Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 21, 1910, Page 7

j { ] { , THE HESSIANS. They Were Good Soldiers, and Some Became Good Americans. There is a popular belief among some people that the Hessian mercenaries brought here by the British govern- ment to fight the Americans remained here after the war was over and that their descendants constitute a consid- erable element of the Pennsylvania Germans of today. Comparatively few remained here after the war, because the British government was under con- tract to veturn such as escaped the casualties of the war after it was over. The few that remained made good citi- zens, as they made the very best sol- diers inst the Americans, and whenever it was practical to do so they were put in the most responsible places by the British commanders. The intense hatred at one time against the so called Hessian soldiers, some of which still lingers with the present gencration, is very unjust, be- cause they did not volunteer to fight | against the Americans, but they were forced into the British service by the impecunious German princes who sold them to the British like so many slaves. The Hessian soldiers would sometimes take a notion to desert, and they invariably found refuge among some of the German colonists. A con- siderable number of them were left behind from time to time on marches. on account of sickness or wounds. These always found a ready welcome among German settlers; few of them ever found the way back to their na- tive land.—“Pennsylvania Germans,” by William Beidelman. LIBERTY BELL. Its Connection With the Declaration of Independence. The famous Liberty bell was cast in London in 1752, brought to America and subsequently recast in Philadel- phia. It bears the inscription, “Pro- claim Liberty Throughout the World and to All the inhabitants Thereof.” Tt was cracked while being tolled after the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835. Tt is kept on exhibition in In- dependence hall. Philadelphia. It has had a fictitious importance owing to the popular belief that its ringing pro- claimed the adoption of the Declara- tion of Independence on July 4, 1776. Concerning this belief, however, Fried- enwald in his “Declaration of Inde- pendence” (190-h says: “There no shadow of authority even for associating the ringing of the bell with the announcement of the agreement upon independence. The mythical legend of the blue eyed boy waiting outside the door to give the signal to the man in the bell tower is the product of the fertile imagination of one of Philadelphia’s early ro- mancers, George Lippard, who first gave currency to it in his appropriate- Iy called ‘Legends of the Revolution. This book was published in 1847.'— New York American. His Experience. “Jasper,” said Mvs. Grigson, who was looking over the morning paper, “here’s a story of a woman who was robbed on a street car in broad day- light, and yet the thief got away un- suspected.” Mr. Grigson said that he had seen the item, but that it was either a typo- graphical error or else the story was pure invention. “Why do you say that?’ asked his wife. “Look at the item again. It says her *ontained $100 in currency, does “Teog? “It says there was also a receipted bill for a five dollar hat, does it not?” “Yes.” “Well. no woman with $100 in cash in her possession would buy a five dol- lar hat.”—Youth’s Companion. His Critic. “The greatest compliment that T ever received,” s Opie Read, “was a crit- icism. Several years ago I went to Arkansas and visited the scene where one of my stories is laid. The landlord of the little hotel said to me: “‘Here comes a little old fellow to whom I loaned a copy of your book. He can't read, but his wife reads to him. Let's see what he says about the book. «“¢«“fTello, Jason, did your wife read that book to you?” “¢“Mawnin’, sah. Yes, read it to me.” “‘“Well, what do you think of it?” “¢“Huyh? That ain’t no book at all. I done lived hear fo’ fo'ty yeahs an’ I done hearn folks talk that a-way all ¢h’ time.” ’ ”—Cincinnati Inquirer. she done Love and the Laundry. “The only thing T find to say against you is that your washing bill is far too extravagant. Last week you had six blouses in the wash. Why, Jane, my own daughter never sends more than “Ah, that may be, mum,” replied Jane, “but I ’ave to! Your daughter’s sweetheart is a bank clerk, while my young man is a chimney sweep. It makes a difference, mum.”—London Tit-Bits. Cleaned Them Out. First Girl—Was your bazaar a great success? Second Girl—I should think 0. All the gentlemen had to walk home. They hadn’t even a penny in their pockets to pay their tram fares. ~London Tit-Bits. How It Is. “How Is it, if Love is blind, that we hear of love at first sight?” “It is after love at first sight occurs that Love usually goes blind.”—Chi- cago Record-Herald. N ——— ? : FENNEL. 1t Is to the ltalians Somewhat as Cel. ery Is to Us. “'Tisn‘t often that an Italian table @’hote furnishes anything that takes me back to my grandwother's time,” said a New York wan, “but that was my experience last night. The first uibble of something I'd supposed was celery sent my mind wandering back fifty years to-an old New England vil- lage. “‘Fennel ” 1 asked the Italian waiter. He nodded and smiled and gave me the Italian form of the word. which 1 carefully wrote down on a scrap of paper, ‘Fennocchi. my ignorance,.but never before did 1 know that fennel is to the Italians what celery is to us. Evidently the large bases of the leafstalks are bleached in similar fashion, and from the way it was served 1 could see it was intended to be dipped in salt, as we eat celery. me that it was delicious as a salad iand when boiled and served with cream sauce it made a popular Italian dish. “But after all what. did those culi- nary details matter? What Teally counted was that strange. penetrating flavor which took me back to my child- hood. As 1 thoughtfully nibbled my fennel stalks the last fifty years seemed a blank. I 'was a child again, picking big -lusters of yellow, aromatic fennel seeds in my grandmather’s gar- den.”—New York Sun. - The Tombigbee, “Do you know the origin of ‘the name of the Tombigbee river?” asked the well informed man. “Well,” he went on, “it is Choctaw, every syl- lable, only the word is not “Tombig- bee;’ it is “Tom-bi Ik-bi,’ two words, the ‘I’ being short in each instance. Long ago Choctaws inhabited the sec- tion now embraced within the states of Mississippi and Alabama and trav- ersed by the stream that song was about. Nearly a century ago a white man—a carpenter--came among the Indians. He lived on the banks of the stream and among other things made rude coffins for burials. Indians at that time “buried” their dead upon an arbor supported by poles, but they gradually came to the white man’s custom of burying in earth and went to the white man carpenter to get their boxes. From this incident, I am *Tom-bi’ meaning box and ‘Ik-bi’ meaning make or maker, only they added the word ‘bok,’ which signifies river or creek, so, literally translated. the combination means ‘the river where lives the man that makes box- es. nunciation Anglicized. “Tom- into ‘Tombigbee.’—Wichita Eacle. 1 suppose it showe( | My obliging waiter told | ime as well as the Anglo-Saxon | disposition to round corners in pro-’ed States. Ik-bi’ H told, the stream received its name,| Pills were used and in a compara- | | | | New York, sole agents for the Unit-} Hard Work. 1 “Why did you tell me you were working your way through college?” “I am.” “But nobody about it.” “Certainly not; my work consists of getting wmoney from dad.”—Buffalo Ex- press. i seems to know Her Weekly Allowance.’ Freda—So you have a weekly fl!low ance from your father? Hilda—Yes: he allows me to have a gentleman caller two nights a week.--Lippin cott’s. NOBODY SPARED Kidney Troubles Attack” Bemidji Men and Women, Old and Young. Kidney ills seize young and old| Come quickly with little warning, Children suffer in thbeir early years— Can’t control the kidney secretions. Girls are languid, pervous, suffer pain. Women work. Men have lame and aching backs. The cure for man, woman or child Is to cure the cause—the kidneys. Doan’s Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys— Cure all forms of kidney suffering. Bemidji testimony proves it. 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