Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 7, 1911, Page 3

Slaves of the Russian Passport. A peasant leaves bis home to seek fer work as a field laborer wherever he can find work to do, and. like every Russian, male uand female. he takes bis passport with him. which is quite as much a part of him as his soul is. Tt is always a half yearly passport, which he must renew at the end of Six months, sending it home in a reg- Stered letter to an offiical at his na- #ive place and inclosing the legal fee and something over for the trouble. e time of renewal draws near: the workman gets a demand for a new passport. Through official neglect or other reason the passport fails to come im time. The honest workingman. Wwho is earning his bread in the sweat of his brow and by the practice per- haps of exceptional sobriety is trying te earn a pittance for his family, is arrested sunddenly and sent home— that is, is flung into a forwarding prison, whence be emerges to join a cenvict party. which contain the cream of criminality. and is made to suffer Serments before he gets home. When e arrives he gets bis passport and is a free agent—once more a loyal sub- | Ject.—E. B. Lanin. | Fixing Up the Horse. I you had a highly intelligent thor- | oughbred horse to which you were] aweatly attached, what would you do fer him in order to bring him to the bighest point of efficiency? ‘Would you teach him, at great incon- venience and after many repetitions, te smoke from ten to fifteen cigars a day, and would you mix with his oats all the way from a pint to a quart of alicohol? Would you re-enforce this by everloading his stomach with highly spiced food and add all the narcotics #hat were in the market, such as tea. woffee, etc.? Would you keep him in & heated stable without any fresh air, mmke him sit up at all hours of the wight and permit all the veterinarians W the neighborhood to hold consulta- #ons and operate upon him as often @8 they needed the money? And if you did all this, what sort of a race would you expect that horse to win ?—Life. Ancient Football. Philip Stubbes wrote in 1583 in his Weok on “The Anatomie of Abuses:” “For as concerning football 1 pro- #est unto you it may rather be called | a freendly kinde of fight than a play af recreation: a bloody and murthering wractice than a felowly sporte of pas- fyme. For dooth not every one lye in waight for his Adverserie, seeking to awerthrow him and to picke him on his mose, though it be on hard stones, so that by this meanes sometimes their mecks are broken, sometimes their ‘mcks. sometimes their legs, sometimes their arms, sometimes one part thrust ®ut of joynt, sometimes another; some- mes the noses gush out with blood, Smetimes their eyes start out—fight- img, brawling, contention, quarrel pick- img, murther. homicide and great effu- | dlon of blood, as experience dayly ¥eacheth.” Relics of the Incas. The Inca period has left us remark- e tra especially in the magnifi- e@ent roads. Broud. beautiful turn- mikes, now only partially preserved. »an for a distance of over 2,000 miles from ihe coast to the plateau and the foot of the highest peaks. We marvel at the skill of the Inca engineers, es- pecially in the magnificent stairways Wewn in the rock, in the filling up of deep ravines, in the paving with pon- derous flags. In several places have ®een found the remains of a former as- MRalt covering to these roads. At cer- intervals are found the ruins of omsiom houses and laid out grounds and fortifications, of which the most Imteresting specimen is the fortress of @uzco, buiit about the year 1000. and phundered and destroyed by Pizarro in B43.—Century Path. ’ The Club. ‘An exclusive dining society in Lon- den is the ome bearing the arrogant title the Club, which since its foun- dation has been limited to thirty-five mbers. Johnson; Burke, Reynolds sad Goldsmith were among the orig- imal members. Garrick and Boswell eined in 1773 and Gibbon and Fox ta 1774. Of the eighteen premiers in the nineteenth century nine were members of the club, Fox, Liverpool, QGanning, Russell, Aberdeen. Gladstone, Balisbu: Lord Rosebery and Mr. Balfour.—London Spectator. The Orator’s Fate. “Some orators.” said Semator Sor- ghum reflectively, “make me think of our parrot.” “The one whose head you chopped oft?” “Yes. He had to take all the blame for what somebody else insisted on his saying.”—Washington Star. Asking Too Much. “My dear,” said Mr. Clarkson, “I don’t want you to think I have any de- sire to criticise you for the way you manage, but really we must try to live ‘within our income." “Within our income? Goodness! And be regarded by everybody in our set as eecentric ' —Judge. Doublod Her Capacity. “Mrs. Garber fell downstairs and bit her tongue in two.” “I feel sorry for her husband. She was a terror when she had only ome tengue!” Vice Versa. Teacher—I would like some one in the class to define the meaning of vice versa. Bright Boy—It's sleeping with your feet toward the head of the bed. Good deeds ring clear through heav- | emplo en Jlke a bell.—Richter. Pushing and Pulling. Tt has been wisely observed that Most operations can be more efficiently performed by drawing them along through their proper course than by at- | tempting to push and jam them through, just as it is much easier to pull a rope than it is to push it. There are probably not many persons who have tried to push a rope, but very many have attempted things almost as perverse. In many manufacturing es- tablishments, for example, there may be seen numerous examples of men wasting a large part of their energy endeavoring to move heavy pieces ot work upon small trucks, pushing and laboring in the exertion of effort, a small fraction of which goes to cause | the actual progression. Even when | such an effective aid to transport as an industrial railway is ten used at less than its proper effi ciency because there is too much push- Magazine. Bags That Last. “The young chup whose morals 1| now is my nephew,” | treml n remarked. ‘“‘He has nd boy in a banking house. He is a bright lad and as steady as they make 'em, but since he ot that job in the bank his women relations are urging him into crime. They do uot advise him to pick his <" pockets or run away with the day’s deposits, but the principle in- volved is just as reprehensible. They ask him to abstract a few bags that the silver money is carried in. The women wunt those bags for sofa pil- low covers. They are made of mate- rial that will never wear out and PRSI T T Ve e e alled it is of- | he wanted the stew. B ° Q g | feathers and down simply cannot sift| S 7 3 throogh, | By boldly askins for what| ShFe he saw a blind man fvoking y has secured enough l e 2! bags to incase his mother's sofa pil- he learned that he had been there for lows, but if he supplies the rest of the| S€Yeral months. The great monarch family I see nothing ahead of him but | a career of crime.”—New York Sun. e ke Do You Want to Get Slender? A food specialist said of dieting “The simplest, easiest and most effica- cious diet to bring down the weight is the one dish diet. should more than one dish be eaf The dish may be what you will—Irish aroni and cheese, roast beef, vegetable soup, bacon and eggs—but s are to precede or follow it. eat as much as you choose of the dish, and yet, for all that, you will lose weight steadily. riety of dishes--the oysters, soup, fish, ! turkey, mince pie, ice cream—it's the| | variety - of dishes, ing and not enough pulling.—Cassier's | At no meal, thal It's the va- creating an arti- ficial appetite when the body has real- | 1y had all it requires, that causes cor- pulence. If we confine ourselves to one| dish we know when we've had enough| —we don't know otherwise—and the result is that we soon drop down to| the slimness natural to children, ani-| mals and temperate and heulthy’ men | T' BEAUDETTE and women.”—Kansas City Star. A Miracle Under Orders. 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