Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 5, 1910, Page 2

Fifty Years Agol We Took a Bath Once a Mmfih Twenty-five Years Ago We have progressed—we bathe every day—we stopped greasing our hair —the crocheted doily is missed from the dinning room rocker— Now We Care For Our Finger Nails A latter day refinement s‘urely, but ob- served by everyone who has respect for propriety and cleanliness Manicure Articles I have everything from nail files and orangewood sticks to pocket, traveling, and dresser sets at prices that are con- sistent with the quality of the world famed Jordan Cutlery. HOT SODA Postoffice Corner GEO. ‘A, HANSON A. D. S. Drug Store Phone 304 ICOLDI |sopa Bemid]i, Minn. THE MODEL DRY CLEANING HOUSE HOGANSON BROS., Proprietors Telephone No. 537 108 Second Stree ‘Dry ' €Cleaning of ‘ Ladies’ and Gents’ Clothing, Rugs, Carpets, Household Furnishings, etc. Also Sponging and Pressing on Short Notice. Fresh Milk and Cream Have your milk delivered gto your table in sterilized bottles 4 Fresh From The Cows. on the Alfalfa Dairy Farm 3% miles west of the city Order your milk and cream with your groceries each day - Gream, quart hotiles, 38¢ less 4¢ for bottle Gream, Pint hotfles, 20 less 3¢ for hotfle Gream, 1-2 pint bottles, 13¢ less 3cfor botile Milk, quart bottles, 13c less 4c for bottle First delivery leaves the store at 8 a. m. W. G. Schroeder Minnesota Ave., Cor. Fourth ' St. Phone 65. n Subseribe for The Pioneer o g e TR P AN iprinted | on parchment, and all other firms of 'Incapacitated. ¥ has a.run in with the waiter never fares any better than’ the rest of us who are satisfied to ‘take ;hings as they come,” said the homele ach- elor. “I took- breakfast ‘with one ‘of these fussers the other wmorning in a little cafe uptown that was new to, both of us. 5 *“All he wanted was a cup of coffee and a ccuple of boiled eggs. But you might have thought the universe de- pended upon those eggs. After having given the waiter minutev instructions as to their preparation, he sat:with his watch in his hands. (4 “Finally the eggs came, and there was a lot more powwow. ¥As he ciack- led the shell of one he turned to the waiter and said. ‘Are you sure these eggs are positively fresh? “And the waiter, who had watery eyes und a very red nose, replied with all seriousness: ‘I really can't say, sir. I have a frightful cold in my head.'” —New York Times. A Queer Freak. Milreau, who was said to have been connected with some of the best fami- lies in France and to have possessed considerable means until ruined by the Panama canal disaster, was one of the best’ friends the beggars of Paris éver had, and to obtain funds fot helping them he became a 'systematic thief. He used to frequent the fashionable streets {uuring. the day and pick 'pockets, and by might, dressed in ragged clothes, he dispensed the spoils to the first beg- gars he met. For. years he ¢ontinued the practice without being suspected, and it was by pure chance that he eventually did fall into the-hands of the police. When his lodgings were searched sufficiently empty purses were found to fill a large packing case, and it was made clear that he had stoler hundreds of .watches and scarfpins, while he bhad been pinching and con- triving to live a respectable man on a few franes a week saved fromthe ruin of his fortune. The Literary Man. 3 When I get home where I live at T will remove my wife’s new hat from my desk and my daughter’s socks and my wee baby’s building blocks, three spools of thread, some tatting frames, a box or two of cut out games, some scissors and my wife’s. new waists, a box-of tacks and some tooth paste, a cookbook and a sewing kit, some let- ters that my wife has writ, some apple cores the kids put there.- one or two wads of handmade hair. a bottle of shoe polish, too, a hairbrush and a baby shoe. some stockings ‘that are worth a darn, a skein or two of darn- ing yarn, a picture book or two or three, a picture babe has drawn for me, a rubber ball, a piece of gum, some picture postcards and a drum. T'll do all that when I get home ‘and then write an immortal poem that will have Swinburne double crossed—if all my pencils are not lost.—Houston Post. Wrecks and Cats and Dogs. There is an’ odd" provision iin" the English law. on . wrecks: ~Iti'used to be that wrecks, like pretty nearly ev- erything else, belonged to 'the Kking. Sometimes, if a vessel were only part- ly wrecked and it could be raised, an owner was averse to surrendering it, but®it. was generally seized for the king in accordance with the law until the question came up as to just"what,was a wreck. It was generally admitted thatyswhen all hands werel lost, that was a wreck, but as they wanted to get ‘as narrow a definition as they could they got parliament to establish a law that' in future nothing shall be considered a wreck out 0f which a cat or a dog escapes alive, ¢ad from that time until the present| day no vessel coasts about England| without carrying a cat or dog. 1 . Canvas Currency. Banknotes appear in much the same form throughout the world ayd have always done so except in Ching, where the earliest note was made ofjcanvas, some six centuries before the Caristian era. It was more like a talecloth than a banknote, its length being about two meters, or six feet §x inch- es. This form of note was mt very convenient when large sums wire con- cerned, so later the note was money were suppressed. One ¢mperor issued notes representing mok than three thousand millions. But tle mon- ey was never popular, and grdually the notes were retired. § Charlotte .cuahman’: Warngm. One icy night €harlotte Cushoan and Lawrence Barrett came out of tie the- ater together. The steps were (nnger- ously slippery, and it was with dffical- ty that they kept their feet at 41. As they totteringly descended the'great actress said to her companion qite in her Lady Macbeth manner: ‘“lake a good grip on my arm, Lawrene, and it I slip hold on like grim death But' if you slip in the name of heawn let gol” i Bad Manners. { The two women stopped in frott of a dentist’s showcase. { “There, mamma,” said the yanger woman, pointing, “I want a s'q’i Just like that.” £ “Hush, my child!” commande her mother, “Don’t you know that it} vul- gar to pick your teeth in the stre¢?” § i A Bright Youth. . ‘She (arch/y)—Whom' should yoi call' the , prettiest girl ‘in the room3% He (looking about him)—H'm! W4, to tell the truth, there isn't a prett} girl in the place. > Some will always be above oierg;, Destroy the ‘inequality of today &a. it will appear again tomorrow.—FEmeson iy “The fussy individual who always 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, Greece a luw obliged the Inhabitants to wage war against the insects three times a, year—i. e, in- their varlous states of egg, larvae and adult, In 1749 locusts stopped the army of retreating from Bessarabia after its (defeat at Poltava. The king at first imagined that he was being assafled by a territic 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 welrd, uncanny tooking enstomer 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 edf- ble. The )s are particularly fond of them. iels, to which they are given after bLeing dried and roasted between two layers of ashes, 100k upon locusts as great delicacies. The favor 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 foday. First used by the pros- pector in his poling boat and the trad- er with his little steamer, they have become the means of opening up every |ci\mp that has been struck in the in- terior of Alaska. The Yukon is very shallow 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 chanuel in a mile wide river. The Yukon is navigable for 2,100 miles. The Kuskoyuim, 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 streams in Alaska. The Yukon. opens for navigation the latter part of May and closes the latter part of October. . But with al .its: wealth.of gold..its unheard call,to toilers of the soil, its mountains studded with getns 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 Nameé 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 England a fémale witness gave her Christian ‘name as “Noah.” The coro- ner remarked that he bad 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.” Réference 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.” No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself.— Beecher. Pliny. relates that in many plates in'|, Charles XII.. king of Sweden, as it was |/ 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. .#Theodore Roovsevelt says: “No Investment on earth i so safe, so sure, £0 certain to eatich 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 propertv in that rapidly growing City. A letter addressed to us will bring you full particu- lars or if you prefer to see the property, call on H. A. Simons, at Bemidji. The Soo Railroad is now running its freight and passenger trains into Bemidji; investigate the oppor- tunities offzred for business on a small or large scale. Bemidji Townsite & Improvement Co, 404 New York Life Bullding ST. PAUL MINNESOTA The Children Love Them = P—— Buckwheat Cakes made from pure buckwheat fresh ground makes a great breakfast for young and old these crisp winter mornings. They supply lots of natural heat to the body ro that everyone who eats them can resist cold, winds and snow. We have just received afew 10 Ib. sacks of fresh pure Buckwheat flour ground from this years’ crop. The Prica is only 50 cents Per Sack Maple Syrup Of course you need that with Buckwheats. Temco Brand is pure—absolutely pure. 50 Genfs a Quart Gan ! Roe& Markusen The Quality Grocers Phone 206 Phone 207 The Crookston | Lumber Co. Wholesale Lumber, Lath and Building Material Melges Bros. Co. Wholesale Commission " Fruit and iroducé / !» ; Manufacturers é' Sreamery Butt er \ Bemidji Manufacturers, Wholesalers and Jobhers The Following Firms Are Thoroughty Rellahle and Orders Sent to Them Will Be Promptly Filled at Lowest Prices Model Ice Cream, Snowflake Bread and Deelishus Candies Made at The Model Wholesale Bakery, Man- facturing Confectionery and Ice Cream Factory 316 Minnesota Ave. BEMIDII, MtNN. Send yourMail Orders to GEO, T, BAKER & C0. Manufacturing ‘Jewelerl“ and Jobbers They are especially prepared to, promptly fill all orders in their various lines of merchandise. ' I t stock of Diamonds and ‘Watches and the finest equipped work- ‘chopin'Nufl‘niun Special” order work given prompt attention . NORTHERN GROGERY COMPANY WHOLESALE GROCERS GhHe Given: Hardware Co. + Sucoessors fo John Floming & Co. :Wholesale and Retail ardware