Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 3, 1911, Page 2

— Published every afternoon except Bun- day by the Bemidjl Pioneer Publishing Company. @. B CARSON. = x pENU. T. A. WILSON, Raitor. In the City of Bemldji the papers are delivered by carrier. Where the deliv- ery is irregular please make immediate complaint to this office. Telephone 31. Out of town subscribers will confer a favor if they will report when they do not get thelr papers promptly. All papers are continued until an, ex- plicit order to discontinue is received and until arrearages are pald. * Subscription Rates. One month, by carrier One year, by carrier.. Three monthis, postage paid 8ix Months, postage paid One year, postage paid. . The Weekly Pioneer. Eight pages, contalning a summary of the news of the week. Publisheu every Thursday and sent postage palc to any address for $1.50 in advance. ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MAT- TER AT THE POSTOFFICE AT BE- MIDJI, MINN., UNDER THE ACT OF MARCH 3, 1879, POOOOPOOQPOSOS® THIS DATE IN HISTORY July 3. 1423—Louis XI of France born. Died Aug. 30, 1483. 1608—Champlain founded the city of Quebec. 1775—Gen. Washington assum- ed command of the Con- tinental Army at Cam- bridge. 1839—First normal school in America opened at Lex- ington, Mass. 1842—An insane youth named Bean attempted to assas- sinate Queen Victoria. 1863—End of the three days’ battle of Gettysburg. 1866—Prussians defeated the 4 LRI R O) Austrians in battle of Sadowa. 1890—Idaho admitted to State- hood. 1898—The Spanish fleet under Admiral Cervera de- stroyed by the American squadron at Santiago. 1910—The aeronaut Wachter was Kkilled by the col- lapse of his monoplane at Rheims. POPOCO000OO0006 605 POPPPRPVIPPPPRORRVIPVPPIPIPRPROOOO®O®S POPOPOPVPPPPILCRIPPPOOOPDOO G The Oficasion 8y DUNGAN M, BMITH URRAH, a “Tis drawing nearer, The d We ate} And there 9 warning ample, We won't Have long te wait. No need To tell The children— They know it 1 should say— For what Have they Been doing But waiting For ||||o day? It And Al the alr With soynds it’s only once A twelvemonth The glorious Day comes reund. - "o o THE FOURTH IN HISTORY. Many Famous Events That Have Hap- pened on Independence Date. The Fourth of July is peculiarly an American holiday, but in searching history we find some important events that have occurred on this day. The majority are of more than passing in- terest to citizens of the United States, but a few affected the world. History includes the following: July 4, 1187-Sultan Saladin, the bero of Moslem romances, defeated the crusaders at Tiberias, Holy Land. This led to the capture of Jerusalem and the third crusade. July 4, 1591—The laws of oppression under which the Huguenots were per- secuted revoked by an edict of Henry IV. of Wwance. July 4, 1584—Nova Zembla was dis- covered. July 4, 1648—Indian massacre. The Huron village of St. Joseph was wiped out by the Mohawks. Father Daniel baptized all who desired before he was killed. July 4, 1653—The meeting of Crom- well’s parliament, when Cromwell was THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER| _| surviving signer of the Declaration of (Copyright, 1911.) pendence. Birth of United States as a nation. July 4, 1778—Colonel Clarke, Amerl- | can army officer, surprised and cap- tured Kaskaskia and Fort George, IlI. July 4, 1793—Jobn Quincy Adams’ ‘wonderful speech, which marked the commencement of his public life, July 4, 1804—Nathaniel Hawthorne was born. July 4, 1817—Erie canal commenced. July 4, 1826—Semicentenary of Inde- pendence day. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, ex-presidents and sign- ers of the Declaration of Independ- ence, died. Stephen Foster, author of “The Suwanee River,” was born. July 4. 1828—Charles Carroll, only Independence, laid cornerstone of the Baltimore and Ohlo, the first rallway in the United States. July 4, 1831—Death of James Mon- roe, third president to die on this date. July 4, 1846—Americans at Sonoma. Cal, led by Fremont, raised flag of revolution and declared for America, being the first coast town to desert Mexico. July 4, 1848—Cornerstone of the ‘Washington monument was laid. July 4, 1850—President Taylor strick- en with fatal {llness while sitting near ‘Washington monument. Died July 9. July 4, 1863—Pemberton surrendered ¥icksburg to--Grant, and - General Holmes was defeated at Helena, Ark. July 4, 1866—Ten million dollar fire at Portland, Me., caused by firecrack- ers. July 4, 1870—Election of Prince Ho- henzollern to the throune by the provi- sional government; led to Franco- Prussian war. July 4, 1874—Eads bridge. costing $6,000,000, completed at St. Louls. July 4, 1880—Statue of Liberty for mally presented to the United States by France. July 4, 1894—Hawallan republic de- clared after bloodless revolution. 4, 1898—News received of Cer- defeat oft Santiago July 8. APatriof's Ruse By CAPTAIN F. A. MITCHEL. HEN, the war of independence W came on, New York’s popula- . tion had changed from a lot of pipe smoking Dutchmen to comprise many people of refinement. It was then that that soclety in which Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr shone ten or twenty years later was forming. People had begun to use sil- ver on their tables instead of pewter, and soclal dinners were quite preten- tious. One Nicholas Van Schoonhoven, a wealthy citizen, built in his house in the village of Greenwich (long since a part of the ¢ity of Néw York) a vault in which to store his valuable table- ‘ware. It was located in the second story in a ballway running past his own bedroom. Van Schoonhoven was & patriot, and when in the struggle for independence the British occu- pled New York he moved to West- chester county, some fifteen or twenty miles up the Hudson river, within the American lines commanded by young Lieutenant Colonel Aaron Burr. Be- fore the evacuation he returned to the city to be near his real estate, leaving his movable valuables in Westchester eounty. Bdith Van Schoonhoven while in ‘Westchester met a young lieutenant in Burr's regiment, Charles Robertson, and the meeting had resulted in a love match. The separation when she ‘went back to the city was very trying to a pair of lovers aged twenty-two and nineteen respectively. Though but a few miles apart, they were still very far. Robertson stood the separation a ‘month, then, putting on & countryman’s clothes and carrying a large basket containing butter, eggs and other farm produce, he set out for New York. At King’s bridge, a wooden struc- ture spanning Spuyten Duyvil creek and connecting Manhattan Island with the mainland, he found the British pickets. His farm produce passed him, and he walked to the southwest- ward, crossing diagonally what is now Central park and made toward the Hudsohi lower down till he came to the village of Greenwich. As he was crossing a fleld where the Columbus monument now stands one Peter Ol- crowned “lord protector of England.” July 4, 1776—Declaration of Inde- ey dershaw; & rabld Tory, saw and fol- |, City Street Spectacie of Today and That of a Few Years Ago. lowed uim. Taaware that he was watched, Lieutenant Robertson knock- ed at the -door of Nicholas Van Schoon- hoven, showed his basket of prcduce and was admitted. This Oldershaw saw and straightway walked down to Bowling green, where he found Gen- eral Howe, to whom he reported the fact. The general sent a small troop commanded by a sergeant to capture the young patriot, whom he did not doubt had come into his lines for the purpose of spying. Charles Robertson and Edith Van Schoonhoven were sitting together in the parlor, where they could look out on the broad Hudson, when they saw a dozen redcoat troopers dash up and surround the house. For a moment Edith was paralyzed; then, suddenly gathering her faculties, she seized her lover's hand, ran with him upstairs and, opening the vault door, thrust him in, closing the door after him, locking it and putting the key in her pocket. She was too excited to think of his being smothered, but fortunate- ly a small ventilator had been left over the door. When the sergeant entered Edith had recovered her equanimity so far as to meet him with a well feigned look of surprise on her face and in- vited him to search the house. Not finding any one, he left the premises ‘guarded by his men and rode to Gens eral Howe. Howe, believing that the Meutenant was there, sent Captain Rawyer with his company to relieve the sergeant and to take up his quar- ters in the house, keeping it surround- ed. Sawyer, who was a young London swell, at once began to make love to Edith. She found it somewhat difficult to feed her lover, since she had no way to do so except through the ven- tilator, and, having to stand on a chah for the purpose, she dared not transmit food when the captain was in the house for fear of his catching her atit. One night when the bell on Trinity church, far away on the lower end of the island, struck 1 Edith arose from her bed, put on a dressing sack, went to the vault, unlocked it, let her lover out, took him up to the third story and locked him in an unused room. Then, going down ta Captain Sawyer's room, she knocked at his @oor, calling to him that she had been frightened by a huge black cat that had got into the house and asking him to drive it out. “Don’t trouble your- self to put on your clothes,” she said; “use this.” And, openlng the door a few inches, she drepped a double gown of hier father’s into the room. Sawyer arose, put on his boots and the double gown, seized the only weapon handy, bis sword, and went out into the hall. There he found Edith, apparently very much fright- ened. She had lighted a candle and conducted him along the hall to the vault, whose door stood ajar. “There—the horrid thing went in theve!” she almost shrieked. Sawyer boldly entered the vault. In a second he heard a click behind him. He was a prisoner. Running to the room where she had left her Jover, Edith released him and lighted him to Sawyer's apartment, where the Yankee put on the British- er's uniform, went downstairs and after a parting kiss strode out and past the guard. Sawyer, after taking in the situation, set up a terrific howl, hoping to make himself heard by the guard without, but he might as well have tried to make himself heard from the bowels of the earth. He was not used to ris- ing early, so he was not missed in the morning by his men. Edith kept him confined as long as she dared, then let him out, and the saucy girl had the effrontery to ask if he had killed the cat. Considering. the ridiculous tight the episode would place him in, Captain Sawyer never reported it. When the evacuation of the city took place: Robertson entered it and mar- ried the girl who had saved him from the fate of a spy. “Please gimme a q " begged a panhandler on Washington street. *I won't hand yer mo tale about beln’ bungry, pard—honest, 1 wanter git a drink.” “But,” we objected ‘(for it was in- deed us), “you don’t nmeed a quarter to buy a drink.”. " “Bir,” answered the panhandler, “do youse t'ink I'm" fallen ‘o low as ter take a gent's money an' den not invite bim drink wid " The Making of the Flag OW did we make the flag? By rule? By compass and square and ine? To follow the plain design Was it only the lore that the us the red and the hite and blue? How did we make the flag? . Not all By measuring stitch and seam, For part of it came from a coun- try call And part of it is a dream— s a vision that led brave souls aright And gave us the red and the blus and white, How did we make the flag? “In peace We fashioned it fold on fold; In war it was blent with a grim caprice The drums. in their summons rolled. 'Twas the courage alike of the quigk and dead ~That-gave us the -blus.and: the white and red. How did we make the flag? Thus have we made the flag— h, no By colors that will not fade, By sinuous swoep and by death- less glow, Tis us that And it wl star told state, “You must hold me high and must keep me great!” —Chicago Tribune. R. F. MURPHY FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Itis.a fact that Dry Clsaning does not injure or change-the color, fit or toxture- of - the. fabrics. in any.way. Yet occasionally you may hearsome one complain that they have received a gar- ment from a cleaner full of holes. 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