Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 23, 1910, Page 5

dl SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Masks at Peterson’s. W. Z Robinson left this afternoon for Pine Island to spend Chnstmas week with friends. A substantial gift and a joy for a lifetime—the White Sewing Machine. Miss Golda Hill will leave tonight for Hastings, where she will be the Chirstmas guest of friends. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Tabor of Blackduck were guests ir Bemidji for the day, leaving ton-ght for their home. Make your Christmas gifts count for the future as well as the present. Get her a dainty White Sewing Ma- chine. Miss Katerin Grest, the cooking teacher left this afternoon for Fargo, N. D., where she will spend the holidays. The largest stock of fruit, nuts and confections for the holidays and every day, at Peterson’s. Mrs. George A. Haunson left this morning for will spend Christmas day at the home of her parents. Miss Maebelle Wheeler will leave tonight for Winona, Minn., where she will spend her vacation with relatives and friends. Miss Ethel Murray, teacher of music and drawing in our schools left this afternoon for Anoka, where | she will sepnd the next fortnight. Toys in great variety at Peterson’s Miss Eliza Loe. who is principle of the Bemidji High school, left to- day for Minneapolis, where she will spend the holidays at hker home. Miss Nell Shannon, who is attend- ing the Moorhead State Normal, is expected to arrive in the city tonight to remain over the holidays. Miss Sara Patrick, manual train- ing teacher in the Bemidji schools, will leave tonight for Aberdeen, S. D., to enjoy her Christmas vacation. You don’t know what an attract- ive proposition we can offer you in the White Sewing Machine. It’s your time to investigate. As a Christmas present it can’t be match- ed. We have in our employ two ex- pert diamond setters. Do mnot send your diamond away to be mounted. OQur prices on dia- monds are lower thanthey are in the large cities. Among the many teachers in the Bemidji Public Schools who will leave for their homes to spend the Christmas vacation are Miss Pfiel, who will go to St. Charles; Miss Obert, Miss Ehrb and Mosford who all go to Minneapolis. A few shelf worn or slightly damaged toys at about half value, at Peterson’s. Some of the other teachers who will spend their holiday vacation out of the city are Miss May Jones, who will leave tonight for Litchfield; Miss Julia Kleve, whoe goes to Wilmar and Miss Karna Anderson, who will be the guest of relatives and friends at Guthrie. Have you recently used the new Northwestern long distance lines to Duluth, Grand Rapids and other range points? If you have not, you do not know how goeod the service has recently been made or how low the rates are now. Use the service and find out these things for your own benefit. A number of the students of the Bemidji High School whose homes are in nearby towns left today for their homes to spend the Christ- mas vacation. Among these are Farnham Watson, who left this after- noon for his home at Nebish, and James Sullivan, who goes tonight to Fowlds to partakeof Christmas cheer. Miss Marion White, who isattend- ing tbe INormal school at St. Cloud, will arrive in Bemidji this evening to remain over the holidays at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. White. She will be accom- panied by. Miss Mary Quayle, a Missouri girl who is also a student at St. Cloud, and who will be the guest of Miss White during her vacation. ~ Litchfield where shel If you have money lymng idle or invested in a way that s not satis- factory or does not yield more than 4 per cent you should investigate the Certificates of Deposit issued by the Northern National Bank. _ Toyland as ever at Peterson’s. Investigate! 76 magazines for $3.00. Call np Mrs. Gertuide Rogers, Phone 487, Miss E. Albi Bickford will. spend her Christmas with relatives at Battle Lake, for which place she left this afternoon. { Mrs. Abbott and son, David Abbott, left this afternoon for Pine | River, where they will be the guest of friends during the holidays. American Beauty Roses! 1000 carnations and roses for Christ- mas at the Greenhouse. $1.50 to $5 per dozen. A. E. Webster, |Phone 166 - Leo Slacle of Minneapolis, an ex- pert in the artof hand engraving, is in the city and is employed by {George T. Baker & Co., during i the holiday rush. Toys till you can’t rest at Peter- son’s. Miss Mary Simons is expected to arrive in the city tonight from Inter- | national Falls, where she is teaching ischool. She will spend the holidays at her home here. For 16 inch dry tamarac wood, phone 494 or 570.—]. H. Crouch. | The Misses Jessamine and Etta Gould, students at the Pillsbury Academy at Owatonna, arrived in Bemidji this morning to spend | | Christmas with their father, W, A. Gould. A belated shipment of dolls,! games, books, electrical toys etc., just placed at Peterson’s. « i i Gill Mantor, traveling representa- for Swift & Co., returned to his home at Brainerd this morning after a short visit here at the home of W. S. Brannon. Mrs. Mantor will re- turn to her home tomorrow. Mrs. Kathryn McCready, who has been an inmate of the St. Anthony Hospital for the past several weeks, is now at her home 1n this city and able to be out. Mrs. McCready made her first trip down town this afternoon. 7 Christmas and New Year cards at Peterson’s. Miss Ruby and Roland Hen- 'rionpet returned this morning from Owatonna and will be the Christmas guests of their mother, Mrs. A.lP. Henrionnet. Miss Ruby and Rol- land attend the Pillsbury Academy at Owatonna, We have in our employ four ex- pert hand engravers. Articles {purchased of us will be engraved free of charge. Geo. T. Baker & Co. A Railroad Man’s Dream. Railroad men are strong on dreams. One morning an engineer came down to the train master’s office and declared that he would not gfz out on his run that morning and asked for a layoff. His superior asked him what the trou-, ble was, and when he said that he had had a dream in the night that troubled him he was laughed at and an effort was made to induce him to take his run out. But he refused and was urged to tell his dream. “T dreamed last night that my broth- er was killed in a head-on collision near Topeka,” he said, “and later I dreamed that old G08 blew up.” As 608 was his engine, he resisted the laughter of his friends and would not take her out, and another man was sent for to take the job. That afternoon the boiler of 608 ex- ploded on the road, killing the sub- stitute engineer and the fireman. A week later the engineer’s brother was killed in a collision, as he had dream- ed.—Chicago Inter Ocean. The Skin of My Teeth. In the book of Job appears the sen- tence, “I am escaped with the skin of my teeth,” which is modernized “by the skin of my teeth” and gives the idea of a narrow escape, one so close as to be just by the thickness of the skin on the teeth, which is so thin that ho microscopist has yet been able to find it. “To cast in the teeth” means to throw defiant reproaches or insults spitefully, as one would cast a stone at the exposed teeth of a snarl- . his antennae furiously and discharge { oWl children! i same way. € | sparrow hawk, does nest in the flick- ing dog. “Tooth and nail” denotes the manner of an action full of frenzied fury, typified by biting and scratching, as when two belligerent cats make the fur fly. It Was This Way. “I suppose the father gave the bride away.” “Not exactly. He gave a- million away and threw her in.”—Philadel- phia Ledger. 1 s e At e - Beetles. “Amazing things, beetles,” thp nat- uralist said. ‘There's a bombardier beetle, you know, that carries a guh of eighteen charges. Eighteen times, if pursued, this beetle can shoot. Un- der cover of the noise and smoke he escapes. “There’s a diving beetle that cntches fish. He has a natural diving suit that enables him to breathe .under water. He will plunge down fifteen or twenty feet after a minnow or young shad. “The sexton beetle spends its life burying-dead animals. It lays twenty eggs in each carcass, and thus the young on hatching have an abundance of juicy and high’ meat to feed on. Sexton beetles, working together, huve! been known to bury a rabbit. “The skunk beetle is so called not without reason. Dare to come too near him in a garden and he will Wflve] the vilest odor at you. The common kitchen roach has this skunklike gift also; hence I don’t advise you to make | a pet of him.”—Los Angeles Times. | Owls’ Houses. Owls’ houses are for the most part quite without lining. Whether from design or pure laziness the bones and skulls of small animals which they have killed are left scattered abeut the floor. Grewsome playthings for the But one can scarcely imagine even a baby owl being any- thing but wise and dignified. It is easiest to picture them apparently gravely musing on these skulls like monks in their dark cells. H Since so many of the owls have their homes in hollow trees, we might ex-! pect some of their near relatives, the hawks, to be inclined to live in the One of them, the little er’s abandoned home and in comfort- able knotholes. This bird, too, is sat-| isfied with perfectly bare walls and floor, though the floor consist of small | chips left by the decaying wood or hy some woodpecker.—St. Nicholas. i Pasteur’s Tribute to Lister. Of all the tributes to the genius of Lord Lister, the discoverer of antisep- tic surgery, probably the most touch- ing was that paid to him by Pasteur, the famous Irench scientist. At a meeting of savants in Paris many years ago Lord Lister was present, and his brilliant achievements were || explained to the audience by- Pasteur. As he progressed in his speech he be- came more and more emotional, and at last he was so carried away by his own eloquence that the_tears stood in his eyes. Finally he stepped down from the platform, took Lord Lister, who was in the front row of the audi- ence, by both hands, led him back on to the platform and kissed him on both cheeks, after the manner of the French, in full view of the assembly. Few could have looked on unmoved at the great Frenchman’s act of hom- age to the distinguished English sur- geon. Baths in Finland. One of the greatest trials a visitor in Finland has to endure is a Finnish bath. The method of procedure is unique. and attired in a light and airy cot- ton garment, you are slung in a sort of hammock composed of cord ‘above a large receptacle like the boilers in public laundries. This is~almost filled with cold water, into, which at the right moment is flung a large redhot brick or piece of iron, which of course causes an overwhelming rush of steam to ascend and almost choke you. Then when that process has gone on sufficiently long you are shaken out of your hammock, immersed in cold water, and after very drastic treat- ment you resume your raiment, sad- der and wiser than before your novel experience. Effect of the Sun on Monuments. The perpendicularity of a monument is visibly affected by the rays of the sun, On every sunny day a tall monu- ment has a regular swing leading away from the sun. This phenomenon ; is due to the greater expansion of the side on which the rays of the sun Divested of outer clothing | 30 Por Cont OFf It’s to Your Advantage to Go Hansoning | WILL NOT | “Carry Over” a single item of Holi- day stock if Price will help me “Clean Up,” L+ From 9 a. will sell all the following Holiday goods at a 30 per cent discount. Dresser Manicure Sets Shaving Sets Baby Sets Traveling Sets Necktie Boxes “' Toilet Sets Cuff and Collar Boxes Handkerchief Boxes Cigar Humidors Tobacco Jars Jewel Boxes Smokers Sets ‘Postoffice]Corner Both Expert In ‘Logic. “Tom,” said a father -to “his son, whose school report showed him to have ibeen an idle young scamp, “what have you been studying this term?” “Liogic, father,” replied Tom. *“I can prove you gpe not here now.” “Indeed! How so?” “Well, you must be either at Rome or elsewhere.” “Certainly.” “You are not at Rome?” “No.” “Then you must be elsewhere.” “Just so.” “And if you are elsewhere you clear- iy can’t be here. For answer the father took up a cane that lay near and laid it smartly across his son's back.’ “Don’t!” cried Tom. ing me.” “Not at all. You have just proved conclusively that 1 am not here, so I can’t be hurting you.” Before his stern parent had quite done with himm Tom felt that there “You are hurt- fall. A pendulum placed inside, say. | {ust be, after all. a flaw somewhere Nelson’s column, in Trafalgar square, would be found to describe on every clear day an ellipse of nearly half an inch in diameter.—English Mechanic. Their ideals. “Why did you never marry, Tom?’ inquired the young benedict of the old bachelor. “Well, you see,” replied the single one, “when I was quite young I re- solved that I wouldn’t marry until. I found an ideal woman. I was difficuit to please, but after many yecars I found her.” “Lucky beggar! And then”— “She was looking for an ideal man,” replied the bachelor sadly. Good Enough For Him, Ascum—I see there’s some talk upon the question of abolishing capital pun- ishment. Would you vote to abolish it? Logie—No, sir; cnp/ital punishment ‘was good enough for mny ancestors, and it’s good enough for me.”—Presbyte- rian Standard. Envy. “Don’t you think envy is a terrible thing?” said the earnest girl. “No,” answered Miss Cayenne; “not if it's the envy of some one else for something you possess.”— Washington Star. Both Live and Learn. “A man lives and learns,” remarked the husband, with some bitterness. “Well, the ~school of experience doesn’t bar co-eds,” reforted his wife. —Mflwaukee Journal, in his logic.—Loudon Tit-Bits. The Creeping Kaffir. The sun was shining brightly down on the farmyard, and under a large willow tree a number of rooibekkjes— small, red beaked birds—weve feeding. Suddenly a Kaffir appeared and fell on his knees about ten yards behind the birds. He crept a yard nearer, but if I had not been watching him very closely 1 could have sworn that he did not move. The man seemed to be all in one plece. Ile moved entirely, not in sections of knees and legs and arms and upper body. -Then he winked at me, 50 certain was he of the success 8f his exploit. I am certain some of the birds saw this alien figure, yet so imperceptible were his motions that they did -not suspect he was a human being—and a foe. Nearer and nearer he drew. Suddenly he lay still, meas: ured the distance with his eye, and then, with .a lightning motion, he stretched forward and grabbed. The birds arose, alarmed, shrieking shrilly —all but one. And that one was flut- tering, terrified and helpless, in the Kaffir's huge hagd.—London Standard. aa « It is worth a thousand pounds a year to have the habit of looking at the briglt side of things.—Johnson. EW PUBLIC LIBRARY Open daily, except Sunday and Mon- | dayll to12a.m., 1t0 6 p.m., 7 to 9 p. m. Snuday 8 to 6 p. m. Monday 7to 9 p. m. BEATRICE MILLS, Librarian. GEO. A. HANSON l Ash Trays Sponge Bags ‘Wash Rag Bags Ink Wells Stand Mirrors Photo Albums Post Card Albums Cloth Brushes Military Hair Brushes Ladies’ Purses Calenders Xmas Stationery Music Rolls | | | | m. until noon Saturday | A.D. S. DRUGC STORE Phone 304 Bemidji, Minn. BEMIDJI SHOE HOUSE “NOTIGE” OF REMOVAL January Ist We Will Be In Our New Location 321 Minnesota Avenue Our Big Sale is still on at our Beltrami Avenue Store. Every pair of shoesin the house at tremendious reduc- tions. MR. RENTER Have you ever stopped to think that every few years you practically pay for the house you live in and yet do not own it? Figure it up for yourself. .sThecdore Roosevelt says: “No Investment on earth is 8o safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty.” We will be glad to tell you about the City of Be- midji. and quote you prices with easy terms of payment if desired on some of the best residence and business property in that rapidly growing City. A letter addressed to us will bring you full particu- lars or if you prefer to see the property, call'on H. A. Simons, at Bemidji. The Soo Railroad is now running its freight and passenger trains into Bemidji; investigate the oppor- tunities off-red for business on a small or large scale. Bemidj Townsite & Improvement Co, 404 New York Life Bullding ST. PAUL MINNESOTA The Da.ily Pioneer 10c per Week )