Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 30, 1911, Page 4

{SPORTS OF THE DAY || COST OF BASEBALL PLAYERS Experts Figure Nearly 400 Pla; WIII Recelve $800,000—McGraw In $12,000 Class. Baseball sharps figure that be- fore the pennant races end the meg- nates will have pald out more than $800,000 for services. It is conceded that the players in the National and the American leagues this year will recelve more money for their labors than ever before in the history of the game. There is no salary limit and the stipends range all the way from $1,600 to nearly ten times that amount. In the New York Nationals John Me- Graw, manager, who is not a player, will receive about $12,000 for his work this year. Christy Mathewson is be- lieved to be the highest paid ball play- er in the profession. He signed a five year contract last winter at an annual salary of $10,000, it is said. The two dozen other players on the New York team will average about $2,7560 each, swelling the total salary list to more than $85,000, a record in professional baseball. The New York Americans also will recelve liberal salaries. Manager Chase will draw about $7,000 for his services as manager, captain and first baseman, with a chance to receive a substantial bonus if the hill men win the championship. Russell Ford, the team’s star pitcher, will get close to $5,000 and the season’s pay roll will foot up in the neighborhood of $65, 000. Among the other big league teams the pitchers will, as usual, be the star performers on the salary list. Accord- ing to current reports, the wages of some of the more important men will run about as follows: Coombs and Bender, Philadelphia, $6,000 each; Walsh, Chicago, $6,000; Mullen, Detroit, $5,000; Adams, Pitts- burg, $5,000; Brown, Chicago, $5,000; Collins, Philadelphia, $7,000; Lajole, Cleveland, $7,000; Wagner, Pittsburg, $6,000; Cobb, Detroit, $8,000. Virtually all the big league clubs Manager McGraw. except Boston will exceed the $50,000 mark in their salary lists. Aside from the players’ salaries, the expenses of each club will include about $8,000 for railroad fares, $6,000 for hotel accommodations, $6,000 for clerical work, $10,000 for rent and $5, 000 for uniforms, equipment and inci dentals, or about $35,000. A Freak Tortoise. “Patrick, Patrick!” admonished a lady. “Be careful where you are walk- ing! You pearly trod upon my darling tortoise!” “Och, be aisy, me lady!” rejoined her Irish gardener. *Shure an' I wouldn't hurt a hair of his head, the sweet cra- tur!"—London Telegraph. His Choice. Kindly Old Man — Well, my Ilittle ‘man, what would you like to be when you grow up? Little Man—I'd like to be a nice old gentleman like you, with nothin' to do but walk around and ask questions. His Protest. A bright little 1ad heard his parents talking about the salaries of teachers. “I don’t see why they should pay the teachers,” he said very serlously, “when we children do all the work.” Mixed. Policeman (to clubman returning home late)—Here, you can't open the Club- door with that. It's your cigar. F‘NEPEPNCY «SQUAL AND RMBULANCE- l -DIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Forty powerful motor cars, each driven at top speed by a bold, resourceful man determined t 0 win—that is the combination that, it is freely predicted, will result.An some bad accidents on the speedway. - when the great 500-mile race is being contested on Decoration day. The management, of ‘course, hopes that there will be no serious smash-ups, but it 18 ready for them if they do occur. Automobile ambulances and emergen- cy squads of physicians and trained nurses will be stationed about the track to give prompt attention to any un~ fortunate victims of accidents. Colors Warm and Cold. One clear, cold winter's day Benja- min KFranklin spread a number of bandkerchiefs carefully’ on a level stretch of snow. One of the handker- chiefs was black, another white and the others of various colors. Some time afterward he returned and re- moved the hankerchiefs carefully one by one, measuring the depth of snow under each. Under the black handker- chief he found that the snow had melt- ed considerably; under a red -handker- chief, almost as much; under a blue; hankerchief, very little, and under the white one scarcely any. By this simple experiment he learned that color has a great deal to do with the warmth of clothing. White sheds the sun’s heat almost as well as an ollskin sheds water; blue is.nearly as heat proof; green 18 less so; yellow is a warm color, red a still warmer color, while black soaks up almost all the sun’s heat that strikes it. Make the experiment some time and you will see why black clothes are out of place in the summer time and white ducks in winter.— Christian Herald. The Thunderer’s Logographs. Some of the most serious riots re- corded in the printing trades occurred in 1814, when ‘the London Times was first printed by stéam, and a number of workmen discharged through this innovation sought to wreck the office in Printing House square. Long be- fore this the Times had been printed logographically—that is to say, the pro- prietor conceived the happy idea of having words cast entire to save the compositors the trouble of collecting type. The logographs most in demand were: Dreadful, robbery, atrocious out- rage, fearful calamity, alarming ex- plosion, loud cheers, interesting fe- male. One hundredweight of each of these was always kept in stock. In. teresting females no longer figure in newspaper reports, but otherwise the cliches of journalism seem to have al- tered but little.—London Chronicle. China’s Floating Islands. On all the great lakes of China are found floating islands, which are enor- mous rafts of bamboo overlaid with earth and bearing on the surface of the water pretty houses and gardens. They are, in fact, aquatic farms, bear- ing crops of rice and vegetables. The rich bottom mud, utilized as an artifi- clal sofl, is extremely fertile and yields bountiful harvests, though on a small scale. In a country where there is a lack of available land the floating plantations are most serviceable, large sails being attached to the dwelling house as well as to each corner of the island whenever it is desired to move about. After gathering a crop of grain os garden produce from his farm the floating farmer casts his nets into the water and from their depths brings up a supply of fish for his family. Cheeky John Forster. In “Willlam Harrigon Ainsworth and His Friends” the author, S. M. Bilis, tells a quaint story of nsworth and his friend John Forster. Ainsworth had discovered a fine set of Hogarth's engravings_which was held at £5, a sum which, he said. “I could not just then spare or at least did not think I ought to spare. I took John Forster down to see.the Hogarths, whereupon he actually said that he would and must have them himself and as he bad not £5 of loose money at that moment I should lend that sum to him. I pointed outthe absurdity of the posi- tlon—that I wanted the engravings for myself and could not afford to lay out the money; how. then, could I lend it— to him? It was of no use. He over- ruled me, had the £5 of me and bought the Hogarths I was longing for.” ‘The Moves In Chess. In the number of possible moves chess stands alone among games, ‘and | ers. not only is it perfectly safe to say that no living man has ever made even once every possible move, but it is highly fmprobable that in all the cen- turies of the history of the game has every possible move-been made, ‘The| different ways of playing the first fonr moves on each side are s0 numerous that if every man, woman and child in a city of half a million population were to set to work playing them at the-rate of four moves a minute night and day it would be more than a year before any one would be able to leave | - Whitewash Brush In Spain. In Spain. where the ruins of Moorish towers are seen upon the crests of many hills as the exjpress train crawls along at the rate of fifteen or twenty miles an hour, the evidences of surviv- ing Moorish influence upon the people and customs of Andalusia make an in- teresting study. In tbe city of Ronda it 1s plaln that the ideas of home build- ing which the Arabs brought into the Iberian peninsula remain vital today. The whitewash brush is the great lev- eler of distinction between the rich and the poor in Spain. The exteriors of homes—great manor houses upon the haciendas, huts of mountaineers clinging to the sides of the almost perpendicular hills, handsome homes of rich merchants in the cities and humble tenements—are nearly all of | plaster. A few of them are calel- mined in blue or brown or pink, but the majority are pure white. Ronda is a white city with a few patches of blue and pink and looks as if the whitewash brush had just been ap- plied.—Louisville Courier-Journal, Got Right Down to Business. James Russell Lowell when ambas: sador to England contributed liberally to a London soclety and one duay sent a deserving young American there to be assisted home. But the American was told that, though his case was em- inently deserving, the society was just then short of funds, ‘When Lowell heard this he sat down and wrote the soclety a terse and vig- orous letter. “Dear sirs,” he began, “for the last seven years I have contributed annual- 1y 25 guineas to your organization. 1 regret to learn you were unable to as- sist the young man I recommended to you a few days ago. If you will kind- ly return to me one of my contribu- tions T will send him to America at my own expense, as I am convinced the case Is a most deserving one.” The society did not return any of Mr. Lowell's cash, but it found means somehow to dispatch the young man home by the next boat. She Could Threaten Too. “Tickets,” said the wiry little con- ductor as he confronted a 300 pound German woman. “Ach! I baf lost my ticket vhat I should come back by vonce.” Conductor—I am sorry, madam, but you will be obliged to pay your fare again, ‘Woman—Nein, nein. I paid you this morning already. I vill nicht. Several times the conductor returned to reason with her, but each time was met with a more de:ided refusal than the last. Finally, losing patience, the conductor sald: “Madam, if you do not pay your fare at once I shall have to stop the train and put you off.” The woman, half rising and shaking her fist at him, said: “What!- Put me off, you say? Vhen you say dat some more by me I make you the traln off and no stop it either.”. A Waiter as a Tipper. Two years ago a guest at a hotel in Frankfort-on-the-Main which has many American patrons became a prime fa- vorite with the waiters in the dining room. because of the lavish tips he gave to the man who served him, the boy who helped him on with his coat and the various other - employees. ‘Where old customers gave 50 pfennigs he would give a mark and more, be- sldes extras in the way of cigars. In explanation he said one day that when he was at home in St. Louis he was a walter, and, being far away, he want- ed to test the extravagant tip system. “And how does it work?” he was asked, “Fine, The boys think me a fine gen- tleman, and I think they are fine wait- .”—New York Tribune. A Sight Unse “] guess I'm just an lmpresulonnblo” ‘woman,” she simpered.. “I gave'a beg- | gar a quarter this afternoon.” - “How' did he~ work you for it?” he asked. “He said, ‘Won’t %‘l beautiful lady help me a bit?* _“Well,_ you can’t: help giving some- ‘thing to these blind men.” And he can’t figure it out yet why the girl 18 mad at him.—Boston Trav- Wrecked by a Knife Blade. A ship was once wrecked on the Irish coast. The captain was a care- ful one. Nor had the weather been of so severe a kind as to explain the wide distance which the vessel had swerved from her proper course. The ship went down, but so much interest attached to the disaster that a diving bell was sunk. Amoug other portions of the vessel that were examined was the compass that was swung on the deck, and inside the compass box was detected a bit of steel, which appeared to be the small point of a pocket- knife blade. It was learhed that the day before the wreck a sailor who had been set cleaning the compass had used his pocket knife in the proc- ess and had unceremonlously broken off the poiut and left it remaining in the box. That bit of knife blade ex- | erted 1ts influence on the compass and to a degree that deflected the needle from its proper bent and vitiated it as an Index of the ship's direction. That bit of knife blade wrecked the vessel. Scotch Students. Many a man: who never had any “schooling” gets an education, and often a surprisingly good one. A traveler in: Scotland once met a farmer whose ground rent was about §20 a year and who wrote poetry in Gaelle that was of a high order. This same traveler met a youth in Scotland who jrode from home on horseback to. the seaport and then across Scotland to Aberdeen, where he sold his horse to enter the unlversity. It is related of another Scotchman that he was overheard repeating a line of Tennyson, whereupon some one ask- ed him what poet he liked best. “Homer,” he replied. ““Whose translation do you read?’ “I rarely read a translation” he said, wiping the fish scales from his apron. “I like best to read Homer in the original Greek.”—Minneapolis Trib- une. All About a Cruiser. “What sort of a boat is this?” in- quired the inqulsmve man at the docks. | “A cruiser.” replled a smiart lad, | “And where is she gding?" “A cruise, sir.” “What makes it go?”’ “It’s screw, sir.” “Who are on board?’ “It's crew, sir.” “It looks pretty smart.” “We have to keep it clean, or rub- bish and dust would accrue, sir.” “Oh, you're too smart! Where do | you come from?" “From Crewe, sir.” — London Tit- Bits. ~ Manhattan Scallop. A’ deliclous. breakfast or luncheon dish is Manhattan scallop. Shred suf- Aclent cold cogked fish to measure a good half pint. It must be free from skin and boge. Add to it one cupful of fine stale breadcrumbs, a good sea- soning of salt: and pepper, two well beaten eggs mixed with a half cupful of stewed tongatoe!. Turn all into & buttered dish,; sprinkle the top with buttered brs-qmrumbs. dot with bits of butter and bmn in a hot oven.—Sub- urbanitouen- A Madcl Horse. - Hi Billings went to a horse sale one day and bought a horse for $18. When he got the hgrse home he offered it a bucket of water, but it wouldn't drink. After that he gave it a feed of corn, but it wouls touch that either. “By gosh,” he said, ‘‘you're the very horse for me if yow’ll only work!” 7 Probably There'Now. Bobby—Pa,/did you ever see an arm of the sea? Flfllel‘—Yel. “Where wag it?" “It was bugging the shore tha last I saw of it.”—Smart Set. Ourselve: ever yet made utterly miserable excepdng by ‘himself. We are, if not the masters, at.any rate al- most the ‘creators of ourselves—Epic- tetus. - The Yankes Twist. " “You can always tell an English- man,” sald the Briton proudly. “Of course you can,” repued the Yan- do 1 riedly: her motor, led Mlu Oochnh of Chicago out St. James street. - ‘Cochon’ of Chicago as ‘they -passed Brooks club, but the d\mhm sald hm- “Don’t look at him, my dear, or he will cut you. Don’t you understand club etiquette?” “queétte.” ‘Well,” said the duchess, “it differs | altogether. The club, you see, origl- nated in London. The club has been defined as the weapon wherewith the suvage keeps the white woman at a distance. In club etiquette women are ignored. As you pass White's or the Carlton, the Junior Carlton or Brooks you will see your best friends, top hat pushed back and hands folded.on stick, glaring solemnly at you from this win- dow or from that, but your best friends won't speak to you. It isn’t club etiquette. And if you spoke to them it would be a worse faux pas than If you appeared at court under: the influence of liquor.”—Cincinnat! Enquirer. Delicate Generosity. One of the many stories of Grant which grip the hearts and minds of the people was once told by General Simon B. Buckner at a meeting of Confederate veterans, “Grant and I were chums at West Point,” began General Buckner. *“I had befriended him at one time, and it can justly be said of him that he never forgot a kindness. After the Union victories at Henry and Donelson I met Grant on the boat at the surrender, and he followed me when I went to | hendquarters. He left the officers of his own army and followed me with that modest manner pecullar to him into the shadow and tlere tendered me hig purse—pressed it into my hand without a word. “It seemed to me,” concluded Gen- eral Buckner, “that in the marvelous modesty of his nature he was afraid the light would witness that act of generosity and sought to hide it from the world, almost from his own soul.” Music of “The Lost Chord.” The music of “The Lost Chord” was composed under most touching cond:- tions. Arthur Sullivan was watching by the bed of his dying brother, Fred- erick. One night shortly before death the invalid sank into a peaceful slum- ber. Arthur, who attended his broth- er day and night, took the oppor- tunity to read, and it happened that his eyes fell on Adelaide Anne Proc- ter's poem, “The Lost Chord.” The verses impressed bim greatly, and mu- sic appropriate to them suggested It- self to his mind. Taking a sheet of music paper, he began to write, and so, absorbed was he in his task that he sat hour after hour working at it until the song was completed. Probably the acute emotional conditions under which the music was cowmposed ac- count largely for the power to touch the emotions which undoubtedly. “The Lost Chord” possesses.—George Leon Varney in National Magazine: A Go as You Please Railway. The Quest-Etat railway is:a stand- ing joke in Paris on account of its slipshod ways. They tet there this story of an incident which happened when M. Briand was premier: A Russian prince was in Brittany and wanted to come up to Paris. He telegraphed to his secretary: *Shall arrive Invalides tomorrow 8 a. m. Don’t want accident to train. "See Briand about it.” The secretary call- ed on the prime minister, who was most affable. *“It is not the general custom on the Quest-Etat to avoid ac- cidents,” he said, “but 1 will ask the director to see what can be done.” The express arrived safely without the smallest mishap, but six hours and a half late, during all which time the Russian prince’s secretary had been waiting on the platform. “I'll just bet you cigars for the crowd,” said one of a party of promi- nent men to one of the number who was bragging of what he could do, “that you can’t answer ‘ves’ to any three questions'I ask you.” “Done,” said the boasting one, “Well, were you ever in jail?”’ “Yes “Were you ever electrocuted?” “Yes.” “Will you pay for the cigars if ¥ lose?” Curtain.—New York World. Cause For Thanks. Small Elmer, who had just recelved a severe scolding, said, “Am I really 80 bad, mamma?" “Yes, Elmer,” she replied, “you have been a very, very bad boy.” “Well,” rejoined the youngster after a moment’s reflection, “you ought to be thankful that 1 ain’t twins.”—Chi- cago News. Beyond the Husband Stage. “You say you are your wife’s third husband?" saild one man to another during a talk. the reply. “Heavens, man,” said the first man, “you are not a husband; you're a habit!"—Ladies’ Home Journal. Nerve. Lady—Why do you give me this bit of paper? Tramp—Madam, 1 do not like to criticise your soup, but it is not like mother used to make. Allow me to give you her recipe.—Fliegende Blat- ter. Agreeable advice.is rarely useful ad- vice.—Massillon. A Calamity. Neighbor—My! My! 8o the story {s true and your busband bas really eloped with the servant girl. De- serted Wife (weeping)—Yes, and she was the best girl 1-ever had, too, a perfectly lovely cook, and so quiet and respectful. Dear knows where I'll be able” to get another!— Philadelphia Times. 2 X Let nothing shocking to eyes or ears approach those doors that clou uwn !‘Ob, there's the duke!” erled Miss | *“No; not if it differs from other eti- | “No; I am her feurth husband,” was piece of Jewelry. . For Commencement Gifts | Your young friend will be pieased with a Diamond artlsca]ly mounted in a ring, pin, watch or other Our Diamonds are bnght and brilliant showing a beautiful play of color. What could be a more suitable glft 0 commemorate the event of graduation? We are also at this time giving the unusually low price on Diamonds as we have done before. We Have Many Other Suitable Gifts Watches as can be made. We carry ali the better makes. Our prices are as low day as left. Brooches Mesh Bags Lockets Card Cases Hat Pins Hand Bags Neckchains Vell Pins Signet Rings Fobs Combs Banquet Rings Scarf Pins Cuff Buttons Souvenir Spoon | Bracelets 6old Clocks Hand Engraving Free 22" iicks pirchased pert engravers in our employ and can guarantee engraving finished same 116 Third Street Geo. T. Baker & Co. Exclusive Jewelry Store See Our Window Near the Lake When You Break Cut Glass. An accident to cut glass Invariably plunges the owner of it into clouds of gloom, but often these clouds have sil- ver linings. Before throwing the pleces away examine each piece sep- arately and see if it could be cut down into anything smaller. Shops which deal in cut glass usually have a cutter on the premises. A cnse Is told of a bride who upon entering the dining room arrived in time to see, but not prevent, her maid from pulling instead of pushing the extension table, and as it separated in the middle several Dleces of valuable cut gluss which had been_placed there during the cleaning time fell through with a crash to the floor. It seemed a hopeless arcident, but a rose bow! was cut down from a decanter, following the pattern near | the neck, which had broken off; a small | tiolet holder was cut down from a tall | tase, a tiny sugar bowl from a vinegar cruet, and a small bonbon dish was saved from a larger cut glass bowl— iVWoman’s Home Companion. A Clever Crow. As to a crow’s ablility to talk, said a naturalist, some will and others will never learn. The first of the four birds 1 have had recently was a won- derful talker. Unlike the parrot, his conversation seemed intelligent rather than simply imitative. For instance, if I said to him, “Hello, Jack?’ he would answer, “Hello!” and .not put on the ‘“Jack,” as so many parrots do when one says, “Hello, Polly!" But he could imitate me also. He found that when any one called and said, “Hello, Wood!" my reply was a low “Hello!” He tried in every way to imitate that low tone of mine and finally succeeded. He would go over to his water trough and with his head in the air would try, “Hello, Wood!” Then down would go his head in the trough, and out would come the “Hel- lo!” just like mine.—Washington Star. Temperature of Sea Water. The temperature of ocean water va- ries at the surface from 28 degrees F. at the poles to over 80 degrees F. in the tropics. The cold water toward the poles has an annual variation of less than 10 degrees F. at any one spot, and the warm water of the tropics also has an annual varlation of less than 10 degrees F. in a band that near- 1y encircles the earth. This is the re- glon of the coral reefs and atolls. Be- tween these regions of small annual variation there ar¢ two bands sur- rounding the earth where the annual variation is greater und may exceed in certain regions 40 degrees F. at any one spot.—Marine Journal. The Woman In the Case. A mother-in-law had stayed so of- ten with her daughter as to cause a quarrel with th« husband. One day she found her daughter weeping in the drawing room. “What's the matter? Gracious me, don't say that George has left you!" she exclaimed. “He has,” replled the young wife tearfully. “Then there’s a woman In the case?” mater asked, her eyes lfighting up ex- pectantly. “Yes” ho 1s 1t?” New-Gash-Want-Rate ',-Cent-a-Word ‘Where cash accompanies cop; {] will publish all “Want Ads" for half- cent a word per insertion. Where cash does nmot accompany copy the regular rate of one ceuta word will be charged. SVERY HOME MAS A WANT AD For Rent--For Sale--Exchange --Help Wanted--Work Wanted =-Eto.. tc. HELP WANTED WANTED—A 'good woman: cook at Stechman Cafe. - FOR SALE FARM FOR SALE—Farm contains eighty acres with good frame house and barn and several acres under “cultivation. ‘Small lake and brook _ on land. Land described as follows; NE 1-4 of SE 1-4 and SE 1-4 of NE 1-4, Section 14, Town 149, Range Write Wm. Burce, Kelliher, Minn., for price, etc. 25. FOR SALE—Case stards 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, Minu, FOR SALE—160 acres, section 26, township 150, range 37, Clear- .water county. Hardwood and meadow. $8.00 per acre, worth $15.00. 1f interested write Mort Adson, Manhattan Building. ’FOR SALE—Job type and body type. Fonts of 6 point to 72 point. Prices furnished with proof sheets upon request. Ad- midji, Mion. | FOR SALE—Three -second hand typewriters. One Smith Premier at $40 00 Ove Smith P em'er at $2500 and one Remington at $2500 Apply at this office. | FOR SALE—]Job cases, triple cases, quadrupple cases and lead and slug cases, 40c ‘each. Pioneer Publishing Co. Bemidji. ~ FOR SALE CHEAP—Buggy, cutter, harness, sideboard, house plants, chickens. Inquire Mrs. John Wallin, 103 N. Irvine Ave. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Piopeer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for vov ar short notice FOR SALE—One seven room house and lot. A snap if taken at once. 1012 Doud avenue. Wm. T. Mageau. FOR SALE—Fine phonograph and a number of records for sale at very low price. 1024 Beltrami Ave. F'OR SALE arge frame bulldhlg at South Bemidji cheap, inquire at M. & L. depot. FOR SALE—Two cash registers. In- quire at Bank Saloon. Furniture for sale. 917 Minn. 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