could navigate with ease, for there are soundings which show a nine- ty foot channel in a mile wide river. The Yukon is navigable for 2,100 miles. The Kuskoquim, a sister stream, has been navigated only on the lower reaches, but with its navigable branch- es is believed to have 1,000 miles of navigable water. The Tanana has been ascended for 500 miles and the Koyukuk in excess of that figure. Scores of other streams can be used by small steamers for from twenty-five to 200 miles. Altogether it is safe to say there are 5,000 miles of navigable streaws in Alask, The, Yukon opens for navigation the latter part of May and closes the latter part of October. But with all its wealth of gold, its unheard call to toilers of the soil, its mountains studded with gems of rich- es—the lodes of veins of copper and other materials—this empire starves for the one thing that would make it thrive.—Collier’s. The Name Noah. Not many persons are sufficiently ac- quainted with the Bible to know that Noah was the name of a woman as well as of the patriarch. At an inquest in Bngland a female witness gave her Christian name as “Noah.” The coro- ner remarked that he had never before known a woman to bear the name, whereupon the witness, who was well posted in the origin of her singular prenomen, said: “It is a Bible name, sir; you'll.find it in the last chapter of the book of Num- bers.” Reference was duly made, and in ‘the eleventh verse of the thirty-sixth chapter the coroner found mention made of ‘‘Mahlah. Tirzah and Hoglah and Milcah and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad.” Betrothals In Germany. In Germany an elaborate method of annouucing the betrothal practically puts an end to all breach of promise cases. As soon as a couple become engaged the pair visit the town hall and declare their willingness to marry and sign. with witnesses. a series of documents which render a change of mind on the man’s part practically out of the question. When either party wishes to withdraw from this agree- ment the pair again visit the town hall and additional documents are formally signed. witnessed and sealed. The au- thorities then determine the question of compensation for injured feelings, ete. d o Ready For the Storm. “I intend,” the poet wrote, *“to con- tinue to storm the citadel of your af- fections.” : “Storm away,” she wrote back, “but T’ve just succeeded in getting in out of the wet by becoming engaged .to.a dear old man who has $9,000,000.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The Smaller One. Many stories are told of Tom Reed’s sudden flashes of wit—as, for instance. when Miss Reed struck the earth in- stead of the golf ball and he said. “Hit the other ball, Kitty.”—Portland (Me.) Express. An Instance. “We don’t realize how much a thing's .| worth till we’ve lost it.” 5 Time and Patience. Nouroad is too long for him who ad- vances slowly and does not hurry, and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it.—La Bruyere. “That’s right. For instance, my life is insured for $10.000.”—Exchange. No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself.— Beecher. His Two Seats. A large and pompous person, wear- ing a high hat. a long coat, yellow spats and a congeniul sneer, for sev- eral days wade "himself obnoxious around a Washington hotel a bit ago. He announced he was from New York, ragged the bellboys, jawed the clerks. cussed the service, roared at the food, complained about his room and the elevator and the telephones and the bar and everything else. One afternoon he walked over to the porter and said: “Here, you; I'm going to quit this town and go back to New York., where I can get some decent service. 1 want you to buy me two seats in a parlor car on the 4 o'clock New York train. Get me two seats, now, and meet me at the station with the tickets. I want one chair to sit in and one to put my feet in.” The seats were delivered at the train just before it pulled out. One of the seats was in car No. 3 and the other was located in car No. 4.—Saturday Evening Post. Solon’s Answer. “What is the most perfect form of government " was once propounded at the court of Periander, king of Cor- inth, one of the seven wise men of Greece. His six fellows were present, and of them Bias answered first, giv- ing as his opinion. “Where the laws have no superior.” Thales of Miletus, the great astronomer, declared, *“Where the people are neither too rich nor too poor.”* In his turn said Anacharsis, the Seythian. **Where virtue is honored and vice detested.” Said Pittacus of Mitylene, “\Vhere dignities are always conferred upon the virtuous and never upon the base.” Said Cleobulus, “Where the citizens fear blame wore than punishment.” Said Chilo, the Spartan, “Where the laws are more regarded than the orators.” The last to reply was the youngest but wisest of them all, Solon of Ath- ens, whoe said, “Where an injury done to the meanest subject is an insult to the whole community.” A Dollar Saved Can Be Used Later These offers pipe their own Stories Everybodys Delineator ... Review of Reviews Regular price Our Price $3.65 McClures ‘Worlds Work Cosmopolitan American Boy. Regular price Our Price $4.55 Hampton’s ... 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Ad- dress Quick Lock Box, 346 Be- midji, Minn. FOR SALE—A few full blooded Rhode Island red cockerels. Wil- liam Cassler. Phone 408%6. See H. M. Young for residence lots in Rose Milne Add. Weekly or monthly payments. FOR SALE—Large coal stove. Can be seen at Tom Smart’s stor- age house. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—House 1103 Miss. Ave. Inquire of H. M. Young. FOR RENT—Furnished Heated. 110 Sixth St. House for rent. room. Frank Lane. LOST and FOUND LOST—Pocket book between Red Lake Depot and Brown’s restaur- ant, finder return to this office. . MISCELLANEOUS Experienced dressmaker wants sew- ing by day or week. Call at 318 Minnesota avenue. MR. RENTER Have you ever'stopped to think that every few years you practically pay for the house you live in and yet do not own it Theodore Roosevelt says: Figure it up for yourself. “No Investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty.” We will be glad to tell you about the City of Be- midji. and quote you prices with easy terms of payment if desired .on some of the best residence and business property in that rapidly growing City. A letter addressed to us will bring you full part cu- lars or if you prefer to see the property, call on H. A. - Simons, at Bemidji. The Soo Railroad will be running its freight and passenger trains into Bemidji within a few months; investigate the opportunities offered for business on a small or large scale. Bemidji Townsite & Improvement Co. 404 New York Life Bullding ST. PAUL 1 i ! i them all MINNESOTA Surprising Prices FOR MADE-T0-ORDER GLOTHES OUR choice of scores of stunning styles in suits, coats, skirts, dresses and capes, and 268 fabrics. We have on show. The garments will be made to your individual measure by the American Ladies Tailoring Company, Chicago. They will be made under the personal direction of their famous designer. Our fitter will take all the measure- ments. - We will see that you get all the man-tailored effects. We will ourselves guarantee the fit, the workmanship and materials. SEE THIS EXHIBIT This is a remarkable exhibit—these styles and fabrics of these famous Chicago don't fail to see it. If you see what you want we will quote you a surprising price—almost as low tailors. Please as ready-made prices. Yet the garments will be made to your order. T. BEAUDETTE 315 BELTRAMI AVE.