Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 8, 1911, Page 7

¥ A Long Credit. { The motto of the highland host that battled for the Stuart cause, which bonny Prince Charlie headed, appar- ently was that heaven helps those who help themselves liberally. They levied toll on the henroost, stable and, ac- cording to the author of “The Land of Remance,” even on the pockets of the Covenanters, At Swarthholm a party of these ma- rauders overhauled the house of a tai- Jor, and when one of them was about to cut up a web of homespun that had taken his fancy the good wife earnest- 1y remonstrated. “A day'll come when ye'll ha' tae pay for that,” she solemnly assured him. | Scissors in hand, Donald paused. “An’ when will she pe hafing to do that?” he asked. ‘At the last day,” said she. two milliners. tion of finery, shelves full of handsome | ribbons and glass showcases of rich | embroideries, bonnets. Once she imported a quan- tity of exquisite French caps. | strings were somewhat crushed in the transit across the ocean. | were quickly disposed of. | bought one, and Miss Rust innocently Too Precious. “Makers to his majesty” and “im- pprted” are words that carry much | weight to many minds. | what a glory a foreign label can cast upon a commonplace article. of a commodity having crossed the wa- ter, however, is not taken quite so se- riously today as it was some fifty or | sixty years ago. | glves an instance in her “A Half Cen- tury In Salem.” It is strange The fact M. C. D. Silsbee Miss Ann M. Rust was one of the She had a large collec- besides the inevitable The The caps An aunt “An’ that will pe a fery goot long | observed that a “Wa.rm iron would credit,” the robber coolly returned. | make the creases all right.” “Mhe wass going to pe only taking a | “What!” indignantly exclaimed the coat, but now she will pe taking a f&unt. “Smooth a crease made in Paris? | No, indeed; never!” | — walstcoat as well.” A Famous English Clock. Wells cathedral contains one of the most interesting clocks in the whole world. It was constructed by Peter ‘mghttoot‘ a monk, in 1320 and em- braces many devices which testify to the ancient horologist’s ingenuity. | Several celestial and terrestrial bodies sre incorporated in the interesting movement and relationship. They in- dicate the hours of the day, the age of the moon and the position of the planets and the tides. When the clock strikes the hour two companies of horsemen fully armed dash out of gateways in opposite directions and charge vigorously. They strike with | their lances as they pass as many | times as correspond with the number of the hour. A little distance away, | seated on a high perch, is a guaint figure, which kicks the quarters on | two bells placed beneath his feet and | strikes the hours on a bell. The dial | of the clock is divided into twenty- | four hours and shows the phases of | the moon and a map of the universe.— | | Harper’s. A Cold Ride. All through his life Senator Dolliver of Towa had a horror of fast trains and possible railroad wrecks. Once he Wwas on a train with Vice President Fairbanks. Dolliver awoke in the middle of the night, and it seemed to him that the | train was going at terrific speed. He climbed out of his berth and, arrayed only in his pajamas, started down the length of the train to find the con- ductor and ask him to order the train run at less speed. It was a cold night, but the senator did not mind that untit the door of his car snapped shut and locked behind him and he found that the door of the next coach was also locked. He rode sixty-tive miles locked | out in the cold of the vestibule before he could wake up anybody to let him in. Mr. Fairbanks finally heard his cries for help and rescued him.—New York Tribune. Necks and Legs of Animals. With few exceptions there is a mark- | ed equality between the length of the necks and of the legs of hoth birds and quadrupeds, and whether they be long or short is determined chiefly by the place where the animal must go for its food. This i8 especially noticeable in beasts that feed constantly upon grass, in which case the neck has just a slight advantage in that it cannot hang perpendicularly down. Croco diles, lizards and fish have practically no mecks. Fowls that feed in the water also offer an example of this correspondence between the members, with the exception of swans and gecse and some Indian birds, which gather their food from the bottom of pools and must have long necks for that pur pose, while the short legs make it more convenient for them Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette, be pleased to render any assistance possible. I will endeavor to appoint a representative delegation. Only Governor Hay of Washington Temains to be heard from, and a fa- vorable repiy is expected. to swim.— | | { A Mountain In the Sky. Somewhere many miles away froi this earth an enormous mountain twenty miles high is flying through space. The mountain is known astro- nomically as the planet Eros. The or- {dinary man has long taken it for granted that all the planets are more or less round in shape. The small planet Eros, however, is an exception to this rule. According to the latest astronomical information, it is a mere mountain In space, “without form and void,” and as it turns upon its axis first one corner and then another is presented to view. These small worlds (few are over ten or twenty miles across) are not large enough to have sufficient gravity to draw their struc- | ture into symmetry and remain as | when launched into space—mammoth meteorites. A tantalizing fact for as- tronomers is that Eros passed very | close to us about Jan. 24, 1894—before the planet was recognized—and that quite so near an approach is not due again till 1975. &*. 12 ST SAVE TRADE-MARKS - THESE PRODUCTS . MORE COMING THROUGH OPEN