Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 25, 1910, Page 4

,1\ \ S; |"In Your Coal Bill 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? Figure it up for yourself. Thecdore Roosevelt says: “No Investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to earich its owners as undevelop=d 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 residex_me and busmess property in that rapidly growing City. A letter addressed to us will bring you tull partcu- 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 Go, 404 New York Life Bullding ST. PAUL MINNESOTA Here's a Money Saving Suggestion for the Women You are going to use a lot of canned fruits and vegetables this winter aside from what you put up yourself. Perhaps you can judge pretty accurately how many dozen cans of all kinds of fruits and vegetables you will need this year by what you used last year. Now, the new goods are here and our sugges- tion is that you make up an estimate of how many cans you will need then come to us and let us help you make up an assortment on which we will make you a very attractive quantity price. You will be surprised at the amount of money this plan will save you. And aside from the money saving you will also have the goods on hand with a fine variety to select from for any occasion and by getting them in quantity this way you can get the best for about -what you pay for a second qual- ity in single can lots, Call and see us about this and arrange to lay in a winter’s supply. Roe& Markusen The Quality Grocers Phone 206 - Phone 207 STOTT BRIQUET ‘Nothing left but the ash- THE THE «STOTT BRIQUET” is a solid chunk of pure anthracite screenings securely welded together by a newly discovered process THE *STOTT BRIQUET” is about two inches square--it is the easiest fuel to handle, the best in heat giving results Money Saved If You Use SToTT BRIQUETS THE IDEAL ECONOMY FUEL Used in open grates, in furnaces, surface burning stoves, kitchen ranges, laundry stoves and hot water heaters, they ESTABLISH A NEW STANDARD OF FUEL VALUE. Ask your fuel dealer about Stott Briquets---if he does not handle them, write us and we will direct you to a dealer who can supply you. Be Sure to get Directions for burning from the Stott Booklet--at your dealer’s Stott Briquet Co " Superior, Wisconsin 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 nibilists, 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 ordl- 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 €py 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. — From ‘“Anecdotes Soldiers In Peace and War,” by J. H Settle. Oratorical Effects. 1 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 hands, but with his legs. He even planned scenic effects beforehand. Having to deliver a Fourth of 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 ball, and when I did rise he told me to sit down’—From Goldwin Smith’s Reminiscences in McClure’s. The Lightning Rod. Though Franklin will continue to receive the honor that is his due as the iuventor of the first practical light- ning rod, the study of atmospheric electricity goes back at least to the time of Tullitis Hostilius, who perished in an attempt 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. 5 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 scumfned off the top.’— Indianapolis News. Poetic 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 justice. 1 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- grant.—Hosea Ballou. Carries On. Woggs—So young Saphend and his father are carrying on the business? Boggs—Yes. The old man does the business, while young Saphead .does the carrying on.—Puck. Might Work. “Why does a player pick up two bats before he goes to-the plate?” two young women whdse 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- @ulgence 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, 8o 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 child on the floor found her apparently so occupied with her game that it seemed quite safe to go on 1if one observed a decent discretion. Voices were accordingly lowered and direct allusion veiled, but when the matter had been thrashed out to thelr satisfaction the child raised her eyes and remarked with deliberation and emphasis: “I hear, I 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 loosen the whole, back in time and the friction in putting upon and taking from the shelf mars the covers. On the other hand, a reason- able amount of lateral pressure is necessary. If placed on the shelves too loosely the leaves tend to cpen and admit 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 18 likely to make 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 anecdote of Alexan- der Pope concerning ome of the old watermen who were employed for many years in rowing Pope on the Thames. Pope was in the habit of having 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, 1 am going to repeat some verses. Take care to remember them the next time I go out.” , When that time came Pope would say: “John, where are the verses I told you of?” “I have forgotten them, sir.” . “John, you are a blockhead. I must write them down for you.” John said that no one thought of saying when speaking of him, . “Mr. Pope,” but that he was always call “Mr. Alexander.” . The Original Encyclopedia. The first real encyclopedia was Pliny’s “Natural History.” This work ‘was 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- thority throughout the entire middle ages. Forty-three editions of the work were printed before the year 1536, and no scholar’s liprary was considered complete without it.—New York Amer- ican. An Indian’s Joke. Indians extract no little quiet enfoy- 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 WEAK, WEARY WOMEN Learn the Cause of Daily Woes and End Them. When the back aches and throbs When housework is torture When night brings no rest nor sleep. When the urinary disorders set in Women'’s lot is a weary one. There is a way to escape these woes. : J Doan’s Kidney Pills cure such ills Have cured women here in Be- midji. This is one Bemidji woman’s testi- mony. 3 Mrs. Almira Dehart, 1014 America Ave., Bemidiji, Minn., says: “I can- not say too much in praise of Doan’s Kidney Pillsand I strongly urge any; one afflicted with kidney complaint to give this remedy a fair. trial. Doan’s Kidney Pilis acted promptly and effectively and left no room for doubt of their merits.” ¢ For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo; “It makes ome bat seem lighter. New York, sole agents for the Don’t you see?” “I gee. It's a fine.scheme. I think _I’ll try it on'the biscuits at’our board- -Pittsburg Post. United States. 2 Remember the name — Doan’s— and take no other. fssue 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- {ly 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 grow!l 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 than 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: Hunt’s Perfect Baking Powder Mates Light Cake Not Made by 1 Trust are millions of “acres still awaiting the men todevelop them and make them productive. I ] i : ! E s | ! COAL I am ready to receive your orders for your winter’s coal and you can save money by buying coal early of C. E. BATTLES 413-415 Beltrami Ave. Phone 21 Full Line of Hardware, Stoves and Sporfing Goods Please Read This Ad Now is the time to select a Christmas present for your wife, mother, sister or sweetheart and the kind of present to buy is A Piano, Organ, Sewing Machine or an Edison Phonograph Our stock of Pianos is of the best that money can manufacture. We sell the Kim- ball, Bush & Lane, Baldwin, How- ard, Hamilton, Whitney, Monarch and Hinze Pianos. The Kimball Organ there is no better manufactured. The Singer or Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machines—there are none better or as good. With care they will last a life time. The Edison Phonograph are great enter- tainers. The well known name Edison on every Phonograph and record is a guarantee of itself. We will sell these goods for cash or on . easy payments. Give us a trial. Mail orders solicited. Bemidji Music Houge 117 Third St. J. BISIAR, Mgr. Money Cheerfully Refunded Mail Orders Promptly Filled 6ood Clothes Nothing Else See Window Display Clothing House Wholesale Over-lot Suit Sale Figure out for yourself the actual saving we’'ve made for you, in buying for you and selling to you the wholesale over lots Men's and young Men’s suits. It’s really a thing we're proud of, to do our customer’s this sort of a.“good turn;” we haven’t had a better chance in years to dem- onstrate our desire to serve this community than this. We've been telling you so for years; but this proves it. A big lot of Suits; not a large number of any one kind; many kinds of fabrics, colors, patterns; smart fashions, new models; some of Hart Schaffner & ‘Marx Suits. ~ One Big Lot---One Small Price Suits that are worth $24, $22 and $20 at a saving of $5.25, $’Z~25 and $9.25 on every suit. : The best cap offer we've Gmal Gflll salebeen able to offer in years; you'll see caps with fur in band that you've paid as much as $2.0¢ this sale. This is H not tne Underwear at Reduced Prices ordinary kind bought to “sell” but our re- gular $1.25 all-wool ribbed underwear that carries with it our guarantee of sa quality at........ J0 119