Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 23, 1910, Page 2

P ey ey r——— . I Abolition of the Ducking Stool. 1 BA".HUA[] TIME BAHDS The most noteworthy of ali the in- e —— | gtruments designed for the correction Creat Northern of Eve’s offending daughters was the No. 33 West Bound Leaves at 3:30 p. m | ducking stool, known as the tumbrel No. 34 East Bound Leaves at 12:08 p. m | and the trebuchet. A [oSt, across . No 2 South Bound Arrives at 10:30 a. No. 35 West Bound Leaves at 3:42 a. m No. 36 East Bound Leaves at 1:20 a. m No. 105 North Bound Arrivesat 7:40 p.m No. 106 South BoundLeaves at 7:00 a, m Freight West Bound Leaves at 9:00 a. m Freight East Bound Leaves at 3:30 p. m Minnesota & International No. 32 South Bound Leaves at 8:15 a. No. 31 North Bound Leaves at 6:10 p. No. 34 South Bound Leaves at 11:35 p. No. 33 North Bound Leaves at 4:20 a. Freight South Bound Lezves at 7:30 a. Freight North Bound Leaves at 6:00 a. Minn. Red Lake & Man. No. 1 North Bound Leaves at 3:35 p. EEEERE 88 PROFESSIONAL CARDS ARTS HARRY MASTEN Piano Tuner ormerly of Radenbush & Co. of St. Paul Instructor of Vioin, Piano, Mando- lin and Brass Instruments. Music furnished for balls, hotels. weddings, banquets, and all occasions. Terms reascnable. All music up to date. HARRY MASTEN, Piano Tuner Room 36, Third floor, Brinkman Hotel. Telephone 535 RS. HARRY MASTEN Instructor of Piano and Pipe Organ which was a transverse beam turning on a swivel and with a chair at one end, was set up on the edge of a pond. Into the chair the woman was chained, turned toward the water— a muddy or filthy pond was usually chosen for this purpose when avail- able—and ducked half a dozen times, or if the water inflamed her instead of acting as a damper she was ‘let down times innumerable until she was exhausted and well nigh drowned. From the frequency with whlgh we find it wentioned in old local and county histories, in church wardens’ and chamberlains' accounts and by the poets (Gay, for one, has a description of the process in his third pastoral, “The Shepherd's Week™) we shall probably not be wrong in concluding that at one time this institution was kept up all over England. In Liver- pool it was not formally abolished until 1776.—London Graphic. Circumspect. A very circumspect and conscien- tious young miss of four was sent into | the parlor of a certain Philadelphia household to entertain a caller for a few minutes until her mother should appear. The conversation drifted to a discus- sion of the youngster's intellectual ac- quirements. and the visitor asked: “Do you know the alphabet, Marie?”’ “Yes, ma'am.” “Will you say it for me?” Marie began glibly enough, but aft- er she had given three or four letters she stopped short, saying, “If you please, ma’am, I don’t think I better say any more.” “And why not?” asked the caller, surprised. “Those are not all I know.” explain- ed the youngster; *“but, you know, Graduate of the Virgil Piano and Pipe Organ Schoolof London and New York. Studio Brinkman Hotel. Room 36, Phone 535. LENN H. SLOSSON ?PIANO TUNING Graduate of the Boston School of Piano Tuning, Boston, Mass. Leave orders at the Bemidji Music House, 117 Third St. Phone 319-2. Residence Phone 174-2. DRESS MAKING PARLORS Orders taken for Nu Bone corsets, made to rder, also vailor made suits, coats, etc. PHYSICIANS AND SURCEONS R. ROWLAND GILMORE PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office—Miles Block DR. E. A. SHANNON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGECN Office in Mayo Block Phone 396 Res. Phone 397 R. C. R. SANBORN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office—Miles Block A. WARD, M. D. *® Over First National Bank. Phone 51 House No. 601 Lake Blvd. Phone 351 \R. A. E. HENDERSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Over First National Bank, Bemidji, Minn. Office Phone 36. Residence Pone 72. R. E. H. SMITH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Winter Block R. E. H. MARCUM PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Mayo Block Phone 18 Residence Phone 211 INER W. JOHNSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Residence 1113 Bemidji Ave. Phone 435 Offices over Security Bank. Phone 130 DENTISTS R. D. L. STANTUKN DENTIST . Office in Winter Bleck DR. J. T. TUOMY DENTIST 1st National Bank Build'g. Telephone 230 R. G. M. PALMER DENTIST Miles Block Evening{Work by Appointment Only LAWYERS RAHAM M. TORRANCE LAWYER Telephone 560 FRANK A. JACKSON LAWYER Bemidji, Minnesota H. FISK . ATTORNEY AT LAW Office over City Drug Store Miles Block mamma says [ mustn’t tell all I know!” Marble Polishing. Marble polishing is simple and quickly done. The cakes are carried from the sawing room and placed on a flat revolving iron table. The iron brushes off the rough particles on the surface, and the operation takes about five minutes. Then the slab is at- tacked by a man with an emery wheel. Three grades of emery are used, and it’s only about a minute to each grade. Next come three doses of felt, each time the felt growing finer in grade. The felt is attached in a layer to a flat wheel, spun by electricity, and as it bums you can see the marble be- gin to sparkle. The finishing touches are put on with the use of a fine felt rub, oxalic acid and oxide of zinc. The operator simply smears the sur- face with the mixture, gives a couple of minutes’ vigorous turn of the wheel,? and the slab then goes to the packer.— New York Press, Field and Nye. Eugene FField was a great lover of old Dbooks and quite a collector of them. His wmeans were not adequate to his desires, however, and one of the quaintest proofs of‘this was a slip of paper found by a purchaser of an old volume in Field’s handwriting, evi- dently an impromptu verse: Kind friend, for goodness' sake forbear To buy the book thou findest here, For when 1 do obtain the pelf I mean to buy the book myself. Another bit of rhyme which is thor- oughly American is in the preface to one of Bill Nye's books. It runs: Go, little booklet, go, Bearing an honored name, Till e where that you have went They're glad that you have came. Cestor Oil. The castor bean is a native of India. The United States produces most of the coarser kind of oil, while all the finest comes from Italy. Common cas- tor oil is of an ugly greenish tinge and to bleach, but the Italian article is beautifully clear when first cold drawn. Cold drawn oil is the best. It is got by crushing the fresh seeds be- tween steel rollers. The castor oil plant can be grown in England, but there it is an anpbual. In soutbern Italy it becomes a tree twenty feet high and strong enough for a child to climb up into it. Very Like a Bull. The bead of the house had been ill for many months and had lost his ap- petite. “I can’t seem to fix anything that he’ll enjoy, and he hardly eats any- thing,” the mistress was saying to the maid, who was a new arrival from the old country. “That’s always the way,” returned the girl. “They’s all the same, them invalids. All they want is nothing at all, and then when you bring it to them they don’t eat it.”—Exchange. Like Stealing the Money. First Artist—A Mr. Struckoyle offer- ed Dobley a hundred pounds for that picture yesterday. Second Artist—And didn’t he grab it? First Artist—No; he said he wanted time to consider. Second Artist—Poor fool, to let his conscience trouble him like that!— London Scraps. D A Dilemma. Doctor (who is not feeling well, to himself)—What shall I do? [ haven't any confidence in any of those other doctors, and, 'as for myself, mjy charges are too high. ST S A A Cruel Retort. Discontented Wife—Several of the men whom I refused when I married you are richer than you are now. The Husband—That’s why. has to be allowed to stand in the sun | The Kaffirs Thought It a Joke: I once took some Kaffirs from: their desolate homes. in the more desolate gorges beyond the mountain ranges to the more civilized south. Like most savages, they looked with stupid in- difference at the marvels about them. and once only were they excited by an incident which opened their eyes to what they considered a most extraor- divary and unnatural state of things They were descending a road when one’ of thew chanced to remark. that he was bungry. aund the English “sabib” bought him some food at a wayside shop. The Kaffir saw the woney chabge hands. . "How is this?". be inquired in sur- prise Do you huve to pay for food in this country?” “Certainly.” “What a country!” cried the man in amazement. Then, after pondering awhile. he continued doubtfully: “Sup- pose a man bhad no money in this country. [He might starve.” *It is quite possible.” The Kafiir shook with uncontrol- lable’ laughter. It was the best joke he had ever heard. He then explain- ed the ridiculous system to his com- panions, and they roared In chorus. —*Where Three Empires Meet.” Literary Censorship In Russia. In an article on the literary censor- ship in Russia a writer in the Frank- furter Zeitung says that some of the queer examples of this work on the part of the czar's government are worthy of note. In a poem the line “Under strange skies we may be hap- py” was canceled, with the remark that “no sky can be more conducive to happiness than that which spreads over Russia.” A biography of Suma- rokow mentions the novel “Korew™ as his first “creation.” The sentence was blotted out because “God alone cre- ates. Man may write, work, compose, etc., but he does not ‘create.’” \When the names of the gods of Greek my- thology are written capital letters must not be used “except in the case of Mars. Our gracious czar has had so many wars that he owes Mars this compliment.” A poem was suppressed because it contained the line, “T'o sol- itude devoted. 1 despise the world.” The censor said: “Despising so gener- ally includes also the czar. Thank me. writer, for saving you from Sibe- ria.” Ancient Table Courtesies. In the Ambrosian library at Milan there is a thirteen century manuscript entitled “Fifty Courtesies of the Ta- ble.” Its author is Fra Bonvesin of Riva, and it throws an interesting light on the table manners of those times. *“Do not,” writes this rigorous censor, “fill your mouth too full. The glutton who fills his mouth will not be able to reply when spoken to.” The perfect diner is adjured not to soak his bread in his wine, “for,”” adds the writer, “if any one should dine with we yud thus fish up his viftuals 1 should not like 'it.” But of the fifty “courtesies” mentioned by the ecclesi- astic the prize most certainly must be awarded to the following: ‘*‘Let the hands be clean. and, above all, do not at table scratch your head, nor, indeed, any portion of your body.” After this the advice to refrain from wiping one's fingers on the tablecloth comes | as an anticlimax. The Ruling Passion. He—I hear that your husband has taken to smoking again. 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