Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 21, 1910, Page 1

| { | | I ) P - THE BEMIDJ1 DAILY PIO VOLUME 8. NUMBER 224. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY[ EVENING; NOVEMBER 21, 1910. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. evening will be devoted to discus- sion of legislation, Officers will be elected and the next meeting place selected. BEMIDJI TO LEAD AT BRAINERD:PROGRAM UP Special Car Filled With 100 Business Men May Go as Boosters to Development Meeting “‘Mothers’ Day”’ Tomorrow at School. Tomorrow will be known as «Mothers’ Day” "at the High School. From 2:30 p. m, until 5 p. m. a special reception for all mothers and women of Bemidji will be held. TO TEAGH FARMERS HERE LEGISLATIVE MEMBERS INVITED More Than 500 Persons Expected to £ Attend, and Elaborate Plans are Made For Comfort, Educational Gatherings Announced for Bemidji and Surrounding Places. With the publication today of the official program of the convention of the Northern Minnesota Develop- ment association which is to be held at Brainerd December 1 and 2, in- terest in the gathering is renewed in Bemidji—birthplace of the associa- tion—and plans are now on foot to send a special car from here filled with Bemidji beosters. It is expected that the Commercial club will take up the proposition and arrange for the car, providicg the required number of business men signify their intention of going. The convention is open to all and the idea is for Bemidji to send a hundred representative citizens to make the best showing of any town in the state ata meeting wielding a power great- er even than that of the legislature. Following a conference with tne executive committee of the Asso- ciation here Saturday night, Sec-| retary Mackenzie announces the program for the big meeting. To- day he is sending out invitations to every one ot the 184 members of the newly elected legislature and to every state official. Arrangements have been complet- ed for a series of farm institutes to be addressed by agricultural experts in Bemidji and surrouading places. In Bemidji the meetings are to be | held in the high school auditorium. Institutes will be held in this sec- tion as follows: Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 5 and 6, Bemidji; Wednesday, Dec. 7, Wil- ton; Thursday, Dec. 8, Neving; Fri- day and Saturday, Dec. 9 and 10, Clearbrook; Monday, Dec. 12, Ber- ner; Tuesday, Dec. 13, Gonvick; Thursday, Dec. 15, Lengby and Fri- day and Saturday, Dec. 16 and 17, at Bagley. F. F. McLaren of Wrenshall will be in charge of the institute work, and will be assisted by E. W. Smith of Parkers Prairie, and F. F. Mar- shall of Grove City. They will take up the different subjects tbat are of special interest. GROTESQUE NAMES. Burdens That Innocent English Chil- dren Had to Bear. In England, as in other countries, thousands of people go through life cherishing a grudge against their par- ents gruous names. It was most natural that mure and pretty girl in a norili Sibaflh slould —feel resénttul when she Lad to answer to the name of Busybody, given in honor of the winner of a race fifteen years before. Among the names registered at Som- erset House are Airs and Graces and Nun Nicer, which were innocently borne by two little girls who found them most embarrassing in after years. The appalling name of Wellington Wolseley TRoberts was borne by a young man who, in disposition and ap- pearance, was anything but militant, and as little likely to win fame on the battlefield as his predecessors Ar- thur Wellesley Wellington Waterloo Cox and Napoleon the Great Eagar. However, even these names, inap- propriate as they may be, are to be preferred to Roger the Ass, Anna (sic) Domini Davies and Boadicea Basher. To parents of large families, the ad- vent of another child is not always welcome, but it is scarcely kind to make the unexpected child bear a tok- en of disapproval. It must be rather terrible to go through life, for exam- ple, as Not Wanted James, What An- other, Only Fancy William Brown, or even as Last of 'Em Harper, or Still Another Ilewitt. And yet these are all names which the foolish caprice of British parents has imposed on in. nocent children.—Chicago Record-Her- ald. More than 500 persons are expect- ed to attend the Brainerd meeting and Bra/ucrd is m%king extraordinary preparations not only to entertain her guests in comfort butto show them the progress of a representative northern Minnesota towns by having her streets especially illumi- pated. Clusters of lights are up and a great “Welcome” sign will blaze out with electricity. Secretary Mackenzie spent Satur- day at Brainerd conferring with the executive committee of the Crow Wing Development association, and be is loud in his praise of Brainerd. “Tue accommodations for the vistors will be complete,” he -said today, “-and the city’s guests will find everything kas been done to provide for their comfort and pleasure. It, of course, wouid be approriate for Bemidji to have the largest delegation of any city, and she probanly will have. Those who plan on going should notify me so that they will be assured of accommodations.” The program in full follows: PROGRAM Dec 1—10 a. m. Meeting called to OLD TMRDLES' order at Brainerd opera house by President H. J. Maxfield of Wadena. Invocation, Rev. J. E. Alten Brainerd. “Reapportionment” A. O. Eber- hart, Governor of Minnesota. “Conservation the question of the hour” Frank M. Eddy, Sauk Center. Wear In the Middle Ages. In the middle ages at the girdle were hung the thousand and one odds and ends needed and utilized in everyday affairs, The scrivener had his inkhorn and pen attached to it, the scholar his book or books, the monk his crucifix and rosary, the innkeeper his tallies and everybody his knifel So many and so various were the articles at- for giving them absurd or incon- |© They Were Indispensable Articles of” Introduction of Legislative Bills. Appointment of committees. 2p.m. " Good Roads the one mill tax,” R, C. Dunn editor “‘Prince- ton. Union.” “Forest Fire Protection,” G. E. Marshall U. S. Forestry Supervisor Cass Lake Reservation. tached to it that the flippant began to poke fun. In an old play there is men- tion of a merchant who had hanging at his girdle a pouch, a spectacle case, a “punniard,” a pen and inkhorn and a “handkercher,” with many other trinkets Dbesides, of which a merry companion said, “It was like a hab- erdasher’s shop of small wares.” 1In another early play a lady says to her HCommission Plan for Handling State Lands, ’Hugh J. Hughes editor “Farm Stock and Home” Minneapo- lis. 8 p. m. On “Consolidated Rural schools,” Wm. Hays ‘‘Assistant Sec- retary of Agriculture” Washington D. C. and A. M. Dunton Principal Mclntosh Agricultural High School. ::cn]:; .‘1‘{5:;"C:s'fily_“'l{f';scf,fifilye'fg t‘lil‘i]s. Dec. 2—10 a. m. Reportsof Com- . reason that we find girdles bequeathed mittee. as precious beirlooms and as valuable Soils, University of Minnesota Madi-| frequently of great intrinsic value. son and W. H. Frazier University of e Minnesota, Minneapolis. : “What relationship should. the Railroads bear to Development,” D. E. Willard, Development Agent Northern Pacific Railroad Company. The remainder of the day and maid: “Give me my girdle and see that all the furniture be at it. Look that pinchers, the penknife, the knife to close letters with, the bodkin, the ear picker and the scale be in the case”" Girdles were in some respects like the chatelaines of more modern times, but they differed therefrom in being more useful, more comprehen- sive in: regard both to sex and to ar- 3 The Practical Man. Our idea of a practical man is one| who would rather have & ten cent. clgar given to'him than a" fivé center named for him.—Dallas News. Truth is of no value unless it {8 ex- emplified in conduct, . . : EDITORBOOSTS GLEARBROOK Declares it is Going to Be Best of Soo’s New Towns. That Clearbrook, in Clearwater county, 'is going to be the best, busiest and biggest of the new towns on the Cass Lake—Bemidji Soo line cut-off, is the opinion of Albert Anderson, editor of the Clearbrook Journal, who was in - Bemidji Satur- day afternoon. § Mr. Anderson says that although Clearbrook is less than three months old, there are 300 persons there and that a large volume of business is being transacted. ! All lines of business are represent- ed, hotels, general stores, bjanks, lumber yards and everything’ that go to make a thriving village desir- able. 600D BILL OPENS AT THE BRINKMAN THEATRE Manager Brinkman . of .the Brinkman Family Theatre has secured three interesting acts.- for the opening of this week’s bill which is presented for the first time tonight, «“The Great LaBarr” the wonder of the Twentieth century, is the only act ot its kind in the world today. “Italia,” the girl who writes the songs she sings, and Ben J. Greene, in their own absurdities, “A Snap,” they do character changes, singing and talking. This is a stong novelty sketch. All new moving pictures tonight. A GASTRONOMIC JOY. Old English Recipe For the Famous Soupe a’ia Crecy. In the “Illustrated London Cookery ook,” by Frederick Bishop, late cui- siner to St. James' palace, Earl Grey, the Marquis of Stafford, Baron Roth- schild, Earl Norbury, Captain Dun- combe and many of the first families of Great Britain (1832), we .find. this recipe for soupe a la Crecy: “Cut half a pound of lean ham in dice, three onions, four turnips, twelve carrots (the outer side red only), a head of celery, a fagot of sweet herbs, two blades of mace, six cloves, a bay, leaf and half a pound of salt butter. Fry all down in a stewpan until they get a little brown; then add some.second stock and stew until all the roots are quite tender: then rub it through a tammy sieve or tammy cloth with two long spoons. If very thick add more stock.” Season with cayenne and black pepper and salt and a good bit of sug- ar. Send up on a napkin some nice fried bread cut in small dice and not greasy.” This is far less elaborate than It sounds and is, indeed, in the main the recognized recipe for the royal soup The spice is, if anything, a trifle over- done, and the carrots want to be well chosen, as the slightest stringiness de- stroys the homogeneity of the com- pound, The bread dice are important and should be fried in the very best butter or superlatively good olive oil.— Pall Mall Gazette. P CORDITE. Made of Two Powerful Explosives Kneaded Into Paste. Cordite is the outcome of the strange paradox that if you mix together two powerful explosives the result is a smokeless slow burning powder. Ni- troglycerin and gun cotton mixed to- gether with a little petroleum jelly 1t is curious to see the two deadly explosives being kneaded together into a paste by women with the same unconcern as dough is knead- ed for bread. Indeed, machines simi- lar to those used in bakeries take up the work and kuead the buff colored cordite paste for seven hours. Then it is forced through molds and issues in long cords—hence the name cordite— the thickness of which is varied ac- cording to the weapon in which it is to be used. For big guns cordite is half an inch thick and cut into lengths of thirty- seven inches. Rather more than a thousand of these cordite sticks pack- ed in two bundles make up the car- tridge fer a twelve inch gun. For the rifle cordite is pressed into a very thin string, like the finest macaroni. “and sixty of these strands one inch and a half long make the neat little bundle which lies inside the cartridge case. For some European armies cordite is made in flat thin st whale- bone. Kept away from fire, cordite can be handled with impunity.—Lon- don Graphic. make cordite. either give a limp pasv and allow it.ta be shaken or else grasp yours in theirs and nearly dislocate it with their yio- 'Jence:=London, World: 4 £ “hands well: The general run ‘of folf|- into. the 1 —Wilder in Chicago Record-Herald. HOW TO FILL SCHOOLS State Troant Officer to Aiwp‘oint Others, “ Qut of Politics, Best Way Says Dyer.v CONDEMNS “ONE ROOM” POLICY Bemidji Educator Urges Consolidation Before State Charities Meeting At Crookston. New plans for keeping children in school were advanced: at the state conference of the Association Chari- -a|ties and Corrections in session at Crookston on Saturday afternoon, by W. P. Dyer, city superintendent of the Bemidji Public Schools. Professor. Dyer declared that it was his belief that to get the best en’orcement of the compulsory edu- cational law that a staté’ truant officer should be appointed and that such appointment should be free trom politics, such officer to have power to appoint local truant offic- ers. He said: “This would take the truancy proposition out of the hands of the school board and would perhaps mean a more fearless enforcement. My idea would put the matter in the hands of the State Labor Bureau, equipping it with more money and added help. It should be non-politi- cal, such officers being relieved of any fear that politics might jeopar- dize their work.” s Professor Dyer also made the point that a regular school attend- ance rever can be obtained until the old one-room country school house has been abolished and con- solidated schools with such features as agriculture, manual training, farm accounts, cooking and sewing with which to attract young people to the school room where their training will be such that farmers will realize its direct value. Along the same line, Professor Dyer gave it his belief that in the cities studies of special interest should be included, to relieve the old fashioned monotony of the rou- tine grind. The same subjects as mentioned for rural schools are also cited as necessary for city success and the study of wood work and kindred arts was mentioned asa school attracting feature . Mountains of Moab. Most travelers -who visit the Holy Land content themselves with a visit to that restricted part west of Jordan. The mountainous regions of Moab as seen by them from Jerusalem are lost in-a purple haze that constantly hangs over them, and the great :stretches be- yond are covered in mystery. This is true partly because of the fewer historical incidents connected with the eastern regions, but mainly on account of the great abyss of the Jordan val- ley that has always acted as a barrier. Few who descend into the valley 1,300 feet below sen level undertake to climb the hills beyond. which rise to a an economic stand- point will always enter very largely i f Palestine.—Christian 600D ROADS NOW ASSURED Official Returns Show That State Amendment Was Passed. Out of fifty-three counties including Hennepin, Ramsey aund St Louis the road and bridge amendment to the state constitution has now 12,519 votes to the good which practically assures its passage. The remaining counties are expected to strengthen the votes, for many of the northern counties, where the road and bridge amendment is a very live issue, are still to be heard from. The total vote cast in these counties was 190, 586 and the good roads amendment received 107,- 815; giving it a lease on life to the extent of l2,5>lg votes, It is believed by state officials that the amendment will be able to keep this lead and perhaps increase it in the other counties still to be heard from. Tabulated returns for fifty-three counties thow that Eberhart réceiv- ed 99,628 and Gray 64,657, a plur- ality of 34,971. This ratio continu- ed will make the first estimate of his plurality at 60,000 about correct. Complete figures will be in the hands of the secretary of state with- in the next two or three days. The Title “Esquire.” *The title “esquire” is derived from the French word ecuyer (a shield bear er) and originated in the old days of chivalry, when, as is well known, each knight appointed one or more persons of gentle birth to carry his shield and perform other honorable services. These persons were known as squires, or, more accurately, esquires, and were of such birth as would per- mit of their being in their turn cre: ated knights when they should have merited the distinction by deeds of valor or otherwise In the reign of Richard II. the status of an esquire was granted for the first time by let- ters patent as a title of honor merely. no duties being attached. This meth- od of creation is now obsolete, but it marks an advanced stage in the de cay of chivalry, which decay resulted in the titles “knight” and “esquire” becoming wholly honorary.—Pall Mall Gazette. A Lazy Man. A worthy old citizen of Newport who had the reputation of being the laziest man alive among “them hil- locks,” so lazy, indeed, that he used to weed his garden in a rocking chair by rocking forward to take hold of the weed and backward to uproot it, had a way of fishing peculiarly his own. He used to drive his old white faced mare to the spot where the tautog (blackfish)’ might be depended on for any weight, from two to twelve pounds, backed his gig down to the water side, put out his line and when the tautog was safely hooked start ed the old mare and pulled bim out. A Slight Difference. Undue rapidity of ‘speech or indis- tinct utterance often leads to-curious wisunderstandings. An instance of this- is given Ly Walter Seymour in his “‘Ups and Downs of a Wandering Life.” “A-clergyman.” he says, “was sent for by a sick old parishioner who wus not a churchgoer and who was deaf. The clergyman said: ‘What in- duced you to send for me? ‘What does he say? said the man to his wife. ‘He says why the deuce did you send for him# + Ay AL P ST By The wise are polite all the world over; ‘fools' are polite only at home.— Bacon, b Lot MONTE BROWN WEDS Bemidji Attorney Claims Minnie Stinch- field, Daughter of Famous Sur- geon at Rochester BRIDE JUST BACK FROM EUROPE Groom is Son of Calvin L. Brown, Mem- ber of Supreme Bench—Will Live in Bemidji. Monte Brown, junior member of the law firm of Spooner & Brown of this city, was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Stinchfield at the home of her parents in Rochester, on Saturday evening. Miss Stinchfield is the daughter of Dr. Stinchfied a famous surgeon con- nected with the Mayo Brothers’ hospital in Rochester. She is an accomplished musician and (but re- cently returned from an extended trip abroad. { Mr. Brown, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, where he won fame as a baseball . player and all around athlete, is ‘a son of Calvin L. Brown, associate justice of the Minnesota supreme court. Mr. and Mrs. Brown will come to Bemidji soon, and will occupy the Dr. Tuomy residence on Twelfth street. HUNDREDS HONOR TEOFORD Cass Lake Church Crowded; Funeral Procession Long; Many Flowers. Cass Lake, Minn., Nov. 21—The funeral of Charles Tedford was held here Sunday afternoon from the Episcopal church, Archdeacon Par- shall officiating. Interment was made in the Cass Lake cemetery. The church was crowded to its ful- lest capacity and the funeral proces- sion to the cemetery was one of the longest ever held in Cass Lake. The Cass Lake Fire epartment in unifcrn attended in a body, Mr, Tedford being a member of that organization in - the early days when the first fire department was organized. Flowers and wreaths decked the coffin and amoag the most beauti- ful was'an emblen in flowers of a broken wheel furnished by Messrs. Cardle and Cambell of Duluth and several other railway conductors who ‘were close friends of the deceased, A Snap. Let us ‘show you the best cot- tage in_town_ for the money, Terms given, - . - - Ziegler & Ziegler Co.. . . " ‘Schroeder Block. MUST PROHIBIT LIQUOR DEGLARES BALLINGER Says All Indian Treaties Must Be Lived up to Until Nullified or Abrogated. COURTS FINAL INTERPRETERS Admits Doubt as to Expulsion of Beer or the Right to Close up Breweries. Washington, Nov. 21.—Secretary Ballinger of the interior department has no explanation to make in ad- dition to the statement given out by the department a few days ago for publication. “All we are trying to do,” said Secretary Ballinger, “through the department’s instruc- tions to -Indian Commissioner Valentine, is to enforce the law as it appears to be, according to the old treaties with the Indians, which ex- clude liquor the Indian country. " «The Indian eountry in Minne- sota, as one will see by examina- tion of the maps, covers probably 80 per cent of the state. It is not the province of the department to interpret these treaties nor to ex- pound the law, We are required to enforce the law as we find it. These treaties, or so much of them as affect the Indian country of Mianesota, are directly opposed to the introduction of lignor into the Indian country. The orders of the department to the Indian officials have begn merely that the law shall be enforced without discrimination as to person, prop- erty or territory, within the zones covered by these treaties. “We hear many complaints from people within the Indian country but, our replies are that the law speaks for itself and the courts must be the final interpreters of the mean- ing of these various laws.” In other words, Secretary Balling- er holds that while there are many differences in the wording of these old Indian treaties and those who have read the documents and are familiar with the facts are inclined to doubt whether some of these treaties are not obsolete and others so vague in their terms as to make it a matter of doubt what the courts would say in regard to them. Mr. Ballinger believes that the duty df the administrative officers is to enforce the law as it is found, leaving the question of interpretation and explanation of the meaning of the laws to the courts. The department, apparently, is well aware of the questions raised, whether some of the treaties have not been annulled by congressional action altnough perhaps not specifically so, but the officials prefer to go on with what they regard as their duty of enforcing the laws and leaving it for the courts to determine the rights of all parties concerned. from - uluuisorf'g_ ‘ : ' HISTORICAL | SECIETY, It is admitted at the department that one of the most interesting ques- tions involved under some of the treaties is whether beer is excluded under the term “other liquors” used in connection with whether an established brewery can spirits and over Sunday. against the introduction of “liquor into the Indian country.’ Some doubt is expressed at the de- partment as to whether the law can be inforced in the southern portion of Minnesota in which the city of Minneapolis is situated, for the rea- son that the act of Feb. 1863, passed subsequently to a warfare which the See-See-Toan and Wah-Pay-Toan bands of Sioux conducted against “declared to be abrogated and annulled, the treaties with the Indians so far as they purported to impose any future obligations on the United States. » Miss Bertha Larson visited relatives and friends at Crookston be closed under the treaty provisions =