Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 16, 1911, Page 4

'NOVE ON TO FORCE JUSTICE FOR NORTH (Continued from first page). the general welfare of the north, and so much for individual efforts, never gets onto the statute books? Stop a Moment and Ponder. If you stop for a moment to ponder over just what a true representation means to the North, with all the problems which she faces on the verge of rapid development, you will begin to see that reapportionment is a relief worth fighting for. Every newspaper can help a great deal. Every citizen can help at least a “little. Here is the Answer. Here is what can be done. Send the delegates to the St. Cloud | convention ready to blaze out under the banner of the Northern Minne- sota Development association that in- dignation which burns the souls of |- an oppressed people. Let there be mno mistake as to where the North stands. Let this shout of the North go up from that convention: “We want justice!” Governor Must Redeem Pledge. That will mean that Governor Eb- erhart, awakened to the deep earn- estness of the North, will find the moment opportune to reedem his pledge made at the Brainerd conven- tion last December when he de- clared if a reapportionment bill was not passed that he would assemble the legislature in extraordinary ses- sion. Now, or Not Until 1917, It must be borne in mind that unless such a session is called the North must continue without: proper representation until 1917. The state constitution provides that legislative districts are to be arranged after a federal or state census, and the next census will not be until 1915, which would put reapportionment up to the legislature of 1917. True, it has been said that a legis- lature might have the power to re- district at any time, but attorneys of high standing have interpreted it otherwise. Thus there is a conflict of opinion and the plausible result is that the foes of reapportionment will use this as a club to beat down a bill at any regular session and should one squeeze through, death, say the legal lights, await it in the supreme court chamber. There is but one safe move, and that is DO IT NOW. First Move on St. Cloud. Force the Development association fo pass a resolution calling upon the governor to assemble the legislgture and if the legislature is called dis- tinetly for that purpose there can be no doubt as to the result. In the editorial columns of this is- sue will be found explanations as to the Pioneer’s attitude on the.ques- tion and deductions of this paper, drawn as a result of a personal knowledge of the workings of the legislature and the needs of the North. Men For All Jobs. Is there a single position that no- body will take? Not so long since the position of public executioner fell va. cant, but in spite of the grim occupa tion there were a very cousiderable number of applicants. Prison warders suffer from no blank spaces in their forces, and there is always a sufficient supply of recruits to meet any de- mand. Work in the sewers is not nearly so bad as it is imagined to be: but, how- ever unpalatable the tasks, there are always beginners ready for employ- ment. Scavengers we can always get, and each lowly but necessary calling 1s well filled. Turning to dangerous avocations, there is no shortage of divets or stee- plejacks. Dynamite and gynpowder mills do not have to seek far for hands. Is there a single job carrying some sort of remuneratfon for which there are no applicants?—London Answer's, t Swift Was a Dunce at School. Not only philosophers and divines, but some of the most trenchant sati rists and brilliant humorists, were dull enough as boys. It has been said of Swift in bis best days that “he dis- played either the blasting lightning of satire or the lambent and meteor-like caricatures of frolicsome humor.” And yet this vigorous disputant was con- sidered a fit subject for a fool’s cap at school. Afterward at the Dublin uni versity “he was by scholars esteemed a blockhead” who was denied his de- gree on his first application and ob- tained it with great difficulty on the second.—London Standard. The Lathe. Originally intended to be operated by the physical exertion of one man, the lathe has now reached such a state of development that in many cases forty to sixty horsepower, or the equivalent of 600 men, is necessary to operate it. 1t is one of the earliest forms of tool to be driven by machinery. Novelty Excited Curiosity. . Owtlaight—I had an awful time thinking up an excuse to give my wife when I got home from the club last night. Lushman—Did she demand one? Owtlaight—Of course. I got home so early that it piqued her curi- osity.—Exchange. . An Insult. “Have you ever written on an empty stomach?” asked the mere man. - “Sir!” exclaimed the literary person. “I am a poet, not a tattoo artist!” When the tree is fallen every one ®oeth to 1t with his hatchet. Birds and Fishes and Glass. A correspondent- recently reported what he described as the ‘‘curious freak” of a blackbird flying against a parlor window many times at the same spot continuously. Such an inci- dent is not uncommon. Birds have been known to fight for hours at a time, day after day, with their own image reflected in a pane.or glass, pecking and fluttering against the pane and quite exhausting themselves in their fury to demolish the supposed rival. " It is another instance of how the arts of our civilization corrupt and confuse the birds. It is the same with fishes. Darwin tells a story of a pike in an aquarium separated Dby plate glass from fish which were its proper food. In trying to get at the fish the pike would often dash with such violence against the glass as to be completely stunned. 1t did this for more than three months hefore it learned caution. Then when the glass was removed the pike would not at- tack those particular fish, but would devour others freshly introduced. It did not at all understand the situa- tion, but associated the punishment it had received not with the glass, but with a particular kind of fish. Boiled Down. When Samuel G. Blythe, the writer, was editing a newspaper in New York state a green reporter one night turn- ed in a long and thrilling story re- garding the rough treatment handed out to John Smith, a visitor to the town. The story related that Mr. Smith, wearing a high silk hat, had ventured' down to the docks after nightfall and a silk hat being unusual and provocative of antagonisms in that section Mr. Smith had emerged from among the dock hands without the hat. Nevertheless he carried out of the melee so many wounds, cuts and Dbruises that he had to be sent to the hospital. The article in its orig- inal form was too long and not in keeping with the style of the paper. Accordingly Blythe started to rewrite it. This is the form in which it ap- peared in the paper the next morning: “John" Smith, wearing a high silk bhat, wvent down to the docks last night— Emergency hospital.”—Popular Maga- zine. Wagner's Last Words. There have been so many and con- flicting storieg published as to the last hours of Richard Wagner that the chapter devoted to this point in Gla- tenapp's biography of the composer will be read with interest. The master was not really sick at the time, but tired out from the work and worry over the “Parsifal” rehearsals. On the morning of Feb. 13 he said to his valet, “I mus* be careful today.” After breakfast be went to his study as usual and worked on an essay on “The Feminine In the Human.” He asked to be excused at the noon meal, and the family and an intimate friend were enjoying it when a woman servant rushed in and said that the great man was ill. He was placed on a cot in his study, and while removing some of his clothes a watch which his wife had given to him fell to the floor. He gasped, “My watch!” And these were the last words he ut- tered. “A Race of Tenors. Generally speaking, races living at high altitudes have weaker and more highly pitched voices than those living In regions where the supply of oxygen is more plentiful. Thus, in South America, among the Indians living on the plateaus between the ranges of the Andes, at an elevation of from 10,000 to 14,000 feet, the men have voices like women and the women like children, their singing being a shrill monotone. The Australian native has a weak volce, but a knack of sending it a long distance, and the lowest tribes of African bushmen would come into the same category; but, it is said, of all human beings the pygmies of Central Africa have, in point of volume and compass, the weakest of human voices. —Harper's Weekly. Wellington an Simplicity. When Sir Edwin Landseer was paint- Ing the duke’s portrait, hoping to save him the trouble of much sitting, he wrote and asked if he could let him have the trousers belonging to the uni- form. The duke wrote back in all solemnity: “Field Marshal the Duke of Welling- ton presents his compliments to Sir Edwin Landseer and regrets that he cannot send him the trousers as he has but one pair.”—London Nation. Wanted an Even Start. “Pa, you know you told me to count twenty before I punched another boy?” “Yes.” “Well, in order to make it work out right you have got to go around the neighborhood and make the other boys promise to count twenty before they take a punch at me.”—Houston Post. The Largest Restaurant. In the Berlin zoological garden res- taurant, the largest in the world, 10, |; 000 persons can sit down simultane- ously beneath the same roof. Open air terraces for use in summer will accom- modate another 10,000 diners. There are 1,000 waiters, and the kitchen staff exceeds 500. Candid. Maud—Would you call Gerty Gold- bags a beauty? May—Well, p'r'aps T might if I were a young man, awfully poor, in debt and utterly conscience- less.—Vanity Fair. At the Restaurant. “Waiter, why do you recommend everybody to take beef a la mode to- day?” ““‘Because, sir, if it isn’t all eaten we shall have it for dinner ourselves.” A Glimpse of Dr. Johnson. -From Boswell’s “Life of Johnson:" “In one of Dr. Johnson's manuscript diaries there is the following entry, which marks his curious minute atten. tion: ‘July 26, 1768—1I shaved my nail by accident in whetting the knife about an eighth of an inch from the bottom and about a fourth from the top. This T measure that I may know the growth of nails’ And ‘Aug. 15, 1783, I cut from the vine forty-one leaves which welghed five ounces and a half and elght scruples. I lay them upon my bookcase, to see what weight they will lose by drying.’” S - (Continued from first page). Duluth, ments Monday. about four miles west of the city. pine soil. per acre. Private Coleridge. In his young'days the poet Coleridge had a little love affair which ended in disaster, for the lady refused him. In despair he enlisted in a cavalry regi- ment swhich he hoped would be or- dered on’foreign service. For family reasous he dropped his correct name, but from a feeling of sentiment Te- tained the initials, so Samuel Taylor Coleridge became Private Silas Tomp- kins Camberbatch. The regiment did Dot leave the country, and it was not long before his soul wearied of bar- rack life and its*utter absence of ro- mance. His military life ended in a curious fashion. One day while Cole- ridge was doing a weary sentry go two officers strolled past. One of them made use of a Greek quotation which the other corrected. The first insisted on- his correctness, while the other was just as positive he was wrong. ‘While they disputed the sentry sud- denly presented arms and respectfully informed them that they were both in error. He gave the exact quotation, name of the author and other circum- stances. This incident led to an in- quiry, and the poet was restored to the bosom of his family.—London Graphic. in a Japanese Temple. “Asakuse temple is dedicated to the goddess Kwannon, a tiny-image of gold, about two and one-half inches high,” writes a traveler in Japan. “At the euntrance to the temple grounds on either side of the immense gate stand two large and fearful looking figures, guarding the sacred precincts. Hang- ing outside the wire grating are -a number of sandals for their use if they wish to take a walk, and- rice is sprinkled about. Eaeh worshiper, be- fore entering the temple, calls at a small building, and after contributing a small amount, washes his hands and rinses his mouth. In front of the main shrine is a large aperture in the floor, covered with latticework, into which the worshiper casts his gift. After clapping his hands to awaken or at- tract the attention of the god, he kneels, but his prayer is omly brief. ‘While there is one chief shrine there are many others under the same roof. One shrine especially attracted my at- tention; it was made of wood, and quite disfigured and worn through the constant rubbing of hands on the spot corresponding to the afflicted portions of the sufferers’ bodies.”—Chicago News. Tower of Hercules. Travelers may still see on the coast of the English channel at Dover the ruins of a Roman lighthouse that was built at the time of the Roman con- quest of Britain. Another ancient lighthouse, built less than a century after the tower at Dover, is sti!l serv- ing its original purpose. 1t was partly rebuilt and some alterations were made in it, but in the main it is the same old structure that guided the Roman galleys as they skirted the coasts of the bay of Biscay, making their way to the Roman port of Bri- gantium. This is the modern harbor of La Coruna, and the lighthouse is the most ancient thing about it. The Romans called it the tower of Her- cules, and the moderns have perpetu- ated the name. The exact date of its erection is not known, but inserip- tions and other evidence show that it was built in the time of Trajan, be tween 98 and 117 A. D.—Exchange. Force of Habit. “It's curious how habits fasten them- selves on people. You know Wapps- ley?’ “Yes” “He’s an enthusiastic fisherman and always has a story to tell about some gigantic monster of the deep that he almost caught.”” “I've heard him tell a lot of lies of that kind.” “Well, it seems that burglars broke into his house.the other night and he got up and captured one of them—a little fellow—but you ought to hear him tell about the size of the one that 3ot away.”—Chicago Record-Herald. Dana’s Ten Books. " Charles A. Dana once made a list of ten “indispensable books.” They are the Bible, Shakespeare, the Dec- laration of Independence, the Con- stitution of the- United States, Ban croft’s “History of the United States,” Irving’s “Life of Washington,” Frank- lin’s “Autobiography,” Channing’s “Es- say on Napoleon Bonaparte,” Gibbon's “Decline and Fall of the Roman Em- pire” and Tarbel’s “Barly Life of Lincoln.” Repudiated the Spelling. Once while in Pittsburg Andrew Car+ negie had a telegram sent and stood waiting until it reached the operator. He listened attentively to the clicking of the key, then immediately wrote a new telegram, as follows: “The other message mine; spelling the operator’s.” Mistress—Really, Mari¢, whenever I come into the kitchen I.see you doing nothing. Cook—You're right, mum; you never have any lnck, do you?— Fliegende Blatter. Setting Him Right. He—My income is small, and per- haps it is cruel of me to take you from your father’s roof. She—I don’t SURPRISE OVER 5011. On their return to the city. they |, stopped at the Alfalfa Dairy farm he let a contract for clearing, stump- ing, brushing and breaking a large| 50 ") o1t " 0 St T e havh tract this fall and winter at $13.00 | hor e‘mm;fimff-' e e Not the Cook’s Fault. % live on the roof. i wood farmer ‘at dinner, ‘and later yonunpl-fldy Wish to ask me?” brought Mr. Woods and Mr. Neill back to Bemidjl with them, so that |100€ journey with me they might catch the night train to where. they md appoint- “Wauldyonh%wmlnrsmgoonn “A very, very long journey, Fred?” “Yes, a very, very long fourney.” "Yee, 1 will goywith you. Of course 1—1 suppose it is the journey that a id 8 woman ‘take’together only ol'z‘ce in a lifetime?” “Well, as a rule 1 suppose it would ‘W. G. Schiroeder, owner of this farm, | not be taken more than once. You took them over the place and showed | 5ee, my mother and I are thinking them what could be done with jack |Of taking a trip to Japan, and she Mr. Schroeder ststed #hat thought it would be nice if I could find some one who would be willing to go as a sort of traveling companion “Oh! - Well, you just tell your home- ly mother that when I wish to hire out I'll look for some other kind of Jjob."—Chicago ‘Record-Herald. A parert's lifeis one long responsi- bility. It's a wonder that so many of the genus discharge their duties so acceptably, = A" ‘writer in the Cleve land Plain” Dealer has discovered an- other parental problem, or perhaps he merely calls attention to one which many fathers ' have discovered for themselves. “How's } femily?” one inquired of a ha maitied txest sider yes- terday. “Well, miy chflflren are at a difficult age now.” “Difficult? Why, tliey’ve all passed the measles and teething stage, have they not?” g “Long ago. But you don't know a father’s troubles. My children are at the age where if I use slang my wife says I'm setting a bad example, and if I speak correctly the kids think I'm a back number. Which would you do?” In a Japanese Sleeping Car. It was at night we-had our first ex- perience in a Japanese sleeping car. The track is narrow gauge, and the standard sleeping cars’have six seats running lengthwise, each seating two passengers, with a center aisle. The upper berth is the regular Pullman style, and a section -will accommodate two passengers..' The night was during the extreme heat of midsummer, the car was crowded, and in addition to the regular curtains each berth was provided with a mosquito bar, which added to the general discomfort. Pas- sengers were taken on and let down at all stops, so there was a constant pro- cession through the aisle all night. Part of the car was reserved for local accommodation,: and those who sat up smoked Incessantly, so that long before morning the atmosphere became in- tolerable.—Railway Age Gazette. Submarines at Sea. Equilibrium is almost as difficult to maintain for a submarine vessel as for an aeroplane. With modern large sub- marines the act of diving is performed when the vessels have headway. The bow is depressed by bhorizontal rud- ders, and the véssel moves obliquely downward. The desired depth having been attained. the steersman must so manage the horizontal rudders that the vessel shall ‘practically maintain its level; but, in fact, its course be- comes ‘really _an undulating one. There must be no movement of men or weights in the vessel without immedi- ate compensatiof to restore and main- tain the balance, else the submarine may dive to a disastrous depth. Man ual control has been found better than automatic control. Mesmerism. Frederick Anthony Mesmer, the founder of mesmerism, was & German physician of Merseberg. His thesis setting forth the science of mesmer- ism was rmblllhed 10 '1766. Mesmer contended that the heavenly bodies dif- fused: through the universe & subtle fluid, which acts on 'the nervous sys- tem of all animated beings and espe- cially upon that of man. He gained a great number of followers and realized a splendid fortune. = A committee of .physicians and “philosophers” inves- tigated his pretensions, which were finally exposed in 1784. Notwithstand- ing this, however, Mesmer continued to have many friends and followers. 80 great was the personal “magnet- ism” of the man. Superstition That Is Ancient. In many parts of Great Britain the superstition still survives that it is folly to save a drowning man, as he 'will sooner or later do an injury to the rescuer. The superstition comes down from our ancestors, yet traces of it exist among the Sioux and other In- dians, who seem to have inherited it from aboriginal sources. The belief is most prevalent in Cornwall and vari- ous parts of Scotland. A Mean Jolt. ‘Peckem—So you want to marry my daughter, do you? Young—VYes, sir, Peckem—Hem! Are you aware that she strongly resembles her mother? Young—I am, sir. Peckem—Then take her, young man, and—er—be as happy as“you can.—London Mail. e Greatne’s. Greatness is sel{ conscious, mot.in the ordinary sense of that phrase, but in the Sense that denotes consclous- ness of its possession—William E. Si- monds. Stage Snow. He—There was nearly a bad fire at the theater. She—How was that? He —The viltain lit a cigarette and toss- ed the match into the snow. Monkeys Are Fighters. “Most persons will guess lions or tigers are the most dangerous ani- mals to train.” said an animal trainer, “put they're wrong. Give a lion one good licking and he’ll remember fit. He hits back only when his man is down or has his back turned. but a monkey will fight against any odds, and you never can tell when he'll hit back. Even a medium small monkey can strike a blow that will reach through a coat, vest and two shirts, and he leaves a nasty wound. The most daring thing T ever did was to go into a monkey cage and take a baby from its mother. The ordinary house cat is the most stubborn animal under training, but the monk is the most dangerous if you work the larger kinds.”—New York Sun. Mildly Censuring Him. “My goodness!” she says, with a pretty scowl. *I think a girl would feel dreadfully foolish if she proposed to a man.” “I should think so, too,” replies the diffident youth. “But then I suppose there are some girls who are just simply compelled to do the proposing,” she sighs. After an hour's consideration of that remark he realizes what she really means,—Woman’s World. Diplomacy. Mrs. A—That cook was awful, and I am glad she’s gone. Mrs. B.—Did you discharge her? Mrs. A.—Oh, no; I wished to avold a scene. What I did was flatter her so about her cook- ing that she thought she was under- paid and left.—Boston Transcript. He Saw Them. “Did you see any sharks when you crossed the ocean, Mr. Spifkins?” ask- ed Miss Purling. ‘““Yes,” replied Spifkins sadly; “I played cards with a couple.” The sting of a reproach is the truth of it. :a gutter. 'watching the active preparations of a - Vicarious c.msy. A group of children were playing in A passerby walked slowly, “little mother,” aged about seven, who was marshaling her charges into or- der, apparently in preparation for some urban excursion. Something had gone wrong, and one small kid was howling. “Shut your noise, Tommy Higgins, and be good this minute!” admonished the motherlet, with a promissory smack. “If you don’t stop like I tell you I'll. leave yom, right here in the mud gutter. You can’t go wid us till yez closes yer noise and be’s a good boy. Do you know where we're goin’? Well, we're goin’ in the next block to the candy factory to smell the candies cookin’. And do you yer know what they're makin’ today? Well, it's chocolate creams and pep'mint.”—New York Press. Chinese Business Houses. Most of the Chinese business houses are owned by partnetships, and most partnerships are of a large number of persons. The Chinese who bas saved $100 ‘local currency will at once in- vest it in a mercantile business and become a partner. Goldsmith’s Poverty. Goldsmith had to sell his “Vicar of Wakefield.” that masterpiece of “Eng- lish fiction, for a comparatively small sum in order to pay his rent. Want often pinched him ‘to the core. POWDER Low much better it SER makes the baking SEE how mroh more uni- form in quality SEE how pure—how good SEE that you get Calumet At your @Grozer’s NOT Mape gy THE TRUST {ALUME SEE kow economical —and | _ This illustration shows the back plate of the Imperial Universal ‘removed to show the three-flue construction and the great heat radiating surface on this stove. Minnesota Ave. COMFORT & are assured when you buy a "UNIVERSAL HEATER Comfort and fuel economy, coupled with a quality of ma- terial and constru ion that gives lasting satisfaction, are the features that have made Universal stoves the mest pop- ular line of stoves on the market Telling you that a stove will give satisfaction and be econ- omical in the use of fuel and delivering a “stove that will back up these claims may be one and the same thing and again it may not. There’s only one way for you to be absolute- ly sure you are getting full value for your stove money, and that . way is to buy a Universal. , ., A Universal hcater never dis- appoints, You take no chances —a guarantee’ bond goes with every stove that bears the name “Universal.” " The Given Hardware Store is - ECONOMY 1li temt i penian iné \MPERIAL UNIVERSAL All Stoves sold on easy payments and your old stove taken In trade on a new one. This illustration shows the beautiful outlines of the Imperial Universal and the generous proportions and great heat radiating surface. By actual measure- ments there are more square inches of heat radiating surface on the Imperial Universal than on any other heater built, This means economy in fuel. GIVEN HARDWARE STORE Bemidji, Minn. 2-Gent-34Wnrd Where cash accompanies cop; will publish all “Want Ads" iorizlf cent a word per insertion. Where cash does not accompany copy the regular rate of one ceuta word will be charged. 5 SVERY HOME MAS A WANT AD For Rent--For Sale--Exchange --Help Wanted--Work Wanted -=Etc.--Ete. HELP WANTED WANTED—For U. S. Army—Able- bodied unmarried men between ages of 18 and 35; citizens of the United States, of good character and temperate habits, who can speak, read and write the English language. For information ap- ply to Recruiting Offiecr, 217 Tor- rey Building, Duluth, Minn. FOR SALE FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you on short notice. FOR SALE—Coal stove 17 in. fire pot, used only four months. In- quire of Ray F. Murphy, Phone 319. FOR SALE—Round Oak Heater. Mrs. Geo. Kirk, 1109 Lake Blvd. Monarch range nearly new.413 rvine Ave. FOR RENT FOR RENT—Steam heated furnish- ed rooms with use of bath. 703 Minn. Ave. FOR RENT—Two unfurnished rooms. Modern except heat. 320 Minne- sota Ave. FOR RENT—2 furnished rooms, $10 a month. 1111 Lake Boulevard. LOST AND FOUND LOST—Saturday 2 $20 bills. Finder return to tiis office and receive liberal reward. MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISERS—The great ctate of North Dakota offers unlimited op- portunities for business to classi- fied advertisers. The recognized advertising medium is the Fargo Daily and Sunday Courier-N@ws, the only seven day paper in the state and the paper which carries the largest amount of classified advertising. The Courier-News covers North Dakota like a blank- et; reaching all parts of the state the day of publication; it is the paper to use in order to get re- sults; rates one cent per word first insertion, one-half cent per word succedding insertion; fifty cents per line per month. Address the Courier-News, Fargo, N. D. Talk to the people In prosperous North Dakota through the columns of the Grand Forks Herald; read every day by 30,000 in 150 towns and rural routes in the northern half of the state. Classified ads, for sale, help wanted, exchange, real estate, ete., for 1-2 cent a word each insertion. Send stamps to The Herald, Grand Forks, N. D. KK KKK KKK K KKK KKK ¥ this office. -No silk, gunny * ¥ sacks, grain sacks or overalls * ¥ accepted. Cut all buttons off. * ¥ Cash paid. ««««««#«««t«;«« WANTED TO TRADE—What have you to trade for new standard pia- no? Call at second hand store, 0dd Fellows Bldg. BOUGHT AND SOLD—Second hand furniture. Odd Fellows building, across from postoffice, phone 129. WANTED—Work by day or hour by young woman. Phone 652. THE SPALDING EUROPEAN PLAN Duluth’s Largest and Best Hotel DULUTH MINNESOTA More than §100.000.00 recently expended ¢n Improvements. 350 rooms. 1% Drivate baths, 60 sample rooms. Eves convenlence: Luxurious and de"fm"'“' restanrants and buffet, Flemish Magnificent lobby and Ballroom, banguet rooms and private dining_rooms: Sun parlor and observa tory. Located in heart of business sec- tion but overlooking the harbor and Lake Superior. Convenient to everything. One of the Great Hotels of the Northwest Huffman Harris & Reynolds Bemidji, Minn. ‘Phone 144 Offers complete facilities for the Transaction of every form of Legmmate Insurance. Your Patronage Invited Real Estath, Loans,Bond$ and Rentals For quick results list your property with us. m—umm-nm - e