Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 19, 1910, Page 8

Imar’s Toilet Articles Nothing will make more suitable Xmas gifts. All are packed in neat Christmas packages. 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.. 125 to 3.00 Jewel Cases—Gold... .75to 5.00 Jewel Cases—Leather 1.00 to 6.00 Triple Mirrors....... .75 to 3.50 Hand Mirrors........ .10to 5.00 T T i Manicure Sets........ .50 to 5.00 | FOR THE MEN | Shaving Sets.......... $1.00 to $5.00 Uollar and Cuff Boxes. .75 to 3.00 Collar and Cuff Bags.. .50 to 2.00 Safety Razors.. . 1.00 to 8.50 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 2.00 Fancy Ink Wells..... 35 to .75 Desk Novelties. 25 to .50 Bill Books .. .0to 200 Post Card Album.... .50to .1.50 Cigars, per box...... 1.00 to 6.00 “Traveling Sets ...... 150 to 5.00 Muffler Boxes........ .50to 2.00 Gity Drug Store WHERE QUALITY PREVAILS Provides a charming means of making a Fudge, Newburg, Rarebit or any dainty | bite in the midst of a gathering. | _Most convenient and economical for* fryu}gast.cnk. warming a soup or pre. paringa light meal. ““Rochester” Chafing Dishes possess style and finish that distinguish them from all others, andthe most practical andeconomic- lamp ever invented. © We are now showing some very new and attractive designs and invite you to call and seethem, Given Hdw. Co. ‘This Recipe Book wita every Rochester Chate ing Dish, New Machine Capable of Stamping 1,000 Envelopes Every Hour. A machine capable of addressing 1,000 envelopes an Hour has been installed by the Barker Jewelry and Drug store. The machine, known as an “Ad- dressograph” was made necessary by the expanding volume of business by the Barker store and the deter- mination of that institution to keep in close touch with its 2,000 patrons. The mechanism of the Addresso- graph is simple.. By means of a card system and stencils the names are printed on the envelopes by pressing a foot pedal. It is so nicely arranged that the names can be stamped on the envelopes conse- cutively, repeated or skipped, at the desire of the operator. Tenstrike Locals. ! Mrs. M. E. Knappen left Fri- day morning for Minneapolis where she will attend the funeral of her brother-in-law, T. F. Kappen which took place Saturday. Miss Elizabeth Marphy has re- signed her position as bookeeper in S. E. Thompson’s and has gone to her home in Bemidji. . £d Swmith who has been confined to his house for the past week on account of rheumatism is able to be at work again. Miss Elizabeth MacGregor spent the week end with her sister near Funkley. \ & Card of Thanks, We desire to express our thanks to the friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted us during the short illness and sudden death of our wife and sister; and far the sympathy ex- tended tous. Frank Smith Emma Everson. Mrs. John Matsaq Lucky He 8tuck to His Opinion. Pride of opinion is perhaps the most rommon fault of us fairly educated and intelligent moderns. We form our judgments and then, as it were, defy any one to_change them. It is said that no one has ever been converted by abstract argument. At the time of the great disaster in Martinique the Italian bark Orsolina was taking on a cargo of sugar there. Her captain was accustomed to volca- noes, and he did not like the appear- ance of Mont Pelee. Not haif his cargo was on board, but he decided to sail for home. *“The veolcano is all right.,” argued the shippers. *[Finish your loading.” *1 don't know. anything about Mont Pelee,” said the captain, “but if Vesu- vius looked that way I'd get out of Naples. and I'm going to, get right out of here.” 3 The shippers threatened him with arrest. They seut customs officers to detain him, but the captain persisted 4n’ leaving. Twenty-four hours later the shippers and the customs officers lay dead in ‘the ruins of St. Pierre.— Christian Herald. A Miser’s Luxury. There was a Middlesex couple once who lived on a sum to shock the most reckless of our correspondents. Daniel Dancer was the man. He looked on saving as an art and saved for art’s sake. His father left him a farm and eighty acres, and his sister helped him carry out his scheme of life. He let the land lie fallow. says the London Gest. It costs money to cultivate land. For food the couple believed in one day, one meal. The batch of dump- lings baked on a Saturday lasted out the week. For clothing he depended on hay bands “swathed round his feet for boots and round his body for a coat.” But Daniel. had a weakness. He would buy a clean-shirt eaeh year. And out of this arose the tragedy of his life—a lost lawsuit ‘over three- pence which, in Daniel’s judgment, the shirt seller had wrongfully pocketed. He died in 1794 worth £3.000 a year. Couldn’t Help Himself. “He lived next door to'a man for ten years without even learning his | meighbor’s name.” “Can you imagine anybody being so. unsociable!” “Oh, yes. You see, the warden wouldn’t let them talk.”—Birmingham Age-Herald. ¢ il Qne Consolation. . “My. wife is suing me for divorce,” sighed the man. *I wish I were dead.” “Cheer up. old boy. It’s a whole lot better to have your wife spending ali- mony ' than - life insurance.”’—Detroit Free Press. Close Mouthed. Caller—So your sister and her fiance are very close mouthed over their en- gagement?" Little fthel—Close mouth- ed! - You+ought-to see-them-together! —Auckland News, S — BARKERGET ADDRESSOGRAPH INCURABLE. 8ome Interference Wireless Operatort Cannot Overcome, _ Few are the steamer 'passengers whc fail to visit the wireless office aboar¢| ship to watch the operation of the in: struments and to question the oper- ator. Needless to say. the technical understanding of the well meaning visitors is a variable quantity. The ‘operator must listen to wondering ex: clamations, . original suggestions for the improvement of the service, dis courses on the relations between wire less telegraphy and spiritualism and other doubtful topies with uniform courtesy. At times, however. the strain is too great. It was a lady pas senger with an eye for details whc _came to the wireléss room and looked wonderingly in. “Oh, here’s the wireless! May 1 come in? Isn’t it wonderful to think of sending those—those waves—you call them waves, don’t you? -How fas- cinating to work at this! Are those jars filled with water?” “Those are condenser jars, madam quite empty.” “Really? 1 don't believe 1 could ever understand it. That coil of wire looks like a birdcage.” - “That is the inductance helix.” “What are those things over your ears?” “The receiving telephones.” “Then you have telephone connec: tion too. One can hardly keep ur with the times these days. What does that coll do?” “That is the receiving tuner and in- terference preventer.” “Wonderful! Does it keep out all in- terference?” “Not all,” replied the operator wea- rily. “Some kinds of interference can’t be tuned out; we just have to stand it.”—Youth’s Companion. EIGHT CENTS A DAY, Workers’ Pay In England When Board Was a Shilling a’Week. There was a time when a workman in England received 8 cents a day as an ordinary wage, when skilled ar- tisans commanded 12 cents>a day and when women worked in the field al such tasks as reaping straw, hoeing, planting beans and washing 'sheep for 2 cents a day, and a wise student of the subject has expressed the opin- fon that the British workman of that day was better off than he has ever been since then. 1 That sounds paradoxical. But the explanation is this: The workman| who' sold ‘his services for 8 cents a| day could buy good beef or mutton for | 1% cents a pound. Wheat tost him on the average only 18 cents a hushel. He could get- board:for 12 to 16.cents a week. The pay he would: receive-for: fifteen, weeks’ services: would: siiffice | to purchase a supply of suitable: food: stuffs, according to the standard ef his .time (consisting of wheat, malt andj oatmeal), to maintain his family - for ‘an entire year. bt B TUnder these circumstances 8 eentd'a ‘day—increased ‘to 12 ecents:in harvest time—was a fair wage, and “times| 'were good” for the average workman. ~—McClure’s Magazine. § Opera In Dumb Show. The late Clara Novello-in her remi- niscences tells how Malibran onee ap- peafed in “Sonnambula” without “ut: tering a note. She had taken cold and was prevented from singing at the ‘ last mowent, though crowds ef early comers already filled the house. “On_the manager telling her, in- de- spair, that, besides loss of money, these disappointed people would be dangerous she said, ‘I ‘can’t speak above my breath; I 'should have to do it :in' dymb show? caught. at this outburst as if seriously meant and on his knees begged her to try this, ‘and she, fired by the nov- elty, did so. The grateful public rav- ed in praise ‘of this surprising tour de force, and the sensation it made filled the papers.” Bathing Machines.. Somebody has inquired why “bath- ing machines,” the comfortable priva- cy of which for ocean bathing has never attracted bathers in this coun- try, are called machines, remarking that there is nothing of a machine about them except the horse which draws them to the beach. The answer has been found in the new Oxford Dictionary. It appears: that a :‘“mat chine” was originally a “structure:ef any kind, material or immaterial,” and has nothing to do with machinery, .4 later word, . Ships were called ma- chines, and it would have been proper to speak of a pulpit as a machine.— Argonaut. [ Laughter and Death. He can be said to have won the game of life who at the last can laugh. That final speech of O. Henry, the short story writer, was‘finer than any story he ever wrote. Just as he was dying he turned to the doctor and said; “Pull up the curtain, doc. I'm afraid to go bome in.the dark.” The speech had in it wide courage and a sense of, values. One forgives the royal Charles much frivolity for the sake of his dying gpeech, “Gentlemen, I fear I'm an un- conscionable time a-dying.”—Harper’s. A Complicated Case. | “Of course, doctor, German measles are seldom serious?”’ “I never met but one fatal case.” “Fatal?’ ¢ “Yes. It was a Frenchman, an when: he discovered it ‘was German measles that he had mortification set in.” _ Philosophy is nothing but.discretion. —Selden, 5 : Bunn) at_ once'| - MUZZLING ‘THE PRESS. A Much Favored Official Duty at One Time In England. ’.l‘here was a time in England when governmment officially viewed the press as a hostile power, to be destroyed if possible—to be curbed at any cost. In 1633 Roger L’Estrange, “overseer of the press,” brought out his “Consider- ations and Proposals In Order to the Regulation of the Press.” He advo- cated the severest restrictions for au- thors and printers, as well as for “the letter founders and the smiths and joiners that work upon the premises” L and “the stitchers, binders, stationers, hawkers, mercury women, peddlers, ballad singers, posts, carriers, hackney coachmen, boatmen and mariners.” A proposal of L'Estrange was that culprits convicted of having’trToken the law should be condemned “to wear some visible badge or mark of igno- miny, as a halter instead of a bat band, one stocking Dlue and another red, a blue bonnet with a red letter T or S upon {t.” A few years later L'Es trange went one better by declaring that newspapers ought not be aliowed at all. . He said tbat the reading of them “makes the wmultitnde too familiar with the actions and councils of their superiors, too pragmatical ‘and ceuso- rious, and gives them not ouly an itet but a-kind of colorable right and license to be meddling with the government.” In 1685 L’Estrange was knighted.— Chicago News. = Tibetan Penal Code. The Tibetan penal code is curious. Murder is punished with a fine vary- ing according to the importance ot the slain. theft by a fine of seven to one bundred times the value of the article stolen. Here, again, the tine depends on the social importance of (he person’ fro whom the theft bas %een commit. ted ‘The harborer of a talef is tooked opup as a worse criminal than the thiet himself. Ordeals by fi“e and by boiling water are still used as proofs ot tnnocence o1 gnilt. exactly as was the -custom in Kurope in the middle nges And it ‘the lamas necer inflict denth they are adepts at tortire. Vaudeville and Present a Jimmy Black.. Mazie Brown.. Brinkman Family Theatre In_the Spring, The country schooltencher had been telling her scholars about the seasons and their peculiarities. aad to impress their minds with the facts she ques- tioned them upon the points she had ‘given. Several queries had been put, and finally she rearhed rhe stupid boy in the corner. 5 “Well, Johnny.” she said. “have you { been paying attention?" “Yes'm,” he answered promptly. “I'm glad to hear it. Now. can you tell me what there is in the spring?” “Yes'm, I can, but I don’t want to.” “Oh, yes. you do. Don’t be afraid. You have heard the others. Be a good Yoy, now. and tell us what there is in the spring.” didn’t put ‘em there. It was another boy. for I seen bim do it.”—Exchange. Sending a Man to Coventry. The expression “sending to Coven- try” had a military origin. It arose, 8o 1t is said. in the days of Charles L., when the inhabitants of Coventry strong!y objected to any intercourse with tne wmilitary quartered in their town, and a woman known to speak to a man in a scarlet eloak was at once the subject of scandal. So rigid were the natives that the soldier was con- fined to the mess room for conversa- tion. Thus the term “sending a man to Coventry™ if you wished to shut him from society took root in the English language.—London Chronicle. The Hungarian Crown. The Hungarian crown worn at their jaccession by the emperors of Austria as kings of Hungary is the identical one made for Stephen and used at his coronation over 800 years ago. The whole is of pure gold, except the set- tings. and weighs almost exactly four- teen pounds. The settings above allud: ed to consist of fifty-three sapphires, fifty rubies. one’ emerald and 338 pearls. It will be noticed that there are no dlamonds among these precious adornments. This is accounted for by the oft guoted story of Stephen’s aver- sion to such gems becauuse he consid- ered them *ualucky.” red Moving Pictures - Opening Tonight Thé well known Romantic Actor HENRY B, LOOMER assisted by NAN HEWINS comedy playlet Lonelyville,) CAST seeslsoghesessvensssrennsesss AL ACLOP (it happened in ..e....A Chambermaid The Monolgist of Merit Bing Cushman The Merry Singing Tramp Comedy equilibrists, Fresh Milk on the Alfalfa Gream, quart bottles, Cream, Pint hottles, Have your milk delivered to your table in sterilized bottles Fresh From The Cows miles west of the city = Order your milk- and cream with your groceries each day Palaro Bros. ‘novelty in the Comedian One mile of those great comic pictures pre- " sented for the first time tonight. vanishing and Cream Dairy Farm[|3} 38c less 4c for hottle 20c less 3¢ for hottle Gream, 1-2 pint bottles, 13¢ less 3cfor bottle Milk, quart hottles, 12¢ less 4c for hottle Milk in Gallon Lots or more 25¢ per gallon Kindly get your ‘milk ordersin : . before 8 o’clock a. m. in order to have them delivered by first - delivery. First delivery leaves W. G. Schroeder Fourth St. \Phone 65. Minnesota Ave., Cor. the store at 8 a. m. “Wy—w’y—mum, there's a frog an' j a lizard an’ a dead cat in it, but I | KNOWN VALUES RS OLASSIFIED AD ING ASSOCIATION PAPERS 'WE ARE MEMBERS Get “our membership lists—Check papers vou want. We do the Test. Publishers = Classified Advertising Assoeia- tiom, Buffalo, N. Y. New-Cash-Want-Rate ',-Cent-a-Word Where cash accompanies copy we will publish all “Want Ads” for half- i ‘Where SVERY HOME HAS A WANT AD For Rent--For Sale--Exchange --Help Wanted--Work Wanted --Etc.--Etc. “ELP 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 — Competent girl for general housework. Good wages to proper person. Enquire of Mrs. P. J. Russell, 907 Dewey Ave. WANTED—Competent girl for gen- eral - housework. Mrs. A. P. White, 509 Bemidji avenue. WANTED—Girl for general house work. Mrs. M. D. Stoner. 415 Bemidji Ave. WANTED—Girl for general house- work. 716 Minnesota. ' WANTED—Laundry girl Markham. Hotel 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—Two driving teams both young.. Inquire of WM. Heinzelman, - State Park. ~ Pest office, Arigo, 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 ¥ taken at once. H. M. Young. FOR SALE—Residence lots ome block from schoal building. Ap- ply H. M. Young. - FOR RENT HOUSE FOR RENT —At 119 Twelfth street. “Inquire of Dr. Toumy over First National bank. FOR RENT—Five room house 417 Minn. “ave. Call at Henrionnet Millinery Parlors. One large front room nicely fur- nished heated, use of phone 512 Minnesota Ave. FOR RENT—Four room cottage, 1014 American Ave. Phone 461. = ———— LOST and FOUND LOST—St. Bernard puppy. Re- turn toDr. E. H. Smith, 717 Beltrami avenue for reward. MISCELLANEOUS Sealed Bids will be received by the Secretary at his office December 24th 10 a. m. for -20 or 40 acre tract suitable for fair grounds. Bids must give description, price The officers reserve the right to reject any or all bids. . County Agricultural Association Mackenzie Sec. WANTED- Position by first-class woods foreman of thirty years, expericnce, or will run cedar yard. Wm. Rublin, 735 Mari- nette Ave., Marinette, Wis WANTED—Position as nurse—or ' plain sewing—by day or week. Call Mrs. E. Preston, ' Bazaar Block. WANTED—To rent furnished room - near “ost Office. Phone 91. WANTED—To buy small shaft with pully. Iagnire at this office. JEW PUBLIC LIBRARY Open daily, except Sunday and Mon-. dayllto12a.m.,1t0 6 p.m., 7 t0 9 p. m- Snuday 3 t0 6 p. m. - Monday 7to 9 p. m. BEATRICE MILLS, Librarian. per acre and terms of pay ment— Beltrami | , A. P. White, President W. R. M “ i if 6 | |