Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 21, 1911, Page 4

THE BEMIDUI DAILY PIONEER PUSLIGHRD EVERY AFTERNOGN ERCEPT SBRAY 81 THE BEMIDJ) PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. Entored In the Pestoffice at Bomid]l, Mianeseta, 28 secsad tlass mattor, SYBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YFAR N DVANCE CITY OF BEMIDJI County Beat. Population—In 1900, 5099, Summer Resort---Hundreds of outsid- @rs make their summer home on Lake Bemidji. Fishing boating and bath- ing accommodations are second to none in the United States. Area—Ten Square miles incorporated. Altitude—1400 ‘eet above sea level. ‘Water Power—2200 developed horse- power, Mississipoi river. ‘Water—Absolutely pure. sian wells. ‘Water Mains—About ten miles. Boating—500 miles by lake and river. Death Rate—5.4 a thousand in 1908. Annunal Rainfal’—33.7 inches. Temperature—20 above, winter; 75 summer, mean. Sewer Mains—About five miles. Cement Sidewalks—Twelve miles. Lakeshore Drive—Ten miles. Parks—Two. ‘Water Prontage—Ten miles, two lakes and Mississippi river. A Home Town—1600 residences. Taxpayers—1200 Churches—s3. School Houses—Four, Bank Deposits—$800,000. Manufacturers—riardwood handles, lumber, lath, shingles and various other industries, @reat Distributing Point—Lumber preducts, groceries. flour, feed and hay. Postal Receipts—3$20,375 for 1910, 10th place in the state outside of St. Paul, Minneapolis «nd Duluth. Fostal Savings Bank—Only one in Minnesota. Rallronds—Great Northern, Minne- sota & International, M., R. L. & M, Mlinneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste, Marie, Wilton & Northern, Grand Forks to Duluth and Bemidji-Sauk Centre. Railroad Depots—Three. Passenger Trains—Fourteen daily. Hospitals—One Distances—To St Paul, Duluth, 167 miles. Hotels—Fifteen. Breweries—One. Sawmills—Four. Mandle Factories—One. Boat Pactories—One. ‘Wholesale Housea—Iour. Banks—Three. Auto Garages—One. 1500 ; in 1910 Two arte- 230 miles; to FOR THIS RELIEF MUCH THANKS. They are gone, heaven be praised, and they can’t come back for two years. Who said anything about an extraordinary session of the legisla- Was it Governor Eberhart? The They are no ‘ture? Let us hasteu to.release him. cities don’t wa.nt it. swine. Less than enough is, better than the kind of a feast we have been sitting. at, The oppressed and overtaxed North doesn’t ‘want iany more of it. The North has not got justice, but it has escaped skinning. The cities have not obtained equal representation, but they have been given a chance 1o escape more unequal by a popular vote. The legislature halved the representation -of the cities and doubled the taxation of the North. Let us return thanks like the clergyman who got his hat back from the congregation. We have got no useful legislation with which the game of politics or beer could be played, got forestry, but we have good roads, small tax reform and abolition of the death penalty. The rest must wait for the Teturn of sanity, after the presiden- tial election of 1912, reapportionment, working- men’s compensation, scientific effi- ciency in government and éuxlserva- tion have not waited so long as tax reform, and we are slowly getting that. We shall all be astonished to find how sane and reasonable even the senators will come back when the Primary re- form, game of politics has been played out |- and perhaps both progresisves and conservatives have lost out.—Minne- apolis Tribune. R R R R R R R RCRORORORRN © WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY ¢ POOC000PPPOOOGGOG Would Double Our Exports. ’ Believe it or not, free trade with Canada would double the exports from the United States the first year and double that the fourth year. Even with the reciprocity pact in force, our trade with Canada will al- most double in the exportation of American products the first year. Now watch, you unprogressive kick- ers and blind leaders of the blind.— Roseau County Times. Was Only a Dream, Reapportionment seems to have might have| ‘involved two problems. been a dream ifstead of a redlity and those who dinsisted that the pres- ent legislature would surely give the people some relief in the.matter have been subjected to a rude awakening. 1f men of the calibre of the senators who opposed and killed the measure are to be elected to positions of trust and responsibility no relief can be ex- Dected in the future.—-Brainerd Dis- patch. Is Still Popular. We hear in some quarters that the popularity of Theodore Roosevelt has deserted him and that he no longer has that hold upon the hearts of the American people for which he A perusal of the newspapers published in the towns along the Northern/ Pacific railway would disprove this assertion, at least so far as the northwest is concerned. was once famous. At any station along the line, whare | frain passed duving the daylight hours, crowds of citizens in the hope of see- ing the ex-president, and with Rooseveltian courtesy the great man | appeared on the platform of his car whenever the train stopped and spoke briefly to the people. There can be no doubt that the colonel still holds a prominent place in the hearts of the people.—Moorhead News. the Roosevelt were gatherc:l Lo R R R R R R RO R OROROROROROY ® POINTED PARAGRAPHS ¢ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@‘ Peace has her victories—atter we fight for them. A woman can act natural if she has no object in view. | ! There are no medals on the man who poses as his own hero, | Silence may be golden, but silver | will often close a man’s mouth, By re-leasing a piece of property a man takes a fresh grip on it. It's cheaper to be good than it is| j to hire a lawyer to keep you out of jail. | Gossips: are never satisfied unless they can put two and two together ! and make five.—Chicago News. i A Problem That Stumped Rousaea, . “A curious, little book is an old, old treatise on aeronautics by Jéin Jacques Rousseau, called “Le Nouveau Dedale.” Like Leouardo da Vinci and Cyrano de Bergerac, Rousseau was haunted by the dream of aerial navi- gation. We read: “Men walk on the earth, they sail‘on the water and swim it. Is not the air an element, like thé others? What business have the birds to shut us out of their premises while we are made welcome in - those of the fishes?” Rousseau took no stock in any theories propounded by the Darius Greens of his day. He sifted the matter for himself and thought it First to find a body lighter than air, so that it would rise. He imagined that sooner | or later such a body might present itself. Tbere was no telling. But what stumped him was his second problem—how to make that obliging | body stop rising.and how in creation- to make it come down. This was too tough for Jean Jacques, and he wound up his book by admitting it. For a long time “Le Nouveau Dedale” re- mained unpublished, appearing only in 1801 When a Ship Turns Turtle. To “turn turtle” means, in nautical | language, that a ship rolls too heavily, fails to recover herself and after a brief period on her beam ends turns topsy turvy, so that her keel points skyward. Then, of course, she sinks. Frequently the compressed air impris- oned in ber hull blows her bottom out as she goes down, or if she is a steam- er her bollers burst, with like results. As a rule, ships turn turtle because they are burdened with too much “top hamper” or from lack of sufficient bal- last, or both causes combined. Rarely does it happen that there are any sur- vivors, but there is one notable excep: tion in the case of the battleship Cap- tain, which was lost after this fashion in the bay of Biscay. -In her case ex- actly three minutes elapsed from the time she first turned turtle until she finally sank, and forty of her crew of 600 men clambered up her side as she rolied over and on to her keel. Of these eighteen men were eventually ‘rescued and were able to describe later on precisely what occurred.—Pearson’s. Mining For Coffin Planks. ‘ One of the most curious industries in the world is the business of mining for coffin planks, which 1s carried on in upper Tonkin, a portion of the French possessions in southeastern Asia. In a certaln district in this province there exists a great underground deposit of logs, which were probably the trunks of trees engulfed by an earthquake or some other convulsions of nature at a comparatively recent period. The trees are a species of pine known to the natives and also to some extent to Eu- ropean commerce as “nam-hou.” The wood is almost imperishable and has grot g decay” This. quality mnkel it -particularly vnl- .uable for the manufacture’of coffins, and for this purpose it is largely ex- ported to Europe. The trees are often a yard in diameter. They are buried in sandy earth at a depth of from two to eight yards and are dug up by na- tive libor as demand is made for them. =-Harper's Weekly: —_—~— How to Cool Things. A newlywed named Jones: was talk- ing to his friend Casey the other day about the heat in his flat and was ask- ing the other for a little advice. “Do you know my dining room is the hottest place in the world?” began the newlywed. “Do you know of any way I might cool it off?" ; “From experience I should say that a very good way to bring about a change in atmospheric conditions,” re- marked the older married man, “and one that is sure to bring results one way or the other, is to take a friend home to dinner when your wife isn't expecting Times. His Line. A charming young member of a wo- man's literary club, who adds the dis- tinction of being a bride to successful authorship, recently met a gushing stranger at a club reception. “Oh, Mrs. Blank, I am- so glad to meet you. [ enjoy your stories so much, and your husband's too.” Then adding as an afterthought, “He is lit- erary, too, isn’t he?”’ “Thank heaven, bride. New York Press. no!” replied the company.” — Philadelphia | “He’s in the coal business.”— ! Progressing. “I think Arthur would have proposed o ‘me last night if you hadn’t come:in tha room just when you qid.” “Whnt reason have you for believing that?” “He had just taken both of my hands in his. He had never held more than one of them at a time before.” Wide H. ‘n 1798, An artist has advertised that he ‘makes up wornout umbrellas into fashionable gypsy bonnets. The tran- sition is so easy that he is scarce to be praised for the invention.—London Times, July 7, 1798. Solid Goods. “What became of that cake I baked for you?' demanded the flancee. “l sent it downtown to have my monogram engraved on it.” replied the flance.—Kansas City Journal. The Worst to Come. worst of the discords in our party?” | "Not yet.” replied the musical man. | practicing.”—Exchange. Ups and Downs. Not every statesman takes his dis- missal with the humor of the Duec @’Epernon, who fell into disgrace with Henry of Navarre. Descending one day the great staircase of the Louvre, he met Richelleu ascending it, and on the cardinal asking indifferently if there was anything new taking place D'Epernon replied. “Nothing, that, as you see. I am going down and | you are going up!” Mr. Bloundelle Burton tells the story in “The Fate of ! Henry of Navarre.” “Do you think we have heard ther | *“Just wait till our glee club gets to | except | Why He Shppod % Tluay bad beén engged only a week. He had kissed her fully forty times that evening. \When he stopped the tears came into her eyes, and she said: “Dearest. you have ceased to love me.” d “No, 1 haven't.,” he replied, “but | must breathe.” - Ladies” Home Journal. R. G. M. PALMER DENTIST [Miles Block i\Work by Appointment Only LAWYERS RAHAM M. TORRANCE LAWYER Telephone 560 Evenin Miles Block H. 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