Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 12, 1910, Page 4

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY [ THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. H. DENU, G. E. CARSON. Entered In the Postoffics Minnessta, s second SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YFAR IN :DVANGE CITY OF BEMIDIJI Couaty Sea Popllltmn—ln 1900, 1500; in 1910, 7000. Summer Resort—Hundreds of outsiders make their summer homes on Lake Be- - midji. Fishing, boating and bathing ac- commodations are second to none in the United States. Area—Ten square miles incorporated. Altitude—1400 feet above sea level. Water Power—2200 developed horse- power, Mississippi river. Water—Absolutely pure. Two artesian wells. ‘Water Mains—About ten.miles. Boating—500}miles by lake and river. Death Rate—5.4 a thousand in 1908. Annual Rainfall—33.7 inches. Temperature—20 above, winter; = 75 summer, mean. Sewer Mains—About!fivefmiles. { Cement Sidewalks—Twelve miles. Lakeshore Drives—Ten miles. Parks—Two. Water Frontage—Ten miles, and Mississippi river. A Home Town—1600 residences. Taxpayers—1200. Charches—8. School Houses—Four. Bank Deposits—$800,000. Manufactures—Hardwood handles, lum per, lath, shingles, and various other industries. Great Distributing [Point—Lumber prod- ucts, groceries_flour, feed and hay. Postal Receipts—$17,000 for 1909, 10th place in stateoutside of St. Paul, Minne- apolis and}Duluth. Railroads—Great Northern. Minnesota & International, M., R. L. & M., Minneapolis St. Paul & Sault {Ste. Marie, Wilton & Northern, Grand Forks to Duluth, and Bemidji-Sauk Centre. Railroad Depots—Three. » Passenger Trains—Fourteen}daily. Hospitals—One. Distances—To St. Paul, 5230 miles; to Daluth, 167 miles. Hotels—Fifteen. Breweries—One. Sawmills—Four. Handle Factories—One. ‘Wholesale-Houses—Four. Banks—Three. Auto Garages—Une. two lakes Wisdom is better than riches, also easier to get. The frost that was on the pump- kin has now got irto the pump. Cut out the unnecessary talk and you’ll be surprised at the little you will have to say. The meanest man is not the town drunkard; it is the fellow who stays sober to think up meaness. True, the cost of living is higher than it was once; but living today.is worth more to those who are alive. If you amount to enough to have people hate you, it might be constru- ed to mean that you amount to more than the average man. If legislators are wise they will cut the session down just to em- phasize the fact that they cannot live on their salarys. i One of the main questions in life is whether the democrats will not develop insurgents as soon as the next congress meets. A man who has just served two years for bigamy announces that he is about to study for the ministry. Probably he has a deep laid plot to; marry other people, and seeks re- course by trying to get even. “When I was president of a rail- road 15 years ago,” says-Chauncey M. Depew. “a railroad president was a pretty big chap. ' He could do almost anything he wantedto. Now all he can do is to run his road.” Probably some of the things the rail- road presidents used to do are the cause of the governmert’s taking control. Besides, railroad owaers —the big magnates who control everything—have more to say than they used to about what their execu- tivé officers shall do. —— Al This republic of ours has been skating through history at a merry clip. In noperiod of the world’s history has population made the. strides as has ours in recent years. wi h the exception perhaps when Rome was invaded by the hordes of Atilla, and England by the Normans. History, has been made more sur- prising. during the past ten years than was ever dreamed = of by our forefathers. The next ten years will undergo” even greater changes than the past ten. 5 Take Your Choice. From Sir John Lubbock we take this ennobling thought: “You may see in a shallow pool eithef the mud lying at the bottom or the image of the blue sky above.” Feed Him. If you want to win the gratitude of a dog, feed him. As to men, the ma- teria] difference Is the quality of the- food.—Baltimore News. Orders All the Time. First Commercial—Yes. 1 am just back from a three months’ trip on the road. Second Commercial—Get many orders. old man? First Commercial— You bet! I took my wife with me! At the men's service in a1 Yorkshire parish the vicar tried to t-onvey “the lesson that the triiest heroes and hero- ines are those who do noble deeds in }p the secret corner of the home, where none can see or applaud. “Few of you seem to think,” he con- cluded, ‘‘that your. wives staying at home uncomplainingly to mind the children and prepare the meals are heroines, and yet their touching devo- tion to duty proves them to be s0."" It certainly hadn’t struck one old farmer in this way before, and as:soon as he got home he promptly told his wife that the vicar had called her 2 heroine. “Whatever does that mean?’ asked the good lady. **Ob, it means a woman who stnvs in t' house instead of goin’ wurt to show hersen,” explained the farmer vaguely. “Then I'm not a heroine, an’ I'll thang t' vicar to mind what he's say- in’,” snapped the wife. *I go to his church as much as t’ other women do, an’ he must be blind if he can’t see me. Why, I'd five different colors in t' bonnet I wore last Sunday!’—Lon- don Spectator. i The First Balloons. The chemical philosophers have dis- covered a body (which I have. forgot- ten, but will inquire) which dissolved by an acid emitS a vapor lighter than the ntmnspheflmfl air. This vapor is caught, among other,means, by tying a bladder compressed upon the bottle in which the dissolution is performed. The vapor, rising, sweils the bladder and fills ‘it. ‘The bladder is then tied and removed and amnother applied till as much of this light air is collected as is ' wanted. “Then a large spherical case is made, and very large it must be, of the lightest matter that can be found, secured by some method like that of oiling silk against all passage of air. Into this are emptied all the bladders of light air, and if there is light air enough it mounts into the clouds upon the same principle as a bottle filled with water will' sink in water, but a bottle filled with ether will float. It rises till it comes to air of equal tenuity with its own if wind or wuterdoes not spoil it on the way. Such, madam, is an air balloon.—From Dr. Johnson's Letter, Sept. 22, 1783, to Mrs. Thrale. A . Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata ™ The story runs that Beethoven's ““Moonlizht Sonata”—always so called, though he so rarely gave a descriptive name to any of his works—was com- posed on an occasion when he had been playing to some stranger folk by chance. WalKing with a friend, he overheard in a humble house some one playing ¥ mnch feeling a bit ‘of one of his sonatas. Te paused to listen. In a mament the music ceased, and a girl spoke longingly of her wish to hear some really gocd concert. The «voice was so appealing that the com- poser stepped 'without hesitation to the door and knocked. Admitted to the wondering host, he said, “I will play for you,” and played wonder- fully till the lamp burned out. Then with the moonlight filling the room he began to improvise—the mysterious delicate breathings of the beginning of that wonderful sonata, then the tricksy elf-like second part, and the glory of the close.—Christian Science Monitor. Long Words. ‘While our language does not contain such long words as are found in some other tongues nor so many words of unusual length, still we have several that are awkwardly long for conversa- tional purposes. We have “philopro- genitiveness,” with twenty letters; “in- terconvertibilities,” with twenty-one; “intercommunicabilities,” with twenty- two; “disproportionableness,” with twenty-three, and “transsubstantiation- alists” and “contradistinguishability,” each containing twenty-four letters. An effective little word is ‘“synacategore- - matic,” as it manages to compress eight syllables into seventeen letters. The longest monosyllables contain nine letters, and there are four ex- amples: “splotched,” “squelched,” #strengths” and ‘stretched.” — New York Tribune. Printers’ Marks. - The interrogation mark or “pemt™ (?) was originally a “q" and an “o” the latter placed under the former. They were simply ‘the first and last letters of the Latin word ‘“questio.” So, too, with the sign of exclamation or interjection (!). In its original pu- rity it was a combination of “1” and ‘“0,” the latter underneath, as in the question mark. The two stood for “lo,” the Latin exclamation of joy. The paragraph mark is a Greek “p,” the initial of the word paragraph. The early printers employed a dagger to show that a word or sentence was ob- Jectionable and should be cut out. A Silent Man. Jorkins—There’s Perkins—you know Perkins—entered into an agreement with his wife soon after their mar- riage, twenty years ago, that when- evér either lost temper or stormed the other was to keep silence. Bob—And the scheme worked? Jorkins—Adami- rably. Perkins has kept silence for twenty years. - Lot 1, 8c. Lot 2, 10c. E.. ’ ; = : One More Sweeping Reduction in Prices At The Bazaar Store We now have but three weeks.in which to close out the balance of our stock. Everything that we have is high class goods; a purchase here will mean a much lower price than elsewhere. Christmas Gifts Why not buy your Christmas Gifts here?. | In our Dry Goods Dept. we have pretty dress materials, waists, a new line of Jabots, Neckwear, dainty Handkerchlefs, novelties, etc. etc., too numerous to mention. - | Muslin Undersets See the 4 piece muslin sets, fiothing nicer to be gotten for your mother, sister or wife. Prices, $3.75, $4.75, $6.25, $7.50 etc. KINKLEDOWN Handsome Kinkiedown for bath Robes. 65¢ now................ e COATS, SUITS, FURS. Everything in This Line at Less Than Gost Visit Our AnneXx Lot 3. 25c. Dolls For China, Vases, ToiletArticles, Toys,&c PICTURES : 1 lot 25¢ Pictures 15c. 1 lot 50c Pictures 25c. TOILET ARTICLES Gentlemen’s Traveling Case, Jewel Cases, Mirrors, Manicure, Writing and Toilet Sets, Smoking Sets, Ash Trays, etc. AII Less Than Cost fo Us VASES 1 lot Rozane Vases worth to $8.00 at $1.20. 3 only, Rozane Vases, former prices $10 at $2. All the Toys for the Little Folks 5c¢ to 75c. Doll heads 25c¢ to 50c. Checkers, Tiddledewinks, Banks, Balls, Toys, Blocks, etc., etc., 1Qc to 15c. Horns, Ten Pins, Blocks, Guns, Dishes, Books, Drums, etc., 10c to 50c. China We 'hajwe‘plac’ed our China as follows: Lot 4, 35c. Lot 5; 50c. Besides the articles we have placed in Lots we: have 1nd1v1dual ar- ticles which we will offer at Rock Bottom Prlces | | Lot 6, 75c. These chinas are dainty wares. 1n Haviland, Prussian, Bavarlan, Engllsh ware, etc., double, and treble their selling prrce. Regular price 43c Lot 7, $1.00. worth >