Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 14, 1910, Page 8

22 SALOONS TO GLOSE Lid”’ Being Clapped onin Washington, With More to Follow. Seattle, Dec. 14.—Two hundred and twelve saloons in the state of Washington will have their doors barred at midnight Dec. 31, as a re- sultof the November election. This is the summarized outcome of fifty-four focal option elections held Ilast month. It is estimated that in a year from now there will not be a saloon in the state, not'even in Seattle, Tacoma, or Spokane. The campaign carried on by the Anti-Saloon league the past year was extensive and the spirit of its meetings was felt all over the state on election day. Of the 69,180 square miles contained in the state 42,641 are included in the great oasis tnat has now been deprived of its wells. Everett and Bellingham are the two largest towns captured by the “drys” and it is said Spokane will be the first of the cities to yield. How Did He Know? Joe, the fat 'boy in the “Pickwick Papers,” spent most of his time in slumber. He was happier that way. Probably there are a good many other people in the world a good deal like Joe, but most of them do not get the chance for sleep that he had. This scrap of conversation, recently over: heard. would seem to indicate that. al- though this is a nervous age, the de- sire for sleep is not wholly dead. *I don’t feel well.”” remarked Smith as he took off his coat in the office, preparatory to sitting down at his «desk. “The trouble with me is that I thaven't slept as | should. I don’t feel <vell unless l're:.slept." “That's the same way with me,” re- marked his partoer. *In fact, I think 1 feel best of all when I'm sound asleep. "—Y_outh's Companion. KNOWN VALUES PUBLISHERS CLASSIFIED ADVERTIS- ING ASSOCIATION PAPERS ‘WE ARE MEMBERS Papers in all parts of the States and Canada. Your wants supplied—anywhere an$ sime by the best mediums in the country. Get our membership lists—Check papers rou want. We do the rest. Publishers Classified Advertising Associa- tionm, Buffalo, N, Y. New-Cash-Want-Rate ',-Gent-a-Word Where cash accompames copy we will publish all “Want Ads"for half- cent a word per insertion. Where cash does not accompany copy the regular rate of one ceut a word will be charged. EVERY HOME HAS A WANT AD For Rent--For Sale--Exchange --Melp Wanted--Work Wanted -=Etc.--Etc. HELP WANTED. WANTED—Woman cook at State Sanatorium near Walker; muat have had experience in general cooking; good wages. Apply to Superintendent State Sanatorium, Cass Co., Minn. WANTED — Girl for genera) housework. 713 Beltrami Ave, L. . Crothers, WANTED—Giri for general house- work. Mrs. D. Gill, 707 Beltrami ave. WANTED—Laundry girl Hotel Markhamn. FOR SALE FOR SALE—Fine phonograph in perfect shape with records ~for sale or will trade for wood. Call Sunday or evenings on week days, 1024 Beltrami ave. FOR SALE—Hotel with bar both doing good business. Reason for selling, poor health. Address Joe Sachapelle. Little Fork, Minn. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. EOR SALE—Six room house 1103 Mississippi Ave. This is a snap if taken at once. H. M. Young. FOR SALE—Six year old pony, sleigh, good buggy and harness, $#125. J. H.Grant. FOR SALE—Residence lots one block from school building. Ap- ply H. M. Young. b FOR RENT. FOR RENT—Five room house 417 Minn. ave. Call at Henrionnet Millinery Parlors. FOR RENT—Four room cottage, 1014 American Ave. Phone 461. Kingsley's Stammering. Charles Kingsley loved talking, had an enormous deal to say on every con- ceivable subject and longed to say it. But his stammer was always checking him. He gurgled and gasped and made faces and would sometimes break off in a conversation or a meal, rush out into the open air and liber- ate his suppressed emotions by rapid exercise or physical exertion. Yet, as has often been observed in similar cases, when he had to preach the stammer subsided, and, though there was some facial contortion, the flow of the discourse was never interrupt- ed. 'He said to his friend Tom Hughes: “I could be as great a talker as any man in England but for my stammering. When I am speaking for God in the pulpit or paying by bed- sides I never stammer. My stammer is a blessed thing for me. It keeps me from talkmg in company and from going out as much as I should do but for it.”—G. W. E. Russell in Winches- ter Guardian. Lisbon In Pepys’ Times. Pepys’ Diary gives an .unflattering picture of the Lisbon court in his day. On Oct. 17, 1661, he talked with Cap- tain Lambert, fresh from “Portugall,” who told him it was ‘“a very poor, dirty place—1 mean the city and court of Lisbon; * * * that there are no glass windows, nor will they have any; * * * that the king has his meat sent up by a dozen of lazy guatds and in pipkins sometimes to his own table and sometimes nothing but fruits and now and then half a hen. And now that the infanta is become our queen she is come to have a whole hen or goose to her table, which is not ordi- nary.” Some few months later, when some ‘‘Portugall ladys” had come to London, Pepys found them “not hand- some and their farthingales a strange dress. * * * [ find nothing in them that is pleasing, and I see they have learnt to kiss and look freely up and down already and I do believe will soon forget the recluse practice of their own country.” Opportunity. There is a story of a sculptor who once showed a visitor his studio, which was full of gods, some of them very curious. The face of one was entirely concealed by the hair, and there were wings on each foot. The visitor asked this statue’s name. “QOpportunity,” was the reply. “And why is his face hidden?” “Because men seldom know him when he comes to them.” “Why has he wings on.his feet?’ “Because he is soon gone and once gone can never be overtaken,” was the reply. We all know the story of the man who sold the old farm which he had barely been able to get a living” from during his entire life and his amaze- ment and chagrin when the new own- er discovered gold upon the land the first week of his ownership. A great many of us are in that very condition with regard to our opportunities if we did. but know it.—Washington Star. Pampered Pups. The dog doctor was making out a bill for the month’s expenses of a Japa- nese spaniel. The items were room rent, board, medical attendance and electric light. “Blectric light?” exclaimed his sec- retary. “What on earth does a dog need with electric light?” “He doesn’t need it at all,” said the doctor, “but his owner has ordered it, and he has been supplied with two eight-candle power lights every even- ing he has been in the hospital. He is one of these spoiled pups who were put to bed in a light room in their in- fancy, and now he cannot sleep in the dark. We always have two or three of that kind on hand. They occupy a special ward where the lights burn all night long.”—New York Sun. Collar as a Verb. The verb “collar” has long been used transitively, meaning to ‘‘seize or take hold of a person by the collar; more loosely, to capture.” The verb was thus employed early in the seventeenth century. Steele in the Guardian, No. 84, wrote, “If you advised him not to collar any man.” Other instances are Gentleman’s Magazine, 1762, “His lord- ship collared the footman who threw it,” and Marryat's sentence in “Peter Simple,” “He was collared by two French soldiers.” A Tenant For Life. “Have you boarded long at this house?”’ inquired the new boarder of the sour, dejected man sitting next to him. “About ten years.” “I don't see how you can stand it. Why haven’t you left long ago?” “No other place to go,” said the other dismally. “The landlady’s my wife.” The Family Scrap Book. Mrs. Sauers (to Willy ‘as minister calls to see Mr. Sauers)—Willy, is your father in? . Willy—Yes; he’s upstairs looking over your scrap book. Mrs. Sauers (puzzled)—You mean my family account book? Willy—Well, it’s all the same. He and you always have a scrap every time he goes over it. “Portrait of a Gentleman.” The Professor—Can you define a gen- tleman, Miss Cutting? The Suffragette (fcily)—Certainly. © A gentleman was contemporaneous with the old masters, who often painted his portrait.—Ex- change. Suited His Temperament. “Grooge is a very grouchy sort of man, isn’t he?” “Yes. Won't even ride in anything but a sulky.”’—Baltimore American. Seek knowledge as if ‘thou wert to be Yere forever.—Herder. | ries a fine figure of St. Tricking ® Game Warden. When a game warden bought seven pounds of meat and paid a dollar a pound for it he thought he was. get- ting some pretty convincing evidence against a man in Herkimer county | whom he supposed to be a chronic violator of the game law. . The pro- tector found. this pgflcnlm‘ piece of meat in an icehouse one hot ‘August day, and he spotted it for venison. “What will you take for that chunk of meat?”’ he asked the owner. “That’s a tender piece of meat,” re- plied the woodsman, with a wink at the 'stranger, *‘and meat is dear way back up here. I wouldn’t part with it for less 'n a dollar a pound.” “Well, give me a pound.” “Nope; couldn’t do that. It would spile the piece for cookin’ to do.that.” The game warden had to take the whole thing, and he paid $7 for it, sat- isfled that he had caught one of the worst game law violators in the Adi- rondacks. Down to Albany he sent the meat for the forest, fish and game commission to analyze to prove it ven- ison. But it ‘wasn’t. Wt was veal The backwoodsmen tell the story as one of (he best' jokes ever played on a game protector—New York Tribune. Columns of St. Mark. . Two memorable g¥anite columns, known as the columns of St. :Mark, brought from the Holy Land in 1120 and standing in front of the quay and landing steps of the Piazzeta, have been associated with the fortunes of Venice for many years. At first they lay prostrate for a long time, while no one would undertake to raise them. But a reward offered by the doge at length induced one Nicolo Barratiero (Nick the Blackleg) to offer his serv- ices. He succeeded and claimed as his reward the privilege of carrying on between the columns games of chance, elsewhere prohibited by law. To neutralize this as much as possible it was enacted that all public execu- tions should take place on the same spot. One column is surmounted by the Lion of St. Mark. "The other car- Theodore, the patron saint of the city, who stands upon a crocodile and with sword and buckler gives token that the motto of Venice is “Defense, Not Defiance.” Montevideo Engfisfi. A letter from a concern in Monte- video, South America, to a Chicago firm: “My dear sir: We\know; you ask for agents. We can offer you this. Our office has the representation many ar- ticles we can offer the representation your’s. We ought to know you; we have placemen and gadders whose business is only to sell our articles. Our business is diffused till some bra- silian villages; where the american ar- ticles are worth of the hinghest atten- tion. Our mind is that, the diffuse of the news is the best middle for the know; all things; and we don’t stop-in middles for its circulation; we have decided the appear of The Commercial Review next issue where you can be felow labourers: and we with no one expendituru; that is; to say always: you dispense us any cassines.” We like “gadders,” *as applied tO‘ traveling men, don't you?—Chicago Tribune, He Found His Man, Englishmen are rather fond of pok- ing fun at those parts of Great Britain where other than the Anglo-Saxon ele- ment is dominant, and a favorite sub- jet for jest is the prevalence of the Jones family in Wales. One of the colleges of Oxford univer- sity was much resorted to by Welsh-~ men. A man from another college looking for a friend went into its q\u\d rangle and shouted, “Jones!” All the windows looking on the quad rangle fiew open. “l mean John . Jones,” searcher. Half the windows closed. “I mean the John Jones who has 8 toothbrush,” he explained. All the windows closed but one.— Topeka State Journal. said the A stitch of Pain. A stitch is & sharp, spasmodic pain in the muscles of the side like' the piercing of a needle and is. very apt to be produced if exercise is taken im- mediately after a hearty meal. This arises because the nervous energy :nec- essary for the proper working of the muscles in exercise is engaged in an- other direction—namely, in assisting the digestion of the food. Anything that interferes with the proper supply of mervous energy required. for exer- cise, whether it be debility or the proc- ess of ‘digestion or exhaustion arising from overexertion, is apt to cause this spasmodic pain. Adam’s, Sister. - The palm tree has always been: ven- erated wherever it' grows; in some places it i8 worshiped. “Honor the palm tree,” says a Mohammedan writ- er, “for she is your father’s aunt, for this tree was formed of the remainder of the clay from which Adam was cre- ated.” £ She Knew. Farmer Hanks (musingly)—They say. the deacon’s wife was a paragon be- fore he married . her, and— ~Mrs. Hanks—Nothing of the kind! I know the whole family, and she was a Smith! Always. Agent — This speedometer wlll en- able you to know how fast you are going. Otto Feend—I don’t need one. My bank balance tells me just as ‘well. —Life. Envy, like flanie, blackens that which 18 above it and-which it cannot reach.-- Virgil, O 1 Pardee. . gle stem .of the plow and the other | TULIP MADNESS. The Craze That Raged In Holland |n the Last Century. During the tulip craze in Holland in the last century in one year the gales -aggregated 10,000,000 'florins. Holland went tulip mad. The bulbs were quot- ed on the Stock Exchange. Ownership ‘In them was divided into shares. Spec- ulators sold them short. At one time more tulips were sold than existed. At Lille a brewer sold his trade and good will in exchange for a bulb, which was thereafter known as the Brewery tu- lip. In Amsterdam a father gave one by way of dower with his child. There- after the variety was known as the Marriage of My Daughter. At Rotter- dam a hungry saifor, happening on a few. mistook them. for onions and ate them. The repast became as famous as Cleopatra’s pearls and probably ex- ceeded it in cost. At The Hague a poor fellow. managed to raise a black tulip. The rumor of that vegetable marvel spread. Presently he.was vis- | ited by a deputation from a syndicate. For that ewe lamb of his the deputa- tion offered 1.000 florins, which he re- fused. He was offered 10,000 florins. Still he refused. Cascades of gold “were poured before his resisting eyes. Finally, tormented and tempted. he succumbed. There and then the depu- tation trampled that tulip under their ‘feet. Afterward it appeared that the syndicate had already grown a gem precisely similar and. unable to bear the idea that 1 rival existed. had au- thorized the deputation if needful to offer ten times the amount which it paid. PICKED AN ODD NAME. An Author’s Long Search and a Sub- sequent Surprise. When Albion W. Tourgee wrote “A Fool's, Errand™- he named one of his leading characters Theron Pardee. An early copy of the book fell into the hands of the Rev. Luther Pardee, an Episcopal clergyman of Chicago. whose father was named Thereon Pardee. The name is such an unusual combina- tion that in amazement the rvector showed the book to his father, and they were both puzzled by the coinci- dence. They decided to write Judge Tourgee and ask him what bad led him to use the name. He replied, in equal amazement, that he had not supposed there was such a man living as a The- ron Pardee. Then he stated that he bad a prolonged search for a suitable name for the character of his’story— 'one that would express just what he imagined this character to be. In the course of the hunt an old copy of the curriculum of Union college had fallen into, his hands. It was dated 1825, or something as far back. and among the names of the students-was one Thereon The judge said it bad im- pressed him as being one of the rich- est. most solid and most satisfying ‘| names he ever had_heard, so he decid- ed to adopt it for bis character. The curriculum was so old that be had no hesitation in upsing the name. and he was astonished to learn that the right- ful owner of it was living. His expla- nation was accepted and the resulting acquaintance was pleasing all around. =-New York Press. The Arab Plowman, To see an Arab steering a yoke of oxen, one hand pressed upon the sin- bolding the long. slim goad. is to see a living f{llustration of how Elisha looked and moved when Elijah found him plowing and cast his cloak upon him in significant symbolism of his destiny. It has often been remarked that, while imperishable relics of Ro- man stonework abound in northern Africa in the form of bridges. aque- ducts and so forth, the impress left on the people themselves by the great- est civilizing power that ever existed Is extraordinarily slight. Only in some such insignificant detals as the names of the months in the Kabyle dialect is the stamp of Rome still visible. and in the system of hiring labor in the Tell .there survives a custom belong- ing to the early days of the Roman republic.—Wide World Magazine. Ancient Spectacle Makers, The ancient Guild of Spectacle Mak- ers is numerically one of the strongest London companies. Its charter dates from the year 1629 and, though the ex- act date of its origin is lost, there is ample evidence that the calling of $pectacle maker was extensively fol- lowed at a very early date. An old book of 1563 mentions the spectacle makers among other traders, and the blography of Carlo Zeno, an illustrious Venetian, who died in 1418, mentions that even at the age of eighty-four he needed no artificial aids to his sight. 8o presumaljy spectacles were com- mon-in ‘Italy five centuries ago.—Lon- don Telegraph. / ) Different Altogether. Visitor (consolingly to Tommy, who has upset a bottle -of ink on the new carpet)—Tut. my boy, there is no use crying over spilt milk, Tommy — Course not. Any duffer knows that. All you've got to do is call in the cat and she’ll lick it up. But this don’t- happen to be milk, an' .mamma will do the lickin'. An Account to Settle. The Lawyer—Madam, [ find that | your husband’s will leaves you nothing but_ what the law compelled him to leave you. The Widow (angry and for- getful)—Just wait till I see him! An Example. Knicker—They say that in 38,000 vears Niagara will stop flowing. Mrs. Knicker—That 'makes me hope the plumber will get our leak fixed yet. Yarper's Bazar. In Balls. 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BooKS.teeetiiiiiiiiins 25c to §1.25 Hudson’s Xmas Candies 10c to $2.00 The New ity 309 Beltrami Ave.7 The Crows and the Snake. “Strollihg in Burma one day,” says a writer in the London Field, “I came to a ditch bridge, and about ten yards off there was a mass of black soft mud caused by buffaloes rolling. On the bridge was a small brown snake about two feet in length. This snake is an ordinary jungle inhabitant and is very venomous. Surrounding him were a mob of some dozen crows. Whenever the ‘snake attempted to escape the nearest bird would jump in and jerk it back by the tail. The crows generally kept just out of the snake’s reach, but ,on three separate occasions the birds were struck. “Immediately on being bitten a crow flew over to the wet mud and swal- lowed three or four mouthfuls with- out a pause. It then perched up in a tree and took no further part in the fight. The incident ended in the snake escaping between the planks of the bridge. What interests me is why did the stricken. birds eat the mud? Was it taken as a kind of antidote or what was the reason?” A Lesson With His Autograph. An admirer once wrote to Lowell de- scribing’ his autograph collection and concluding with the remark. *1 would be much obliged for your autograph.’ The reply came. bearing with it a les: 8on- on the correct use of the words “would” and “should.”” which deeply impressed itself on the mind of the re- cipient. The response read: Pray, do not say hereafter, *'I would be obliged.” obliged and have done with it. S8ay, *1| | should be obliged,’” and-oblige yours truly, el 8 JAMES RUSSELL' LOWELL. Who Have Been Waiting For No. 3 Pearl Lustre and Royal Society Floss Came this Morning, 0'Leary-Bowser Go. 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Ave. Bemidji, Minn HORSES We are ready at all times to fill your horse requiremeants and make a special feature of handling the logging trade. Fill your wants at_the big Stock Yards market where a large tock 1s always oc hand lnfl where the best . - fo eS prevail for ST. PAUL HORSE M.‘ST. PAUL, Migh. f “The House m a Horse Reputation.” | Monufucturers,of GAS. GASGLINE acd STEAM ENGINES, PULLEYS, € HARGERS, SHAFTING, CLUTCHES and all POWER TRANSHICSION SUPPLIES, direct tc fhe consumer Largeat Machine Shop in the West MINNEAPGCLIS STEEL AND MACHINEPY CO. MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. R.F. MURPHY 'FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Office 313~ -Ituml Ave. 5 ‘Phong 319-2. 3 w . ’“&