Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 12, 1910, Page 3

T —_— = _ Henry Clay’s Eloquence. It was the remark of a distinguished senator that Heury Clay's eloquence was absolutely intangible to delinea- tion, that the most labored description could not embrace it and that to be understood it must be seen and felt. | He was an orator by nature. His eagle eye burned with patriotic ardor or flashed indignation and defiance upon his foes or was suffused with tears of commiseration or of pity, and it was because he felt that he made others feel. A gentleman after hearing one of his magnificent efforts in the senate thus described him: “Every muscle of the orator's face was at work. His whole body seemed agitated, as if each part was instinet with a separate life, and his small. white hand, with its blue veins apparently distended al- wost to bursting, moved gracefully. put with all the energy of rapid and vehement gesture. The appearance of the speaker seemed that of a pure in- tellect wrought up to its mightiest en- ergies and brightly shining through the thin and transparent veil of flesh that invested it.” —St. Louis Republic. Cleanliness In Persia. The Persian spends hours in the “hammams” (Turkish baths), which are very handsome buildings decorated with tiles and embellished with ‘nu- merous exhortations as to the value of cleanliness. The smallest village in Persia has its “hammam,” and bathing #s almost a religious function. When the hot room and massage are finished the Persian is shaved, and the whole top of his head is likewise shaved, though the hair over the ears is left and allowed to grow down to the neck. This strange coiffure has a religious meaning, for the two locks on each side of the head are meant for the an- gel of death to hold when he carries the believer to paradise. All Persians Adye their hair with a mixture of henna and vesmeh, and the hair dyeing is the tast part of the bath, but tea and smoking are indulged in afterward. and the frequenters of the “hammams” find them very pleasant lounging places.—Chicago Journal. A “Star's” Demands. While traveling with the object of gathering together types of African rribes for their e\ploltatwu in an ex- hibition an agent Tound a Herculean specimen of the Sudanese warrior. He was determined to get him at any price. At first the warrior refused flatly to go with him, but when the agent told him he might demand what- ever sum he pleased he wavered. Fi- nally, after long consultation with his friends, he consented. through an in- terpreter, to accept the engagement, but added. *I must have my wife’s ex- Penses paid while 1 am away.” *“All right,” said the agent. *“And 1 must have all my mother’s expenses paid.” “All right.” *“And I must have money for my children.” *All right. How. much do you want?’ *And ten months is a long time.” *I know it. Name your own figure’”” At this the war- rior, with a cunning gleam in his eyes. as if he were demanding a king's ran- som, named a sum which in our money amounted to a little less than $15. +And he nearly fainted” said the agent in conclusion, “when I told him he could have it!" . Halley, the Astronomer. At fifteen years of age Edmund Hal- ley was the captain of St. Paul’s school and already an accomplished astrono- mer. At twenty-two he was elected a fellow of the Royal society, and before he was thirty he had encouraged New- ton to produce his *Principia” and published at his own expense that fa- mous work, in which Newton gave to the worid his great discovery of the law of ‘gravitation. For eight years Halley was editor of the “Transactions of the Royal Society.” and he was only forty-seven when Oxford made him Savilian professor of astronomy. ‘At fifty-nine he observed and predicted the circumstances of the total solar eclipse of 1715. and at sixty-four he became the astronomer royal of Great Britain. 1In his seventy-fifth year he announced to the Royal society that he had made 1.500 lunar observations. He was then in receipt of a salary of £100 a year, with no allowance for an assistant, No Barrier. Miss Playne—You can't marry Jack because I'm engaged to him. Miss Faire—What's that got to do with it?— St. Louis Fost-Dispatch. TWO HOUSES FOR RENT GOOD LOCATION Call or Phone]lly Office H. E. REYNOLDS Building Contractor and Real Estate Broker Room 9, O’Leary-Bowser Building Office Phone 23 House Phone 316 Bemidji, Minn. Fresh Milk Fresh From and Cream Have your milk delivered gto your table in sterilized bottles The on the Alfalfa Dairy Farm 3} miles west of the city Cows Order your milk and cream with your groceries each day Gream, quart bottles, 38¢ less 4c for hottle ‘Cream, 2 t hottles, 20c less 3c for hottle Cream, 1-2 pint bottles, 13¢ less 3cforhotle Milk, quart hottles, 12c less 4c for bottle First delivery leaves the store at 8 a. m. W. Q. Schroeder i Minnesota Ave., Cor. Fourth St. Phone 5. | said: And the way they held back was a ] nnd two spots. "—Wa!hlngtml Stal Getting Into, Moral Debt. Philip D. Armour, millionaire and philanthropist, ° continually ' warned young men against getting into debt. He loved free men and despised slaves: When asked if he admired a certain brilliant orator. he said: *‘He’ may have a_superb voice and fine presence,: but | can’t you hear the rattle of his chain? That man is not free. He is under moral obligations that demoralize him; He is not speaking the deepest thing in his soul, and 1 haven't time to hear any slave talk. 1 want a man to be just as free as I am.” ‘On another occasion he said: “Don’t get into debt—I mean moral debt. It is bad enough to get into debt finan- cially. There goes a young man who is mortgaged. That young man is leg- ging it along *h a debt, and it will take twice as ..uch power to get him along as the man without a debt. There are other.debts and obligations, that are embarrassing in their entan- glements. Don't get into debt- morally, my boy; don’t get into debt so that you may not exercise your freedom to its limits.” The Code of Slang. It is rather a clever notion in a re- cent story to make two Americans communicate with each other by means of slang in a Central American republic at a time when all telegrams are carefully inspected. If they used Spanish, that, of course, would be im- mediately understood. If they used English the officials would find some one to translate it. As they had no cipher code prepared in advance, they could not resort to it. - Cons(‘equently the first American telegraphs to the other American in *the great and po- tent code of slang.”” Here is a tele- gram which slipped through the fin- gers of the curious Central American officials: “His nibs skedaddled yesterday per Jack rabbit line with all the coin in the kitty and the bundle of muslin he’s spoony about. The boodle is six fig- ures short. Our crowd in good shape, but we need the spogdulics. You collar it. The main guy and the dry goods are headed for the briny. You know what to do. Bob.”—Bookman. The Voracious Cormorant. How a cormorant dives for sea trouf and gets them is told by a writer: “I had the cormorant under observa- tion only for the space of ‘four or five minutes, and during that short period it had captured four sea trout, all of considerable size. After being under water for a few seconds the bird would reappear with a sea tmut wrig- gling in its bill. But in spite of the victim's desperate efforts to escape it was deftly swallowed, and after a few gulps the cormorant would resume its fishing operations. One of the sea trout gave it considerable trouble, how- ever, for the fish struggled violently for_some moments, but was deftly placed so that its head pointed down | its captor’s throat, and thus its own struggles assisted the bird to swallow it. After a time the cormorant raised itself in the water, flapping its wings vigorously, as though to help it pack away its heavy repast, and then rose heavily and winged its way up- stream.” Simple Transaction. “I like de ’pearance o’ dat turkey mighty well,” said Mr. Johnson after a long and wistful study of the bird. The dusky marketman seemed strange- ly deaf. “How could I— What arrangements could a pusson make dat wanted to buy dat turkey?’ Mr. Johnson asked after a pause. “Basy terms ’nough,” said the mar- ketman briskly. “You get him by means o’ a note o’ hand.” “A note o’ hand.” repeated Mr. John- son, brightening up at once. “Do you mean I writes it out and pays some time when”— But his hope in this glo- rious prospect was rudely shattered by the marketman. “A note o’ hand means in dis case,” he said, with disheartening clearness, “dat you hands me a two dollar note, Mr. Johnson, and I hands you de tur- key in response to dat note.” All 1s Not Lion That Roars. A negro was arrested for stealing coal and employed a lawyer of loud oratorical voice to defend him in a Jjustice court. “That lawyer could roar like a lion,” the negro said. *I thought he was go- ing to talk that judge off the bench and that jury out of the box. I got one continuance and hurried up to burn all that coal and hide the evi- dence. Then came the day of my ‘trial | That roarin® lawyer went up and whis- pered to the judge.: The‘n he. came back and whispered to me: ¢‘You better send that .coal back o yow'll go to. jail’ "—Kansas Ch:y ,star. Ruu That Workcd. Roundsman—How did you keep:all of those girls from rushing ‘ont.of the moving picture show when the llghts went out? Policeman—It was ‘dead easy. When they started to rush I “That's right! O1d;ladies first!” caution.—Chicago News, Got on His Nerves. Frugal North Briton (in hla first ex- perience of a taxi)—Her&, mon stopt: I hae a .weak heart. -1 canna stand that. hang't wee machine o’ yours f| markin’ up thae mppences —London 8 Punch. * [l The Others. Rt b I have kingd among my ancestors.” Base gains are the same as lossex.—, Hesiod. e S e e— ' Depew's Great Sponch “When' 1 ‘was a very: young man,” Senator ‘Depew once related. 1 went out to make a political speech with some older men one night. They wang- ed something red hct. and I handed it out. #1 just turned -myself to skin’the op- position. and, on the whole, the audi- ence seemed to like it. The more they cheered .the more I warmed to it. - 1 was immensely pleased: with my suc- cess. - But after I got hone I was wor- ried. 1 had roasted the other side awfully. I lay awake wondering if | it wouldn’t react and injure our side more than the opposition. “Then I bethought of some personal allusions I had made that might eas- ily be constructed/as libelous. I got a good defll excited and slept very lit- tle. In the morning I hurried down to _see whether the papers had roasted me. The meeting was reported all over the front page. I plunged into it, shivering in nervousness. But I needn’t have worried. What it said about my speech was in the last two lines: # ‘A young man named Depew also spoke.’ ”—New York Telegram. i Collecting an Old Debt. The other day the manager of a fur- niture house in town asked one of his star salesmen to collect a bill of long standing, for which the regular col- lector--had -been-unable to get cash. | The manager toid his man to-threaten a lawsuit if necessary. The salesman said he would collect it without that «nd went to the delinquent’s office. He put the bill in the band of his derby hat; and with the hat held nonchalant- ly in his left hand he strolled into the .inner shrine. The man at the desk looked at him inquiringly and then glanced down at the conspicuous bill. “Well, what is it?” he asked. “Pardon - me.” said the salesman in his ‘best manner, *but could you tell me is Mr. Jones dead?” “Why, no! I’'m Mr. Jones.” “Thank you. That's all I wanted to know,” said the salesman and walked abruptly from' the room. Next day a check came for the amount.—New York Sun. Saving the Union. Dnm we had a national game it was silly, according to Ellis Parker Butler in ‘Success Magazine, to speak of the loose group of states as a nation, The people had too much time. in which to talk politics, and whenever they talked politics they became angered, and whenever they were angered . they wanted to secede or knock spots off each other. ' There was no one great unifying spirit. There was too much “Maryland, My Maryland,” and *Yan- kee Ddodle’”” and not any *“Casey at the Bat.” All the animus that is now di- recled at the umpire class was allow- ed to foment into sectional feeling. A may from Baltimore and a man from ‘Boston could’ not meet and talk in- curves; they had -to talk slaves. Im- agine the benighted state of society! It is'a wonder that the nation lasted until: baseball arose in its might and strength to make of us one great peo- ple! When Finished. Busy persons, forced to defend them- selves from interminable talkers who have little to say. can appreciate a hint to- which Henry IV. of France once re- sorted. A parliamentary deputy called upon him and made a long: speech. The king listened patiently for a time, then he decided thathis visitor would do well to condense his remarks. He took him by the hand and led him to where they could see the gallery of the Louvre. p “What do you think of that building? ‘When it is finished it will be a good thing. will it not?” “Yes,” replied the man of many words, not guessing what was coming next. “Well, monsieur, that is just the way with your discourse,” was the king’s mild observation. Peculiarities of the Opossum. The 'American opossum is one of the most curious animals living in the United States. It is the only one that carries its young in a pouch like the kangaroo. ‘It is the only animal that can feign death perfectly. It is re- markable for hanging by its tail like a monkey. It ‘has hands resembling those of a human being. Its snout is like a ‘hog’s. while its mouth is liber- ally furnished with:teeth. - Its eyes are like a rat’s, and it hisses like a snake. Little by Little. The Young Wife (showing her furni- ture)—Here’s the rocking chair for the parlor. Isn’t it just lovely? Mrs. '0ldly (rather critically)—But I don’t 'see any rockers, dear. The Young ‘Wife—Oh, they’ll be here next month, You see, we are buying the chair on the installment plan, and we haven’t paid: for the rockers yet.”—San Fran- cisco Ch;onlc_le. 1 Westminster Abbe; -~ The full legal title of Westminster abbey. fs “th Colleglabe Church ot st. | Peter, Westminster.”. .Very few peo- ave:Heatd the famous butial place les! egl A colleglate church, as distinguished from a parish church, is ,one thiat is administered;by.a “col,lege" of priests insfend of an individual rec- tor or vicar.—Westminster Gazette. 4 Ahoth.r Way. - ‘Why don’t you throw away this old | junk? Tt s of no use to any one.” & “But th;r would muke me feel waste- ful” s “fihen glve it away and feel chari-| g tabl&"—Washmgm Herald. WHAT? F-U-R,--M-2 Headed for the City Drug Store. You know that they have moved to 309 Beltrami Avenue aad it’s the prettiest little store in the State. They have the swellest things for Christmass [|Gifts you can possibly imagine. FOR THE LADIES Silver Toilet'Sets..... $2.00 to $15.00 | Gold Toilet Sets..... 3.00 to 12.00 Ebony Toilet Sets.... 1.00 to 6.00 ‘Walnut Toilet Sets... 2.00 to- 5.00 Rosewood Toilet Sets. 1.00 to 6.50 Jewel Cases—Silver.. 1.25to 3.00 Jewel Cases—Gold... .75to 5.00 Jewel Cases—Leather 1.00 to 6.00 Triple Mirrors....... .75 to 3.50 Hand Mirrors.. .d0to 5.00 Manicure Sets. . .50 to .5.00 Music Bags Fancy Wisk Brooms % ‘Writing ‘Sets Stationery Traveling Sets Perfume Atomizers Post Card Albums Handkerchie€: Boxes Glove Boxes Puff Boxes Desk Novelties Palmer,s Xmas Perfumes 10c to $10 Toilet Waters........... 25¢ to $2 Brushes and Combs Pictures Photo Holders Novelties of all Kinds 25¢ to $1.25 Hudson’s Xmas Candies 10c to $2.00 ‘The New City Better come along with me—Here’s some of the things they have; | FOR THE MEN I Shaving Sets. ..$1.00 to $5.00 Collar and Cuff Boxes. .75 to 3.00 Collar and Cuff Bags.. .50 to '2.00 Safety Razors..... .. 1.00 to 850 Smokers’ Sets. . 150 to 4.00 Tobacco Jars. .50 to 3.50 Fancy Pipes.. .50 to 3.00 Hat & Clothes Brushes 35 to 2.50 Necktie Boxes....... .75 to 200 Fancy Ink Wells. 35 to .75 Desk Novelties . 25 to ‘.50 Bill Books . 50to 2.00 Post Card Album.... .50to, 1.50 Cigars, per box. 1.00 to " 6.00 Traveling Sets 1.50 to 5.00 Muffler Boxes.. 50to 2.00 Card Cases Fancy Playing Cards Palmer’s Toilet Waters Stationery Ash Trays Necktie Holders Den Supplies of all kinds Pipe Racks Shaving Mugs and Brushes 50c to $2 Military Brushes...... «o..$1to $8 Drug Store ( Where Quality Prevails) 309 Beltrami Ave.} Phone 52 LIEGLER & LZIEGLER GO “THE LAND MEN" INSURANCE ‘LIFE Real Estate in All lts Branches = ACCIDENT FARM LANDS BOUGHT AND SOLD Go to Them for Quick Action Office--Schroeder Building Did YourCoffee TasteJustRight This Morning? Isn’t it true that every time you drink a cup of coffee you say to yourself or someone els: that the coffee is rather good or bad? Your sense of taste either approves orcon- demns every cup yqQu drink. And isn’t it also true that you condemn more cups then you approve? That simply shows you haven’t yet found the coffee that just suits you. Perhaps no other coffee has had as much good said of it as our Chase & Sanborn brand. And the only reason is that there’s so0 much good init. ~ Won’t you try a pound of it—Pass judgement . on every cup of that pound you drink. Your verdict will be a re-order. ement in all our faculties. ~BIalr. I ) A —— e 28 50 0 o 44 MNECCENATIA/IC DA,