Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 23, 1910, Page 4

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLIGHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEFT SUNDAY 81 THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. H. DENU. G. E. CARSON. Eatorat #u the Postotfice at Bemld)l, Minnesets, s second class matter, SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YFAR IN <DVANGE CITY OF BEMIDJI County Seat. . Population—In 1900, 1500; 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. Beating—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 five'miles. Cement Sidewalks—Twelve wiles. Lakeshore Drives—Ten miles. Parks—Two. Water Frontage—Ten miles, two lakes and Mississippi river. A Home Town—1600 residences. Taxpayers—1200. Churches—8. School Houses—Four. Bank Deposits—$800,000. Manufactures—Hardwood handles, lum ber, 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 state. outside of St. Paul, Minne- apolis and ;Duluth. * Railroads—Great Northern. Minnesota & i{nternational, 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—Fourteendaily. Hospitals—One. Distances—To St. Paul, 1230 miles; to Daluth, 167 miles. Hotels—Fifteen. Breweries—One. Sawmills—Four. Bandle Factories—One. ‘Wholessle Houses—Four, Banks—Three. Auto Garages—Une. in 1910 It is allright to soak up the Christ- mas spirit but don’t put an “s” on it. Depends the owner as to whether the hanging of a Christmas upon stocking is good formt. Probably Governor Eberhart will become United States senator about the time that Secretary Ballinger resigns from the cabinet. OLEOMARGARINE. According to the National Dairy Union, St. Paul, the production of olemargarine increased from 52,282,— 815 pounds in 1900 to 139,755,426 pounds in 1910, Of this latter amount, 3,419,978 pounds were taxed at 10c per pound. It will thus be noted that more than 99 per cent. of all ured during the last fiscal year was taxed at only one-fourth cent per the olemargarine manufact- pound. This clearly demoustrates the fact that the olemargarine business is not working under such a burden as many may think. There has been so much talk about the ten-cent tax on artifically that this thought has been identi- colored oleomargine fied with all sales of this article. As a matter of fact less than 3 per cent of the total product is taxed at 10c a pound, the remain- der being taxed at only one-fourth cent a pound. Under the leadership of James A. Tawney in the house an effort prob- ably will be made at this session of congress to further protect the inter- est of the dairymen by applying a more direct olemargarine tax and in this northern Minnesota should assist as the dairying industry of this part of the state has much at stake. . Oleomargarine is a composition largely manufactured by the big packing houses as a by-product and its ingredients are largely beef tal- low, pork grease and certain cheap and largely-non-nutrltious oils. It is likely that an effort- will be made by the oleomargarine manu- facturers to secure the repeal of the ten cent tax. The above statistics indicate that the claim advanced | be in and safe afore 12 midnight, so that the present law is a “burden upon the poor man because it taxes his butter ten cents a pound’’ is not founded on fact. GOOD ROADS. At the recent annual meeting of the Minnesota Road Makers Associa- tion in St. Paul, the following rec- omendations were made: That the cost of construction of state roads be assessed 60 per eent to the state, 30 per cent to the county and 10 per cent to the town. That a fund be provided which may be drawn upon by the state com- mission for‘the repair and mainten- ance of state roads. Extend to the highway commission joint authority with county boards to locate state highways. Pass a law providing for county suprintendents of highways, omit- ting those features that were uncon- stitutional in the law of the same import passed in 1907. That the state furnish crushed stone free to counties and if practi- cable establish and operate crushing plants. That for governmental purposes the state roads be placed under the supervision of the highway commis- sion, the county roads under the supervision of the county boards and the town roads under the proper township authorities. These suggestions will be made the basis of appeals to the members of the state legislature and it is hoped that the next sesion will see the passage of a law embodying these. provisions. The suggestions made are most valuable because they show the far- reaching interest being taken in the subject of vital importance to the state at large and northern Minne- The recom- mendations do not in every instance harmonize with the plan proposed by the Northern Minnesota Develop- ment Association at the Brainerd meeting. This causes a hope that all en- thusiasts for good roads can be sota in particular. brought together and one concrete method of procedure agreed upon so that the demand to be made upon the legislature can come from the united forces of all friends of improved highways. A Let the Lights Go Out. It is a lonely little fishing bay in-a corner of the Cornish coast, but it boasts a lighthouse on its queer old quay and ulso a story concerning it and its ancient keeper. The.light was noted to be a little erratic. and so one day to the ancient keeper thereof came an officer of the coast guard. *“What is this 1 hear?" he demanded. “Is it true that your light is never alight after midnight?” *“That's right nuff,” assent- ed the ancient one equably. *“"Dis a fack and well known that all the boats 1 be savin' the ile!” And he looked smiling for approbation.—St. James' Gazetta Nature as a Heaier. A great, broad, coasoling and funda- mertal fact remains that in a large majority of diseases which attack hu- manity under 90 per cent of the un- favorable influences which affect us nature will effect a cure if not too much iuterfered with. As the old proverb has it. A man at forty is ei- ther a fool or a physician,” and Na- ture is a good deal over forty and has never been accused of lacking intelli- . The Rich. It 1s a great mistake to believe that the rich are holding us down. - As a matrter of fact, they are pulling us up. If there were no rich people to keep our eyes glued upon the great gulf between having and not having none of us would hustle. We 'have to have the rich man’s mansions prodding us, his power scourging us and his auto- mobile butting us to get:anywhere at all. We have to see his wife and daughters in silks and jewels and’ realize what our own wives and daugh- ters without these things think of us as providers to peel our coats off and get into the game. None of us can go out driving with such as we have and suffer the rich man to whiz past us in prism glass and burnished brass, throwing.dust in our eyes and gasoline in our hair, without doing better in the great area of human endeavor for the next two or three days anyway. Bless- od are the rich, for they fill us with shame and new resolve and make us to wonder what in the Sam Hill we have been doing all these years.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Byron's “Bride of Abydos.” It was after Lord Byron arrived in Greece that he wrote that beautiful poem *“The Bride of Abydos™ and that exquisite song the “Maid of Athens,” which, says a Paris contemporary, every Englishman of culture knows by heart. Documents enable us to estab- lish the true identity of the heroine of this poem. She was one of the three daughters of Mr. Black, English vice consul at Athens, at whose house Byron for some time lived. After the departure of the poet Theresa Black married an archaeologist, M. Pittakis, whose widow she became several years later. Her beauty, her charm, her elegance, conquered every heart, including Byrew’s. In 1873 the hero- ine of the poet was an old woman of upright figure and still showing signs of her former beauty. With age had come poverty. The London Times, moved by her distress, opened at this epoch a subscription in her favor. She died in 1875.—London Globe. The Gun Charmers. Among the more superstitiously in- clined of the sporting Cingalese are gun charmers. who allege that a gun may be charmed in different ways and by different methods. An essential part of the process, however, appears' to be the muttering of certain formu- lae. A gun, the charmers say, may be charmed in any one of the following four ways: (1) So that it will wound the animal fired at, but will not kill outright; (2) so that he who carries it shall find nothing worth shooting; (3) so that it will not kill anything flying, but wiil kill animals that run, and (4) so that it will not kill anything that runs, but will kill anything flying. No gun can be charmed at all if the owner takes the precaution of rubbing some pork fat on the barrel or. at- taches a piece.of thie outer skin of*the rat snake to the stock in such a way that it cannot be seen. How a Coal Fire Protects Itself. A curious way in which a fire in the heart of a coal pile keeps itself from being put out is noted in a mining journal. Such fires often start in the interior of large piles of coal_owing to heat developed by slow oxidation, 4 which is prevented by the size of the pile from escaping into the air. Such fires are difficult to put out owing to the fact that the burning mass turns the coal around it into coke, which is nearly impervious to water, The pile may thus be thoroughly drenched HELP WANTED WANTED—Woman cook at Smé pear Walker; must Sanatorium have had exoerience in general cooking; good wages. Apply to Superintendent State Sanatorium, + Cass Co.. Minn. AR, HOUSEKEEPER WANTED—To care for three children in city. Nice party. Box 445, Postoffice. WANTED—Girl for general house- work. 713 Beltrami Ave. L. G. Crothers. WANTED—Laundry girl "~ Hotel Markham. FCR SALE A A A A NN, FOR SALE—2 French Poodles in- quire at 114 3rd Street, upstairs. home and good wages for right FOR SALE—Fine ohonograph 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 s rubber stamp for you an short notice. !EOR SALE—Six room house 110 Mississippi Ave. This is a snap if { taken at once; H. M. Young. FOR SALE—Residence lots block from school- building. ply H. M. Young. one Ap- 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. FOR RENT—Four room cottage, 1014 American Ave. Phone 461. LOST and FOUND P TR S R ST R LOST—0On M & I afternoon train going north Saturday Dec. 12th, one brown Fox rug muff with head and tail. Anyone giviog informa- tion leading to its recovery will be suitably rewarded. Address Freeman Thorp, Postmaster, Hubert, Minn. MISCELLANEOUS - A A A AP PSPPI PNPPP PPN Secretary at his office December 24th 10 a. m, for 20 or 40 acre tract suitable for fair grounds. Bids must give description, price per acre and terms of pay ment— The officers reserve the right to reject any or all bids. Beltrami County Agricultural Association A. P. White, President W. R. Mackenzie Sec. WANTED—To rent furnished room near I'ost Office. Phone 91. WANTED—To buy small shaft with pully. Inquire at this office. { this list: AT A Stick Pin He'lt stick to you Cuff Lihks Chain him to you Two Initial Hdkfs. or — One Linen Hdkfs. A Necktie Anotker tie. =500 ~ Two Linen Collars Around his neck Fancy Hosiery He'll appreciafe two_pair. Garters Out of sight but in mind Arm Bands without putting out the fire, which it never really reaches. The only way to deal with the situation is to drive into the pile a sharpened iron pipe, long enough to reach the burning coal, and then to couple a hose to the upper end and turn ou the water. The Cocoa Plantation. A traveler in South America, where the cocoa tree is largely cultivated, speaks of the great care with which the young plants have to be protected from the sun, which if very strong is fatal to them. To secure this protec- tion the planters shield them by ba- nana trees and plaintain trees, the broad leaves of which give them the gence.—Woods Eutchinson, M. D., in Delineator. His Qualification. “p'd like v get a job on a newspa- per.” . “Had any experience as a journal- ist?” “None.” “Then what could you do oh a fiews- paper?”’ “Seems to me that I could dish out excellent advice of some kind.”—Louis- ville Coarier-Journal. Fatal Defect. ¥l have a chance to marry an old ‘man who has lots of money.” “Why don't you?”’ “He hasn’t any bad habits and comes of a long lived family.”—Chicago Rec- ord-Herald. | A Great Error. “My hero dies in the middle of my latest novel,” said the young author. “That's a grave mistake,” replied the editor. “He should not die before the reader does.”—Atlanta Constitution. Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where, although both par- ties intend deception, neither is de- ceived.—Colton. An Indication. “Is your daughter getting on well with her music?” “T guess so. The neighbors are get- ting so they speak to me civilly again.” —Toled¢ D-1~ " needed shade. And even when they are fully grown they need protection, which is given by trees known as “im- mortels,” or, as the planters call them, “the mother of the cocoa.” Thus the whole cocoa plantation has a sort of canopy. A Startler. "y : A gentleman whose hearing is de- fective is the owner of a dog that is the terror of the neighborhood in which he lives. ' The other day he was accosted by a friend, who said: “Good morning, Mr. H. Your wife made a very pleasant call on us last evening.” “I'm very sorry,” came the startling reply. “T’'ll see sthat it don’t occur again, for I'm going to chain her up in future.”—London Telegraph. b Not Comforting. “Did the m!nister say anything com- forting?” asked the neighbor of the widow recently bereaved. “Indeed, he didn’t!’ was the quick reply. “He said my husband was bet- ter off.”—London Telegraph. A- Real One. Tommy—Tell us a fairy tale. Guest —Once a man who had a baby that didn’t cry and a dog that didn’t bite went to live in a suburb ywithout mos- quitoes.—Harper’s Bszar.ir § It is jno‘t: how much w¢ have, bm- how much we enjoy, that makes hap- ‘piness.—Spurgeon. e In Christmas Boxes. Wristlets For a warm pulse. Coat Hangers Also trouser hangers. FOR BOYS: Mufflers, Gloves, Neckwear, Cuff Buttons, Suspenders, Mittens, Handkerchiefs, Hosiery, Underwear, Hose Supporters, Also the same things in better qualities at 50c and $1.00. A 53c Half Doz. Handkerchiefs in a fancy box. ‘A MERRY CHRISTMAS GREETING TO ALL PATRONS AND CITIZENS OF BEMIDJI M. 0. MADSON & CO. £ ONE PRICED CLOTHIERS _These are busy days at this clothing store. i display of fine looking Christmas goods harmonizes so well d \yithithe handsome and artistic decorations and the spark- { ling rays of the Tungsten lights as to make this store, indeed, a Shopper’ 1 form the majority now, and they need not be the wives or daughters of millionaires to gather a gift crop here. Study s Paradise. Lady AT 90¢ Silk Garters In handsome box. Stick Pins In Jatest novelties. Link Buttons Beautiful designs. Silk Handkerchiefs White or colored., Initial Handkerchiefs Neckwear A wonderful assortment. Linen Collars Four for 50c. Suspenders Wool ufiflers Bradley. - Gloves Wool or leather. Hosiery Of every sort. - Walking Sticks A welcome gift. Shirts For work or dress wear. With boxwood handles. Dress Shirts In new patterns. Flannel Shirts A useful gift. AT $1.00 Gloves Always appreciated. Stick Pin Pretty rew things. Link Buttons Not at jeweler’s prices. Umbrellas Holiday Gifts The vast § buyers, of course, AT $1.50 Neckwear Everwear Hose Half a dozen in Christmas box. Silk Mufflers In all shades. Lined Gloves Wool and silk lined. Umbrellas Collar Bags Cuff and Handkerchief folds. Linen Colalars One Hozen Arrow. $2.00 Mufflers Pure silk ones. Novelty Pins And cuff links. Wilson Bros. Shirts Beautiful $2 ones. ; Pajamas And night shirts. Soisettes and sateen. Sweater Jackets In coat style. Slippers AT ' $3.00 Silk Umbrellas . For him or her. Underwear Silk or Wool. Coat Sweaters With fancy trimming. Boys’ Suits And Overcoats. Sealed Bids will be received by tbe - w