Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 7, 1910, Page 6

M. MALZAHN & CO. ¢ REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE FARM]LOANS, RENTALS FARMS AND CITY PROPERTIES 407 Minn. Ave. Bemidii, Minn OM SMART DRAY AND TRANSFER SAFE AND PIANO MOVING Resldence Phone 58 818 Amerlca Ave. Office Phone 12 EW PUBLIC LIBRARY Open daily, except Sunday and Mon- dayllto12a.m., 1to 6 p.m., 7 to 9 p. m. Snuday 3 to 6 p. m. Monday 7to 9 p. m. BEATRICE MILLS, Librarian. T. BEAUDETTE Merchant Tailor Ladies' and Gents' Suits to Order. French Dry Cleaning, Pressing and’ Repairing a Specialty. 315 Beltrami Avenue HORSES prices prevail for good 0. ST. PAUL HORSE CO0. Sll. ST. PAUL, MINN. “The House With a Horse Reputation.” R. F. MURPHY FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Office 313 Beltrami Ave. Phone 319-2. WOOD Leave your orders for seasoned Birch, Tam- arack or Jack Pine Wood with S. P. HAYTH Telephone 11 William C.Klein Real Estate Insurance Real Estate)& Farm”Loans O’Leary=-Bowser Bldg. Phone J19 F. M. FRITZ Naturalist Taxidermist Fur Dresser Mounting: Game Heads, Whole Animals, Birds, Fish, Fur Rugs and Horns Decorative and Scientific Taxidermy in all its branches All Work Guaranteed MOTH PROOF and First Class in Every Particular Bemidji Minnesota i ACIAL Defects (7 A ¢ QUICKLY' GORHEOTED b The chief surgeon of the Plastxc Surgery Institute quickly rights all wrongs with the human face or features without knife or pain to the entire satisfaction and de- ¥ light of every patient. The work is as lasting as life itself. have a facial irregularity of any kind write Plastic Surgery Institute Corner Sixth and Hennepin @ YINNEAPO! "~ MINN. RS The Making of Lenses. The essential part of any device for the study of the starry millions—the suns, planets, comets and the nebulae that are perhaps new worlds in the making—is the lens or the optical train that consists of a series of lenses. It Is this that makes the modern science of astronomy possible. There is abso- lutely no other human occupation that requires the accuracy of observation and the delicacy of touch that are requisite for the making of the finest lenses. These. are the most perfect products of human hands. It wmay convey some idea of the labor requir- ed in the making of a lurge lens to say that at least one year’s time is re- quired for the grinding and polishing of a thirty inch object glass. A little lens two inches in diameter requires the unremitting care and attention of a skilled workman for two or three days. It is easy, then, to see why it is that even lenses of high class photo- graphic work are costly. A forty inch object glass for a large telescope can- not be made in much less than four years’ time, and if everythihg does not go just right it may require wmuch longer than that.—Kansas City Star. Persian Jests. An exceedingly ugly man, says the Persian Joe Miller, was once in the mosque. asking pardon of Allah for his sins and praying to be delivered from the fires of hell. One who over- heard his prayers said to him: *Where- fore, O friend. wouldst thou cheat bell of such a countenance? Art thou re- luctant to burn up a face like that?” Another story the Persian jester tells is that a certain person with a hideous nose was once on a time wooing a wo man. Describing himself to her and trying to make an attractive picture, he said, “1 am a man devoid of light- ness and frivolity, and 1 am patient in bearing afflictions!” “Aye,” said the woman. “Wert thou not patient in bearing afflictions thou hadst never endured thy mnose these forty years!” All of which 1s more witty than kind. —Harper’s. Bohemians and Wedding Rings. “Here are two wedding rings that 1 bave just made over,” said the jew- eler. “They are for Bohemian women, They lost their own rings, so they had their husbaunds’ rings cut down to fit. That is a custom in their country. Both husband and wife wear wed- ding rings there. If the man loses his ring he has to buy a new one, but if the woman loses hers she wears her husband’s. 1 do a good deal of that kind of work. Other women who lose wedding rings just buy another one and say nothing about it, but these wo- men are too conscientious for that. Usually I bave to make the man’s ring smaller, but once in awhile it has to be spliced to make, it fit. The women are always considerably chagrined over the splicing and offer all kinds of explanations to account for their big fingers.”—New York Sun. The Roulette Ball. That capricious little ball that de- cides our fortunes at the ever fasci- nating game of roulette at Monte Car- lo occasionally flies from the skillful croupier's bhand, though not often. One afternoon it slipped from its manipulator’s fingers and found its way into an Englishman’s coat pocket. So fmpressed was the Englishman that he promptly lost a couple of hun- dred pounds. But the little ball once found a far stranger destivation than that. Escaping from the croupier’s hand, it flew straight into the mouth of a German omnlooker, and he was so impressed that he promptly swallowed it.—London Bystander. Tea In Paraguay. When the natives of Paraguay drink tea they do not pour it from a teapot into a cup. but fill a goblet made out of a pumpkin or gourd apd then suck up the hor liquid through a long reed. Moreover, the tea which they use 1s altogether different from that which comes from China, being made out of dried and roasted leaves of a palm- like plant which grows in Paraguay and southern Brazil. The patives suy that this tea is an escellent remedy for fever and rheumatism. Sparrowgrass. It is stated that a well known riddle was wrh;en by a costermonger. The riddle in question is a charade and |’ runs as follows: My first’s a little bird as ops; My second’s needful In 'ay crops; My ’ole is good with mutton chops. The answer, of course, is “‘sparrow- grass,” which the learned Dr. Parr al- ways insisted on using in preference to the politer “asparagus.”—London Notes and Queries. A Real Poet: “Poetry,” said the literary girl, “is the art of expressing intense feeling in figurative speech.” “In that case,” replied Miss Cayenne, “the man who writes baseball news is sure a poet.”—Washington Star. She Wanted to Know, Bridegroom- Now that we are mar- ried, darling, we must have no more secrets fromn each other Rride—Then tell me truly, Jack, how much did you really pay for that engagement ring? —Illustrated Bits. She Was Numerous. “Y want a license to marry the best girl ip the worid ™ said the young man “Funpy. sn1 1?7 commented the clerk *“I'hat makes 1300 licenses for that girl 1his ~eason.”- I*hiladelphia Telegraph 1 do not -know of any way 8o sure of making other- nappy as of belng so oneselt Rir vrinur |leips. The Power of Paderewski. A hard headed business man went to hear Paderewski play. says A. I Thomas ‘in Success Magazine. The man is not a musician. He spends his days trying to buy cotton when it 1Is low ‘and sell It when it is high. This is how he described his experience at the piano recital. “You know, I'm not easlily stirred up, and 1 don’t know anything about mu- sic. 1 wouldn’t know whether a man was playing the piano extremely well or just fairly well. But I do know that Paderewski played one thing that afternoon that stirred me up as | pev- er was stirred in my life: 1 don’t re- member what it was. 1 couldn’t have told whether he was playing an hour or five minutes. All I know is that it stirred up feelings within me I had never felt before. Great waves of emo- tion‘'swept over me. | wanted to shout and | wanted to cry, and when the last chord was struck 1 found myself on my feet waving mny' umbrella and shouting like a wild Indian. 1 went out of that hall as weak as a rag and happier than I’d been in years. I can’t account for it. I've tried, but I can’t explain it. Can you?”’ ’ Burglar’s Besetting Sin. The burglar’s besetting sin is. heed- lessness. The chances are that it’ was heedlessness that first drove him out of honest employment and made a bur- glar of him. The burglar ransacks a house and carries away a spoon hold- er, a card tray or some other inexpen- sive souvenir of the occasion, and he overlooks the thousand dollar bill on the dining room table and the rope of pearls on the towel rack. This heed- lessness seems to be commou to the whole fraternity. We do not know what the experience of other cities is, but in Newark the burglar leaves an astonishing amount of portable wealth behind him invariably. When he reads on the day after the robbery that he took Mrs. De Stile’s chafing dish and ignored her $500 ruby bracelet beside it or that he upset the Pompleys’ dresser drawer to get the revolver and failed to see the government bonds that lay in plain sight on" the wash- stand. how he much gnash his teeth and' hate himself for neglecting to de- velop his powers of attention and ob- servation in his youth!—Newark News. What “Garbler” Gnce Meant. “Garble”” “garbled,” *“garbler;” are words which nowadays convey quite a different meaning from that which was formerly accepted. *“Garble” orig- inally signitied simply *to select for a purpose.” At one time there was an officer,” termed *“the garbler of spices." whose duty it was to visit the shops and examine the spices. ordering the destruction of all impure goods. His duties were similar to those of the in- spector of the modern health depart- ment, who forbids the sale of decayed vegetables or tainted meat. The word comes from a root meaning “to sift.”’ The impurities sifted out have in the course of generations corrupted the term till a “garbled report” is no long er a report wherefrom all uncertainty has been removed. but one that is f1 L of misrepresentation and made mis- leading with deliberate intent. Mississippi Steamboating. The steamboat age on the Mississipp1 began about 1821 and fourished for fifty years. As early as 1834 the num- ber of steamboats on the Mississipp‘l and its tributaries 1s estimated at 230, and in 1842 rthere were 450 vessels, with a value of §25.000,000. But the golden era was from 1848 till the war. Never did the valley and steamboating prosper more than then. Thousands of bales of cotton were annually shipped to southern markets. and the wharfs of St. Louis and Memphis and Vicks- burg and other large ports were stack- ed with piles of merchandise and lined with scores of steamers.—1'ravel Mag azine. Corrected. It is the custom of a well known wminister to point his sermons with either *dearly beloved brethren” or “now, my brothers.” One day a lady member of his congregation took ex- ception to this. “Why do you always preach to the gentlemen and never to the ladies?” she asked “My dear lady,” said the beaming vicar, “one embraces the other.” “But not in the church!” was the in- stant reply. The Cruel Reason. Mrs Gossip—How does it come that Mrs. Newrich invited you to her party? 1 thought you were enemies. Mrs. Sharp—We are, but she thought 1 had nothing fit to wear and wanted to make me feel bad. So Foolish. “She is neglecting her game of bridge dreadfully.” “Why is she doing that?” “Some silly excuse. Says the chil- dren need ber, 1 belleve.”—Pittsburg Post. An Ancient Custom. “1 wonder it men have always com- /plained about the food their wives pre- pared for them.” said one woman. *“l guess s0,” replied the other. “Adam started it.”—Washington Star. The New Cook. Wifey—This pudding is a sample of the new cook’s work What do yon think of it? Hub I'd call it mediocre Wifey—No, dear; it’s taploca.—Boston Transcript. Disguised. Customer—I'm going to a masked ball, and | want something that wil! compietely diszuise me. Costumer Certainly, sir, 1 will give you something nice.—Pele Mele, Dear Sir: There are so meny things ; a in a man's store that are suitable and wanted as Christmas gifts, we thought we'd call your attention to them early in the game: x # An Economical Man. 7 A commercial traveler told of a man who was riding on a train and pretend- ed to become ill after eating 'a sand- wich. The man opened his grip and took out a hot water bag. *“He got a sympathetie porter.” the eommereinl man continues, “to fill the water bag with boiling water, and then he opened up his lunch basket. took out a plece of fried steak and warmed it up oo the water bag.. You talk about your light bousekeeping! Then after be had warmed the steak he cut it all up with a pair of scissors and fed it to himself with a pair of sugar tongs. because he would not tukd a chance with a fork going around a curve. But his finish was a limit. After he had eaten the steak he unscrewed the stopper of the water bag and poured himselt out a cup of hot coffee. He had the grounds n the bag all the time.” You may be spending a 1little { Christmas money on yourself; we ] couldn't offer a better suggestion for spending it than a Hart Schaffner & Marx suit or overcoat; you'll carry P your Christmas satisfaction a long time with such a gift; you couldn't glve a friend anything better. ! In a Quandary. The young lady sighed deeply and was almost affected to tears, “Harold.” she said. “‘declares that if I don’t marry him be will end his life. And I am atraid he will”" She stifled a sob. then continued: “And Randolph declares that if 1 don’'t marry him he will go into poli- tics and become great and famous, and then he says | shall see what | bave missed. And | am afraid be will keep his word too™ Overcome by emotion. she buried her face in her hands, not knewing wheth- er to save a life or to spare the coun- try another politician.—Exchaunge. But you know how acceptable ' other smaller gifts are, which can be’ ) found here; there are so many good things that anything 1ike a complete 4 1list of them would make too long a letter. We've named a few of them in this letter which will give you an idea of what you'll find here. . We shall give you our very best help in selecting the right things; you won't find any poor qual— There is nothing against which hu- ities here. man ingenuity will not he able to find comething to sav.—Jeffemus- POOR SLEEPER Hart Schaffner & Marx suit or overcoat $14.75 to $35. Mufflers 50c to $2.50. ¥ ¥‘ Healthy children sleep soundly. Any Neckwear 25c to $1.50. child that does not sleep is not healthy, | Sleeplessness is caused by undigested Suspenders 500 to $2 +B0. g substances which generate. poisons. Kickapoo Worm Killer (the nice- ‘tasting candy lozenges) produces sound, restful sleep by cleaning out poisons and impurities. It is a great child’s tonic and strength-builder. Price, 25c., sold by druggists every- Bathrobes $4 to $8.50. Smoking Jackets $5 to $12. Gloves $1 to $3.50. Umbrellas $1 to $6. Handkerchiefs 10c to 50c. Pure silk hose 50c to $1.25. Interwoven hose 25c. Fancy Vests $1.50 to $6. Shirts $1 to $2.50. Sweater Coats $1 to $7.50. Shoes $3.50 to $6. Suit Cases $1.50 to $15. where and by Laraen Machine Shop v the Wast MINNEAPGL.IS STEEL AND MACHINEPY CO MINNEAPOLIS MINN. k HONEY Yours truly, Best in Minnesota Honey that took first price at |} the State Fair. | By, The choicest Willow-Herb and g Aster Honey. & £ ‘ your grocer can’t supply you 3 write' to £ N CARL OPSATA BEMIDJI, MINN. The Da.ily Pioneer Sample 10 centsand 10 cents may :glfl;y on the first order that you loc pel‘ week 'Santa Claus Headquarters | | \ \ | This store is now ready to demon- | \ | | ] Brass Craft Pyrography Stationery Novelfies strate to you its usefulnéss in providing you unmatchable goods for your Holi- PflSi cafl] Alb“ms Cards day gifts. Many people have made it a practice of doing their Christmas buying at this store for 5 years and they claim it is to their advantage to do so. The time of every holiday buyer will be well spent in looking through our bright, new selection of up-to-date gifts. Seals, Tags Christmas Boxes Our Dinnerware Can not be equaled in quality, quan- ity and prices. 100 piece Haviland $34.00 100 pisca Austrian $21,30 and $25.00 100 piece Homar Laughlin $13.50 and $15 Muslin, Linen, Paper, Books Gifts tor Lady Friends Algers, Meades, Gifts for Gentlemen Friends Holmes & Southworths | Gifts for Grandma and Grandpa Useful gifts in the fancy china Bon Bon’s, Salads, Cakes, Sugar & Creams, Celery and Spoon Trays. Gifls for Parents . Gifts for Children Electrical and Mechanical Toys Blocks and Games Goods BI‘OWI‘I S Low Prices Dellvefed Busy Store