Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 24, 1911, Page 4

Evorything Roat for Sorvica Garments for Spring Ariving Fast These are “Receiving Days” at the Crane & Co. store, for scarcely a day passes that does not bring new things with the seal of fashion fresh upon them, and the contents of every pack- age brings home with striking force the fact that Crane buyers of the firm and their associates enjoy many ad- vantages over the buyers of other establishments. First, because they deal only with houses of high repute and secondly because they buy for the largest Womens’ and Children’s store in the Middle West. This gives them the advantage of being able to confine many styles exclusively to the Crane Organiza- tion and of having many new styles designed especially for Crane patro- et —J e e =R Y, W5 7Y, " —"—"—"—"—+—“"“—— "~ The Merry Musicians ARMORY THEATRE Saturday, Feh. 25 | Prices---25¢, 35¢, 50c JOHN G. ZIEGL.ER “THE LAND MAN® Fire==Life-==I N SUR A N C E--=Accident REAL ESTATE IN ALL ITS BRANCHES FARM LANDS BOUCHT AND SOLD Co to Him for Farm Loans Office--Schroeder Building - | been overpaid if they had each re- Ruler of Montenegro Said , ™ to Be In Critical Condition. | SUFFERING FROM APOPLEXY King of Montenegro Reported to Be i Near Death, Vienna, Feb. 24.—Private messages from Cettinje say that King Nicholas of Montenegro is in a critical condi- tion from an attack of apoplexy. It is not stated whether it is a new attack or the one suitered by Nicholas early in the month, which ruptured a blood vessel, the king almost bleeding to death. BRYAN DISCUSSES | EARNING POWER Thinks Honest Man Might Ac- cumulate Half Million. St. Louis, Feb. 24—“I would not dare place a maximum to any man’s earning power,” was the assertion made by William Jennings Bryan be- fore the lllinois Society of St. Louis. Mr. Bryan declared that such men as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln would not have ceived $500,000,000 in cash for the services they remdered their day and generation. “I have had occasion to make esti- mates,” Bryan expl#ined, “of what a man can earn during a working period of thirty years. Can a man earn $100,- 000 in an ordinary lifetime? Take thirty-three years for the working pe- riod of a life, and that would be about $3,000 a year. Surely a man can hon- estly earn this amount. Can a man earn $1,000,000? That would be about $30,000 a year. There is no question in my mind that it is honestly being done by a number of men. I can read- ily understand how a man can earn $500,000 during his lifetime. It has been done. “The fact is, the men who have been earning $500,000 in this wonder- ful generation have been so0 busy earning it that they have not had time to collect, while those who may be col- lecting it have not much time to earn it.” Bronze Casting. The art of bronze casting was intro- duced into Siam by the Chinese in the eleventh century. SAVE 1. 0. U. NOTES AND U 0 NO ONE The Greatest Opportunity Ever Offered fo the Con- -~ sumer Since the Free Wheat At an early date we will outline the plan by which the largeproducers, bakers, grocers, manufacturers of food stuffs and necessities of life will share the profits with the consumer rather than with the advertising agencies as they have been doing for a number of years.” How you are to have an oppor- tunity to collect money paid to advertising agencies amounting to millions of dollars each year will appear in an early issue of the Pioneer. take advantage of it. Don't fail to i " RUSSIAN POLICE Books of * Westinghouse - Electric Company. ACT CAUSES SENSATION Concern Had Obtained a Contract for. Electrifying the Street Railways of St. Petersburg, but Has'Had Trouble in Complying With the Terms of the Agreement. ' St. Petersburg, Feb. 24.—The police made a sudden descent on the offices of the Westinghouse Electric company and seized all the books and docu- ments relating. to the St.. Petersburg electric street’ railway. The .affair has caused a sensation .in foreign commercial circles. The Westinghouse Electric company obtained a contract for electrification of street cars in'St. Petersburg in De- cember, 1905. Later the government imposed a fine of $500,000 upon the company for alleged . failure to. com- plete its contract. , This was in Oc- tober, 1907, and in the following month the government remitted $425,000 of the penalty. Since then the company experienced some inconvenience re- sulting in the announcement early in 1908 that the British. Westinghouse company would finance the St. Peters- burg concern, German Prince to Visit Brazil. Berlin, Feb. 24.—Prince 'Adelbert, third son of the kaiser, will sail short- ly aboard a German warship for Bra- zil, where he will tour the German settlements, according to an announce- ment here. Sunday Baseball Legar. Indiananclis, Feb. 24.—Sunday base- bal in Indiana was declared legal in a decision filed by the supreme court of the state. Shoots Girl and Himself. Hopkins, Minn., Feb. 24.—As the re- sult of 'a l vers’ quarrel, Laura Miller, nineteen years old, employed in a Min- neapolis department store, has a bul- let hole in her thumb and Jacob Pry- dle, twenty years old, is in the town jail with two bullets in his abdomen. His condition is serious. Origin of Commerce. Commerce—the international traffic in goods as distinct from domestic traf- fic—was undoubtedly originated by the wonderful little people known in his- tory as the Phoenicians. The “Yan- kees of antiquity,” the Phoenicians, traded with yarious peoples long be- fore the other nations had crossed thelr respective. frontiers. All along the shores of the Mediterranean and up the coast of the Atlantic as far north as the British isles their ships were to be found, leaving their manu- factures and wonderful dyes and bring- ing back to Tyre tin, wool and such other articles as paid them to deal In. Creating the merchant marine so long ago that history gives us no account of it, the Phoénicians and their colo- nists, the Carthaginians, held it until it passed on to Greece and Rome and later along to the republics of modern Italy.—New York American. A Scotch Anti-golf Law. Scotland, as everybody knows, is the land where golf originated and the land where it most flourishes. But if the law were strictly enforced morth of the Tweed it would go hard with the players of the royal game in “bon- nie Scotland.” Golf players there may not know it, but they are liable to a sentence of death for their indulgence in their favorite sport. Technically this is literally a fact. In ancient times, when Scotland always had work for her soldiers to do, all young men ‘were required to perfect themselves in archery. They preferred to play golf, and so serious a rival did the game be- come that it was for a time suppressed and made a capital offense, That curi- ous law never has been repealed and may still be found on the statute book. There seems to be no record, however, of the law ever having been enforced. A Japanese Custom. On the anniversary of a Japanese boy’s birthday his parents present him with a huge paper fish, made of a gay- ly painted bag, with a hoop of proper dimensions forming the mouth. A string is tied to the hoop, and the fish is ‘hoisted to a pole on the roof of the house. Then the wind rushing through causes the fish to swell out to the proper size and shape and gives it the appearance of swimming in the air. A Japanese boy carefully pre serves every fish thus given to him. One can tell by the number of them that swim from the same pole how many birthdays the little fellow has had. Cause For Rejoicing. “Here,” said ‘the disgruntled actor, “I don’t want this part. If I play it I'll bave to die in the first act.” “Well.” replied the manager, “what are you kicking about? You die a natural death, don’t you? If you got a chance to come on in the second act you'd get killed.” — Chicago Record- Herald. Literal Rummy Robinson—Yes, mum; once for a whole year I turned me back on likker. Kind Lady—Ah, my noble man, what were you doing at the time? Rummy Robinson—Driving a brewer’s @ray, mum.—London Tit-Bits, ‘Wretched Man. Algy—By Jove! Miss Clara, how sweet you look in white! Do you know when. I saw_you coming across the :lawn you looked so nice I.thought it | was Miss_ Julty Harpér's Bazsar: . teller. | witty sayings. The Incident That Opened John Dal- ton’s Eyes to His istion. John : Dalton, the famous . English chemist and natural philosopher, with- out " whose discovery of the laws of chemical combination chemistry as an exact science could hardly exist, was wholly color blind. His knowledge of the'fact came about by a happening of the sort which we call chance. On his mother’s birthday, when he was a man of twenty-six, he took her a pair of stockings which he had seen in a shop window, labeled “Silk, the newest fashion.” “Thee has bought me a pair.of grand hose, John,” said the mother, ‘but what made thee ‘fancy such a bright color? Why. I can never show myself at meeting in them.” John was much disconcerted, but he told her that he considered the ‘stock- ings to be of a very proper go to meeting color, as they were a dark bluish drab. “Why, they’re as red as a cherry, John,” was her astonished reply. " Neither he nor his brother Jonathan could see anything but drab in the stockings, and they rested in the beliet that the good -wife's eyes were out of order until she, having consulted vari- ous neighbors, returned with the ver- dict, “Varra fine stuff, but uncommon scarlety.” The consequence was that John Dal- ton became the first to direct the at- tention of the sclentific world to the subject of color blindness. THE DRINK CALLED COFFEE. Here Is the Way They Made It In the Seventeenth Century. There are in existence in Great Britain a few copies 'of an ancient cookbook, published in 1662, that gives what is perhaps the first English rec- ipe for coffee. The recipe reads: “To make the drink that 13 now much used, called coffee. “The coffee berries are to be bought at any Druggist, abont seven shillings the pound. Take what quantity you please, and over a charcoal firé, in an old frying pan, keep them always stir- ring untll they be quite black, and when you crack one with your teeth that it is black within as it is without, yet if you exceed, then do you waste the Oyl, and if less, then will it not de- liver its Oyl, and if you should con- tinue fire till it be white it will then make no coffee, but only give you its salt. Beat and force through a lawn sleve. “Take clear water and boil one-third of it away, and it is fit for use. Take one quart of this prepared water, put in it one ounce of your prepared cof- fee and boil it gently one hour, and it 18 fit for your use; drink vne-quarter of a pint as hot as you can sip it. It doth abate the fury and sharpness of the Acrimony, which is the gender of the Diseases called Cronical.” I Beat the Bank's System. The boy entered the Cleveland bank and laid a half dollar with his bank book on the receiviug teller's window. “We dou’t recelve deposits of less than a dollar,” sald the teller. The boy ylelded reluctantly to the system and drew back. But he did uot leave the bank. He crossed the corridor and seated himself ou a settee. The teller noticed him sitting there and also no- ticed the reflective lovk on his face. The boy wuited for some time, think- 1ing it over. Kinally he arose and went to the paying teller’s window. A mo- ment later he coufronted the receiving “I want to deposit this dollar and a half,” he sald. The teller grinned. The boy had just drawn a dollar from his little balance and was using it as an entering wedge for the rejected half dollar. And so the sys- tem was beaten by the boy, and a con- siderable accession of bookkeeping la- bor was the price of defeat.—~Cleveland Plain Dealer. History Made Palatable. Joseph Salvador, the French histo- dan, and Jules Sandeau, a novelist, made .their meeting at a public recep- tion the occasion for a dispute as to the respective places which they occu- pled In the world of letters. “The reading of history is like a pill —it needs the sugar.coating to make it palatable,” argued the novelist. “Ah, but it is the Ingredient which cures, not the coating,” remarked the historian. . ! “Then let us divide honors,” said | Sandeau, “for if it were not for my sugar coating your historical facts ‘would dry on the shelves.” Tolstoy’s Intensity. Everything in Tolstoy’s character, says a Russian writer, attains titanic proportions. “As a drinker he absorbed fantastic quantities of liquor. As a gambler he terrified his partners by the boldness of his play. As a soldier he advanced gayly to bastion four, the bastion of death at Sevastopol, and there he made dying men laugh at his He surpassed - every one by his prodigious activity in sport as well as in literature.” Agriculture. No other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought as agriculture. Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of land.—Abraham' Lincoln. A Strike, “Why don’t you go to the dance to- night, Harold? Haven’'t you any flame?” “Yes, dad,” said the Harvard stu- dent, “a flame, but no fuel.”—Life. A grateful dog is better than an up- erateful man.—Saadi. An Excess of Nerve. “I like to see a young man energetic and able to push himself,” said the old banker sadly. “But when he borrowed the money from me to buy an automo- bile in which to elope with my daugh- ter it was carrying things a little too far” - Where It Went. “That dollar I gave you, James, to save up for a rainy day, did you put it in the bank ?" “I—I started for the bank, sir, but it came on to. rain so hard that 1 was forced to go into the inn, sir.”—Boston Herald. =~ - / COLOR BLINDNESS. SEEDBY THE “FREEZE® AND “BURN. These! Tws. Words Had a Commen “Rarent In Aryan Root. We are lfkely. to. consider ‘“treeze' and “burn” as two djstinctly opposite effects, but if, for a simple experiment, you will, touch your tongue to a bit of.heated iron and to a bit of iron that is extremely~€old the effects, af in the blisters produced "and <ensation of the contacts, wil! (1 to be:surprisingly alike. It is doulitful if our Aryan ancesto when they were planting the seed of the English and dts sister languages thought of the scientific relations of what we call heat and cold, but they gave to us the root “‘prus,” which they got out of the sensations produced by burnipg and freezing. As usual, Aryan roots” beginning with the “p” sound change it to “f” on the tongues of the Teuton: so with these our move modern ancestors . “prus” became| “frus,” and from it came our “freeze” and ““frost.” Again, as is usual, our Hindu brother in his Sanskrit usually preserves the ‘Aryan “p” sound, so he has from this root “prush,” meaning to burn. This root of freeze became *freosan” in Anglo-Saxon, which is our “frozen.’ In Icelandic it became “frjosa,” in Swedish “frysa” and in Danisb “fryse.” In .the Latin the original “p" sound is retained in “pruina,” mean- ing hoarfrost, and in “pruna,” signify ing a burning coal. Here we see unit- ed two apparently opposite meanings | growizg out of the old root “prus.’— | New York Herald. AFRICAN LIONS. They Often Hunt In Couples to Start and Capture Their Prey. Lions in Africa go hunting often in couples and then rather systematical- ly. When, for instance, a couple of| lions have traced out a kraal—that is to say, a place fenced by small cut thorn trees, where flocks of asses or| oxen, goats or sheep are shut up for the night—the lioness approaches cau- | tiously, profiting by every tree or bush ! to hide herself. At the same time the lion himself lies watching on the op- posite in the distance. Now the lioness exerts herself to arouse the cattle—which is not diffi- cult, as they become excited merely by smelling a beast of prey—till the cattle are tormented to the utmost by fear and borror, bhreak through the kraal on the side opposite to the lion- ess and tbus fall an easy prey to the lion. | The on chases his victim and throt- tles it by springing on its neck or breast and biting his teeth into this part. The hunted animal falls, and the lion now tears open the flanks. The lioness appears and has her share of the meal. Very often they cannot devour their victim in one night; then they come back to the place where the remains are on the following or the second night. The lion’s favorite food is zebra, quagga (of which there are few left| in Africa) and wild ass. The meat of | these three kind of animals is some- | thing alike in taste. | | | THE "stul.nszcui WATCH" OUR SUCCESS in selling the Bemidji Special Watch is largely due to the fact that we endeavored to place on the market the best 17-Jeweled Watch made, and not the cheapest 17-jeweled. TIMED TO THE SEGOND All Bemidji Special Watches are ad- justed at the factory and timed on onr own Regulating Rack, We do not allow one watch to leave our store which has not been proved by thorough tests, to be an accurate time piece. Made for and sold by GEO. T. BAKER & CO. The Exclusive Jewelry Store Hew-bash-Wafit—flam ',-Cent-a-Word Where cash accompanies copy we will publish all “Want Ads" for half- cent a word per insertion. Where cash does not accompany copy the regular rate of one ceuta word will be charged. EVERY HOME HAS A WANT AD For Rent--For Sale--Exchange --Help Wanted--Work Wanted --Etc.--Etc. HELP WANTED. A AN WANTED—For the Uaited States army, ablebodied unmarried men between ages of 18 and 35; citizens of the United States, of good character and temperate habits, who can speak, read and write thc Euoglish language. For in- formation apply to Recruiting Officer, 4th St., and Minnesota Ave.. Bemidji, Minne.ota. English Clay Pipes. The clay pipe, which is vanishing from the Fleet street chophouse, was the only variety smoked in this coun- try until quite recent times. The clay pipe made its appearance in England| WANTED—Good girl in the later years of the sixteenth cen tury. Writing about a century later, a French author remarks that the English “invented the pipes of baked clay which are now used everywhere.” ~ “Broseley, in Staffordshire, has been famous for its pipes and clay from the days of Elizabeth,” writes V in “The Soverane Herb.” the clay of which white pipes are manufactured comes from Newton Ab- bot and Kingsteignton, in Devon- shire. [t is sent to all parts of Eng- land and the world in rough lumps about the size of quartern loaves, weighing some twenty-eight pounds each.”—London Spectator. A Heartless Interruption. A young Parisian, noted for his grace and readiness as a second in many duels, was asked by a friend to accompany him to the mayor’s office to affix his signature as a witness to the matrimonial registry. He con- sented, but when the scene was reach- ed forgot himself. Just as the magor was ready for the last formalities he: broke out: “Gentlemen, cannot this| affair be arranged? Is there no way of preventing this sad occurrence?”’ Plain Hunger. “Doctor, what disease is the most prevalent among the poor?” “An alarming condition in which the nerve terminations in the stomach stimulated by accumulated secretions of the gastric glands send irritations to the spinal cord by way of the pneu- mogastric nerve.” “Goodness! How awful! And to think that we rich people can do nothing for those' unfortunate sufferers!”—Cleve- tand Leader. Out of the Question. Geraldine—What did pa say when you asked him for my hand? Gerald—I don’t care to give his re- marks in detail, but I couldn’t marry you if I went where he told me to.— New York. Press. In the Beginnin Adam—What ate you thinking about? Eve—I'm wondering if you and 1 eouldn’t play a two handed game of something for. the world’s champion- ship.—Exchange, She Was Flippant. Artist—Madam, it is not faces alone that I paint; it is souls. Madam—Oh, you do interiors, then?—Boston Tran- script. Cocoanut Trees. A cocoanut tree in the islands of | Trinidad and Tobago begins to produce nuts in four or five years after plant- !ng and reaches maturity in twelve or fourteen years. The average life of a healthy tree is fifty years, often very much longer. LUcky man, “I’m certainly a lucky man.” “How so?” “I had on my good clothes yesterday morning when my wife made her col- WANTED — Competent girl for general housework. Gooa wages, 700 Minnesota. for house- work. Mrs. L. G. Crothers, 713 Beltrami. WANTED—Two wood chopoers. Apply at Hayths Barn in rear of postoffice. WANTED—Girl for general house- work. Good wages. 1206 Dewey avenue. FOR SALf FOR SALE—Case stands and racks, number 6, double news stand with rack for 8 full sized cases. Good as new. Sell regularly for $3:75. We have 6 of these at $1 50 each. Bemidji Pioneer Publishing Co. Bemidji, Minn. FOR SALE—Lot 5 Sec. 58 T 148 R 33, 6% Acre Island in Turtle Lake, and ideal for a summer re- sort, good road from Bemidji or Turile River. A. O. Johnson, Turtle River, Minn. FOR SALE—Job type and body type. Fonts of 6 point to 72 point. Prices furnished with proof sheets upon request. Ad- dress Pioneer Publishing Co., Be- midji, Mion. FOR SALE—$30000 handles 6 room house, bal. small monthly payment. Hard wood finish. A snap. See H. M. Young, City. FOR SALE—]ob cases, triple cases, -quadrupple cases and lead and slug cases, 40c each. Pioneer Publishing Co. Bemidji. FOR SALE— Piano and sewing machine. Both in first class con- ditions. Inquire at 914 Beltrami avenue or telephone 570. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short 10t ce. FOR SALE—One 19 ft. Launch. Equipped with 5 H. P. Buffalo engine. Floyd Brown. FOR SALE—House hold goods. Inquire at 423 Bemid)i or tele- phone 337. FOR SALE—$450 will buy a 5 room house. H. E. Reynolds. .. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—Four good houses. »H. E. Reynolds. MISCELLANEOUS ’ lection for the rummage sale. She couldn’t give any but old stuff away.” —Detroit Free Press. A WANTED—Position as bookkeeper or clerk in store by a young man. Address X, care Pioneer. &